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by seanhunter 994 days ago
> Academic politics is something else.

There is a famous formulation of this known as Sayre's law[1], which is often stated via the quote "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter," which wikipedia attributes to Charles Philip Issawi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law

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Link didn't work because of the apostrophe. Here's a fixed link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
posting a mobile link? the original one is fine too, aside using 1-based indexing
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That's a wonderful sum up. The pettiness often drive you insane, when you read the comments from reviewer 2