the few, the proud was: political correctness etc

[John Halle]

>
> John Halle wrote:
>
> >Thanks for providing me with the opportunity to slit my wrists. Before I
> >do so,  I thought I  would ask whether this or any other evidence would be
> >sufficient for you to reconsider the high esteem in which you hold the
> >academic left.

Doug:


>
> I don't hold the "academic left" in particularly high or low esteem.
> I'm not even convinced there's such a thing as "the" academic left.
> There are tenured professors who profess some kind of radical
> politics and then harass their students and use their research
> assistants as drivers and factotums. There are tenured professors who
> teach in prisons. There are cult studs who scour films noirs for
> counterhegemonic subtexts, and there are those who try to organize
> their colleagues.
>

I'll interpret this answer as "no" and turn off the warm water in the
bathtub.

John