the few, the proud was: political correctness etc

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 13 13:58:06 PDT 2001


John Halle wrote:


> > 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.

We don't want any deaths as a result of list activity, for sure.

Has John Roemer taken a position on GESO?

Doug



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