For The Record ….

I am sorry, but from now on I am always going to put the word “dick” in Larry Summers’ name. And it’s a good goddamn thing I’m not at Harvard, because Wellbutrin girl would want to walk into his goddamn office and rip out his ribcage and wear it as a hat. The assholes who are saying that Nancy Hopkins’s walking out of his speech was immature or unprofessional or whatever-the-fuck deserve to be seriously bitch-slapped (I’ll do the honors): the miracle is that she didn’t shoot him.

Let me explain. You do not make racist and sexist remarks in a professional forum and then back up and say, “hey, free inquiry, exchange of ideas, blah fucking blah.” You do not insult people and then play innocent dumb guy. You do not stand up, white man in charge of major cultural institution, and demonstrate your ignorance and prejudice and then be shocked when people call you on it. You do not pretend that remarks that justify racism and sexism are value-neutral. You do not play the “reverse racism” card or the “those feminazis want to suppress free discussion” card when you are in the middle of demonstrating that you, yourself, are a bigot. And you do not defend bigots by attacking people who refuse to listen to bigotry pretending to be substantive discussion.