Duke associate professor of cultural anthropology Diane Nelson has responded to the Duke Conservative Union’s complaint about her.
Prof. Nelson, who ironically wrote recently about the virtue of being able “to thoughtfully engage with the complexity of intellectual endeavor and to ‘connect the dots’ to see how interconnected the world is,” believes her country to be like Germany in 1933 (the tired, old reductio ad nazium of ideological bankrupt leftists). Prof. Nelson, who ironically writes about “learning history,” depicts Pres. Bush as “un-elected” (the hyphen is, of course, unnecessary). Prof. Nelson, who ? oh, heck with it; there’s too much fun to be had with the screed. It speaks for itself. But does it speak as its author presumably wished?
I challenge you to read the conservatives’ response to Nelson’s attacks on them, and then read Nelson’s defense, and see if you think she rebutted their argument or, unwittingly, buttressed it.
