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Kim Scheinberg

Patrick Healy, deputy Opinion editor of NYT, talks to Masha Gessen, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Bret Stephens. He sounds reasonable right up until he decides the devil needs an advocate. I don't know how TMC restrains herself:

"I’m going to pause here and ask you three — are professors, presidents and others awash in some kind of hysteria?
[...] Are people being whipped into a frenzy — maybe suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome?"

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nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion

Cottom: Masha, I was also fascinated by the context. Or the lack of context, as it were. Without a fancy college as the backdrop, antisemitism here could only mean a vague threat to the status quo. I still puzzle over it. Healy: I’m going to pause here and ask you three — are professors, presidents and others awash in some kind of hysteria? I mean, for all of Trump’s actions, most students are going about their days, classes are being held, professors are teaching what they want. Are people being whipped into a frenzy — maybe suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome?
SouprMatt

@kims Good lord. That entire piece with Healy and Stephens mansplaining to an actual professor as if they know infinitely more than her. She is amazing. I loved this quote:

Cottom: I’m both a professor and someone who has studied higher education as a system. There are two things that overlap my professional experience and my expertise. One is how much we insist upon conflating a handful of elite colleges with all of “higher education,” when the vast majority of institutions are not particularly rich, elite or prestigious. The other is how much the beneficiaries of the small, powerful set of prestigious colleges and universities enjoy bashing the institutions they pay an arm and a leg to be affiliated with.

Mar 15, 2025, 06:22 PM·Public·IceCubesApp
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