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Macdonald Stainsby | Original to Resist.ca Yes, many of our best were able to look at the McCarthyizing of Sunera Thobani and see it for what it was. The womens studies professor from Canada who had the nerve to allow the phrase "[T]he path of U.S. foreign policy is soaked in blood!" to escape her lips without asking what John Ashcroft thought (before his fortunately early, unforeseen retirement) was defended by many of us. From across the settler state of Canada, and even well into the belly of the militaristic oil monster itself, the United States, people saw the hunting of Thobani for uttering such a benign and observable fact as a threat against their own right to utter benign and observable facts. People stood with her. She was invited to speak at conference after conference, given a prominent place in many antiwar demonstrations, and often seen as a heroine for her defiance of the gag on ideas--for indeed, it seemed she was, for the time being, just that. Yet, as I said, many of us still felt a solid need to take part in the tar-and-feathering of our more erstwhile colleagues. [...]

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/14554/4301