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Occupy the MLA
Accuracy in Academia ^ | January 12, 2012 | Malcolm A. Kline

Posted on 01/12/2012 7:34:03 AM PST by Academiadotorg

At the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual meeting in Seattle last week, English professor Joseph Ramsey pretty much said at a panel that when college activists in the faculty and the student body are finished hibernating, they will go back to doing the one thing that we know collegiates for decades have been trained to do—protest.

In 2011, the world turned “from the Arab Spring to the American autumn,” Ramsey said at an MLA panel on “Class in the Classroom.” The Class they were talking about was not a course.

“The Arab Spring put the stake in the blood-stained, hegemonic containment policy,” Ramsay claimed. Ramsey edits the Marxist journal Cultural Logic.

On the domestic front, “You can almost see the financial towers tottering in the wind,” Ramsey asserted. Ramsey teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

“As we speak, the Occupy movement has been dismantled,” Ramsey reported. “Some will go back to college.”

“Some will not.” For those that do return to campus, there will be no shortage of extra-curricular activities.

“Occupy Harvard stages walkouts in the middle of some neo-liberal economics professors classes,” Ramsey related.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Government; History
KEYWORDS: mla; occupymovement; seattle

1 posted on 01/12/2012 7:34:19 AM PST by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg

Shoot them now. Save humanity in the long run.


2 posted on 01/12/2012 7:36:22 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Academiadotorg
Ramsey edits the Marxist journal Cultural Logic

So, you're saying there is no need to believe, trust, or even read/listen to, ANYTHING the little turd-burglar says... ...about anything...

3 posted on 01/12/2012 7:54:39 AM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25% MORE sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: Academiadotorg; All
FTA:

“The Arab Spring put the stake in the blood-stained, hegemonic containment policy,” Ramsay claimed. Ramsey edits the Marxist journal Cultural Logic.

If ever we needed proof that the "Arab Spring" was an Islamofascist/marxist conspiracy, deliberately hatched by the Illegal and his accomplices in the WH, to destroy America's entire mideast position and place our worst enemies in power, this is it. Sometimes you can believe a marxist.

Flushing that POS traitor out of the WH is THE ABSOLUTE IMPERATIVE, even if it means supporting and voting for Mittens.

4 posted on 01/12/2012 8:04:56 AM PST by libstripper
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To: Academiadotorg
"from the Arab Spring to the American autumn"

Well....we have known they were PLANNING disruptions for the election....now they've announced them...

5 posted on 01/12/2012 8:18:21 AM PST by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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