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Glenn Reynolds, writing about the dustup at Brandeis over this letter (“marked up” here):
And I think that false charges of racism aimed at a professor today are like false charges of unchastity or “loathsome disease” aimed at a woman in 1890 — libelous per se.
I like his thinking here a lot. But why only professors?
UPDATE: “A personnel matter” — the last refuge of scoundrels.
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