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    “It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks,” said May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist. “Instead, Harvard went on a victimhood campaign.”

    “Malpractice”? “Victimhood campaign”? Go fuck yourself, May.

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      Yeah, “victimhood campaign” is probably the most blatant example of projection I’ve seen from them in a while, and that’s really saying something for this group of fuckfaces

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    Holy fuck “viewpoint diversity” reads like the most dystopian thing I’ve ever seen. Basically boils down to ‘you must also teach right wing beliefs even when they are near unanimously rejected by the scientific community’. If im reading that right it would mean they’d essentially have to have flat earth classes in the geography department alongside all the regular classes, and give them equal resources. Plus who knows what other bullshit. How do you draw a line when you’re mandating thar schools teach fiction based on what your followers believe?

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      Wow, you really can’t make this up. Two paragraphs about how they need to foster “viewpoint diversity”, whatever that means, and they need to keep hiring faculty and admitting students until they have it, followed by a paragraph saying “no diversity in skin color is allowed”.

      Like, are they are saying a physics department needs to have equal number of physicists and fucking dumbasses, but God forbid the department keep track of numbers to make sure they’re not systematically ignoring black applicants.

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    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Harvard_University

    Perhaps it’s time for Harvard alumni to open the coffers and reject government funding.

    This is how enlightenment ideas and ideals became and remained demonized, even in our most liberal of eras, in service of mammon. Now I see the deeper level of kenning in Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown.

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      What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security.

      As written in “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45” by Milton Mayer

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    Uh oh, Harvard staff better be on high alert. Last time the White House made an “administrative error”, they sent somebody to a concentration camp before mocking him on social media.

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    Trump failed with Mexico and Canada when demanding they change their border policy. They stood up to him and he backed down.

    Trump has failed repeatedly with his tariffs. When countries stood up to him, he backed down.

    Trump failed to force the ivory-est of ivory towers to abandon DEI. They stood up to him, he’s backing down.

    Resistance. Is. Working.

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    Let’s see what other policies that meet with pushback can turn out to be inadvertent mistakes.