Of all kinds of "authenticity" the inauthentic type is the hardest to bear. That is, inauthentiticy that stakes a claim to being authentic.

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You can't be an academic and disavow that part of yourself. That is who you are, authentically. It's not that you just happen to be in academia, but have no truck with what goes on there. You have internalized those rules. You can't not have.

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The rage of the Associate Professor is of a peculiar kind.