{"id":407,"date":"2006-01-16T22:59:29","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T04:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/01\/vicious\/"},"modified":"2006-01-16T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T04:59:29","slug":"vicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/01\/vicious.html","title":{"rendered":"Vicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”<\/em> — Henry Kissinger
\nI don’t know what it is that makes political infighting so nasty in social groups, except for how Dr. Kissinger puts it.
\nRegardless, nasty and vicious is what we ended up with in the big Alliance Schism of 2006.
\nI’m certainly pleased to see some folks out on their asses, don’t get me wrong. Other folks I’m sorry to see go, and some of the groups that were booted could have remained so far as I <\/em>was concerned.
\nThe whole thing was executed horribly (though, to be fair, I’m unsure what triggered the actual timing, unless it was Bill spilling the beans), and it could have been framed and spun a lot <\/em>better (and, evidently, was intended to be<\/a>). But, bottom line, “freedom of association” (as well as “he who pays the piper calls the tunes”) meant that if the Phalanx leadership wanted to get rid of some groups, that was their prerogative. And, on balance, I’d rather be with the ones left than the ones kicked out. There are exceptions, on both sides, but if the line is drawn, I know which side I want to be on..
\nEvil clique? Whatever. I’d expect a truly evil clique to be better organized. And spend less time agonizing over this stuff. And have cool t-shirts.
\nI’m not a confrontational kind of guy. I would likely never have taken a step like this, and would never, ever <\/em>have done it as it was done. There are people I’ll miss, people I’m sorry have left, and others who, if I won’t exactly miss, I wouldn’t have minded if they were still around.
\nOn the other hand, there are some folks whose nattering in CC will not be missed by me at all.
\nAnd all that said — I’m not going to lose a lot of sleep over it tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” — Henry Kissinger I don’t know what it is that makes political infighting so nasty in social groups, except for how Dr. Kissinger puts it. Regardless, nasty and vicious is what we ended up with in the big Alliance Schism of 2006. I’m certainly … Continue reading “Vicious”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consortium-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}