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| Joan Foster | Apr 8 2011, 09:48 AM Post #31 |
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Oh there you are, Walt. I want to retain you for my follow-up lawsuit...demanding the right to sell Blog Hooligan hats and mugs, Quasi's book, Baldo cartoon posters, Payback's paperback on Brodhead's moral trail of misery, and my Hoax poetic anthologies.. .in the Duke bookstores as well.
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| Payback | Apr 8 2011, 12:34 PM Post #32 |
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Someone could track the trajectory of Brodhead's fears of being politically incorrect from the preface to THE SCHOOL OF HAWTHORNE to the present. I have only done a minimal amount of surfing. I am judging from that preface, but I know enough to see what he was doing, given the timing. Some reader brought up his dealing only with famous dead white men. Whoever that was did not have any detailed knowledge about white women or about dead white men who did not happen to be famous still. The query, maybe not even a strong accusation, frightened Brodhead into that round-and-round-we-go section on the canon. He did not want to rewrite the book, but at the last minute he was fearful that he might be criticized for being politically incorrect, back before being politically incorrect was a mortal sin. Then in the next decade you see him beginning to talk about multiculturalism. This is way late, after Paul Lauter and the Heath Anthology. Lauter antedates THE SCHOOL OF HAWTHORNE: Brodhead had been living his true Ivory Tower existence while others were scrambling to represent women, minorities (though they were also leaving out great groups: some prejudice is always OK). Anyhow, Brodhead tried to catch up and talk about multiculturalism, and then he "edited" a thin journal by a man of mixed race who could easily pass for white, Charles Chesnutt, and did it with the help of others deciphering the hard words, but it was important to do: he needed street creds as someone commendably interested in black writers. So by 2004 Brodhead had rehabilitated himself, as long as you did not snicker at the obviousness of proving your black-creds by "editing" a simple journal by someone just about as black as I am Choctaw and Cherokee. Brodhead arrived at Duke with some trepidation, I would think, because he knew that Duke was far more Politically Correct than Yale in 2004, and was frantic, from the start, not to offend anyone in the English Department or other angry studies faculty members. Abject is the adjective in the cliche, and the cliche fits Brodhead: he was in abject fear of the people carrying banner saying CASTRATE. Anyhow, someone could track Brodhead's publications and speeches and interviews and see the trail from the temporizing in 1986 in the preface to THE SCHOOL OF HAWTHORNE to his allowing the Palestine Solidarty Movement access to Duke and to his absolute belief in the guilt of the (any of the, all of the) lacrosse players. Brodhead's fear of being Politically Incorrect drove him into instant belief in the guilt of the lacrosse players: belief of their guilt oppressed him already, from the moment he heard of the accusations. Well, I wanted to give Joan some items to auction and got carried away. Someone needs to do the research to fill out the details on how Brodhead got so terrified of being non-PC. |
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| Payback | Apr 8 2011, 12:39 PM Post #33 |
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Joan, we can make up pamphlets of Brodhead's non-apologies. We could group them as HOW NOT TO APOLOGIZE, and pair him with all those celebrity criminals who say, "if anyone was offended by my saying rape of five year old boys is fun, I am sorry they were offended" or "if anyone took offense at my slapping my girlfriend around, I am sorry they took offense." |
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| cks | Apr 8 2011, 12:48 PM Post #34 |
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My suggestion would be a series of "my bad" teeshirts - long sleeved for those who get chills at the thought of being deemed politically incorrect; short sleeved for all others. the Sue Wausiolek version - "don't tell you parents" would be a sure fire seller! |
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| Payback | Apr 8 2011, 12:54 PM Post #35 |
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This is off topic but on Brodhead. Is anyone familiar with blogs? Why, out of all my posts there on Brodhead, would the "Troth and Consequences" post be visited 26 times already today (100 times this week) while the other Brodhead posts (including the timely one on "Constructive Fraud") are getting few or no hits at all? Could a class be reading it? The activity seems to be in the USA. |
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| Payback | Apr 8 2011, 12:55 PM Post #36 |
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This is off topic but on Brodhead. Is anyone familiar with blogs? Why, out of all my posts there on Brodhead, would the "Troth and Consequences" post be visited 26 times already today (100 times this week) while the other Brodhead posts (including the timely one on "Constructive Fraud") are getting few or no hits at all? Could a class be reading it? The activity seems to be in the USA. |
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| kbp | Apr 8 2011, 01:02 PM Post #37 |
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Do you know how to use the tools to determine what term or phrase might have been used in a search that produced the hit on your blog? |
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| Payback | Apr 8 2011, 01:04 PM Post #38 |
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No, I don't! |
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| kbp | Apr 8 2011, 01:09 PM Post #39 |
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I'm a bad candidate to explain HOW! Maybe others can help you. |
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| Joan Foster | Apr 8 2011, 02:09 PM Post #40 |
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Great ideas! I think we also need a whole line of "Carpetbagger Jihad" apparel. This could be our "contemporary" apparel line..with "Blog Hooligan" targeted toward a more mature crowd. We might, in time, expand into a lingerie line..."La Performance Obligation." |
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| Mason | Apr 8 2011, 02:52 PM Post #41 |
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Parts unknown
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. Maybe a bigger blog picked up the story and provided the link? You piqued someone's interest. . |
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| Payback | Apr 8 2011, 03:39 PM Post #42 |
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It occurs to me now that I could put a comment on the post and ask what the interest is. I'll do that. Later: Done. 36 hits today, one of which was mine as I added the comment. I'll let you know what I find out. UPDATE: 17 hits so far on Saturday. Maybe some Brodhead fanatic keeps clicking on this one post. Edited by Payback, Apr 9 2011, 04:34 PM.
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| MikeZPU | Apr 9 2011, 09:55 AM Post #43 |
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RCD had to undergo the humiliation of a well-televised perp walk for a horrendous crime that never happened, that was all a lie. They were actually arrested and bond was set at $400K each. They were totally innocent and, in fact, they were THE victims. Sid gets asked to leave campus because he was soliciting. Because he kept protesting, he got an escort to the bus. No one would know about it if it wasn't for him. I don't remember Sid advocating for that the Principles of Restorative Justice be applied to RCD? Edited by MikeZPU, Apr 9 2011, 09:56 AM.
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