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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You omitted the part where he said his post was heavy on snark. Smart academics talk like that sometimes.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Slagging what he says simply because he's published it on a blog instead of printing it on paper is just dumb. (Congratulations: You walked into that one.) Compared to your ouevre here on this particular subject, his post compares favorably.
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So I can’t criticize the fact that it was written on a blog, because it was written by a professor so it just as easily could have been an academic paper. Yet on the other hand, I can criticize its emotional and intellectually lacking comments because he already warned us in the beginning that is was “snarky”. Do you think he would put this “snark” in an academic paper?
I guess snarky means it is illogical, emotional, and poorly argued. Such snarkiness is typical of a blog, and that is why I discount them so much. And because it was “Snarky” it was a poorly presented argument that failed in the purpose you were trying to use it for; trying to argue there was a connection between strong academic performance and unions.
