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https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein/status/1505510212584804352
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Norman Finkelstein Announces the completion of a new book?
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 23:36 |
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Dreylad posted:Norman Finkelstein Announces the completion of a new book? Norman Finkelstein Announces the completion of a new book
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 23:37 |
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Dreylad posted:Norman Finkelstein Announces the completion of a new book? Please read the OP before posting.
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 23:38 |
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Quotey posted:Please read the OP before posting. I did; it was unclear.
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 23:39 |
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FOREWORD TO NEW BOOK MARCH 20, 2022 The subject of this book is the current political moment in which identity politics, cancel culture, and academic freedom loom so large. It originated in “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate” that Harper’s published in 2020. The letter, signed by prominent public intellectuals across the political spectrum, decried the excesses of cancel culture. In the ensuing controversy, my name cropped up, not, however, as a victim of cancel culture but, it was said, of corporate culture. My publisher at the time proposed that I join the debate with a short book. He anticipated, it seems, that I would decry the hypocrisy of the decriers of cancel culture, many of whom, it might fairly be supposed, reacted with indifference (if not glee) to my own cancellation. Hypocrisy was rife, for sure. But the indisputable fact remains that “woke” politics are intellectually vacuous and politically pernicious. I endeavor to demonstrate this in Part I by parsing the ur-texts of “woke” politics, and then by dispelling the dense mist that shrouds that ultimate “woke” product—the Obama cult. In Part II, I critically assess what’s become an article of faith in “woke” culture: that in the classroom a professor should teach only his own and not contending viewpoints on a controverted question; that he shouldn’t strive for “balance.” The last chapter of the book situates my own cancellation in broader perspective. It would be miraculous were my ego so invincible that I didn’t occasionally wonder whether my alleged incivility was valid grounds for denying me tenure and ultimately banishing me from academia. I therefore decided to probe, with the maximum judiciousness humanly possible, this question. If this book is laced with vitriol, that’s because so much of “woke” culture deserves contempt. If nonetheless a large amount of space is devoted to dissecting this nonsense, that’s because it’s not immediately obvious why it’s nonsense. Where, on the contrary, a historical or contemporary figure is deserving of reverence, it is duly accorded, and where an argument contains genuine content, it is treated with the measure of seriousness it warrants. Finally, a “trigger-warning” to readers: professional advance comment on this book has in the main been savage. A Henry Holt & Company senior vice-president said of the manuscript: “There’s altogether too much of everything in the book, too many digressions, too many quotes, too many illustrations, and most important too much score settling, often personal. So instead of an argument, there’s a tirade; instead of an analysis, there’s an attack.” In another bilious response, Tariq Ali of Verso said that the book is “incoherent” and “ineffective,” and then, in a seemingly desperate plea, implored me for my “own good” not to “throw a tantrum and be tempted by self-publishing.” It’s as if Franz Kafka and Max Brod in reverse: I want to publish my book; they want me to burn it for my “own good.” In any event, readers can decide for themselves whether the ensuing pages are devoid of argument, analysis, and coherence—or whether these rejection letters are just humdrum instances of cancel culture silencing too much truth when it touches too close to home.
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 23:40 |
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MAN FINKELSTEIN ANNOUNCES THE COMPLE                          OF A NEW BOOK
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 23:42 |
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ノーマン・フィンケルスタインが新しい本の完成を発表
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 23:48 |
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:35 |
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i think im gon na need a minute to proces this
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:41 |
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:46 |
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Didn't he become in part a "family court" guy about one of his friends?
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:47 |
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:48 |
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Announced, Norman Finkelstein's completed new book has been...
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:51 |
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Quotey posted:FOREWORD TO NEW BOOK Haters mad already drat, must be good
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:54 |
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NORMAN FINKELSTEIN ANNOUNCES THE COMPLETION OF A NEW BOOK
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:55 |
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What are these ur texts of wokery? Is critique of pure tolerance one?
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:58 |
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Sounds like normo took a useful project and hosed it up by not listening to anyone the way greenwald did with whatever resulted in his break with the intercept
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:00 |
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Hey, one of my chicken nuggets is shaped exactly like NORMAN FINKELSTEIN ANNOUNCES THE COMPLETION OF A NEW BOOK
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:00 |
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Gazpacho posted:Sounds like normo took a useful project and hosed it up by not listening to anyone the way greenwald did with whatever resulted in his break with the intercept (me, after reading a 1 paragraph foreword of the book in a something awful post): I've been able to diagnose exactly what's wrong with Professor Finkelstein's new book. And wouldn't you know it, it's exactly the same as what's wrong with some other random guy I don't like.
