Ward Churchill Names the Eichmanns

University of Colorado Professor and former Indian Ward Churchill now claims that not all of the 9-11 victims were "little Eichmanns."

Ward Churchill has an easy way to calm the current controversy.  He can just prove that he is right. 

Churchill famously wrote that that the people in the Twin Towers on September 11 were “little Eichmanns.”  Upon reading this comparison between the people in the towers and the Nazi in charge of the Final Solution, any number of people objected.

But Churchill had the good grace to explain himself.  The janitors, the food service workers, the firefighters, the regular Joes and Janes — they were not little Eichmanns.  Instead, it was the technocrats in the towers, toiling for empire, whom Churchill was referring to.

Still the furor did not die down.  What to do?  I call upon Professor Churchill to take the easy way out: just name them.  Churchill claims the moral vision to distinguish between innocent people and little Eichmanns.  There lies his opportunity.  He can review the list of the September 11 dead and identify the people who were the Eichmanns.  Then he can provide a list of names.

The facts are on the record.  The New York Times ran the series, “Portraits of Grief,” obituaries of hundreds of people who died in the towers.  From these hard facts, Churchill can divide the innocent people from the little Eichmanns.  Churchill can show a skeptical nation that he was right all along.

The solution is in his hands.  He has only to name names.

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