Things blew up at the University of Pennsylvania last week over antisemitic remarks. UofP president Liz Magill resigned. Harvard should be next, but the rot is pervasive everywhere.
Penn President Resigns, House Rep Stefanik Vows Harvard and MIT Next
For background on this story, please consider the December 9 Politico article Penn President Resigns, Stefanik Vows Harvard and MIT Next
University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on Saturday voluntarily stepped down from her role after facing intense blowback following a House Education committee hearing this week.
Magill, along with Harvard President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth, participated in a contentious, more than five-hour grilling from lawmakers Tuesday over their response to antisemitism on their campuses.
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s rules or code of conduct, yes or no?” Stefanik asked Magill on Tuesday, to which Magill responded: “If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment.”
Stefanik slammed the response, saying: “Conduct meaning committing the act of genocide? The speech is not harassment? This is unacceptable.”
The other presidents responded similarly to the question. They said they personally did not agree with the rhetoric used by those students and were committed to preserving free speech on campus.
Depends on the Context
At the congressional testimony, Harvard University President Claudine Gay said that it “depends on context” whether or not “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates the university’s harassment policy.
In the wake of those major gaffes, major supporters threatened to halt donations.
It was only the threat of donor cancellations that mattered, not the idiotic statements themselves.
One Down Two to Go, No Context Needed
Free Speech Hoot of the Day
These universities create “safe zones” for speech they endorse, and hound anyone who doesn’t agree.
Until now, it was OK, on grounds of free speech to call for genocide of Jews. It was only harassment if you actually killed Jews.
But heaven forbid you call someone by the wrong pronoun. That’s harassment and freedom of speech stops there.
Using the Wrong Pronoun at Harvard
The following article was originally published by Campus Reform Oct. 4, 2022. It was republished in light of congressional testimony by Harvard University President Claudine Gay.
Campus Reform reports Students caught using wrong pronouns at Harvard may violate harassment policies republished December 7, 2023.
Students at Harvard University were told that failing to use a person’s preferred pronouns could be a violation of the university’s sexual misconduct and harassment policies during a mandatory online Title IX training last month.
The Power and Control Wheel [my lead image] clarifies that using the wrong pronouns constitutes abuse and is an “attempt to limit a person’s sense of self based on identity.”
Power and Control Indeed
By the power of intimidation and indoctrination, it’s extremely difficult to find freedom of speech at any major US college or university.
The Ivy League Mask Falls
The Wall Street Journal comments The Ivy League Mask Falls
The great benefit of last week’s performance by three elite-school presidents before Congress is that it tore the mask off the intellectual and political corruption of much of the American academy. The world was appalled by the equivocation of the academic leaders when asked if advocating genocide against Jews violated their codes of conduct. But the episode merely revealed the value system that has become endemic at too many prestigious schools.
The presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania hid behind concerns about free speech. But as everyone paying attention knows, these schools don’t protect speech they disagree with. They punish it.
Harvard was 248th out of 248, and Penn was 247th, in the annual college ranking by the free-speech Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
But because Jews in Israel are seen in the progressive canon as white oppressors and colonizers, it’s not a clear campus violation to call for murdering Jews because it depends on the context.
The schools may attempt to mollify the fury by adding Jews to the classes deemed oppressed. That may make antisemitism less tolerated on campus. But it won’t change the deeper rot of anti-American, anti-Western instruction that dominates so many campuses. And it won’t root out the “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) policies that use race, gender and sexuality as political weapons to enforce intellectual conformity, dictate tenure decisions, and punish dissenters.
The answers must lie with boards of trustees willing to appoint presidents who will stand up to the DEI censors and require intellectual diversity among the faculty. Donors will also have to follow through on boycotting schools until they do. Too many trustees and donors are happy to settle for getting their names on buildings and their children admitted.
The DEI Scheme
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) does not include whites, Jews, and even Asians who score too high on entrance exams.
Universities, with Harvard at the head of the pack, routinely exclude whites and Asians unless of course there is a donation made under the table or you are a friend of the President.
DEI does include racist ideas like “Black Lives Matter” which in “context” really means “Only Black Lives Matter”.
If you disagree, then tell me what happens to professors who state “All Lives Matter”.
DEI also includes slave reparations .
What’s Wrong at Universities
Supreme Court Rules Against Harvard
In October of 2022, in Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard and University of North Carolina the Supreme Court found Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with the principles of the equal protection clause embodied in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Held: Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Court rejects UNC’s argument that SFFA lacks standing because it is not a “genuine” membership organization.
Amazing DEI Irony
In the name of DEI, Harvard is guilty of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
And the Harvard says it will continue to do so! Please consider Harvard’s Statement on the Supreme Court Ruling.
Harvard must always be a place of opportunity, a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had long been closed, a place where many will have the chance to live dreams their parents or grandparents could not have dreamed.
In the weeks and months ahead, drawing on the talent and expertise of our Harvard community, we will determine how to preserve, consistent with the Court’s new precedent, our essential values.
To our students, faculty, staff, researchers, and alumni—past, present, and future—who call Harvard your home, please know that you are, and always will be, Harvard. Your remarkable contributions to our community and the world drive Harvard’s distinction. Nothing today has changed that.
Nothing Has Changed
Harvard has vowed to continue violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
To do so, it will create a new admission process that is even less transparent making it harder to challenge.
Harvard won’t be alone.
In the name of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment will continue.
One Down, How Many to Go?
That was my comment on December 9. The list of who’s who that needs to go at Harvard alone is huge.
Nothing Will Change
Nothing has changed and nothing will change until there is a major upheaval that gets rid of at least 80 percent of presidents and boards of trustees of universities.
