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How is it that the Chronicle of Higher Education--a publication for professional academics--ends up publishing such garbage and attracting such a vile bunch of comments? Those racists are posting to each other like they know one another already, like there's a community of racists who reinforce one another on a blog from the Chronicle. What the gently caress?
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# ? May 4, 2012 08:09 |
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 12:44 |
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Oh good, she's doubling down:quote:Finally, since this is a blog about academia and not journalism, I’ll forgive the commenters for not understanding that it is not my job to read entire dissertations before I write a 500-word piece about them. I read some academic publications (as they relate to other research I do), but there are not enough hours in the day or money in the world to get me to read a dissertation on historical black midwifery. In fact, I’d venture to say that fewer than 20 people in the whole world will read it. And the same holds true for the others that are mentioned in the piece.
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# ? May 4, 2012 13:06 |
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Breaking news: very few people will read your dissertation.
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# ? May 4, 2012 13:06 |
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Orange Devil posted:Breaking news: very few people will read your dissertation. Duh, but she took a big steaming dump on three people's dissertations without reading them. And then responded to critics who told her that was a dick move by saying "Hey, I'm just a blogger for the Chronicle of Higher Education, you can't expect me to actually read a dissertation before I publicly call it worthless."
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# ? May 4, 2012 13:13 |
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Jack Gladney posted:How is it that the Chronicle of Higher Education--a publication for professional academics--ends up publishing such garbage and attracting such a vile bunch of comments? Those racists are posting to each other like they know one another already, like there's a community of racists who reinforce one another on a blog from the Chronicle. To borrow someone ele's phrase from a second ago, Breaking News: Academia attracts highly privileged and often sheltered people -- they aren't the majority of university community, of course, but they certainly exist in good numbers. This means that a publication like the Chronicle has more than its share of crotchety old business professors and young libertarian economics PhDs and so on hanging in the rafters waiting for an opportunity like this.
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# ? May 4, 2012 13:16 |
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PostNouveau posted:Oh good, she's doubling down: Wait, so only journalists should be expected to actually read or otherwise fully explore the thing they are critiquing, not academics? Seriously is she loving retarded or something? It's like Robert Ebert or Leonard Maltin going, "What, you expected me to watch all those movies before I reviewed them? They're like 2 hours long a piece and I'm only writing 300 words."
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# ? May 4, 2012 13:30 |
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Lee Harvey Oswald posted:Thirty-nine months of Obama have increased gasoline prices 84 percent, crude oil 135.9 percent, corn 78.1 percent, sugar cane 164.7 percent, black unemployment 25.4 percent, food stamp recipients 35.7 percent, long- term unemployment 136.2 percent, national debt in trillions 32.2 percent, and new businesses are at a 30-year low. Our country's broke. You can't fix stupid, but can vote it out! The fact that he felt the need to specify units for his proportional metric makes me warm and fuzzy inside.
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# ? May 4, 2012 15:04 |
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Lee Harvey Oswald posted:Here's a winner from my local paper today. What do you expect from signal mountain? I'm pretty sure "driving while black" is still a felony up top.
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# ? May 4, 2012 16:09 |
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PostNouveau posted:Oh good, she's doubling down: What is it with certain people not just being ignorant, but actually reveling in it? She freely admits to making criticisms without knowing anything about what she was criticizing, and does so proudly, as though she doesn't have the time to be bothered with things like reading.
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# ? May 4, 2012 16:38 |
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zeroprime posted:What is it with certain people not just being ignorant, but actually reveling in it? She freely admits to making criticisms without knowing anything about what she was criticizing, and does so proudly, as though she doesn't have the time to be bothered with things like reading. That's a running theme through some conservative circles, although you certainly wouldn't expect it from someone writing for the goddamn Chronicle of Higher Education. What really gets my goat is just the arbitrary dickishness of it. It's like picking a name out of the phone book and then keying that person's car. How awful would it be to be minding your own business, doing research you find meaningful and working toward advancing your field, and one day out of the blue you get an e-mail with a link to the Chronicle of Higher Education calling your work stupid.
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# ? May 4, 2012 17:07 |
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It probably doesn't matter, but I have been using all the feedback forms I can find to tell the Chronicle how displeased I was to see such poor, unscholarly writing on the Chronicle's website.
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# ? May 4, 2012 17:26 |
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Not entirely political, but uh, this was written for a major NYC newspaper.quote:Nets on Jay-Z track http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/double_standard_TFPqqilUHif01I9BKkQSkN#ixzz1tvDbCuoR
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# ? May 4, 2012 18:13 |
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Toffile posted:Not entirely political, but uh, this was written for a major NYC newspaper. That's where you made your mistake.
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# ? May 4, 2012 18:16 |
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Toffile posted:Not entirely political, but uh, this was written for a major NYC newspaper. Holy poo poo Phil Muschnick is a massive loving racist. Is he going to get the axe or is this par for the course at the N.Y. Post?
