On Dec 5, 2009, at 1:08 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> On Sat, December 5, 2009 8:52 am, Eric Beck wrote:
>
>> <http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2009/12/jane_hamsher_off_the_rez.html
>> >
>>
>> "So far as students are subject to the kind of intellectual quackery
>> peddled by LBO-Talk-types (who are typically are academics or
>> aspiring
>> ones), I think quite a lot of harm is done in preventing effective
>> activism. I.e., lefties as well as dembots have their methods to
>> help keep
>> the ruling class ruling.
>>
>> Posted by Peter Ward | December 4, 2009 7:23 PM"
>>
>> What's funny about this is that most of the people you think are
>> academics or aspiring ones are neither academics nor aspirants.
>
> And then there's the small fact that us academics on the list are
> horribly
> exploited service-workers, not six-figure-income superstars with Ivy
> tenure.
No matter, Dennis. Academics are bad people who don't put in an honest day's work - unlike, well, I don't know what. Lawyers? Bashing academics proves your bona fides as a man of the people (I can't recall seeing too many women do this, actually).
Doug