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=> Dr John Joseph

Dr John Joseph
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Wednesday, April 30 2008, 22:17:18 (CEST)
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It takes your breath away to consider what Dr Joseph was letting himself in for when he dared get an advanced degree in Middle Eastern history with an emphasis on the Nestorian and other Christian communities we hail from which led to his uncovering our erroneous supposition that we are the direct and lineal descendants of the ancient Assyrians and Chaldeans. Think of all the boors and louts in our community who came out of the woodwork to assail him as a traitor and enemy, calling him stupid, dumb, stooge and a fool. Aside from the semi-literates like Jumblat and Aprim from whom one expects no better there are even our college trained nationalists who were forced to take the idiotic position that Princeton, from which he received his PhD, is an elitist school no self-respecting “scholar” like a Magpie would deign attend, on top of which they had to assert, in all seriousness, that he was educated at the expense of the CIA which had a “plot” afoot to “deny Assyrian identity”, to further which they wangled him a job at a small liberal arts college where he could “spread his treason against Assyria”.. I mean how much more frantic and desperate can we become in our embarrassing efforts to disparage a learned scholar who is respected everywhere BUT among his own people…though that isn’t quite accurate for there are many of us who appreciate and have benefited from Dr Joseph’s work. Whatever “insults” we claim Dr Joseph has leveled against us we’ve done far more damage to ourselves by our hysterical reaction to his taking our toys away. As is usual with us we slit our own throats way before anyone else even thinks to or wants to.

The chorus against Dr Joseph comes from the same kinds of people who damned research into racism that robbed them of their self-serving myths of white supremacy…or exposure of so-called intelligence tests which measured nothing more than how many toys ones parents could afford. These kinds of people, basing their smug sense of superiority on nothing more tangible than prejudice born of ignorance and the desire for a short-cut to greatness can’t bear to be shown to the door and told to earn their way from now on.

Here we have a man who’s retired after a long and honorable teaching career, the author of at least two books, real ones, as well as magazine articles, who corresponds with authors and scholars, who is held in high esteem by his college and colleagues in the academic community, who is professor emeritus and whose students and college honored him by funding the new “John Joseph International Studies Building” at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster Pennsylvania…all of which only means to us that he is a “paid CIA agent out to deny Assyrians their identity”.

What damns us more than this incredible testimony of our own stupidity?



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