File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-06-08.010, message 68


Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 06:29:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: Sokal and ethics


Rahul, thanks for telling it like it is.  Santiago, thanks for
re-estab- lishing your credibility.  I had vowed to behave myself
on marxism2, but this is one topic I take  very personally.  When
I read those colums in the NY Times I wanted to puke.  I know
people who are mixed up in this business and I got swept up in it
in a more intimate   manner than I would like.  But this business
makes my flesh crawl,  and the responses from the two Stinky
Stanleys (FIsh & the other asshole) & Airheaded Andrew burned me
up.  These people sicken  me on a deep level.  The very suggestion
that Sokal could be scapegoated was more than I could tolerate.
This incident does prove that loylties are going to  be tested one
day whe the shit comes down.  I'm not giong to tolerate these
mediocrre literary shitheads, who can't compose one sentene of
standard English, getting away  with their crimes.  I've hung with
scietnists, as I've hung with artists, rerligious nuts, derelicts,
counterculture types, and many other groups  of people over he
course of a lifetime.  I have not found the academic literati to
be superior in any way, not even in their own field.   In fact, I
have found people in the harrd sciences to be far more open,
democratic, humansitic, and even artistic than all the English
department dweebs I have known put together.  I have real work to
do, and I would  rather not get  involved in this little fight,
but I'm not going to let it pass.


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