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Please help me understand this sentence ( and specially underlined part) meaning:
"It is claimed of ,say, Ameican academia, where one can get away with calling them a code-bound tribe"
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"It is claimed of ,say, American academia, where one can get away with calling them a code-bound tribe"

... can avoid being criticised for calling them...
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