On Oct 28, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Jordan Carroll wrote:
> Just a few more anti-academic cliches left! So, Jodi Dean is an ivory tower
> elitist pinko who should be doing real work in the real world, or at least
> teaching the classics, but instead she's into that French theory. This is
> all particularly troublesome because the Chinese are diligently studying
> math and science while our students take classes on the Simpsons,
> pornography, the Koran, and identity politics. It just goes to show you:
> those who can, do, and those who can't, teach. Of course, that's why tuition
> is sky-rocketing, class sizes are ballooning, and everybody hires adjuncts
> instead of full professors.
I think you've got it, man! The only difference between this and the right-wing version is that the right-winger would have also blamed government for rising tuition.
Doug