the few, the proud was: political correctness etc

kwalker2 at gte.net kwalker2 at gte.net
Wed Jun 13 14:14:45 PDT 2001


well, this is publicly archived, so anyone doing a search would already know how you feel about the academic left at yale.

yer toast. combine that with some broccoli and cheese sauce and the meat of your suicide post--riiiiiiight-- and you could serve an old fashioned chicken divan dish.


> > 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



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