After that, progressives should extirpate the entire Ivy League.


Should Claudine Gay have resigned as president of Harvard? Are conservatives right that a rabidly pro-Hamas left has captured Harvard? Are liberals correct that the fascistic right has launched an all-out assault on academic freedom, at Harvard? The New York Times has explored these questions (about Harvard) over the course of almost 17,000 articles.

These are indeed fascinating topics. However, they ignore a key issue: That for anyone with a progressive perspective, Harvard should neither be reformed (to eliminate its wokeness) nor protected (from the forces of reaction). Rather, it should be razed to the ground.

Then, after Harvard has been razed, we must salt the earth, Carthage-style, so a new Harvard does not grow in its place. Next we have to destroy the rest of the Ivy League. Finally, anyone with enough energy left over should sail an emissions-free ship through the Panama Canal to California and obliterate Stanford.

Let’s start with a story that explains why I’m so personally committed to this cause. Then we can move on to a more rational explanation of why you should be too.

read more: https://theintercept.com/2024/01/06/claudine-gay-harvard-university-ivy-league/

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    6 months ago

    The middle class in the US was created by the GI bill

    I don’t think I can have a coherent conversation with someone who has such a opportunistic relationship with causality. If you can hand-wave away the enormous political forces that dominated the minds of the capitalists as a historical coincidence with no bearing on their policy or legislation, we don’t share the same reality; I don’t know where to begin to bridge the divide.

    I apologize as it seems you started this in good faith, but I don’t think this conversation has any legs.