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28/ by "a sociological context" we're talking about "morning mix" department at The Washington Post, I guess. Which is where this thread started.https://twitter.com/wx_underground/status/1419743795759837185 …
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29/ oh !@#$#, I have been called "unlettered" that's gonna leave a mark how shall I recover? I don't have a CREDENTIALhttps://twitter.com/wx_underground/status/1419742756071608325 …
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30/ re "anti-intellectualist": I am very much in favor of intellectualism. ...that is why I am against credentialism, which tends to extinguish its natural enemy, intellectualism.
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31/ For the second time, I will apologize for nodding off in your bio, somewhere between the brain emoji and "he/him". It was wrong of me, and I will strive to not repeat the error.https://twitter.com/wx_underground/status/1419743007541137408 …
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32/ (a) I'm not outraged; I'm having fun (b) you never said the word "dumb", instead you used "hasty", "knee-jerk", "anti-intellectual", "unlettered", "sloppy", "lack of nuance", etc. I thought (and still think) it a fair act of condensing.https://twitter.com/wx_underground/status/1419744614647402521 …
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33/ No, I'm literally not. I only want to use the CURRENT use of normal / norm / normative, but I was introducing the historical evidence for one particular point: to show that the word antedated the discipline of sociology.https://twitter.com/wx_underground/status/1419745951984488448 …
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34/ My favorite fights are against arrogant credentialed goofballs. brain-emoji Dan isn't even in the top 10 #2 is Alex Nowrasteh of Cato #1 was "Fag with PhD" (his username) back at my old http://tjic.com blog. My GOSH that was a bloodbathhttps://twitter.com/Latentem/status/1419746186487992331 …
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35/ yep. Someone @-ed me and mentioned Paul Fussel and "Class", and that's exactly right [ and a good book ]https://twitter.com/sirsfurther/status/1419760346999541766 …
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Also, that a general interest newspaper like WaPo should be read as if they are using terms of art like they're American Sociological Review.
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