05th May 2008

Post-modernism is to blame

Sometimes I enjoy reading Gawker a little bit too much. For example, one story I’ve been following is about a professor at Dartmouth who threatened her students via email with a lawsuit possibly regarding simply not liking her, and then the university got involved (also via email), and it’s all very interesting for those of us who are interested in forwarded internal emails exemplifying a lack of The Golden Rule via Gawker:

Now it’s official: everyone involved in any capacity with the Priya Venkatesan affiar annoys the hell out of us. To recap, Ms. Venkatesan was a Dartmouth lecturer who decided to sue her students for harassment or something because they heckled her. She is clearly a pompous tool. Her students are also probably pompous tools. Now a pompous tool who writes for the Wall Steet Journal editorial page weighs in with an indictment against academia. Joseph Rago attended Dartmouth, you see, though he totally didn’t like it very much and didn’t even try very hard in his classes. Because of post-modernism.

I’m really not sure it’s possible to follow this story coming in cold, but I am greatly amused with blaming post-modernism for anything.

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4 Responses to “Post-modernism is to blame”

  1. May 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pm Chalicechick Says:

    I also am loving on this story.

    http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2008/05/venkatesan_speaks_and_speaks_and_speaks_and_speaks_and_speaks.html

    CC

  2. May 5th, 2008 at 2:59 pm Ms. Theologian Says:

    She just won’t stop talking. I’m wondering if that’s how we all get when we are convinced we are right.

  3. May 5th, 2008 at 4:19 pm SisterCoyote Says:

    I thought we were hating on deconstructionism or relativism these days. Isn’t post-modern, well, passe?

  4. May 5th, 2008 at 4:21 pm Ms. Theologian Says:

    Hmm…I have read a couple anti-relativism essays recently. I’m guessing the reporter is a tad older than me, which would make him ripe for hating post-modernism. Not that I know what it is….

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