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 schools 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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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’.
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.
Wanna bet Bumdestag was involved in Spygate....
Pretty hilarious coming from someone who literally worked for the Stasi.
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.
I’ve never trusted the Germans ever since they bombed Pearl Harbor.
Cheeky. Though the text was a bit FOREIGN. Guatemala eh.
See 34.
Betting she is protected from the savages she brought in by walls.
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.
How about tearing down the walls of Academia and hire a Conservative professor?
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