no way NYT

https://i.imgur.com/mlaffBT.jpg

at the risk of defending david french, the column itself isn't horrible. but evidently the NYT's editors want people to think it is

Not All Karens

no the column is pretty horrible.

But just as older Americans can have an obligation to let go of professions and power, young Americans can have obligations to hold on to their elders, to treasure them rather than shove them aside. Ancient wisdom can speak to modern conflicts, and ever since the onset of the generational conflicts during the pandemic, I’ve pondered a key part of the Westminster Larger Catechism, an almost 400-year-old statement of Protestant theology. It takes an expansive view of the Fifth Commandment, “Honor thy father and thy mother.” The catechism asserts that father and mother don’t merely refer to your biological parents, but to “all superiors in age and gifts.”

this is just shit

yeah that column was execrable

yeah lol that's a pure no way nyt for me

Do people even say 'OK boomer' anymore?

well luckily for young Americans whenever older people lose their jobs they're willing to spend all day online imparting their Ancient Wisdom.

new borad description

Do people even say 'OK boomer' anymore?

I think many have moved onto "fuck you boomer"

listen, old people have a slower response time than younger people. apparently by 2-3 years

"Don't trust anyone over 30": the ageist slogan that must be stopped

don’t trust anyone under 30 or over 45

Do people even say 'OK boomer' anymore?

I don't know but I got harrumphed at by several elders on FB for calling Jann Wenner a "prototype of white Boomer male entitlement" — there was a lot of "not all Boomers!" stuff. Boomers are very easily butthurt by this stuff. One guy told me that even using the word "Boomer" was a slur. lol.

I mean, I don’t see any reason to deny using Boomer as a slur, if it matches your intention

the truth is the truth

OTOH, I have no problem calling it FaceBoomer

well luckily for young Americans whenever older people lose their jobs they're willing to spend all day online imparting their Ancient Wisdom.

is the nyt aware of the existence of colleges that aren't elite expensive private institutions?

you mean where the poors go to learn?

Barely, judging by the recent articles written by their higher ed reporters:

https://www.nytimes.com/by/anemona-hartocollis
https://www.nytimes.com/by/vimal-patel

you mean like Barnard and Sarah Lawrence and stuff?

lol

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:m34vt2ca7xdvivhgibpxc46r/bafkreiewgp5xh2tojvxb4m4avw5omjshnqripmv43hmzubk77i6lbzhos4@jpeg

The New York Times needs to expand its reach to include the more modest, mainstream institutions of higher education where most American students go, like Cornell

Was gonna say, "Whaddya expect them to write about, Brown?"

heckuva school

My first thought was "Stanford is going to be really pissed off about this" until I realized that it's just as plausible that Stanford paid the NYT to be left off.

Let’s Talk About Biden, Trump and … Taylor Swift

jfc: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/business/dealbook/universities-antisemitism-harvard-mit-penn.html

Who Should Run Universities?

In the wake of a controversy at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard over antisemitism, a debate has arisen over whether academics are best suited to lead big schools.

I probably don't need to remind anyone here that Dealbook just hosted Elon Musk immediately after his public embrace of antisemitism

schools should be run LIKE A BUSINESS

oh wait

Coming from business doesn’t guarantee success either: Simon Newman, a former financier, resigned as president of a Maryland college after reportedly comparing struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be drowned or shot.

Had to look into this more.

The Mount St. Mary’s campus has been in turmoil since word leaked in January through The Mountain Echo, the student newspaper, that Newman had compared struggling students to bunnies that need to be drowned or killed with a Glock. The metaphor grabbed attention, but educators said the underlying debate was what really mattered.

Newman had proposed to use a survey -- on which freshmen would be told there were no wrong answers -- to identify those at risk of dropping out and to encourage them to do so in the first weeks of the semester. The idea was to raise the university’s retention rate, since those who leave very early in the semester don’t count in the total enrollment figures. Many professors and some administrators protested the plan, saying that the university has an obligation to try to educate those it admits.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/01/president-quits-mount-st-marys

Like, even without the metaphor, this is deranged.

this is how colleges see their students

Taylor Swift should run universities, of course

The metaphor grabbed attention, but educators said the underlying debate was what really mattered.

Bret Stephens

Claudine Gay and the Limits of Social Engineering at Harvard

well yeah

jfc lol

Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me

Charles M. Blow
The Persecution of President Gay

Ross Douthat
Harvard Couldn’t Save Both Claudine Gay and Itself

Letters From Our Readers
The Fallout From a Resignation at Harvard

This story is so far along the discourse/outrage cycle that I really can’t figure out what exactly happened besides “Chris Rufo”

Lol congrats to the NYT, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic for getting played like a fucking fiddle by this leering dipshit, great job guys pic.twitter.com/3CCJViryiE

— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) January 4, 2024

for all its baseline biases and blind spots i think the nyt has a particular thing for harvard - they see themselves as the flagship paper of record of the country and the western world, and harvard as the analogous educational institution. so it's all but irresistible for them to slobber all over it when shit goes down there. doesn't make it any better

As O said in the other thread, Rufo is a self-promoter and fraud, Gay is out only because billionaire donors (people with actual money) didn’t like her.

they've lost their fucking minds:

Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit

Charles Seife
The Problems Only Start With Plagiarism

(the Cottom piece is probably fine, but it's for their own good that we don't click on these things)

Cottom's essay is good

i think the nyt has a particular thing for harvard

the more petty reason is many of the writers and editors either went to harvard/yale/princeton, wanted to go there and were turned down, and/or know a bunch of dicks that went there.

I thought you guys would be talking about this one

Every declining empire for some reason ends up being like just one more invasion of Afghanistan bro I promise bro just one more is all I need pic.twitter.com/nMftzLkXg0

— Liam Bright (@lastpositivist) January 4, 2024

I chuckled at the recent headline "Trump Cacophony Hits Differently This Time," imagining a copy editor fastidiously adding the "-ly."

Abolish Harvard, make everyone happy.

lol

https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=claudine+gay

16 entries in the last three days

a 2016 vox article just after jack chick's passing sez:

Chick’s obituary in the New York Times noted that “some people called Mr. Chick the Thomas Pynchon of evangelism"

please die Pamela Paul