This is an issue which has been occupying me, e.g., how can one defend one and not the other? I condemn both people, by the way. (As people reading my diaries and comments would know.)
By the way, Thursday's Slate has "Psychiatric Ward?" by Bidisha Banerjee, at http://slate.msn.com/id/2114062/ , with commentary like
"Terrorism 101: Ward Churchill, the infamous college professor who penned an essay comparing 9/11 victims who worked in the Twin Towers to "little Eichmanns," continues to raise hackles. Denver disc jockeys Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman have unearthed audio of a 2003 speech in which the professor "explicitly instructs followers on how to commit terrorist acts." According to a transcript that many bloggers are linking to, Churchill encouraged white men in particular to commit atrocities. "You don't send the Black Liberation Army into Wall Street to conduct an action," he said. "Who do you send? You. Your beard shaved, your hair cut close, and wearing a banker's suit."
Read Slate's Dahlia Lithwick on Churchill here; read what other bloggers are saying about him here."
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Banerjee, may I mention, also sez stuff about Kos and Koufax awards:
"Bloggerati: The liberal blog world's answer to the Oscars, the Koufax Awards, rewarded Democratic stalwarts like Josh Marshall and Markos Moulitsas. Koufax runners up included economics-focused Angry Bear, law blog Ignatz, and the generally liberal Decembrist. ... On Tuesday, world-famous blogger Jason Kottke announced that he has quit his job and is now soliciting donations so he can write at kottke.org full time. Steven Johnson writes that smart bloggers/advertisers should send Kottke a few dollars in exchange for a free link. The blog Crooked Timber worries that bloggers will start selling out: "Links would become an indicator of how much money a blogger has; not whether she has anything interesting to say."... Everyone links to the newly formed Committee to Protect Bloggers. The committee's first project: win the freedom of two Iranian bloggers who are now being detained."