tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post8239754020800360663..comments2024-03-09T03:20:20.004-05:00Comments on Tenured Radical: Home Again: Driving Dr. RadicalTenured Radicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-52254280119205784332008-09-15T17:39:00.000-05:002008-09-15T17:39:00.000-05:00glad to read article like this. I am new user to t...glad to read article like this. I am new user to this blog. The Home Again Driving Dr.Radical is a very interesting article.<BR/>===========================================<BR/>brucely<BR/><A HREF="http://www.legalx.net" REL="nofollow">California Dui</A>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09640278062881741283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-38034863823245766292007-12-05T10:05:00.000-05:002007-12-05T10:05:00.000-05:00Actually, I think one way to tell the difference i...Actually, I think one way to tell the difference is that there is a little more turquoise jewelry and native American "vests" or belts or some other "native" wares adorning a small portion of the attendees. This is how I can always tell I am in the anthropology meeting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-67005986374089775782007-12-04T11:26:00.000-05:002007-12-04T11:26:00.000-05:00Dear Anonymous,Don't believe everything you read. ...Dear Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Don't believe everything you read. I never said those young men raped the woman, and assertions that I did are just wrong. Furthermore, my post (which was about media representation) went up before the students were exonerated. That said, I never said they committed a crime -- only that the actions of the group (hiring strippers, drinking until they lost judgement) put members of the group in jeopardy, that something happened to the woman who made the charges, that the team had a history of drunken and violent behavior and that members of the team were collectively responsible for letting the situation get out of hand. I never made any "charges" against the indicted students - if anything, the charge I made was that as a society we are very quick to assume that privileged, white people are "innocent" and marginalized, poor, black people are lying. That one marginalized, poor black woman actually lied does not change my view of how our culture operates; that those four young men did not rape her does not change my view that they had no business bringing her there in the first place and treating her badly when she wasn't in shape to deliver the pornographic display they had paid for.<BR/><BR/>Durham in Wonderland is a very peculiar blog, and the man who writes it someone who has a long history of identifying people who disagree with him as enemies and attacking them viciously; and making himself the center of attention by claiming to be the chief authority on controversial issues. I wouldn't form opinions about me or about the past from the postings of the blog author or the reader. As a matter of fact, don't form an opinion about him from this blog either: read DIW, Google his tenure case, and see what you think, if you are interested.<BR/><BR/>The only reason I am leaving your post up and answering it -- since your comment has nothing to do with the post it is attached to and I generally do not respond to these things at the length the DIW people would like -- is, honestly, you sound like one of my students and far too nice and reasonable to be one of the DIW people. So if you ever want to talk about this phenomenon, or my role in it, I hope you come to office hours.<BR/><BR/>best, TRTenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-67399139734267535432007-12-04T10:57:00.000-05:002007-12-04T10:57:00.000-05:00Sorry to beat a dead horse and I honestly feel sor...Sorry to beat a dead horse and I honestly feel sorry about thw whacking you have taken over the DIW affair. But seriously, you just can't go aroud saying or inferring that people committed or may have committed horrendous crimes when they have been publicly exonerated and particularly when they didn't do it!<BR/>The reason people are so upset about what you wrote is that they respect the position you hold in<BR/>a prestigious American University in teh American Studies department<BR/>and because these were accusations of an horrendous nature. If we weren't so appalled at the nature of the alleged crimes, respectful of your position and therefore of your opinion, everyone wouldn't get so upset. There were real people facing real prison time for NOTHING.Also, they were students and you are a teacher which also ups the ante in the trust arena.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-64096347154976074512007-12-04T06:37:00.000-05:002007-12-04T06:37:00.000-05:00I know that Beckett's behavior was out of line but...I know that Beckett's behavior was out of line but I cannot help but get stuck on his point about being paid w/ a $50 for a $3 fair and expected to produce change. To me your story is so clearly about the growing rift between the increasingly desperate working/subsistence class and the economically privileged. I can only imagine how many gifted Shoreline students & faculty he is demeaned by regularly in the course of providing them a needed service (as I too remember that walk pre-taxis) & tho his anger was clearly misplaced when aimed at you . . . the very fact that his answer to the situation of bank closures and large bills was to contemplate suicide speaks volumes about how radically different his real of experience, and the world that divides it from most academics, is becoming. I hope that he made it home safely and to some sense of dignity in the same way that I am glad you made it home that way despite being the target of his alienation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-55932759540655381532007-12-03T21:43:00.000-05:002007-12-03T21:43:00.000-05:00Of all the odd taxi drivers I've had in Shoreline,...Of all the odd taxi drivers I've had in Shoreline, none has equaled Beckett... It just shows that where the radical goes, excitement always follows!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-41539932393410256742007-12-03T10:47:00.000-05:002007-12-03T10:47:00.000-05:00I feel really sad for Beckett Taxi Driver. He must...I feel really sad for Beckett Taxi Driver. He must have been having a helluva day... or week... or life? Anyway, thanks for portraying him so vividly.squadratomagicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977502780584567298noreply@blogger.com