Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Pulse
Today in idiocy:
- The Park Slope Food Coop devolves into chaotic debate on whether to boycott Israeli products. Around 2000 said to attend meeting. No word yet on Jewish Leftist awakening to the hostility of their milieu.
- Glenn Greenwald decides terrorism studies doesn't exist and cites a virtually unknown post-doc in support of his flat-earth deletion of a body of scholarship. Andrew Exum explains why that's wrong. I explain why that's dumb:
This is reminiscent of global warming denialists who paraded Bjorn Lomborg around in defense of their conspiracy theory. (2/2) @abumuqawama
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) March 28, 2012
The root of Greenwald's compaint is a Chomskyan shell-game. Terrorism studies can't exist b/c they don't focus on "state terrorism" (the US)
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) March 28, 2012When a scholar does focus on state terrorism -- and they do -- then THAT is terrorism studies, and worth citing (without sardonic capitals)
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) March 28, 2012
What is the very essence of a dilettante? Someone who mobilizes the work of one unremarked scholar in a field in order to dismiss the field.
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