[news] The Churchill Firing

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Many conservatives believe the firing of University of Colorado Professor  
Ward Churchill will now reduce liberal politics in academia. Many liberals  
believe that his firing will uphold high standards of academic scholarship.  
Both are wrong - because the firing of Churchill reveals a very pernicious  
kind of exclusionary dogmatism in scholarly research and writing and media  
reporting. The firing of Professor Churchill for alleged research misconduct  
ignored evidence to the contrary provided by professors who know his work  
best, ignored evidence from a committee of scholars who found the  
investigating committee itself guilty of research misconduct, and ignored  
all Indigenous evidence and perspectives that are critical of Eurocentric  
versions of the history of the European invasion of the Americas.

  


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