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D. Malcolm Carson's avatar

I think the fundamental problem for Harvard and other institutions like it is that they inaccurately calibrated how dependent they are on the rubes in the American hinterlands for their sustenance. They had their endowment/tax-free hedge fund throwing off billions every year, an unending stream of rich parents from all over the globe willing to write six-figure checks to assure their kids a spot in the global elite, and unfettered access as the nerve center of the "ascendant majority" to billions in federal research grants with 70% "indirect" cost allowances, what could they possibly have to fear from those people? Well, now they're finding out.

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"my preference for focused reform..."

Expecting Harvard or any other Ivy League/gentry progressive institution to reform is like buying a ticket to see the Harlem Globetrotters play and hoping the Washington Generals win this one or like Charlie Brown expecting Lucy to finally let him kick that football. Never happen.

Why would you "reform" when you know you reside on the Right Side of History (the Social Justice Right Hand of God), when everyone you know has the exact same beliefs, values and ideas, and when you know your opponents are benighted bigots, stupid and/or evil at best? Our progressive clerisy won't even listen to gelded mainstream conservatives like David Brooks, they're certainly never going to listen to anyone w the stink of Trump on them.

Even in the middle of this existential battle Harvard Law just awarded a $65k fellowship to a Hamasnik who was charged w assaulting a Jewish student and whose entire raison d'etre seems to be delegitimizing the Jewish state:

https://www.theeditors.com/p/harvard-law-review-gives-65000-fellowship-to-bharmal

And if there's any doubt, Steven Pinker proves that our liberal class is completely impotent and will never be able to do more than write a strongly worded letter filled w platitudes about opposing "hate". Pinker of all people has done the most to delineate and display the hateful rot at the heart of Left "scholarship" (The Blank Slate), and I'm sure he still has the scars for when his book was met with the usual bigotry accusations and accusations of intolerable privilege. Yet when a fight breaks out of course he protects his enemies and reveals that his real devotion is to Western liberalism and its greatest citadel, even if Western liberalism has now devolved into an extension of the Marcuse cult with a wing of it controlled by the Edward Said School of Applied Jihad (which hates and attacks Jews, Pinker's own people).

These fools w zero real-life experience who've never once been in a real fight imagined they could seize the political playing field and that no opponent would ever appear that might want to kick their asses.

Liberals had their chance to stand up to the Social Justice takeover of academia. Now Trump is doing it for them.

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