[lbo-talk] Katha Pollitt on college football

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Fri Nov 25 10:19:05 PST 2011


On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:26:58 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Calling for the abolition of college sports is such a total loser.
> Why make enemies you don't have to? It's just not a fight worth
> having. Yeah, too commercialized. Everything is too commercialized.
> But that's too much. I love Katha, but really, if there's anything
> that's going to make you sound like an Upper West Side elitist, it's
> this.

Yeah. Now if she had called for the abolition of *college*....

(Actually existing college, I mean, not some shining College Of The Socialist Future which we could certainly design on this list in five minutes.)

As for Katha sounding like an UWS liberal-schmiberal, could that be because... naaah, never mind.

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