<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to repeat, my issue is with ad hominem attacks which the thread was veering toward if not engaging with. Civil debate about facts is a different thing altogether---</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 5:08 PM Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc@dcrocker.net">dhc@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 11/1/2019 12:18 PM, Lori Emerson wrote:<br>
> but I can't imagine that veering into ad hominem attacks on the worth of <br>
> her degree is considered part of productive discussion on this list.<br>
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I'm inclined to be more concerned about slamming liberal arts degrees <br>
than about slamming this willful, undisciplined, confused and <br>
fact-challenged author.<br>
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d/<br>
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-- <br>
Dave Crocker<br>
Brandenburg InternetWorking<br>
<a href="http://bbiw.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bbiw.net</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lori Emerson</span><br></div><div>Associate Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab<br>Department of English and Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance </div><div>University of Colorado at Boulder<br>Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226</div><div>traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations<br><a href="http://loriemerson.net" target="_blank">loriemerson.net</a> | <a href="http://mediaarchaeologylab.com" target="_blank">mediaarchaeologylab.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>