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> On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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>> joanna wrote:
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>>> I knew Walter Michaels at UC Berkeley. At the time he struck me as
>>> an intelligent opportunist. I suppose that probably describes 90%
>>> of the people in academia....so maybe it's not worth much to remark
>>> upon it.
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> Yeah. There are opportunists and hacks in every line of work. I don't
> see why academia gets singled out so often for criticism.
Because, my larger point was that if Michaels is starting to talk about class, that must mean that the tide is turning and there is bread to be buttered over raising the issue of class.
Fashions change. Bush was disgusting. The dems are coming back. There will be money to be made and appointments to be secured by those who now claim to understand the needs of the working class.
Joanna