Some more commenters’ suggestions on the topic of Group of 88 stalwart Paula McClain’s convocation address, starting off with my personal favorite:
“I never metanarrative I didn’t like.”
And some other clever suggestions:
“Sex, Lies and Stereotypes.”
“How to publish a thinly-disguised prejudicial ad and intimidate the university president along the way”
“On behalf 87 of my closest peers...PLEASE, somebody take our classes!”
“Poker in Amerika: Playing the Race Cards”
“An Inconvenient Truth”
“We have to change . . . Well, not us. You, maybe. But not us.”
“Can anyone here spell DNA?”
“We don’t have to look out for our students, the Durham Police does it for us.”
“Railroad Express—Don’t leave home and doubt it”
“Hypocrisy 101: What to do when something silly like the truth gets in the way”
“Facts and other threats to race, class and gender scholarship.”
“88 Ways to Just Say No to Being Accountable for your Actions.”
"True Believers" Don't Need to Apologize
ReplyDeleteAccording to CSICOP founder James Randi, "No amount of evidence, no matter how good it is or how much there is of it, is ever going to convince the true believer to the contrary."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-believer_syndrome
"The McBrodhead Mamalogues" demands a recount!
ReplyDeleteFacts and other threats to race, class and gender scholarship
ReplyDeleteThe best one I've seen yet
Perhaps they could try something like
ReplyDeleteThe Holy Trinity...Gender/Race/Class
It's not McClain, it's Gennaro. And after all her posturing, all her speeches, she's nothing but a common race-baiter.
ReplyDeleteIf your group is gone and you wanna press on; McClain.
ReplyDeleteDon't bother with fact, when you are caught in the act; McClain.
She can lie, she can lie, she can lie; McClain.
Brilliant
ReplyDelete"Tenure Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry" ?
ReplyDeleteWhen I started graduate school in Durham many years ago, I skipped that event. Looks like I called that one right...
ReplyDeleteBeyond Diversity: How to see the world through race/sex blinders.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Clapton - 2:06 is brilliant!
ReplyDeleteWhat about:
ReplyDeleteIf it sounds too good to be true --rush to judgement.
or
How to fuel race and class warfare using anonymous quotes and inscrutable prose : Burning Down the Lacrosse House
"Why Economists are Fools"
ReplyDeleteIs Duke a state school?
ReplyDelete"Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word".
ReplyDeleteClever. These bigots can't stand to be laughed at or ignored!
ReplyDeleteSing along with me now
ReplyDelete88 dumbo’s in the big charade
Tom E.
Is Duke a communist?
ReplyDelete"Never Give a Middle-Class [white] Student-Athlete An Even Break"
ReplyDelete"Karl Marx Knew The Score"
"Castrate All White Men"
"Ban The Gideon Harry Potter!"
"Up With Welfare, Down With Capitalism"
"Subscribe To The New York Times"
"My Parents Were Political Peasants, But I Straightened Them Out"
"88 Proofs the Merit System is Now Completely Passé"
“What’s An ‘IPO’?”
“Marge, meet me at Starbucks, and don’t wear anything… complicated”
"How to get screwed without having sex."
ReplyDeleteDON'T SMELL THE PANTIES
ReplyDeleteCul-de-Crotch?
ReplyDeleteHow about:
ReplyDeleteProgressive Racial Profiling