Eliza J Reilly

Jaw dropping

Very thoughtful and thought provoking piece

Amazing book!! full of surprises.

me also, and many male students who reluctantly took the course (to fill out majors) were often the most impacted and changed by engaging with that history.

my dearly missed friend and mentor Earl Shorris fought tirelessly against that elitist conviction and saw Liberal Ed as « a weapon in the hands of the restless poor » harpers.org/archive/1997...

So grateful that my graduate education at Rutgers was profoundly influenced by the trailblazers of women and gender studies, including Scott. Life changing learning.

I gave to this worthy cause that should never have existed.

A great piece of music history writing...and a reminder of the unmatchable brilliance of Prince

Thanks much for sharing this! As someone who works in civically engaged science education ( strongly influenced by Dewey) I often come up against research scientists who routinely assert the "value-free ideal" This talk has provided very valuable framing and context for addressing this issue.

Historical understanding critically important for STEM students (and future scientists)

Nurses Need History Too – AHA Teaching history to nursing students gives essential context to the healthcare systems they work in.

And @drkyliesmith.bsky.social writes about how essential it is for nursing and other prehealth students to understand the history of the healthcare system they will be working in. #AHAPerspectives 🗃️

Martin Shuster sdSreptoon1hm9t97235g2u5796glgh0435l6iaf05it1l232lc20cllf4g0 · So apparently on Sunday Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in a press conference that "we have got children hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside ... many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s gonna write that children’s story about Minnesota.” Then on Monday--one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day--the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tweeted in response that: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges." As someone who spent a year at the Museum as a fellow doing research, I feel embarrassed for the institution. First, it is very clear that Walz wasn't drawing an equivalence, he was drawing an analogy. So this kind of response reminds me of the atrocious positions that the ADL has started to carve out, and why it has become mostly a sycophantic joke, now seemingly mostly geared towards currying favor with MAGA.

Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime). We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.

In noting this, let me be clear that this does not erase or make less relevant the centuries of European antisemitism that fed into the Nazi project. That's the whole point: these are all related phenomena. European antisemitism influenced the way in which European colonialism and imperialism operated against indigenous populations in the Americas. Strikingly, as innovations mounted in "administering" the Americas, antisemitic policies also evolved in Europe. Administrators (oppressors) would sometimes even move from one sphere to the other and back. They were all synergistic (a brilliant examination of some of this is María Elena Martínez's _Genealogical Fictions_). (And one could, btw, also tell an important story about the development of Islamophobia in this very same orbit, since policies stumbled on in the Americas came back to oppress both Jews and Muslims in Europe). This is all to say: Walz's analogy is not at all far fetched. The history of oppression doesn't move in any kind of neat or purely linear fashion. It is oftentimes recursive, shifting, necessarily granular. Neither is it a competitive history. It is, in the words of Michael Rothberg, a *multidirectional* history. Drawing these analogies in fact *helps* us understand all the involved phenomena better. At least this is what "Never Again" has meant and means to me: it does not mean only never again for me or other Jews. And it does not mean never again only something that looks exactly like the Nazi genocide. I think also, btw, that this is what it meant for Otto Frank, who spent time *editing* his daughter's diary so that it could be available to anyone, not only to Jews.

For ultimately the Nazi genocide--any genocide--is a highly mediated phenomenon: it consists of many diffuse events, marshals an immense amount of people and institutions, relies on sometimes conflicting or contradictory cross-sections of society, and, indeed, emerges out of a process that does not neatly, especially as its happening, have a clear beginning, middle, and end, but rather arranges for itself a kind of constellation that harnesses a range of actors, perspectives, and also histories (this is one way to understand how German colonial projects or anti-communism or ableism were no less crucial to Nazism than European antisemitism). The genocidal outcomes emerge from the structural forms society adopts. And all of this without in any way eliding the special role that Jews played in the apocalyptic Nazi worldview.

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

❤️❤️ Love this rant SO MUCH!! Devastating...

Seen in Los Angeles

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“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

Yes! Thanks for sharing this. So clear and illuminating

Ha, you thought I wouldn't repost because there's no alt? Handled.

IIRC, there were some folks from the UK, I think @ucu.org.uk , who were asking for quality writing on the state of US Higher Education before the new year. Definitely can't go wrong with a @bakerdphd.bsky.social column as a starting off point.

Dingbat Imperialism, the Lowest Stage of Capitalism Reading Lenin Today

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wow, masterful historical analysis from John Ganz

@ncsce.bsky.social

Some irony in fact that your use of profanity in your handle IS A FUCKING QUOTE FROM ICE

Those of us working with educators to advance public understanding of science are seeing the effects of anti-science policies at every level. Both advocacy for science, and for democracy itself, are now considered « partisan » and « in the crosshairs »

only wish I was younger (and a lot funnier) ❤️the onion

Shameful, he’s gotta go….

Yes Please!!!!

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Useful resource for teaching Climate Sci.

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That makes no sense! I just headed over to her Substack to make sure I still get her content...Its needed now more than ever!

Bravo! thanks for your persistence and for continuing this important work

WOW, dumb even for Brooks. Embarrassing

Hmm, chimps revise ideas in light of evidence but "humans also often refuse to update beliefs in light of new evidence, which is known as “belief entrenchment” or “belief perseveration” (many such cases)." We are screwed...