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Originally posted by sgtclub
I'm not asking if he was wrong on the substantive point. I'm asking whether he, as an academic, was wrong to openly consider what could possibly be true, as well as the reaction.
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Read the transcipt. Summers sat there arrogantly spewing unsupported prejudices in front of a group of intelligent and analytical scientists. This is what Harvard faculty do in front of students, but not what the President does in front of faculty.
ETA: I'm serious in this point. Institutionally, Summers has a very different role to play, and part of what he undermines is the idea that a standard of academic rigour ought to apply in an institution like Harvard. Granted, that standard has been worn down over the years (cf. the neo-cons for an example today), but he really just trashed it entirely.
