Last, why do these Duke professors bother to write about the Duke lacrosse hoax if they are not going to deal with their own actions honestly? If they can’t simply face the truth, they should put down their shovels and stop digging.
It’s often really amazing to find out who the real victims of such acts of rhetorical violence (even when they don’t instrumentalize governmental institutions of punishment to enforce their false judgments). Thank God for experts.
Think of the savings on the cost of a post-secondary-education if these sinecures for the ‘friends of a friend’ were eliminated.
If they thought this was bad, how “marginalized” would they feel if my dream would come true, and the lacrosse team could line those charlatans up and slap every overpaid, otherwise unemployable one them silly? A pity party’s a pity party, no matter how high-blown the invitations are.
Their claims of expertise are highly over-rated if the actual facts of the case are taken into account. Much as they are highly over-paid. Anything above zero is too much pay for a ‘hobby’, but I suppose this is better than having them resort to panhandling for their livliehoods.
Now, if there was a ‘Department of Beer-Drinking and Snarky Blog-Commenting’ I think I could make a good fit, studying and reporting on the effects of adolescent behavior on the North American male and his reaction to the cultural memes of the post modern world. Since I was trained at Michigan State my bladder capacity is about one US quart, making me a shoe-in for department chair at some second tier state university. As a bonus I have my own tweed jacket and pipe.
I think this should be pursued with all available private and state funds else a critical area of study will vanish without a record. And I will keep regular office hours at a near-campus bar with wi-fi. Do you HEAR ME ACADEMIA? I will sacrafice to become the head bar-stool philosopher!
If seriously considered I will have leather patches placed on the elbows of the tweed jacket at the expense of a major granting trust. I WILL SACRIFICE FOR THIS!!!
Can anyone imagine the damage that would be done to society if the unqualified were allowed to “engage [in] discourses on race and gender”?
It would be the same if the unqualified were able to comment on blog commenting and beer drinking! This academic sinecure…I mean, this area of legitimate study needs to be supported! Please, contact your local universities and colleges and chide them on their ignoring this important cultural trend that needs close study, ample pay, willing research assistants of the female gender no matter their hair color or background, and many, many grants for ‘field studies’! I implore you (yes, miss; I’ll have another schooner) to help lest this valuable insight into the early twenty-first century be lost to the mops and cleaning rags of tomorrow!
The Gang of 88 did nothing wrong. Like Gleeeenwald says, to tell lies and just generally be mendoucheous is just fine in pursuit of teh narrative.
I am constantly amazed at the ability of the over educated to engage in self deception.
Rusty, when your paycheck is based on doing a lot of nothing loudly, then self-deception is the only way you can sleep at night. If an honest assessment was part of the job description then resignation is the only way to go. Think of Matoko and her desire to be guided by her own morals and ethics and not that of the larger society. What does that say other than deep in her heart she knows what she wants to do is immoral, so jiggering morality is the only way she can be comfortable. Willing self-deception in pursuit of the greater truth.
The ends always justify the means. (Sorry about the blood, we’ll send the bureaucrats with the mops.)
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Liberal arts colleges, same as rape a lot I think.
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That’s probably the reason I never finished my graduate degree.
I think we have a complete Bar Stool Philosophy Department right here at PW. Ivy League quality too.
We should get degrees, and a funny hat.