He's only telling the truth. You don't even have to leave lbo-talk to read condescending attitudes towards working people, including those he mentions who go on to become "cannon-fodder" .
Mark
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>The people with whom these liberal academics should be building bridges are
>the truck-drivers and bell-hops and Amtrak crews, the poor blacks and the
>cops whose families provide the cannon fodder for America's overseas
>military adventures. But that, of course, would force intellectuals to
>emerge from the sheltered, tenured world of seminars and sit-ins and deal
>directly with those whose opinions they wish to change.