From A Prominent Economist’s Death Prompts Talk of Mental Health in the Professoriate
"The field also has an intense 'bullying culture,' said Betsey Stevenson, an associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor who had known Krueger since she was in graduate school. 'There are conversations that need to happen in economics about how we treat each other,' she said in a phone interview."
~ E. Pettit
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After reading
A Culture of Depression: The Toxicity of Trump:
"These comments and so many others like them are not surprising given how we talk about mental health. They reflect a lack of understanding of mental illness; they embody a culture that so often sees depression as a weakness, as something they need to get over.
Yet, such comments also reflect the privileges of whiteness, maleness, and so much more. They embody a cultural refusal to empathize with those in pain. They speak to a societal resistance to understanding the physical and mental harm caused by racism; the emotional toll resulting from racism, sexism, Islamophobia and homophobia are readily dismissed as irrational or signs of over sensitivity. Neither willing nor able to understand outside their own privileged positionality, these sorts of responses fail to consider the lived consequences of this election."
~ D. Leonard
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