academics, even ones who are "big on twitter," still write to me from time to time to tell me i'm a "fraud" because of my stances on grading, student loans, higher ed, etc. what, pray tell, am i gaining from this fraud? tenure? why, that'd be a worthwhile fraud, a good scam.
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it's the "liberal on the tweets, authoritarian under the sheets/robes" types that really bug me, the ones whose various scholarly poses belie the hearts of petty tyrants, absolute dictators in control of safe but worthless realms who won't hesitate to eliminate their foes
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to this day, people will mention so-and-so's "important book," and i'll just think, huh, that person wrote to me telling me i was just a grandstanding dimwit trying to skip in the "public intellectual" line without pandering or paying dues
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my own politics aren't something i discuss here in the public sphere, but i think the people who make me the uneasiest are the john galt right-wingers (corporate CEOs, for example) posing as low-tax but hella woke liberals and the woke liberals who are really just yuppie hawks
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