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No, it took offending Jews.
i think it’s fine to offend jews and trannies, that is freedom. otherwise it just slips into tyranny real fast.
FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says
i think it’s fine to offend jews and trannies, that is freedom. otherwise it just slips into tyranny real fast.
True, but not my point. I am saying that nobody cared about any of those issues until Jews were offended.
Comrades: Harvard has fallen. After almost 400 years, the world’s most powerful university has publicly declared moral and intellectual bankruptcy. I could not have imagined such a stunning collapse, even after ranking Harvard #1 in my Demoralized DIEvy League March Madness tournament earlier this year.
Evil libs put black DEI hires in many public facing positions to enrage everyone else, they are cannon fodder in a SHTF scenario. Look at all the woke DAs, politicians, press secretary, etc.
You remember Claudine. She’s the president of Harvard University, and she recently badly botched her Congressional testimony about antisemitism at Harvard along with two other Ivy League presidents. So far, one of the three is now a former Ivy League president. But last week Harvard’s board doubled-down on keeping Claudine, who is busily transforming the college into a dystopian marxist playground of victim groups and competing leftwing sub-ideologies.
At the time — just last week — the board faced seven examples where Claudine plagiarizing other woke leftists’ work and passed it off as her own. Setting aside the obvious criticism that Claudine is a diversity hire who can’t write or think for herself, plagiarism is possibly the worst thing academics could possibly be accused of.
Harvard has a zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism for its students. Nobody thinks a white university president would have a job after plagiarizing seven times. Harvard president Larry Summers was fired simply for quoting a real study showing men and women’s brains are physiologically different. In a spasmodic paroxysm of understatement, the op-ed blandly observed that keeping Claudine "risks conveying the impression of a double standard.”
You don’t say.
Since last week’s decision to keep Claudine, whistleblowers have been crawling out of the woodpile with more and more examples of stolen work. The list now includes 47 plagiarized passages, which are found in fully half of her total published works plus her doctoral dissertation.
No, it took offending Jews.
https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/news/obama-pushed-harvard-to-keep-embattled-claudine-gay-report/
Obama secretly pushed Harvard to keep president Claudine Gay despite campus antisemitism, plagiarism controversies
you cannot found a valid movement upon that which cannot be moved, but the class of people “too educated to learn anything” will nonetheless cling to such praxis unto death (and beyond) and shall ever cart about their sacred dead like incan mummies still granted unimpeachable places at the table of discourse.
the anointed ideology itself is meaningless, its tenets incidental. it exists only as a signifier of the prerogative to speak without contradiction or challenge.
there could be no more bankrupt ideology, no more helpless or hapless a creature unable to survive outside the cultivated terrariums of special pleading to which it is indigenous than this non-interrogatable doctrine not just of faith but of fealty that has come to pass as “intellectualism.”
this frailty is precisely why they must defend their dogmas so fiercely. ...
this is how you get the sort of insularity and inability to parse or interact with reality that has come to dominate academia. the “flatulence as fragrance” class simply cannot imagine any other structure and it distills and re-distills this essence until pure avatars emerge.
pretty soon, you have presidents of once august universities whose entire lives and bodies of work are fraud.
this woman literally plagiarized the acknowledgement in her dissertation. not just the work. not just the ideas. sections of the actual acknowledgment where she thanks those who helped her are copied word for fricking word from the 1996 book “facing up to the american dream: race, class, and the soul of the nation” by harvard political scientist jennifer hochschild. she faked her ideas, she faked her data, and when caught, the system around her faked having investigated her to try to silence the media with threats of libel suits. ...
and honestly, her work alone should have been disqualifying. decency would seem to dictate that if you’re going to plagiarize something, at least find something good, something profound, not vapid twaddle that’s as predictable as it is tedious. there was no scholarship here, no insight, no wisdom.
this stuff is terrible and it’s terrible on purpose.
it’s trash foisted on phonies as a sort of ideological purity test:
prove you can see the clothes of this butt naked emperor or you may not reside among us in the ivory towers.
it’s a screening tool, a selector.
and it just keeps getting worse and worse until one day one reaches the truly indefensible: pure rarified essence of primal idiocy and dissolution. ...
and honestly, the whole thing is becoming gorgeous. it’s just SO bad. it’s so absurd. it’s so obvious and blatant and irredeemable. it cannot be fixed. it must be burned to the waterline and it’s about to be. people have had it and heads are going to roll. this fight is already over, the wokesters just don’t know it yet.
as soon as it became OK to criticize and mock them, their reign ended. it was only through the “sacred idea which may not be challenged” that they survived. it was only by censoring and shouting down and canceling that this ridiculous and rotten regime of righteous bigots masquerading as diversity and inclusion could flex its phony power and cow criticism to silence. ...
the spectacle is going to become a hilarity of self-clown and self-immolation.
these people are just going to keep doubling down and overplaying a hand that any fool can see is a loser. (well, almost any fool, astonishingly, barack obama himself has apparently waded in to try to save ms gay)
harvard is going to be a fascinating acid test.
penny pritzger (heiress to the pritzger family fortune and political dynasty and herself the commerce secretary under BO and a biden special economic representative to ukraine) seems to have bought herself a board seat then led the process to pick claudine gay.
it seems like this is just typical “close ranks, prop each other up, weather the storm” thinking, but it seems to be failing and the longer it goes on, the bigger the chunk it will need to take out if it fails. they are all roped together and so whereas there was a time ms gay could have been put up as sacrificial lamb to allow the others to skate, that time seems like perhaps it has past and questions around “did you really investigate this?” seem like they are getting pointy and like perhaps the list of those who must fall upon swords in propitiation is lengthening.
many seem surprised by this, perhaps most of all those involved. they are trying their old tricks and finding them fruitless.
i really do not think they understand how much the land beneath them has shifted.
they will drive right into brick walls at full speed. ...
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