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Video shows Harvard research head confronting woman, biracial child (ruh roh!)
New York Post ^ | 7/16/2018 | David K. Li

Posted on 07/18/2018 1:00:26 PM PDT by simpson96

The head of a Harvard-linked research center is being ridiculed as “Sidewalk Susie” after a viral, cringe-worthy video caught the woman trying to order a mom and her biracial child to get away from her home and then condescendingly asking the family if they live in “affordable housing.”

The confrontation happened Saturday in Cambridge when Theresa Lund – executive director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative – came out of her apartment to complain about noise allegedly being made by Alyson Laliberte’s toddler on the sidewalk outside the building.

Laliberte recorded the confrontation and posted it on Facebook.

“I’m sitting here because you’re preventing my children from sleeping. Would you like me to do that to your kids?” said Lund, wearing a purple T-shirt, running shorts and her hair tied back.

Laliberte answered: “Who is even watching your kids right now. Are you? Cause you’re not, you’re here with me and my kid.”

That’s when Lund, who is white, accused Laliberte of being poor.

“Are you one of the affordable units? Or are you one of the Harvard units?” Lund said in the video that’s been viewed more than 9,500 times by Monday night.

Laliberte kept her cool in the video – but then let Lund have it on Facebook.

“It was totally discriminating and racist of her.. or maybe it was because my daughter is biracial who knows,” Laliberte wrote on Facebook.

“I I have no idea who this woman is and the fact that she thinks she has some kind of authority over me is crazy!”

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To: ifinnegan

Agree. And do we really think that the outside Mom didn’t realize the inside Mom was with Harvard. I used to live in Boston. Anyone and EVERYONE connected to Harvard is insufferable about their connection to that institution.


41 posted on 07/18/2018 2:22:22 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.a)
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To: simpson96

Liberals always believe that blacks are inferior.


42 posted on 07/18/2018 2:33:28 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: simpson96
Sidewalk mom could defuse the situation by moving somewhere else but let's remember that apparently there is more to the confrontation than we see on the video. Did Harvard mom come out cussing and making demands or did she ask nicely? There is disagreement about whether she was swearing or not prior to the video.

Harvard mom has a condescending attitude throughout the video but what was her attitude prior to the video being recorded? If Harvard mom comes out making demands in a abrasive manner, I could see sidewalk mom or anyone else for that matter likely digging in their heels. I can also see Harvard mom doing an attitude 180 when the camera comes out.

I have a hard time believing that a mother of an infant would be difficult when another mother calmly and politely informs that she's trying to get her kids down for a nap. Something tells me that the initial request was not calm nor polite.

43 posted on 07/18/2018 2:38:28 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: CommerceComet

A lot of mothers are just insane about defending their children’s behavior these days. It’s entirely possible that if the Harvard mom had said to the sidewalk mom (*snicker*), “Excuse me, ma’am. My children are taking a nap right there ... *point to window*. Could you please help your daughter keep her volume down while she’s playing? Thank you,” the sidewalk mom would have gone ballistic.


44 posted on 07/18/2018 2:45:57 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: simpson96

With some luck, local columnist and Conservative Howie Carr gets his hands on this.

This is exactly the type of Massachusetts liberal Howie lives to excoriate.


45 posted on 07/18/2018 2:48:17 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: simpson96

It’s obvious that the problem here is that the toddler wasn’t up to something complex and global — then she’d a been on it.

Interesting though that the question of whether the screamer’s family lived in the subsidized condos isn’t answered in the article. Perhaps the humanitarian has a $50 million subsidy to study whether housing subsidies make residents louder and less considerate than elitist brahmins living in the “Harvard” units.


46 posted on 07/18/2018 2:49:53 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Tax-chick

It was 3:30pm. I would have laughed at stupid Harvard mom.

I went to the screeching baby mom’s facebook page for more of the story. She has lived there for 15 years.


47 posted on 07/18/2018 2:56:19 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: warsaw44

Good old Cambridge-—we all remember the librarian that turned down the Dr. Seuss books because Melania donated them.

They are truly insane.

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48 posted on 07/18/2018 3:04:09 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"Liberals always believe that blacks are inferior."

They also believe Mexicans are inferior.

