Methinks the damage has been done.
“Methinks the damage has been done.”
The damage control was about as good as it could be at that point. The damage could have been worse. They could have gone ahead with their plans and been picketed and had more money pledges withdrawn. It would have been better never to have done this to begin with. Academics live in a special hothouse environment isolated from the deplorables’ universe, so they don’t know how their actions might be perceived in a non-academic world.
I was talking to a professor in the gym. He taught how to be an entrepreneur. He had never started or run a company. He had never had a job outside the university. But he considered his course an essential for students who wanted to start their own company. Having started three companies and run several large departments in multi-nationals, it was all I could do not to laugh. His naiveté was astonishing.