Angela Merkel tells Harvard grads to 'tear down walls'

Deutsche Welle ^ | 05.30.2019 | Jon Shelton

[Yossarian]

Go away, Frau Blucher!

[sauropod]

+1

[neverevergiveup]

A very significant percentage of the problems we've encountered and currently have as a nation are attributable to the ‘group think and pomposity’ that Kagan’s comments underscore. We should never have any of our branches of government overrepresented with people from specific institutions.

The very idea that ‘the brightest and the best’ all wind up at (and thus come from) specific institutions is delusional, demonstrably incorrect, and, frankly, comical. Plenty of people from less ‘prestigious’ law schools passed the DC Bar exam the year Hillary failed it - after graduating from Yale Law.

Even more fundamentally flawed is the idea that attending any law school should somehow make you qualified, let alone destined, to ‘rule the universe’. That notion is patently absurd, and dangerous. There are plenty of things that are intellectually more difficult to do than go to law school, but that's not even the point.

The point is that having a ‘political class’, particularly one overrepresented by people with the same pedigree and connections, is antithetical to the concept of a representative government - AND, it contributes heavily to the development of what we are now calling the ‘Deep State’.

[RichyTea]

Someone should tell Merkle there is a difference between having a wall to KEEP PEOPLE IN (Berlin Wall) and a wall to KEEP PEOPLE OUT (Border Wall).

Keeping people in is like a prison - Keeping people out is a security for safety issue.

[mewzilla]

Wanna bet Bumdestag was involved in Spygate....

[Trump20162020]

Pretty hilarious coming from someone who literally worked for the Stasi.

[Williams]

You have to experience being around Ivy league students, professors or alumnae to understand how truly despicable they are. That little speech by Kagan about how they are special just because they got in is Exactly what they live by and it only gets worse from there.

[shelterguy]

I’ve never trusted the Germans ever since they bombed Pearl Harbor.

[Vaquero]

Addressing the graduates

[Gay State Conservative]

Coming from a dedicated Stasi informant that's pretty rich!

[mewzilla]

Pity nobody held up copies of the infamous, heh heh, Bumdestag pics...

Merkel, "indignada" por la fotografía de su trasero

[Vaquero]

Cheeky. Though the text was a bit FOREIGN. Guatemala eh.

[ReaganGeneration2]

I’m sure this little speech brought back Madam Fuhrer’s college days, helping the Stasi (circa 1972):

[Travis McGee]

She's still a Communist, but now they call it globalism.

[Travis McGee]

See 34.

[I want the USA back]

Betting she is protected from the savages she brought in by walls.

[cymbeline]

Speaking of commencement speeches, NBC news ran through 8 or so “famous” commencement speeches given this season. All were entertainers (that includes athletes). Earlier in the news they showed maybe one second of Trump’s Air Force Academy speech.

[Vaquero]

How bout Angela in her Stasi uniform

[Covenantor]

How low the "Veritas" university has sunk from the days Aleksander Solzhenitsyn addressed the graduating students.

Full text of his speech, including video.

[bray]

How about tearing down the walls of Academia and hire a Conservative professor?