For example, regardless of the point being made here -- who cares, honestly -- what is one to make of this "nine relatives at noted universities" claimpic.twitter.com/GWAIPjCjHm
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I hate when people respond to various online statements they disagree with by posting a string of spurious and irrelevant anecdotal information to buttress their supposed credentials, a kind of "navy seal copypasta" for the smart setpic.twitter.com/ZIxR3cTXyq
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Would the point be less strong if the relatives were merely average to mediocre academics at the lesser state universities, the "cow colleges" and "Moo Us" ?
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Make it personal and take it personal, I suppose. This sort of thing is like an updated "my parents can beat up your parents" pissing match
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Which was of course truly academic in my case, because unless your dad was Mike Tyson, you weren't getting to my old man until the mid-1990s at the earliest
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