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Does anyone else consider Cornel West an intellectual sap?

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Jeremiah Dyke Posted: Thu, Feb 25 2010 4:20 PM

I can accept a divergence between my political and theistic judgments while still holding someone to be an intellectual but I’m not getting anything from his speeches and his books. It’s like naive morality relished with poetic black-chicanery.        

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Someone considers Cornel West to be an intellectual?

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Student replied on Thu, Feb 25 2010 8:02 PM

well this post really made me think. 

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ladyattis replied on Thu, Feb 25 2010 8:11 PM

West is an ass, meh.

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I'd take Sowell over West any day.Yes He's not such an elitist prick like Cornel West. West's  racism is also pretty frustrating at times to me.

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John Ess replied on Thu, Feb 25 2010 10:27 PM

i saw he was in a philosophy movie a few years ago with Slavoj Zizek.  Examined Life.   The whole thing has him, Peter Singer, and Zizek and pretends to be philosophy as a whole or hip philosophy in the streets... instead of the least interesting thinkers going quoting Lacan and Heidegger pretentiously.

zzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZzzzz  It's not even interesting enough to not like.

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