<div>Oops.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:57 AM Carol Polsgrove <<a href="mailto:ccpolsgrove@gmail.com">ccpolsgrove@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Which article was this writer referring to?<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 1:29 AM Updates from the Berkeley Daily Planet via Berkeleydailyplanet <<a href="mailto:berkeleydailyplanet@lists.sonic.net" target="_blank">berkeleydailyplanet@lists.sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span> <br></div></div>
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