Posted on 09/06/2023 11:50:44 PM PDT by Libloather
Harvard University has been ranked the worst school for free speech in the U.S. - with the Ivy League institution being awarded zero points out of a possible 100.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression releases a similar list of rankings for American institutions of higher education every year.
For 2023, Harvard - which has never performed well by FIRE's standards - was dubbed an 'abysmal' place for free speech.
Despite being arguably the most elite academic institution in the country, Harvard's 0-point score was a full 11 points behind the next worst school on the list, fellow Ivy League University of Pennsylvania.
FIRE added that Harvard's result was 'generous' and that its actual score by its calculations was less than zero at -10.69.
The school's score tanked for a number of reasons, not the least of which being the nine professors and researchers at Harvard who faced calls to be punished or fired in the last few years based on things they'd said or written.
Seven of the nine were ultimately disciplined.
The director of polling and analytics at FIRE, Sean Stevens, told the New York Post that Harvard has consistently ranked among the bottom tier of schools on the list, but was surprised a school was able to 'fall below zero.'
'They've had so many scholar sanctions,' he said.
A school's score is calculated based on factors like how strong its policies in favor of free speech are and how many professors, students, and visitors to campus have been targeted by school authorities for their publicly held positions.
At Harvard, in the last five years, some of the seven free speech incidents have included the school's decision to revoke conservative activist Kyle Kashuv's acceptance because of racist comments he made on social media as a 16-year-old...
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Exactly. And it happened right under our noses all those years.
And this is what they have planned for us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTltWU1e7w
I used to write this stuff off as kooky conspiracy stuff. Now I believe it 100%.
Kind of funny if you ask me. A degree from Haaaavard isn’t worth a damn and has not been for many years.
The Fabian Society had that figured out back in 1895...and founded the London School of Economics (LSE) - sounds prestigious superficially, as it always does.
Just look how many of their present alumni are in high positions today.
Didn’t Mick Jagger go there?
Don’t know about Mick, but a cousin of mine got an LLM from there, and he turned out a real sh!t later. OK, post hoc ergo propter hoc stills applies. Meh.
good post tx bkmk
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