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Some Harvard students say not so fast on Trump ban
FOX Business ^ | November 18, 2020 | By Lydia Moynihan, Charlie Gasparino

Posted on 11/19/2020 4:54:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A petition circulating at Harvard University to prevent Trump administration officials from stepping foot on campus is getting mixed reviews from a range of students, showing that not all those attending the prestigious college are in line with the progressive agenda of the petition's organizers, FOX Business has learned.

Despite apparently getting the thumbs up by most of the liberal arts school, students at the Kennedy School and the renowned Harvard Business School were less enthusiastic.

The petition organizers then changed the wording of the document from an outright ban of Trump administration officials speaking, teaching or attending the university to holding these officials "accountable" before they deal with Harvard in the aforementioned capacities, people with direct knowledge of the matter say.

The petitions are an outgrowth of a movement started by far-left progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who began prodding businesses and academia to blacklist anyone who worked in the Trump administration.

But the effort to blacklist Trump officials has received some backlash not just from conservative commentators but also some civil libertarians as a modern form of McCarthyism.

Still, the student councils that are voting on these petitions often reflect a far-left bias and they are becoming increasingly powerful at some big colleges forcing administrators to censor conservatives from speaking and teaching on campuses across the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2020; fascism; harvard; university
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1 posted on 11/19/2020 4:54:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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“...forcing administrators to censor conservatives from speaking and teaching on campuses across the country.”

How does this work? I mean what would HAPPEN to said Administrator should they allow a Conservative or maybe anyone other than a far Left liberal to speak? Do they lose their job? Will they be executed? What?


2 posted on 11/19/2020 4:57:56 AM PST by billyboy15 ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Gee, that's mighty big of our Marxist overlords at Hah-vahd to let pro-Trumpers on campus. Then again, how can these snowflakes gang up on somebody and throw urine bombs at them if they don't come to the campus in the first place?

Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney weren't killed up in Ohio where they trained. The Democrats in Mississippi waited until they got into the kill zone.

3 posted on 11/19/2020 4:58:14 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

> But the effort to blacklist Trump officials has received some backlash not just from conservative commentators but also some civil libertarians as a modern form of McCarthyism.

McCarthy was proven correct by Soviet archives. An inconvenient truth our friends on the Left still will not accept.

This effort is more akin to Mao’s Cultural Revolution.


4 posted on 11/19/2020 4:59:00 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If I were the president of Harvard, I’d announce that I’ll be keeping those names on record and holding THEM accountable.


5 posted on 11/19/2020 5:02:13 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: billyboy15

They would be held responsible for the violence that ensues, whether they deserve it or not.

I don’t know if they would be fired but if it happened several times they would be held accountable in some way.

And my mother thought and thinks college is the greatest achievement of her children.

and she also went to nursing school when my father died.

My father was an immigrant and my mother’s parents were immigrants from Italy. It was her dream for all the kids to have college degrees.

Now it’s a nightmare in many cases.


6 posted on 11/19/2020 5:02:51 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: billyboy15
How does this work? I mean what would HAPPEN to said Administrator should they allow a Conservative or maybe anyone other than a far Left liberal to speak? Do they lose their job? Will they be executed? What?

Professor Nicholas Christakis, and his wife Erika lost their jobs at Yale for far less.

7 posted on 11/19/2020 5:03:36 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gen Z may just be seeing through the progressive bs, indoctrination and irrationality.

And, “the establishment” is now progressives, and youts love to buck the establishment.


8 posted on 11/19/2020 5:04:19 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That is a completely relevant graphic you posted there, FRiend.

All Leftists are Maoists at heart. Scratch the surface of a Leftist, find a Maoist and murderous tyrant underneath.


9 posted on 11/19/2020 5:05:24 AM PST by rlmorel ("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
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To: billyboy15
How does this work? I mean what would HAPPEN to said Administrator should they allow a Conservative or maybe anyone other than a far Left liberal to speak? Do they lose their job? Will they be executed? What?

Observe the recent Zoom meeting with MI GOP Board of Canvassers who were reluctant to certify fraudulent votes. Some guy started providing names and addresses and the name of the school which their children attended, and encouraged racial violence against the children.

The Left is the devil.

10 posted on 11/19/2020 5:07:15 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

> the progressive agenda of the petition’s organizers <

Wait. What? This agenda is not “progressive”. It’s fascist. Silence all opposition!

The mere I use of the word “progressive” here make the authors enablers of fascism. It’s a pity - and a tragedy - that they do not see that.


11 posted on 11/19/2020 5:08:16 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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"Despite apparently getting the thumbs up by most of the liberal arts school, students at the Kennedy School and the renowned Harvard Business School were less enthusiastic."

It's the lawyers.! It's the stinking lawyers.!!

They have become completely convinced that they OWN the country.. Any and ALL elected posts in Washington DC is THEIR turf and the common man has NO place in it.!

That's why Trump, the big business man, and ANYBODY like him, is so despised in DC...

