[lbo-talk] stats on profs' class background?

[Doug Henwood]

People like Marc, I guess, who want to shed their past affliations, 
and adopt that right-populist line about the elitist pointy-heads. So 
they're down with the people, even if they're moving right.

Doug

Luke Weiger wrote:


>The real question: who cares?
>
>-- Luke
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stephen E Philion" <philion at hawaii.edu>
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 1:49 PM
>Subject: [lbo-talk] stats on profs' class background?
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>>  Anyone know some good sources on class backround of profs, especially
>>  left leaning profs? On the Marc Cooper discussion blog, he and others
>>  are trying to claim that professors who are left leaning are mostly
>>  priveleged wealthy elitists with no working class background to speak of.
>>  Of course, that they are mostly still working class, tenure, perks and
>>  all is a point entirely lost on this kind of person...
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