Harvard writer: Free speech threatens liberalism and must be destroyed

Daily Caller ^ | 2/23/14 | Robby Soave

[Libloather]

If this Harvard University student got her way, free speech on campus would be abolished and professors with dissenting views fired, because radical leftism is the only permissible political philosophy and the First Amendment is a barrier preventing modern colleges from fulfilling their proper role as indoctrination camps.

Her name is Sandra Korn. She is a senior at Harvard and columnist for the Harvard Crimson.

In a recent column, Korn unambiguously insisted that the university should stop guaranteeing professors and students the right to hold controversial views and pursue research that challenges liberalism.

[SkyDancer]

[PLMerite]

Daddy, no doubt is picking up the tab for this little Trotskyite, and also without doubt would be one of the first put against the wall by his daughter’s friends.

[Art in Idaho]

“Sandra Y.L. Korn ’14, a Crimson editorial writer, is a joint history of science and studies of women, gender and sexuality concentrator in Eliot House.”

Would love to see a list of the 'courses' she's taken. 'History of Science'?, well okay and the 'studies of women, gender and sexuality.' .

Speaks volumes about Harvard. .

[crusher]

Good thing Daddy is successful because the daughter is certainly unemployable in Realville. In Insaneworld she will get a job in some fascist think tank by the weekend.

[Billthedrill]

You can usually tell the stupid and doctrinaire by the fact that they think abstractions such as “oppression” have any actual meaning. “Social justice” for her is a formal sanction to oppress, to be intolerant, to silence, to use violence under the pretext that you have accused others of those things. This is the road to the death camps, and it is paved with bad intentions.

[RayChuang88]

Really Ms. Korn? Tell that to the elderly survivors of the former Soviet Union under Josef Stalin and China under Mao Zedong--between unfettered mass shootings, labor camps, forced exile and deliberate famine in the name of an extreme form of Socialism called Communism, somewhere between 100 and 150 MILLION innocent people died.

[laconic]

In the Great Purges of 1837/8 Stalin killed off 90+ percent of the so-called Old Bolsheviks; many of them were so blindly and stupidly loyal to the tyrant that they shouted out “Long Live Stalin” when lined up against the wall.

[muir_redwoods]

If you link through to the article as published in The Crimson, the comments are almost a bit encouraging.

[Brown Deer]

KORN:

[Colinsky]

In Insaneworld she will get a job in some fascist think tank by the weekend.

Harvard-trained sex concentrator girls can get a job anywhere they want.

[andyk]

Sandra Y.L. Korn ’14, a Crimson editorial writer, is a joint history of science and studies of women, gender and sexuality concentrator in Eliot House.

So basically no marketable skills whatsoever.

[ExCTCitizen]

The lady is a Kornball! :-)

[Talisker]

Okay, ya'll, this is the absolutely funnest post I've seen in quite awhile. I found it on Korn's blog page in the comments section under her article.

I'm warning you - pour that beer now, and open the popcorn... I highlighted fun parts, but let yourself linger over the actual content of each sentence...

From: overweightmalefeminist

Comment: wow. just. wow. so much unearned privilege in one post, so much hate. using examples from history to violate someone's truth-feelings is disgusting. the main purpose of ivy league universities is to be safe spaces for people's emotional sensitivities, not a free-for-all argument zone where people get othered by your use of cis-gendered european history.

Face it, Freepers - you couldn't write that in a hundred years. Hell, you couldn't even think of it in a hundred years. And do you know why? Because you ain't got no Haaavad edumacation, that's why. It takes serious tax dollars to screw someone up this bad - you have to start early, work hard for years, and finish strong. Ya'll just don't got what it takes.

[RayChuang88]

You mean the Yezhovchina Great Purge of 1937-1940, which may have resulted in around 10 million Soviet citizens killed by execution or labor camps? That's as much as what the Nazis did with their Final Solution.

[raccoonradio]

Hey Sandra Korn: What happens when “the other side is in power” and you’re a dissenter? Dissent is fine then right?
Who said this?

2003:
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with ANY
administration!”

You may have heard of her: Hillary Rodham Clinton

[laconic]

Yep, and Yezhov was Stalin’s appointed prosecutor who himself ended up on the gibbet.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Tell me again about the superior education that our elite lords and masters have received at their ivy league schools.........

[adorno]

She’s trying too hard to sound like an intellectual dweeb, while actually coming across as the complete opposite. People like that deserve to be locked up in a liberal asylum where they’ll either wake up, or go completely mad from being exposed to more like-minded garbage.

[To Hell With Poverty]

78 posts and no one’s pinged you yet???

[GraceG]

Hard to tell if that was genuine or genuine sarcasm...