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Watching the Ivys wilt

A bunch of Harvard student organizations came out in support of Hamas. Because to those students, children, old people, and innocents being killed and stolen out of their homes aren’t important.  Only some false reaching for some sort of  non-existent moral equivalency.

Like MSNBC, the UN, and other ‘organizations’, they are trying to justify these actions.  They have no moral compass and no sense of fundamental right and wrong.

What was done was not war, it was terrorism.  Plain and simple.

The Harvard students in particular are being taken to task.  Harvard’s former president, Larry Summers, has spoken out about this as well as Harvard’s delayed response.

And now Wall Street is speaking as well.  They want to know who the students are who support the murder of children.  So they can be sure to NOT hire them in the future.

But Wall Street appears even less forgiving with billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman revealing that his fellow bosses want to know who they are so ‘none of us inadvertently hire any of their members’.

And because people outside of their rarified academic echo chamber are calling them on their inhumanity, the student groups are running like scared rats–taking down websites, uploading a new document that doesn’t name the groups, etc.  Because their folly has been shown to them in a big mirror.

‘For student safety, the names of all original signing organizations have been concealed at this time,’ it added.

Harvard law student Danielle Mikaelian said she had stepped down from her role as a board member of one of the student groups that co-signed the controversial statement, calling it ‘egregious’.

But it’s too late, the interwebz are forever. And because there were so many groups involved, the entire Harvard brand is now tainted.

I found this commentary to be interesting and quite telling.  It’s from Elbridge Colby, a former Pentagon official:

 “I think it’s not surprising a generation or two ago, these famous institutions, whatever their flaws — it was Princeton in the nation’s service. Or, you know, if you go to Harvard, the big dining hall is dedicated to Union Soldiers who died in the Civil War. That’s not the mentality that’s being cultivated. There’s a basic love of country, and a sense of public service that is obviously very much gone from these famous institutions that should be creating an elite that’s doing a better job than we have over the last 20 years,” he said.

He added that the “same people” who’ve gone through elite universities have overseen a “dramatic decline” in America’s global standing and economic position.

“So, why are we listening to them?” Colby asked.

If these students cannot get into positions of power anymore, it will be of benefit to the country. 



  1. Harvard used to be a good school. But even in tech it was nothing. The best were always Cal Tech and MIT until other school started catching up like that tech school in Texas [A and M] and Stanford

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  2. I abhor the acts against Israel. Full stop. But, face it, normally, these lunatics are supported and hired without question under the guise of diversity, free speech, etc. My only point is, can we actually start calling sociopaths out before they knock down buildings or kill babies?

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  3. “can we actually start calling sociopaths out before they knock down buildings or kill babies?” Not if they are from an Ivy League school… or certain die-versity group.

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  4. This is what happens when the universities hire Diverse people with radical left leaning ideologies and then teach that to their students. It's what the board members asked for when they hired those teachers. They got what they wanted. Now they have to live with it. The Harvard Brand is tainted and will be for a long time.Lots of Jewish people on Wall Street….. and they have long memories.

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  5. The Daily Mail headline about this story is “Poisoned Ivy”

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  6. What Hamas did was wrong, because mass murder, genocide and crimes against humanity are wrong. If you commit or advocate for these crimes you are evil.Now go look at the footage of Gaza turned to rubble and tell me you see targeted attacks and not crimes against humanity. If that doesn't convince you, Israel has shut off water to Gaza and threatened to bomb emergency relief aid convoys.So who are the monsters? Both! Let the monsters fight and don't chicken hawk somebody else's kid into a war. (Looking at you Nicky and Ladybug.)

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  7. Trumpter: What Israel is doing is a response to an attack coordinated, assembled, housed and executed from Gaza. Aided by, hidden by, the residents of the area. By people who hate them. It's not like anyone made a phone call and reported the fighters assembling rockets on the roofs, or the paragliders, or the groups of Hamas fighters assembling in their neighborhoods….They were complicit in the attack. One cannot be both innocent and helping. The people of Gaza agree with and help Hamas. Leaving them alone has simply made for a safe haven for the Terrorists. The people of Gaza are, by their support, part of the problem, part of the enemy. You cannot decry the actions then decry the defense in the same breath. That's mealy-mouthed shit like the UN pulls. Weasel words. If I were in charge they'd be bulldozing the entire Gaza strip into the Med.

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  8. B beat me to it. Wall and Broad has a LONG memory…

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  9. American academia is almost totally Communist. Communists are EVIL. Hamas is EVIL. Little surprise that evil supports evil. Sad!y Wall Streets commentary is nothing but virtue signaling. When this blows over NOBODY on Wall St or any other big business will remember who's said what. Because they simply don't care. Nothing of consequence will happen to these Ivey League idiots. They'll graduate. They'll get plush cushy jobs. And they will continue the communists work of destroying America.

