MICHAEL MOORE IS STILL A JERK — and he’s rude to the help, too. I’ve noticed in academia, too, that it’s often the loud lefties who are rudest to the secretaries and copy-room people.

Meanwhile, Rachel Lucas offers a psychological analysis.

UPDATE: Nelson Ascher emails:

According to you:

“I’ve noticed in academia, too, that it’s often the loud lefties who are rudest to the secretaries and copy-room people.”

Well, I’ve noticed something similar in my country too. . . . The trouble with the lefties everywhere is that, just as they believe that anti-semitism is strictly a rightist thing, and thus they may hate the Jews without being suspected of it (after all, they’re just anti-Zionists, right?), in the same way, because being a leftist vaccinates anyone against any kind of social bias, they feel free to despise the poor with a light conscience.

Yes. And many academics seem to feel that since their work is noble, by necessity they must be noble, too, without any need to actually act in a noble fashion. It’s not so.