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Anti-Trump Columnist Equates No College Degree With Being ‘Stupid’

February 5, 2024

A Connecticut columnist who opposes former president Donald Trump noted that Trump’s base “lies with followers who don’t have college degrees.”

Then he added:  “I’ve always said you’d have to be really stupid to fall for all his scams.”

The column, by David Collins in The Day of New London, targeted a Trump supporter who teaches at the University of Connecticut and often posts comments at the bottom of articles appearing in the newspaper.

Collins says in the column that he asked the University of Connecticut to comment on the comments posted by the school’s lecturer and program director, and that a university spokesman responded by saying the UConn employee has a right to comment on news web sites “as a private citizen” and that such comments “would fall into the category of free speech.”

The columnist then offered a parallel with a recent conflict at Harvard University concerning its then-president’s comments and actions following the attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

“I’ll bet former Harvard President Claudine Gay, who resigned after the blistering reaction to her public testimony before Congress ― plagiarism also became an issue during the controversy about her testimony ― would have hoped for as much leeway from Harvard’s board as UConn apparently gives its faculty, to say stupid things,” Collins wrote.

The column was published Saturday, February 3.

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