Re: however, this is a tragic situation

Luke,

I think you'll find, if you spend enough time in it, that academia really is
not that much different from any other profession or working environment.
There's lots of pettiness, political backstabbing, silly behavior, mundane
meetings, pointless arguments, moments of discrimination, unfair hirings and
firings, stupidity of thought and deed, and all the rest, just like in every office
and boardroom around the world.

But asking me to have pity for Harvard Ph.D.s because they feel discriminated
against because of their political beliefs is just silly.

And if you really believe that there are grad students not being allowed into
programs or productive young scholars being denied jobs just because they are
Republicans, then you are seriously deluded.

Life goes on, inside and outside of university classrooms and faculty office
buildings. And the faces and minds that travel the quads and hallways and
faculty meeting rooms of my university are far more diverse, both ideologically
and ethnically, than any of the executive offices my father worked in or any of
the corporate board meetings I watched him attend. And all that stuff in the
article is just mindless, ranting, O'Reilly-style goofiness that should never
be taken for anything other than cheap, pro-wrestling style entertainment.
It just ain't real, dude.

Bye,

--John

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