A Statement of Contempt

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Clarissa

September 17, 2012

If you blogged about the breast-feeding professor but are not blogging about the unconscionable actions of CUNY’s Karen Steele and her attempts to destroy the department of English, I despise you.

If people don’t want to blog about either issue, that’s perfectly fine. I have nothing against those who are not into this kind of blogging. But idiots who promote the breast-feeding story as some sort of news and pretend not to notice egregious abuses happening within academia deserve my profound contempt.

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11 responses to “A Statement of Contempt”

kelly

September 18, 2012

IMO, there is no need to despise anyone. People have different ways of approaching problems, according to personal or cultural circumstances. Very little, if anything, is achieved by despising. Well yes, maybe feelings of anger because others have not responded in the way we expected/wanted them to do. I think there are alternative ways to reveal others the importance of getting involved to everybody’s benefit. Besides, as the Spanish say goes: ” En la mesa y en el juego se conoce al caballero”.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  September 18, 2012
  
  “IMO, there is no need to despise anyone.”
  
  – Do you want to control my feelings? 🙂
  
  “Very little, if anything, is achieved by despising. ”
  
  – I don’t try to achieve anything by my emotions. I just feel them.
  
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  1. kelly
    
    September 18, 2012
    
    I have no interest whatsoever in controlling yours or anyone’s feelings. Controlling my emotions is about enough.
    Approaching problems and achieving solutions imply taking actions and actions are always accompanied by feelings. I know that you are not a robot.
    
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  2. David Gendron
    
    September 18, 2012
    
    “- I don’t try to achieve anything by my emotions. I just feel them.”
    
    Many artists use their emotions as a creative tool after they feel them.
    
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    1. bloggerclarissa
      
      September 18, 2012
      
      I’m completely devoid of any artistic talent, though. 🙂
      
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Jonathan

September 18, 2012

Ouch. I’ll have to work fast on my post on Steele in order to avoid your everlasting contempt.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  September 18, 2012
  
  You didn’t write about the stupid breast-feeding story, though, did you? My contempt is reserved for the people who hounded a professor with a sick baby after she practically begged everybody to let the story go.
  
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  1. Jonathan
    
    September 18, 2012
    
    She didn’t beg everyone to let the story go. She wrote about it herself first. And I did blog about it before I got around the CUNY story…
    
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David Gendron

September 18, 2012

“I’m completely devoid of any artistic talent, though”

I don’t think so…

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  September 18, 2012
  
  Thank you, my friend. 🙂
  
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  1. David Gendron
    
    September 18, 2012
    
    It’s impossible to not have some artistic talent in your field.
    
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