I like that "organelles of the hierarchy."
j
----- Original Message ----- To be, perhaps, a bit more specific: They never have to deal with any opposition or criticism from below, but frequently experience it from above. This makes them very craven in one direction and very overweening and arrogant in the other. They are, essentially, organelles of the hierarchy.
Opposition from an unexpected direction utterly discombobulates them. The usual response is to call the campus cops and see to it that somebody gets Tased, but la Wise may be a somewhat more fragile specimen than the usual run. She's certainly getting a lot more pushback than they usually do.
On 9/7/14 11:29 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
> That's partly because, normally, this type of people never have to deal with any opposition or criticism. It makes them soft, brittle, and stupid.
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> Joanna
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> On Sep 07, 2014, at 07:46 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Her corporate genius is in her utter lack of personality and her genuine cluelessness regarding the broader political context of her actions, in relation to her own class-based victimization of Salaita. She is not ruthless or cynical. She is banal.
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> Could you be a little more specific on the parsing of the corporate genius/banality binary?
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> E.
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