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DYSON: "No, absolutely right. I agree with brother Tim in speaking about the maggots — I’m sorry, the MAGA. That is so corrosive in this political moment. Can I tell you, Nicolle, that as a black person, as a black intellectual, as a black person with a PhD from Princeton University who’s taught at several Ivy League schools, isn’t it interesting before black and brown and minoritized and racialized groups could get in, before women could get in, those were the gold standards, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Vanderbilt, University of North Carolina, and on and on. And when we get in, all of a sudden it becomes the bete noire, it becomes a benchmark of being a sellout. So you tell us we’re too dumb to get in. And then when we get in, you tell us we’re too much of an egghead to identify with the common people. I’m confused. Which one is it?”