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  10. Avraham—Yep.Anon 2:32 and Cederq—Employers are not allowed to look at character anymore. Only skin tone. In politics and business, it’s where you went to school—and that pool is limited to four schools.B—Yes on the brand—just like people won’t hire Yale law students anymore. And yes, Wall Street has a long memory. And yes on the Daily Mail article—I did a riff on it.Trumpeter—I agree with B’s comment below yours. Don’t try to go for some kind of symmetry or moral equivalency. It’s gotta end. And I truly abhor silly nicknames—I have no idea who you are talking about.B—Well said.NFO—Yep, and they can’t be bullied.

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  11. Dan—I don’t think so. The people who are speaking out are those who would be doing the hiring. I don’t think they’ll find the cushy jobs they were hoping for. A Harvard degree is not going to mean much after this.

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  12. Anon 2–Interviews go both ways.

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  13. Harvard used to be a good school. But even in tech it was nothing. The best were always Cal Tech and MIT until other school started catching up like that tech school in Texas [A and M] and Stanford

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  14. I abhor the acts against Israel. Full stop. But, face it, normally, these lunatics are supported and hired without question under the guise of diversity, free speech, etc. My only point is, can we actually start calling sociopaths out before they knock down buildings or kill babies?

    Like

  15. “can we actually start calling sociopaths out before they knock down buildings or kill babies?” Not if they are from an Ivy League school… or certain die-versity group.

    Like

  16. This is what happens when the universities hire Diverse people with radical left leaning ideologies and then teach that to their students. It's what the board members asked for when they hired those teachers. They got what they wanted. Now they have to live with it. The Harvard Brand is tainted and will be for a long time.Lots of Jewish people on Wall Street….. and they have long memories.

    Like

  17. The Daily Mail headline about this story is “Poisoned Ivy”

    Like

  18. What Hamas did was wrong, because mass murder, genocide and crimes against humanity are wrong. If you commit or advocate for these crimes you are evil.Now go look at the footage of Gaza turned to rubble and tell me you see targeted attacks and not crimes against humanity. If that doesn't convince you, Israel has shut off water to Gaza and threatened to bomb emergency relief aid convoys.So who are the monsters? Both! Let the monsters fight and don't chicken hawk somebody else's kid into a war. (Looking at you Nicky and Ladybug.)

    Like

  19. Trumpter: What Israel is doing is a response to an attack coordinated, assembled, housed and executed from Gaza. Aided by, hidden by, the residents of the area. By people who hate them. It's not like anyone made a phone call and reported the fighters assembling rockets on the roofs, or the paragliders, or the groups of Hamas fighters assembling in their neighborhoods….They were complicit in the attack. One cannot be both innocent and helping. The people of Gaza agree with and help Hamas. Leaving them alone has simply made for a safe haven for the Terrorists. The people of Gaza are, by their support, part of the problem, part of the enemy. You cannot decry the actions then decry the defense in the same breath. That's mealy-mouthed shit like the UN pulls. Weasel words. If I were in charge they'd be bulldozing the entire Gaza strip into the Med.

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  20. B beat me to it. Wall and Broad has a LONG memory…

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  21. American academia is almost totally Communist. Communists are EVIL. Hamas is EVIL. Little surprise that evil supports evil. Sad!y Wall Streets commentary is nothing but virtue signaling. When this blows over NOBODY on Wall St or any other big business will remember who's said what. Because they simply don't care. Nothing of consequence will happen to these Ivey League idiots. They'll graduate. They'll get plush cushy jobs. And they will continue the communists work of destroying America.

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  22. Avraham—Yep.Anon 2:32 and Cederq—Employers are not allowed to look at character anymore. Only skin tone. In politics and business, it’s where you went to school—and that pool is limited to four schools.B—Yes on the brand—just like people won’t hire Yale law students anymore. And yes, Wall Street has a long memory. And yes on the Daily Mail article—I did a riff on it.Trumpeter—I agree with B’s comment below yours. Don’t try to go for some kind of symmetry or moral equivalency. It’s gotta end. And I truly abhor silly nicknames—I have no idea who you are talking about.B—Well said.NFO—Yep, and they can’t be bullied.

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  23. Dan—I don’t think so. The people who are speaking out are those who would be doing the hiring. I don’t think they’ll find the cushy jobs they were hoping for. A Harvard degree is not going to mean much after this.

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  24. Anon 2–Interviews go both ways.

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