Some lib posted a meme on twitter with a pic of Donald Trump and says:

Here he is .. the most hated man in the f'g planet! The only person he will ever make happy is the Mexican who digs his grave!!!

49 posted on 07/18/2018 3:12:37 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: mewzilla

If I run for congress, I want to solicit her. That $27.35 contribution would probably be enough to get me elected.


50 posted on 07/18/2018 3:37:15 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: simpson96

A NIMBY academic. I’m shocked I tell ya.


51 posted on 07/18/2018 3:47:05 PM PDT by BBell (Antifa are like house cats. One squirt from a squirt bottle and they scatter.)
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To: Heart of Georgia

I think the lady who is sitting on her own property is not at fault. We do not know what happened before the video started. I believe she was being set up. I don’t care if she’s a liberal, conservative, or whatever.


52 posted on 07/18/2018 4:02:25 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Tax-chick
the sidewalk mom would have gone ballistic

There is that possibility. I could see either or both of these mothers being the problem here.

It seems apparent to me that sidewalk mom zinged Harvard mom with the question about who is watching her kids now. Even if Harvard mom is as pure as the driven snow in this situation, her smug, condescending attitude angered me and it wasn't even directed at me.

53 posted on 07/18/2018 4:18:40 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: Mears

People outside the Boston, Cambridge, Brookline etc. world can not truly know how awful this breed of liberal really is.

I know you do!

I sure have. From work, dinner parties, interactions on the MBTA, interrupted conversations.

Horrible control freak, busybodies who know what’s best for everyone.


54 posted on 07/18/2018 4:41:08 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: Gay State Conservative
Anyone who wants to understand just how "tolerant" and "welcoming" the elite of Cambridge are should google "Commonwealth Day School" and "Cambridge".

Thank you for the tip. I did. I read this article.

Absolutely disgusting. I apologize if my rant is virtue-signaling but really?....these liberals' mask of compassion crashed to the ground over an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that was to be 90% minority? Not a halfway house or a drug treatment clinic or any other NIMBY-provoking operation...a f****** elementary school...THAT'S what got their knickers in such a twist?

These tools are cut from the same cloth that hooded Cronkite, the Kennedys, Romney and Kerry and Koch in their opposition to Cape Wind. No wonder they quake in their shoes as Trump's minority support rises.

55 posted on 07/18/2018 5:10:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: warsaw44

“People outside the Boston, Cambridge, Brookline etc. world can not truly know how awful this breed of liberal really is.”

I sure do,but I take it with a grain of salt-—I have some kids and grandkids that are libs.

I like living here-—in spite of the nonsense.

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56 posted on 07/18/2018 5:38:15 PM PDT by Mears
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To: petitfour

I’m sometimes taking a nap at 3:30 ... but the screechers are my own kids.


57 posted on 07/18/2018 6:40:30 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: CommerceComet
zinged Harvard mom with the question about who is watching her kids now

Yes, that was a zinger.

58 posted on 07/18/2018 6:41:04 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: slumber1
>>>Why can’t people act like normal human beings anymore? All the woman had to do was apologize for her kid and move away from this woman’s apartment. Everybody wants to turn everything into a confrontation<<<

Me thinks you are talking about the wrong Woman.

So, if some Kids are playing in the cul de sac at 3:30 in the afternoon on a nice Summer Day, they should stop playing in front of ther own Houses because some Grumpy Liberal Woman can't shut a frigging Window?

(I guess the Liberal Woman left her Kids upstairs in the care of her Illegal Invader Nanny who lives in Section 8 Housing downwind from her Elite Neighborhood)

59 posted on 07/18/2018 6:55:36 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Admittedly, I didn’t take any of that into consideration, because when I read this statement, I made a judgment of where the professor was coming from regarding the other woman (maybe unfairly)...

She asked:
“Are you one of the affordable units? Or are you one of the Harvard units?”

Maybe I rushed to judgment, but it seemed to me like the questions were asked as a personal dig, such as “does the ‘affordable unit’ person have a right to be anywhere other than her ‘unit’” - kind of thing going on. And it’s possible there are such rules and she actually didn’t have a right to be there.

Then with the professor’s education and accomplishments being front and center, it seemed like elitist hypocrisy to me, and that’s the point I attempted to make - fair or unfair.


60 posted on 07/18/2018 6:57:02 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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