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:00 |
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Kim Jong III posted:
quote:Yet, while Stoudemire’s now a fool until further notice, for years we watched Paul O’Neill, after failures at bat, attack anything and everything found in or near dugouts, especially large glass or plastic containers of thirst-quenching liquids. Haha yes. The reason Amar'e gets called a thug but Paul O'Neil is called a warrior is because Amar'e injured himself. That is literally the only reason. Edit: Comments on the article are surprisingly not terrible. quote:YO MUSHNICK IMMA LET YOU FINISH BUT MEL GIBSON HAD THE GREATEST AWKWARD RACISM RANT OF ALL TIME. Salvor_Hardin fucked around with this message at 19:24 on May 4, 2012 |
# ? May 4, 2012 19:13 |
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There's no punchline in the letter, this guy really does want to shut down the GSA.quote:Shut down the GSA!
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:20 |
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Kim Jong III posted:
lol this was probably the least racist thing in this edition of the NY Post.
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:27 |
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Are the White Sox owned by a black guy too?
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:31 |
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I always love it when people who obviously never listen to rap write articles about it. I decided to search through Jay-Z's lyrics for references to "9mm", because obviously if this guy knows so much about Jay-Z he's gonna choose something closely related to Jay-Z when choosing a logo, right? The only reference I could find in all his lyrics: Jay-Z - People's Court posted:It's like bein on trial for your life with a public defender Wow, some scary poo poo there Mr Mushnick.
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:32 |
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Dr. Tough posted:There's no punchline in the letter, this guy really does want to shut down the GSA. So Tim Phillips, President of an organization that produces nothing of value, is complaining about waste and inefficiency?
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:35 |
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He emailed a few people about the story blowing up.Phil Mushnick posted:Bob - Such obvious, wishful and ignorant mischaracterizations of what I write are common. I don't call black men the N-word; I don't regard young women as bitches and whores; I don't glorify the use of assault weapons and drugs. Jay-Z, on the other hand.....Is he the only NBA owner allowed to call black men N---ers?" Glad to see you grabbed that shovel, Phil.
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# ? May 4, 2012 21:20 |
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I love it when people say "why are only black people allowed to say the n-word?" like it's some super cool thing that they really want to do, but since they can't they just whine about it.
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# ? May 4, 2012 21:37 |
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It ranks right up there with "I have a black friend" and "Why isn't there a WHITE entertainment network?" as clues that the speaker is racist.
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:25 |
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The funny thing is that his views could have been as reprehensibly racist as possible, all he had to do was not say friend of the family.
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:28 |
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Terror Sweat posted:The funny thing is that his views could have been as reprehensibly racist as possible, all he had to do was not say friend of the family. Aint it grand never be able to get away with saying that anywhere but here.
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# ? May 5, 2012 15:57 |
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My paper has a Sunday column called "Your 2 Cents." It's almost as entertaining as the comics section.quote:The "service" those Secret Service agents paid for in Colombia didn't remain a secret for long. quote:Since we have never actually run out of any "non-renewable" resources, how does anyone know we will? quote:Pro-choice and pro-life philosophies regarding abortion seem to have little room for compromise. Maybe a live-and-let-live agreement would work. quote:Speaking of prostitutes, what's Congress been doing — or rather, not doing — lately? quote:What this country needs — besides a good $5 cigar — is fewer wild-eyed Democrats and Republicans and more just plain, simple Americans. quote:The 2012 Democratic presidential campaign slogan is "Forward." I think it should be "Forwarned." quote:It's too bad Facebook wasn't around when Corp. Klinger of M*A*S*H* was trying to get out of the Army. A simple posting criticizing his commander-in-chief would have had him sent home in no time at all.
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# ? May 6, 2012 17:33 |
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Augster posted:My paper has a Sunday column called "Your 2 Cents." It's almost as entertaining as the comics section. Isn't this alluding to the case of that marine given an "other than honorable" discharge for Facebook posts, which didn't simply "criticize" Obama but rather that he explicitly said he would disobey any orders from Obama?
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# ? May 7, 2012 00:16 |
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Bruce Leroy posted:Isn't this alluding to the case of that marine given an "other than honorable" discharge for Facebook posts, which didn't simply "criticize" Obama but rather that he explicitly said he would disobey any orders from Obama? [/quote] It's kind of how people talk about how Ted Nugent got in trouble for "making jokes" about Obama.
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# ? May 7, 2012 00:38 |
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quote:Pro-choice and pro-life philosophies regarding abortion seem to have little room for compromise. Maybe a live-and-let-live agreement would work. This one isn't terrible, but I really wish it didn't pop up so often. Do people think Planned Parenthood are going out, demanding women have unwanted abortions?
