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Consider Jones' pièce de résistance : On "one particular evening," in response to "his inner demons," and more specifically to the Rockefeller Foundation's rejection of a grant application, Kinsey allegedly hanged himself by the hand and balls from an overhead pipe "long enough for this self-appointed Messiah of the sexually despised to experience much pain and suffering, precisely as he had intended."
Through magazines and campus clubs and advocacy organizations, self-appointed race leaders have sought to create an "authentic" Asian-American consciousness by inventing something called "Asian-American culture."
The discussion on language and culture moved to the need for self-appointed "language mavens" such as William Safire.
But, as it is, you come off as just another self-appointed jerk who appears to write articles mainly for the pleasure of seeing his name and opinions in print, instead of being a person who uses words to persuade rather than to malign.
It was quite a surprise to read Brent Staples, the self-appointed expert on what it means to be black in America, say in "Black Like Whom?"