Posted on 01/15/2021 10:24:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Harvard’s cancel culture is just warming up. After Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was given the boot this week from the Harvard Institute of Politics Senior Advisory Committee, students are now demanding that degrees be revoked from White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Sen. Ted Cruz, and Rep. Dan Crenshaw.
According to the petition that’s circulating on campus, the move is in response to them spreading “disinformation and mistrust,” Fox Business reports.
The petition is entitled, “Revoke their Degrees,” and was circulated by four students who attend Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, FOX Business has confirmed. It calls on the university to be “Prepared to take a stand for representative democracy and against violent white supremacy,” by specifically revoking degrees of three Harvard graduates who are supporters of the president: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX).
All were described as “violent actors” who need to be held accountable for their alleged actions, the petition said. […]
The petition argues that a Harvard degree is “a privilege, not a right” and therefore no one is entitled to keep their degree if they violate certain laws and societal norms. Some supporters of the effort have cited Harvard’s decision in 2010 to revoke a degree from a Russian spy, Andrey Bezrukov, as setting a precedent for revoking degrees from Trump associates. (Fox Business)
Though the petition is gaining traction on campus, attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said it would be "illegal and highly immoral to revoke a degree based on constitutionally protected actions..."
The effort comes as thousands of law students and lawyers have signed a petition to get Cruz and Sen. Josh Hawley disbarred over objections to certifying President-elect Joe Biden's win.
Hmm. Well, I demand havahad be closed and condemned. Crickets........
Contact Harvard and set up a debate.
Get ready folks to sew a yellow ‘T’ on your clothes.
Republicans will be purged like in old USSR.
Stalinazis gonna Stalinazi.
Uh Oh, didn’t DeSantis go there?
I figured if they paid their money and did the work and earned the degree, they would get to keep it.
Harvard, once respected, now can’t seem to attract any critical thinkers to their school.
Nobody should make the mistake of thinking of Harvard as an institution where actual thinking is permitted or encouraged.
Let’s keep that on the QT.
Confiscate all their endowment and spent it on education.
Did they take away the Unibomber’s degree?
Hey, those Karen’s look Chinese!
You know, 35 years ago I used to see Dershowitz on shows like Bill Buckley’s Firing Line and he seemed like the most annoying sort of leftist. I wouldn’t have predicted back then in the glory days of the Reagan era how far the left would shift and there would come a day when we’d be nostalgic for liberals like Dersh who would seem the voice of reason, moderation and fairness compared to the woke mob that would arise.
The first rule of a fascist dictatorial regime is to get rid of all opposition. There can be no debate, no free speech, and no commerce of ideas because the oppressors are convinced that they are the only ones who possess truth.
We have been headed in this direction for many decades.
However, I would point out that their push for this is very premature because I do not believe our courts will go along.
Certainly, there are individual judges and perhaps even groups of 3 at the appellate level who might ignore the 1st Amendment, but overall, I do not believe a majority of judges will go along with this.
Will our system of checks and balances governed by the constitution prevail? We will find out soon and hopefully I am correct.
Harvard alumni, if you disagree, demand a refund, and sue their pants off of them.. Loss of $$$ hurts the school the most.
Apparently, in this cultural revolution we are in, having worked to earn a degree means nothing.
Ted Kaczynski earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Harvard in 1962,
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