McGill is firmly opposed to peaceful economic resistance to Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing, and proudly reasserted it today. At what point will McGill admit that something smells? How would today’s McGill have reacted in the face of rising fascism and ethnic violence in European countries in the 1930s? Presumably by continuing to invest inContinue reading “McGill: mistaking its financial compass for a moral one”
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In defense of the the indefensible
George Orwell, in his 1946 essay ‘Politics and the English Language‘, wrote that: “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. [….] Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.” He continued: “Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven outContinue reading “In defense of the the indefensible”
Richard Shearmur 