[lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers

[Alan Rudy]

Carrol, this is the second time today (I guess it could be the first, given
gmail's threading practices) you've been ungenerous to someone who, if you
paused before you slapped, you'd know is well aware of your point - in this
case, as we know from any number of Joanna's posts over the years - having
been a graduate student and PhD active in less limited activities...
Remember the limits of the list format, the tendency of folks to be glib for
glib's sake at times, consider the source and what you know about them and
cut back on the cranky patriarch... it makes people not listen to the good
things you have to add.
A

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


>
>
> Joanna wrote:
> >
> > Judging from the language of the text you quote, these people are
> > just.....graduate students.
> >
> > Nothing wrong with that I suppose. But extremely limiting.
>
> This is simply not true. "The '60s" would not have happened without the
> extensive involvementof graduate students. Living in the world today is
> limiting, but there is noting at all _inherently_ more "limiting" in
> being a graduate student than in being a Venezuelan peasant.
>
> The Platypus people are a very special _selection_ of graduate students,
> selected by a process that almost makes bad politics unavoidable. But
> being a grad student as such is, I repeat, not a whit more intrinsxi
> zlly limiging than any other social position and probably even one of
> the lsess limiting positions in the U.S. today.
>
> Carrol
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