“I ain’t reading all that shit. Free Palestine” - Norm
Link to the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1mzu4m6/i_emailed_norman_finkelstein_about_an_interesting/
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Someone in the thread said something very true: it’s honestly extremely rude to send him the whole article and expect him to read it, instead of just summarizing the part you thought was worth making a point from to see what he had to say. Dude probably gets way too much stuff to read.
agree. I assume these people have no prior relationship. why would finklestein want to read a 5000 word article then take the time to form and write an analysis which only a single person will see? When that person has done nothing to show the effort wouldn’t be wasted on them. Or that they have any mutual basis for understanding?
he did take the time to write his own response instead of pressing one of those buttons.
To be honest, I am more surprised that he replied at all.
Roughly 90% of the time when I write emails to scholars or other competent writers, they never respond.
Everybody is too busy to talk to me.
I once wrote a letter to a SciFi author I like saying I thought the universe of his stories would make a good TTRPG, and he replied like “yeah it would but I’m like busy as fuck right now. But it’d be cool if it happened.”
People really do like bothering leftist academics don’t they?
Marx probably got annoying letters from some Belgian college student and was like “ugh, sorry I really don’t have time for this I’m drunk.”
Chomsky isnt without his issues but at least the man wrote back
Someone on r/anarchism once wrote Chomsky about a controversy over the subs moderation policy and he wrote back “this seems a rather silly use of our time”
idk isn’t a wee bit psychotic
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Is the slop Normal Finkelstein? The guy who emailed him?
I’m the Old Norm, and I just want Normal Finkelstein.