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# ? May 7, 2012 04:50 |
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:So Tim Phillips, President of an organization that produces nothing of value, is complaining about waste and inefficiency? This is kind of off topic, but I realized that not everyone is aware of the fact that Phillips is an absolutely evil bastard. I'll let David Wong explain: quote:Well, not too many years ago somebody was trying to figure out how to make cheap textiles with foreign child sweatshop labor, while still putting “Made in the USA” on the tag. They had the ingenious idea of setting up factories in the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the North Pacific. So yeah, gently caress Tim Phillips. Just wanted to point that out.
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# ? May 7, 2012 06:34 |
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Nick_326 posted:This is kind of off topic, but I realized that not everyone is aware of the fact that Phillips is an absolutely evil bastard. Jesus loving Christ. How is it that people talking about what "good Christians" should do are always the most cartoonishly evil of them all? Don't bother answering that question. I know the answer is hypocrisy and the lack of a soul. It's just flabbergasting sometimes.
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# ? May 7, 2012 06:47 |
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colonelslime posted:This one isn't terrible, but I really wish it didn't pop up so often. Do people think Planned Parenthood are going out, demanding women have unwanted abortions? There are in fact people who think that Planned Parenthood is somehow pushing women to have abortions in order to make a profit. These are people who have been lied to, but who want to believe the lie anyway. It's pretty awful and part of why the "pro-life" movement is hosed up.
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# ? May 7, 2012 07:03 |
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Most of the editorials I've posted here in the past have to do with politics but here's an amazingly stupid one about science.Darwin Was Wrong: Why We Need to Update Our Model of Evolution by Ellen Grace Jones posted:This week the University of Sheffield announced results of experiments which promulgate Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' theory. Scientists claim we humans continue to be subject to the forces and whims of natural selection like other species. And this is why no one should publish science articles written by fashion designers. At least all the comments are awesome and totally rip her bullshit to shreds. Here's one of my favorites: Misty Perry posted:Primords of alming global source of all creation. Lightened, evolving just logical, thereligious - cal fields of almost 6,000 years plus. Germany states beent human-ression. The self is batheory, make a surselves we bought into the Darwinism whereby to Hollywooperation notely dated the Sphysical only hinder physics.
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# ? May 7, 2012 10:54 |
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quote:Obama leading U.S. to a socialist state
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# ? May 7, 2012 12:57 |
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Mo Tzu posted:There are in fact people who think that Planned Parenthood is somehow pushing women to have abortions in order to make a profit. These are people who have been lied to, but who want to believe the lie anyway. It's pretty awful and part of why the "pro-life" movement is hosed up. Let's not get into the exaggerations and lies that the pro-life movement tells on purpose to stop abortions daily: - fetal pain - abortions cause breast cancer - the pill causes birth defects and abnormalities in women - Planned Parenthood wants to abort black babies (this is especially crazy) - since Margaret Sanger believed in Eugenics, abortion providers are Eugenicists by default
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# ? May 7, 2012 13:59 |
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a foolish pianist posted:From the Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm Blog, by Naomi Schaefer Riley: She has been let go: http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/a-note-to-readers/46608 It constantly amazes me that serious places will hire a right wing hatchet person to somehow address issues of ideological diversity and then act surprised when they act out. There are actual serious conservative scholars around the country. Why bother with people who are just looking to professionally "troll?" Especially since for these people being fired from an academic or academic-related (in this case) is actually a good career move. I am sure Ms. Riley will use the "being fired from CHE" as her calling card and as proof of how academics are all out to get conservatives.
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# ? May 8, 2012 15:08 |
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joepinetree posted:She has been let go: Cue angry conservatives calling petition-signers fascists and lamenting the fact that the Chronicle caved into "liberal peer-pressure" in the comments.
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# ? May 8, 2012 18:51 |
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colonelslime posted:Cue angry conservatives calling petition-signers fascists and lamenting the fact that the Chronicle caved into "liberal peer-pressure" in the comments. You rang? http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mob-quad_644237.html
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# ? May 8, 2012 21:08 |
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colonelslime posted:Cue angry conservatives calling petition-signers fascists and lamenting the fact that the Chronicle caved into "liberal peer-pressure" in the comments. I wonder if she will come to regret mentioning that she never read the dissertations. That fact alone makes the piece brainless and mean spirited, something which should be no where near what appears to be an academia focused publication. I would hope that conservatives would take note of her methods before they rush to publish her columns. Chandragupta fucked around with this message at 22:19 on May 8, 2012 |
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So that racist NY Post columnist played the "black people are the real racists!" card http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/phil_mushnick_o_1.php a racist dickbag posted:Such obvious, wishful and ignorant mischaracterizations of what I write are common. I don't call black men the N-word; I don't regard young women as bitches and whores; I don't glorify the use of assault weapons and drugs. Jay-Z, on the other hand.....Is he the only NBA owner allowed to call black men N---ers?" edit: this is basically exactly what I pictured this douchebag looking like in my head. I bet he always has that smarmy expression on his face.
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