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Mudassir Ali
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did as a college teacher. I said cocksucker in my classroom. It was actually during the break between classes, not in my lecture. There was a legitimizing context. I was speaking to two students and the conversation meandered around to the Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg. During my misspent youth one of my coworkers in the shipyard was proud of the fact that he was a Dharma bum, that is, he hung out with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg back in the day in San Francisco. I told the students what he told me about his experience with Ginsberg. He said Ginsberg used to go into a tavern, slam his fist down on the bar, and shout, “I’m a cocksucker!”
A lesbian student complained about my allegedly homophobic speech to the administration and demanded an apology. I refused and cited the facts that I was quoting someone else and the word was not used in a pejorative manner. For a wonder the dean agreed with me.