Guessing wildly, perhaps the decisionmakers found that people were getting out of hand. Maybe someone quoted Chomsky in a not-critical-enough-way or something.
Tayssir
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Doug:
>
>
> What was I thinking? It's way too early in the morning. It must be
> that the Master class has lost some of its bearings. Why does the
> Yale Club have to tell people what to wear? They should know,
> shouldn't they?
>
>
> [WS:] You got it all wrong, Doug. It is not about discipline, master class
> or kindred populist rubbish. It is all about a sense of belonging and
> identity politics - no different than, say, the hip hop crowd, the hippies,
> New York intellectuals, or the orthodox Jews. Nobody forces them to wear
> baggy pants, Birkenstock sandals, black turtlenecks, or yarmulke - they do
> it because the garb is an integral part of their separate collective
> identity. Without the garb, they as a group would be indistinguishable from
> the rest of the humanity.
>
> Wojtek
>
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