When you’re a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado? or when you’re writing for the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page?
Here’s my tentative answer: if you agree with the political views of a terrorist, the immediate aftermath of his terrorist attack is an excellent time to STFU. We can all wait to hear your views, perhaps in a rationally argued piece, after a decent interval, that does not manifest the simultaneously revolting and self-promoting need to tie your views to those of the terrorist.
Yes I know these guys have First Amendment rights. I’m not suggesting the government prevent them from putting their feet in their mouths. I’m just exercising my First Amendment right to tell them: Seriously, Ward Churchill, Bruce Bawer, STFU.
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Thought Snax 
Ward Churchill is a certified jerk. I haven’t read anything by Bruce Bawer, but I’ll accept your judgment that he, along with Churchill, should just STFU. The only appropriate thing to say right now is that “We’re all Norwegians today.” Remember when everyone all over the world said, “We’re all Americans today,” after 9/11? Nuff said.
Interestingly, my sister- and brother-in-law happened to have been in Norway on 9/11. Because of air restrictions in the US, they could not fly back to the US when they were scheduled to return. Norwegian families took them in, providing both emotional comfort and such day-to-day needs as meals, laundry facilities, a bed for the night, etc.
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