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:03 |
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Finally, a “trigger-warning” to readers: professional advance comment on this book has in the main been savage.
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:06 |
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PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:(me, after reading a 1 paragraph foreword of the book in a something awful post): I've been able to diagnose exactly what's wrong with Professor Finkelstein's new book. And wouldn't you know it, it's exactly the same as what's wrong with some other random guy I don't like.
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:06 |
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norman tinklestain
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:08 |
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What is APJ Abdul Kalam’s reaction to norman finkelsteins announcement of the completion of a mew book?
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:10 |
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Norman Wrinklebrains
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:10 |
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:11 |
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https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein/status/1505526914114637827?s=20&t=80JuPZxnhN4DpfxFM4x8Dg TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword PART I IDENTITY POLITICS AND CANCEL CULTURE 1 Confessions of a Crusty, Crotchety, Cantankerous, Contrarian, Communist Casualty of Cancel Culture 2 Kimberlé Crenshaw Goes on a Safari 3 Ta-Nehisi Coates Demands Reparations, Sort of 4 Robin DiAngelo Kicks Karen’s Butt 5 Ibram X. Kendi’s Woke Guide to Who’s Hot and Who’s Not 6 Barack Obama’s “Neat Trick” Conclusion to Part I PART II ACADEMIC FREEDOM Prefatory Note 7 Who’s Afraid of Holocaust Denial? 8 Do Pervs and Pinkos, Ravers and Rabble-Rousers Have a Right to Teach? Conclusion to Part II Acknowledgments http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/table-of-contents/
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:14 |
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YESSSSSS
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:18 |
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Editors: “Your book is bad. Try making it good instead” A mad baby: “come read the book —they— never wanted to be published”
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:22 |
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http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/advance-praise-from-famed-revolutionary-tariq-ali-of-verso-books/ Dear Norm: Our three senior editors in London and NY, having read the book, are all in agreement that as written its incoherent and unpublishable. As a critique, it’s ineffective. Having read half of it, that is also my own view. It’s too ad hominem and too zany even for you. To be published it would have to be heavily edited or completely re-written. I don’t like writing this, but it is for your own good. We have been proud to publish you and have defended you strongly as has Colin both during his Verso days and later at OR Books. Please don’t throw a tantrum and get tempted by self-publishing. That would be very sad and ineffective. I would just re-think the project (whatever it is) and start afresh. Many of your books are so methodical and precise—forensic in explaining an opponent’s thought and a devastating deconstruction– that we were all a bit taken aback by this one. It’s almost as if you’ve paralysed yourself. This does sometimes happen. Some successful authors once feted and acclaimed allow these vapours to lodge permanently in the brain and imagine that henceforth anything they write is automatically good. This is never the case. Please think again. Tariq *** Comrade Finkelstein’s reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGwHtGBZJU
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:27 |
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ELESH NORN ANNOUNCES THE COMPLEATION OF A NEW BOOK
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:29 |
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A NEW BOOK ANNOUNCES THE COMPLETION OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:32 |
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lol’ing imagining Tariq carefully editing his rejection letter knowing beyond certainty that it would provoke a tantrum and that it would be shared publicly in said tantrum
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:32 |
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Wtf he's been working on this the whole time?? My kid is still on my rear end about when the new Bovine Bari is coming out
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:43 |
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QUEER FRASIER posted:lol’ing imagining Tariq carefully editing his rejection letter knowing beyond certainty that it would provoke a tantrum and that it would be shared publicly in said tantrum Norm's right to be messy, IMHO (it's good internet drama).
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:46 |
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norm rules and i support his holy crusade against alan dershowitz
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:54 |
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oh and he makes zionists/israeli apartheid supporters cry that rules too e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDT78iA1iyo
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 06:26 |
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yellowcar posted:norm rules and i support his holy crusade against alan dershowitz It's great (not great I mean) that Dershowitz actually "cancelled" him and now he punctures the kayfabe of all the Bari grifters
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