Posted on 05/30/2019 11:23:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a commencement speech to Harvard graduates on Thursday after being greeted with rousing applause when introduced as “one of the most respected and influential leaders of the postwar era.”
Addressing students at the Ivy League school’s 368th commencement ceremony, Merkel began in English, yet quickly switched to German.
Merkel, speaking through a translator, touched on a number of topics throughout the speech — beginning with her own upbringing in East Germany under the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The idea of the wall was one that she would return to throughout the speech.
She would go on to speak of the “walls in peoples minds, walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness,” at one point calling on students to, “Tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness for nothing has to stay as it is.” […]
In clear reference to current US policy under President Trump, she said, “protectionism threatens the foundations of our prosperity.” Instead, Merkel laid out a different path, one that is, “Multilateral rather than unilateral, global rather than national, outward looking rather than isolationist. In short, we have to work together rather than alone.” …
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Haaaa-Haaaa-vaard has walls.
Tear them down and give the homeless a home.
Merkel is in more peril than we are. At least our leader sees that.
Go to hell Angela.
The world wants Trabants.
The Harvard brand takes another hit. Haaahhhvard used to be top notch. Hehvert is now a graduate high school with a bad case of political correctness that negates their 35 Nobel Prize winners.
Oh good, then we can become mini=germany.
Go away,Frau Blucher!
Oh indeed. Peter Strelzyk and Günter Wetzel even built a hot-air balloon so they could fly their families from Naila in Bavaria to freedom in Pößneck in Thuringia.
Yes indeed.
After I was admitted to Harvard Law School, I attended orientation. Our 500-strong class was gathered in Memorial Hall, in historic Sanders Theater, where then-Dean Elena Kagan (now Supreme Court Justice) spoke to us. She informed us that the competition was over — we were in! No need to worry about the stuff we’d seen in The Paper Chase — we were all going to leave with degrees and jobs. Not just that — as graduates of Harvard Law, we were destined to rule the universe. She informed us of how many alumni were in the Senate, how many in Congress, how many on the Supreme Court. The battle was over upon our acceptance to the institution. …Although I am no big fan of Ben Shapiro, his description of how debased Harvard Law was even when he attended is quite horrifying. It was debased long before that too, what with one of their professors actually saying this to Robert Bork:
Your notion that the Constitution is in some sense law must rest upon an obscure philosophic principle with which I am unfamiliar.This is a great evil and a great curse on the nation.
I have some E German stuff, It reminds me we DEFEATED you!
Old foreign political hag yammering about something...
Isn’t it her kind that put up the wall in the first place? To me, she is a non person.
Yup she is a brown shirt.
We tore down the wall to invade you.
Merkel produced no children.
Why should we listen to her?
She has been a disaster in Germany.
Harvard is a wasteland. And talking head Ben Shapiro is unwatchable — Sheldon Cooper on amphetamines.
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