Bill Savage is a lecturer and second-rate dork in the Department of English at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ilinois. He explains how he had himself sexually altered in order to devote his efforts full time to the political-reassignment of genetically predisposed offspring of "red state" Republicans.
I don't need to have kids to create mini-me voters: I get classrooms full of other people's kids, most already of voting age. And I'm not alone. As right-wing hysterics have recently noticed, universities in America are dominated by lefties like me. I suspect the main reason for this is that most academics I know are willing to forego making a big pile of money in order to, you know, think for a living.
In contrast, over at Protein Wisdom, you can almost hear Goldstein gunning his vocabulary. (I believe Jeff too, may have taught English. If true, his savaging of Savage may be be more a linguistic dick measuring contest[1] than a legitimate fisking) .
He translates this portion;
(Right-wingers prefer the professions where you make big piles of money by thinking about offshoring red-state manufacturing jobs to Red China.)Translation: "I put that last bit of cliched Rethuglican bashing in a parenthetical to show that I'm not really all that committed to it; after all, the last thing I want to do is follow up a pronouncement on my intellectual superiority with such a lazy rehashing of anti-corporate talking points. Unless it's in parentheticals, I mean. Because that shows that I know it's an intellectually lazy rehashing, and self-conscious irony is, of course, the greatest measure of intelligence."
Either way, Jeff wins. Figuratively, of course. There's no way to know, really, though he's made claims.
Footnote;
I put that in parentheticals to indicate that I'm not really committed to it; but that no opportunity for the gratuitous use[1] of the word "dick" should be wasted and the delicious irony is that I'm not above admitting that.
Footnote Footnotes;
[1] I originally chose the word "insertion" but thought better of it.
You WILL BE assimilated: A "Progressive" Academic Manifesto (with convenient rightwing gloss) - UPDATED from protein wisdom
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Here's a fantastic speech by Czech President Václav Klaus about socialism and "public intellectuals" such as Bill Savage. I highly recommend it.
Why is it that those that have lived under commnunism can see the advantages of liberty and free markets so much more clearly?
http://www.klaus.cz/klaus2/asp/clanek.asp?id=wFYl3mgsTzI6
...the free market system does not typically reward those who are - in their own eyes - the most meritorious. Because the intellectuals value themselves very highly, they disdain the marketplace. Markets value them differently than their own eyes and, in addition to it, markets function nicely without their supervision. As a result, the intellectuals are suspicious of free markets and prefer being publicly funded. That is another reason, why they are in favour of socialism.
Posted by: TimR at August 30, 2005 3:51 PMbill savage is an idiot. i see no evidence of indoctrination in my classrooms. there's bias, but based on in-class discussion, people don't really change their entire opinions once a 3-credit political science course has concluded. if students are going to be dumb enough and pay $4000/year to be brainwashed, then they deserve it. most people forking over that kind of cash actually put effort into their studies and challenge the ideas introduced in the classroom.
Posted by: ainge at August 30, 2005 5:37 PMHey Ainge
Agreed Bill Savage is a second rate dork, but have you heard of Mark Johnson from the University of Waterloo.
All moonbatty and wrong headed as one can be,... something tells me his parents are looking for a refund cheque.
When I attended Waterloo it was common knowledge that Wilford Laurier (1/2 a block away) faculty of Poly Sci was dominated by card carrying commies
How much effort does it take be a Michael Moore clone, when your profs are asking for papers that back up their restricted worldview.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/002378.html
For someone trying to get good grades what would be the point of handing in a paper to a freak like Savage that tears his commie vision to shreds.
I'll bet Mark Johnson was the teachers pet.
Posted by: richfisher at August 31, 2005 10:13 AMI'll leave this anecdote from my experience. I did an undergrad degree at UWO in History and Political Science. I wrote an essay calling Louis Riel a traitor of Canada for leading 2 rebellions and got a C. I then wrote an essay actually defending Stalin and got an A. Take from that what you will.
Posted by: Mark at August 31, 2005 8:49 PMGosh, I'm impressed. "Parentheticals," eh? One more syllable than "parentheses," sounds--I dunno--longer. :)
Posted by: Dr.Dawg at August 31, 2005 9:24 PM