Academia’s Real Blind Spot
Posted By: DW626, 12/2/2024 4:47:19 AM
Over at Quillette our friend Heather Mac Donald is having fun with academic David W. Blight of Yale and his piece in the New York Times: Academia must grapple with its blind spots, he argues, in order to understand why blue-collar workers voted for an “authoritarian in a red tie” in the recent US presidential election. But Blight, “a scholar of American race relations and the Civil War,” believes “that MAGA enthusiasts are the ‘equivalent of the 1850s Slave Power who seek to spread a ‘deadly poison’ of authoritarianism throughout the body politic.” He should know. Blight is the author of a 350-page report on “Yale and Slavery.”
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Over at Quillette our friend Heather Mac Donald is having fun with academic David W. Blight of Yale and his piece in the New York Times:
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He should know. Blight is the author of a 350-page report on “Yale and Slavery.”
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