The site's down so I can't read the context this was taken for, but:
1. Exploring more than middle-class American political ideologies isn't an example of a decline in learning for the same reason learning only Java or C# makes doesn't make anyone a better programming student.
To belabor the point, this is an awful, awful pun involving the literary deconstructionist movement mentioned by the previous poster that both Derrida and de Man were members of. My apologies for polluting the internet.
1. Exploring more than middle-class American political ideologies isn't an example of a decline in learning for the same reason learning only Java or C# makes doesn't make anyone a better programming student.
2. Derrida is my homeboy.