OK, No Matter Who You Are, This Is Just Funny…

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Law professor and critical theory grad Darren Hutchinson gets his inner coprophile on and blasts the critics of Obama’s bow (my own views here).

The post is pretty standard stuff for the juicebox Jane Hamsher crowd, and in my view, pretty much unintentionally satirizes critical theorists.

So you can skip it if you like. But you’ve just got to go to the comments and watch Professor Hutchinson get taken to school.
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3 thoughts on “OK, No Matter Who You Are, This Is Just Funny…”

  1. One of the really nice things about the net is how it opens the field to commentary beyond the sort of people professors have power over.

    Professors have relied heavily on the prospect of grade penalties to silence dissenting voices, and legitimate criticism. Most have become… less than aware is a good term… of how pervasive a crutch this is.

    But give them a platform, and off they go. Whereupon they meet a regular audience that cannot be affected by the professor’s grading decisions. At which point, the fireworks and fun begin.

    It must really suck to stop being an aristocrat among courtiers. As the modern saying goes, professors, “embrace the suck.”

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  2. In fairness though, it seems like every law school has someone who teaches the identity politics-based law classes. Fortunately it seems to always be the fringe types so that the real professors can teach the substantive courses that the serious students take instead.

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  3. Here’s a real monarch: “Leviathan.”:http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/hobbes-in-hebrew-the-religion-question/ A complete version has just been published in Hebrew.

    The following quote in the commentary linked abover struck my eye:

    Succeeding generations constantly find new things in his works. When, a generation ago, Hobbes’s subtle anticipations of game theory were fully appreciated, his dismal analysis of life in a “state of nature” without political authority as “nasty, brutish and short” could no longer be dismissed as based on a narrow egoism. Without solid assurance of one another’s intentions, even the cooperative have reason to protect themselves in ways that can rationally lead to a “war of all against all,” or, as nuclear theorists were concluding during the same period, to threats of mutually assured destruction.

    Overheated ad hominem attacks that are typical in what passes for political discourse in much of the blogosphere and the mainstream media suggests we are witnessing a degeneration into war of all against all. The inability of individual members of Congress to engage openly in policy discussions and act in the best interest of the country as they see it is a symptom. The fact that every opinion or view expressed by the other side must be vilified, charicatured, misrepresented and distrusted is a symptom.

    The solution starts with us.

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