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You say that you don't want to get personal, but that is twice in two letters that you have questioned my integrity rather than debating the points I make. First I supposedly "mischaracterized" the sentiment in these letters, an "old rhetorical trick" you say, which you most likely decided because I self-identified as an academic and so clearly I must just be playing rhetorical games. Now I am "intellectually dishonest" because I refuse to join the cackle of criticism against Bollinger. You purport to know my "ideological lens" from two letters, while implicitly rejecting that you may also have an ideological axe to grind.
I would elaborate more on my points to further try and persuade you, but I think I'll use my time otherwise. Consider this discussion closed.