pc perfessor bites back
Joe Varo
vjvaro at erie.net
Wed Feb 19 20:32:01 CST 1997
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Diana York Blaine wrote:
> [...]
> Bring together your Hitler thread with your ebonics "jokes" for a nice
> look at how genocide gets validated.
Aw come on now...this is getting ridiculous. A-and I suppose that the
push for tort reform combined with lawyer jokes might lead to a mass
lynching of attorneys?
> If you have a hostile reaction to these comments it doesn't mean I am
> wrong. Nor does the fact that I am an educator make me an idiot.
You know...I think that some of you .edu foax are getting a persecution
complex. The only person I've seen REALLY go after the academic jugular
is Steely, and maybe one or two others I can't recall.
> [...]
> But I am also uninterested in validating uninformed garbage under the
> rubric of "personal opinion." There is no such thing.
How do you validate "uninformed garbage" other than by publicly agreeing
with it? What do you mean by no such thing as personal opinion? That all
opinion is a cultural construct?
Joe
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