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On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:57 AM Carol Polsgrove <ccpolsgrove at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Which article was  this writer referring to?
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 1:29 AM Updates from the Berkeley Daily Planet via
> Berkeleydailyplanet <berkeleydailyplanet at lists.sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> I read the cited article by the person who claims to be a member of the
>> faculty at the University of California at Berkeley. As an alumna of that
>> institution, if he (I assume it's a man) really is teaching history there
>> I'm embarrassed because the quality of the work is so poor. His logic is
>> pathetic. His prose is turgid. He uses $5 words where simple English would
>> be better, and several times he uses them incorrectly ("actionable" "ad
>> hominems"}. In the good old days the conservatives were literate and witty,
>> but this is just second-rate sulking. Since he's too cowardly to sign his
>> name I won't bother to debate his easily refuted half-baked ideas. Others
>> on NextDoor and elsewhere have done a good job of doing so. If he does
>> teach at Cal, I hope he's correct when he implies that the vast majority of
>> his colleagues would think he's an idiot. Otherwise I fear that my alma
>> mater is going seriously downhill.
>>
> --
Becky O'Malley
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