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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
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
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" ?
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
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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