Posted on 10/16/2023 10:47:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The disgusting hypocrisy behind elite schools defending the campus celebrations of Hamas’ terror attack.
“Our university embraces a commitment to free expression,” declared Harvard president Claudine Gay, in support of the disgusting pro-Hamas protests on the university’s campus. “That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views, but that is a far cry from endorsing them.”
All of which is disingenuous claptrap.
Ironically, it’s been Harvard’s singular LACK of commitment to free expression that I find objectionable and outrageous.
Because, just five weeks ago, the same Harvard was named America’s worst school for free speech.
Not second, or third, or 154th … no, the WORST in the entire country.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, in releasing its annual college free speech rankings, dubbed the Ivy League school’s record in this area “abysmal.”
Harvard received a 0.00-point free speech ranking on a 100-point scale — a full 11 points behind the next-worst school.
And incredibly, FIRE said this score of zero was “generous” and Harvard’s actual score was -10.69 because nine of its professors and researchers faced calls to be punished or fired based on what they had said or written — and seven of the nine were indeed professionally disciplined.
“I thought it would be pretty much impossible for a school to fall below zero, but they’ve had so many scholar sanctions,” said Sean Stevens, director of polling and analytics at FIRE.
Right.
So, to be clear, Harvard’s “commitment to free expression” is not just diabolical but statistically non-existent.
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Disgusting!!!!!makes one want to vomit
Snotty-nosed, liberal rich kids. Most of their best friends are Hammies.
I am the proud holder of a Harvard PhD, which I earned in an earlier era!
Lord have Mercy!!!!
They would have defended Japan’ surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, as legitimate.............
Try to have a pro Israel or even a MAGA rally anywhere near that campus and see what happens. This is proof that Harvard has horribly deceived these students into believing the lies of the murderous Palastinians.
F*** them all!
The U.S. government should close Harvard as a U.S. sponsor of barbaric terrorism and seize its more than $50 billion in endowments to use to fight and exterminate the savages murdering civilians throughout the world.
Truth be told, much of the scholarship and academics at these “elite” institutions is substandard.
Pro-Hamas protests show how higher education has finally crossed the line
New York Post ^ | Oct. 15, 2023 | Glenn H. Reynolds
Posted on 10/15/2023, 5:41:06 PM by george76
With the horrific massacre, rapes and infant murders and kidnappings Hamas proudly perpetrated in Israel, much of the American academic community, especially at elite universities, sided with . . . Hamas.
It is not playing well. https://freerepublic.com/perl/post#:~:text=To%3A-,Eleutheria5,-Translation%3A%20%E2%80%9Cfor%20slaves
Harvard has been the most talked-about example, because, well, it’s Harvard.
Harvard students have since deleted their statement, though it still lives on the Internet, of course.
They deleted it because many major firms announced they won’t hire anyone on the list. Some have even asked for membership lists of the student organizations involved so they can make sure not to hire any students who belong.
A group called Accuracy in Media has been sending billboard trucks around Harvard Square naming the students involved, which some have called “doxing,” though publicly naming the public authors of a public statement hardly seems to rise to that level.
Winston & Strawn, a top law firm where Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale was once a partner, rescinded a job offer for an NYU law student who issued a pro-Hamas proclamation.
This was followed by Harvard’s Kennedy School losing billionaire philanthropist Idan Ofer and his wife Batia from its board. ..
our faith in the University’s leadership has been broken and we cannot in good faith continue to support Harvard and its committees,” said the couple, worth $20 billion.
Bill Ackman, a hedge-fund founder, slammed Harvard too and was joined by a number of his fellow CEOs.
The message: Harvard is no longer morally worthy of our money, and we don’t want to hire its students.
The major law firms, hedge funds and Wall Street houses have had enough of woke students.
Ackman also called out another Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvani
Liberals hate nazis but love Islamic terrorists who would kill all of them without blinking an eye!
You’re free to express yourself as long as your ideology is evil or depraved.
That’s the perfect group shot of the modern day Harvard “(Vax) Booster Club”. Look at all those little maskites. Covid policies were the best thing to ever happen to cowards.
So...you defend hate speech as well?
But the US government, at least as constituted doesn’t have a problem with any of this, they are in bed with these institutions, they are the reason they are the way they are.
Government backed loans mean that you do not have to be an institution of merit, if your graduates cannot get a job in their field post-graduation, so, the loans will be paid by the taxpayer.
So, push useless degrees to make everyone “feel” better, lower the standards for decorum and the education, it’s a great grift they have going on.
If a group of Harvard students had a protest promoting the killing of all blacks in America. They would of been expelled before they even got home.
I do 1000%.
If it rises to incitement/harassment it’s a crime.
Burning a pride flag in public is a felony on par with rape in some states.
Burning Stars n Stripes is lawfully protected free expression.
Tough not defend even the most offensive of speech when the pride flag is more sacred under the law than the US flag.
That’s offensive as it can get to me.
Agree...
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