A Meditation on Violent Language: Professor's Impassioned Tweets vs The University Memo
Category: COLLEGE
Chancellor Phyllis Wise's letter to the campus was a prime example of violent language -- all the more violent because of its calm, rational, removed tone.  This is the kind of bureaucratic language that has the power to do much more harm than an angry expletive posted about a war.
By Lennard Davis, ContributorDistinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014-08-30