smootiness sounds sooooo inoffensive.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 8:57 AM Subject: Re: fascist academics > Billy, > To call academic chauvinism "fascist" is to make the socio-political term a mere > synonym for snootiness. > Tim Romano > > > Billy Stoneking wrote: > > > ... to the extent that > > Pound list members exclude some of their fellows on the basis of academic vs > > non-academic, published vs non-published.... and to the degree that they use > > this perception in order to promote their own identity, etc... to this > > degree they > > are fascist. >