Fan of this young man and the gift that he brings to his writing. Despise West!
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I don't often do this but, how and why would you despise Cornell West?
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CW: insecure and petty
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"Insecure and Petty" for calling out another person's lack of completeness in thier arguments? Like any other good teacher /elder CW was calling on TNC to
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This is so childish, I'm almost glad I don't know who any of these people are.
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Honestly, not knowing who any of them are is quite telling about who YOU are.
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That was the perfect reply to his ignorance! Thank you!


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Not everyone knows who everybody is... the headline reads like a childish act.
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Don't be silly. That's a pathetic strawman argument. Of course "not everyone knows who everybody is"—duh! But any sensible adult who reads any serious US publication, or watch any serious news outlet, or participate in any serious forum on culture in America, shd kno who they arepic.twitter.com/neCEq8uaL3
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well fuck him for commenting on a NYT tweet lol You may disagree but it is a valid argument as you agree with a "duh" I'm vaguely familiar with both but couldn't tell you their positions. Can't we just agree that the headline is horrible???
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I read Prof. West's piece about Coates. There's no name-calling or childishness in it. It's a serious, intellectual objection to Coates's ideas. Not sure if I agree with West, but the take by Twitter/Coates is that the professor was out of line. No, he wasn't.
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Except you clearly haven't read Coates. If you had, you'd know that TNC criticized Obama for all the things West wants him to. West's argument was surprisingly intellectually lazy, which made it more of a hit piece than a critique.
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Mr Coates is a gifted writer....who expresses his opinions clearly and concisely...Prof. West must have been jealous of the publications and the success of the younger generation...it boils down to jealousy. ..
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With Cornell West(I really want to be Fredrick Douglass)it always is!
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West is no fan of Obama probably for similar reasons.
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I don’t understand Mr Coates reasoning. Whatever happened to rational discourse? Agreeing to disagree? Sad.
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