1. So this @weeklystandard profile of Dinesh D'Souza (by @aliceblloyd is very good & really illuminates his trajectory:https://www.weeklystandard.com/alice-b-lloyd/american-politics-has-caught-up-with-right-wing-populist-dinesh-dsouza …
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@aliceblloyd probably has a higher opinion of D'Souza's anti-PC book Illiberal Education than I do. It's his best book but it's still suffers the same problems of all anti-PC literature (anecdotal, one-sided, disregarding full spectrum of academic life etc.)Show this thread -
6. Still! With Illiberal Education got some centrist and center-right publications to take him seriously: the Atlantic, the American Scholar, TNR (alas!). He was still a simulacrum-intellectual but gained surprising respectability.
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7. But D'Souza couldn't keep up the act long. You can take the boy out of Dartmouth Review but not Dartmouth Review out of the book. He quickly reverted to form, as I note here: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/151305/dinesh-dsouza-right-wing-troll-since-college …
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8. But any study of how trolling came to be the dominant lingo of the American right has to give pride of place to undergraduate newspapers like The Dartmouth Review (and their predecessor The American Spectator). That's the true incubation ward.
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Pretended to be an intellectual, was not really one ever! He’s a black mark on the Indian American community, heck he’s a black mark on humanity.
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Gotta say, read the profile - well reported, well written but it wasn’t edifying. That is, I learned nothing that made me glad I’d read it. That’s on me, I know.
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Buffoon seems like a generous description. Buffoons usually aren't this nasty and vicious.
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