"Dem Glücklichen legt auch der Hahn ein Ei."
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Yet most of his commercially available books do not display his academic rank on the front cover (it’s “Noam Chomsky” not “Prof. Noam Chomsky”), so in this case the vellum’s rather veiled.
But I agree (and this brings us back to original poster’s proposition) that titles and degrees may be abused to exclude those who don’t have any from public discourse, even if a particular issue directly affects them.
"Dem Glücklichen legt auch der Hahn ein Ei."
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