12 posted on 11/19/2020 5:26:02 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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"McCarthy was proven correct by Soviet archives. An inconvenient truth our friends on the Left still will not accept."

That bears repeating..

13 posted on 11/19/2020 5:28:18 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“The Left is the devil.”

I use MOL — Minions Of Lucifer.

“Demons” works, too. More traditional and Biblical.

God is. Lucifer is.
Good is. Evil is.
Angels are. Demons are.
Heaven is. Hell is.
As was, is now.


14 posted on 11/19/2020 5:39:53 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

JOE McCarthy was a GREAT AMERICAN.


15 posted on 11/19/2020 5:43:42 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; mitch5501; ...
These censorious liberal elites would be banned under,

Harvard College Lawes of 1642
[from New England's First Fruits; emp. mine]

1. When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classicall Latine Author ex tempore, and make and speake true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of Nounes and verbes in the Greeke tongue, then may hee bee admitted into the College, nor shall any claime admission before such qualifications. [like modern SAT scores, such a requirement indicated the level of education one had received, and achieved. This served practical purposes of course, as copies of Scripture and other classics were also still mostly in Greek.]

2. Every one shall consider the mayne End of his life and studyes, to know God and Jesus Christ which is Eternall life. Joh. 17.3. [Today, personal as well as intellectual ignorance of the Biblical Christ abounds among Harvard students.]

3. Seeing the Lord giveth wisdome, every one shall seriously by prayer in secret, seeke wisdome of him. prov. 2.2,3 etc. [Instead, Harvard today militates against such Biblical wisdom , and peity. Today, if any activity is done "in secret," it is fornication (1 out 4 women have an STD).

4. Every one shall so exercise himselfe in reading the Scriptures twice a day that they bee ready to give an account of their proficiency therein, both in theoreticall observations of Language and Logicke, and in practicall and spirituall truthes as their tutor shall require according to their severall abilities respectively, seeing the Entrance of the word giveth light etc. psal. 119, 130. [The goal here was to produce "able ministers of the New Testament" (2Cor. 3:6), "rightly dividing the word of truth" (2Tim. 2:15). Today, the Bible is almost wholly abandoned as the literal and authoritative Word of God, and the very deceptions Harvard was founded to prevent abound therein!]

5. In the publicke Church assembly they shall carefully shunne all gestures that shew any contempt or neglect of Gods ordinances and bee ready to give an account to their tutors of their profiting and to use the helpes of Storing themselves with knowledge, as their tutours shall direct them, and all Sophisters and Bachellors (until themselves make common place) shall publiquely repeate Sermons in the Hall whenver they are called forth. [Rather than this being the goal of Harvard, the inculcation of unBibical worldviews is fostered, and rare is the professor who would dare declare the Biblical gospel and morality, or the student who could or would do likewise.]

6. they shall eschew all prophanation of Gods holy name, attributes, word, ordinances, and times of worship, and study with Reverence and love carefully to reteine God and his truth in their minds. [This is of little to no concern in Harvard today, rather the "faith once delivered" (Jude v.3) is little esteemed, and if one comes into Harvard with such faith, he will be sorely challanged to keep it! Sports, college parties, etc., not Bible studies, are what students mostly flock to.]

7. they shall honour as their parents, Magistrates, Elders, tutours and aged persons, by beeing silent in their presence (except they bee called on to answer) not gainesaying shewing all those laudable expressions of honour and Reverence in their presence, that are in uses as bowing before them standing uncovered or the like. [Rather than promoting reverence toward authority, Harvard has joined the bulk of other "Intititutions of Higher Learning" in fostering rebellion toward those who represent just authority, under the guise of protesting injustice, and in such protests reveal their own dearth of wisdom which usually comes with age.

8. they shall be slow to speake, and eschew not onely oathes, Lies, and uncertaine Rumours, but likewise all idle, foolish, bitter scoffing, frothy wanton words and offensive gestures. [Today, if one would dare uphold Bible truth and morality at Harvard, such as reproves the like of irreverend Peter Gomes (Harvard's past homosexual minister), he/she will see quickly how the above law has been abandoned].

16 posted on 11/19/2020 5:51:05 AM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m sure Harvard has no trouble with accepting donations from evil capitalist alumni.


17 posted on 11/19/2020 5:57:45 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I say, “No sane person should set foot on the campus of Harvard University. It is nothing but a propaganda mill for communists.”

SHUT HARVARD DOWN as an ongoing threat to the republic of the United States of America and the guaranteed liberties of Americans under the U.S. Constitution.

Ban Harvard graduates, including its law school graduates, from all employment in state or federal government, including jobs at ALL levels of public teaching.”

“Harvard” has become synonymous with “brainwashing.”

Look at these radical tyrants trying to run roughshod over our liberty.

Harvard University is one of the most DANGEROUS institutions in the United States.


18 posted on 11/19/2020 5:59:38 AM PST by Gnome1949
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I wonder why people donate to these universities?


19 posted on 11/19/2020 6:34:54 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Notice that the only fat guy in that poster is Mao.


20 posted on 11/19/2020 7:16:18 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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