For that to happen, all donations to these universities must stop until there is a massive change, starting with Harvard.
Here is the list of Harvard signees who pledged to continue violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act in the name of DEI.
Harvard Target List
- Claudine Gay, Dean: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, President-elect (in 2022, now president)
- Lawrence S. Bacow: President, Harvard University
- Alan M. Garber: Provost, Harvard University
- Meredith Weenick: Executive Vice President, Harvard University
- Tomiko Brown-Nagin: Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
- Nancy Coleman: Dean, Division of Continuing Education and University Extension
- George Q. Daley: Dean, Harvard Medical School
- Srikant Datar: Dean, Harvard Business School
- Emma Dench: Dean, Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Francis J. Doyle III: Dean, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Douglas Elmendorf: Dean, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- William V. Giannobile: Dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
- David N. Hempton: Dean, Harvard Divinity School
- Rakesh Khurana: Dean, Harvard College
- Bridget Terry Long: Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- John F. Manning: Dean, Harvard Law School
- Sarah M. Whiting: Dean, Graduate School of Design
- Michelle A. Williams: Dean, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Slave Reparations and the E in DEI, Equity
February 22, 2019: Still More Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris Handouts: Slave Reparations
January 3, 2020: Allegedly, There is a Gender Gap in Economics
August 31, 2020: California’s Radical Brainwashing Curriculum Soon To Be Mandatory A new California bill would establish a K-12 curriculum mandating classes in the ‘four I’s of oppression,’ ideological, institutional, interpersonal and internalized.
March 17, 2023: San Francisco Board Unanimously Supports $5 Million Per Person Reparation Payments
I calculated the price tag. The price is $192,733,200,000 from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves in a state that never had slaves.
If that’s not an equitable solution, what is? Of course, equity needs to be at the national level. Thus …
March 30, 2023: More Biden Madness: Ask People on Census if They Are Slave Descendants
In a proposed update to how the government tracks Americans’ race and ethnicity, the Biden administration is asking the public for input on how it might go about differentiating Black people who are descendants of slaves in America.
The above proposals by Biden, Harris, Warren, California, and the actions by Harvard are all in the name of enforcing the “E” in DEI, by their interpretation, not the Supreme Court’s interpretation.
If you are donating to colleges and universities, you are fostering the problem. Please stop.
“Ackman and mish too Zionist to see straight……”
What a f*****g hoot.
I have called for all aid to Israel to be stopped and for a two-state solution, condemning Trump’s one sided proposal.
Apology from Lynwood and Casual Observer expected.
Bill Ackman on Billions of dollars in pulled or cancelled donations to Harvard
link to x.com
stupid zionists.
Stupid.
War Is HELL, all the discussion otherwise is quite entertaining.
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Free speech erosion at colleges started with the GI Bill which allowed the feds to control colleges via the accrediting institutions.
Mike, I read your columns even when I was a Democrat; now I never miss them–keep it up.
“Harvard was 248th out of 248, and Penn was 247th, in the annual college ranking by the free-speech Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.”
Nothing more need be said.
In my view college should be replaced with working apprenticeships for most degrees. I have a BA in accounting and a MBA. I’ve learned way more on the job than I did sitting in a dumb classroom listening to someone drone on about this or that.
And that’s not to mention all of the pointless classes (humanities, science, etc) that I was forced to take as an undergrad just to qualify for a degree in accounting.
The entire system is set up to mooch money out of students, and after you graduate the university comes calling with thier hand out asking for donations.
Then you have professors who attempt to indoctrinate you.
College has turned into a gatekeeping institution.
H.L. Mencken was correct when he opined the following about public education. This is now applicable to private colleges…
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”
It’s certainly true tha tyou could Pareto the purely academic students and subject from the mainly vocational students and subjects – the majority just want a decent job; the minority want to contribute to research, there’s a place for both, but currently the system caters mostly to academic and not vocational.
People do not understand, we had the pendulum swing far left over the past 50 years but it is still just a pendulum. The move back through center and to the far (way too far) right will take place for the next 50 years.
The right will always breed out the left, hence the left’s full frontal attack on all things that encourage family formation and reproduction.
Virtually all institutional credibility in the US has been completely obliterated by 1) decades of marxism, 2) overt authoritarianism, human rights violations, and martial law over a fake pandemic, 3) and three years of positive sounding DEI euphemisms that are actually a Trojan Horse for advancing a hideous agenda of discrimination, divisiveness, and racism. It’s been a masterful coup by the far-left, with the full cooperation of regime media’s propaganda apparatus to move us as quickly as possible to full Banana Republic status.
Well stated!
Difficult to go after Harvard when they can easily stop taking public money.
This post would have been better served going after a public institution.
exactly correct. ackman and mish too zionist to see straight……..
Nonsense. It was specifically the Harvard president making indefensible comments. Harvard needs to be named and held accountable.
Since it was brought up below:
The Oxford dictionary defines genocide as “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.”
Is that not what Israel is doing right this very minute?
In a single word: No
And it is idiotic to suggest so.
Israel’s goal certainly is not to kill all Palestinians.
Please think when your own links tell you that you are wrong. Sheeesh!!!
Exactly, they only want to kill the Palestinians in Gaza.
The dead Palestinians in the West Bank are few and just sort of a rounding error.
And for the record, I pray no one should be killing anyone.This is much worse than the Republic of Kosovo and its neighbors in the Balkan’s forever blood feuds.
It’s simply human nature.
“Israel’s goal certainly is not to kill all Palestinians”
Only the uppity ones.
As long as they shut up, bend over and accept their whippings peacefully and gratefully; Israel promises to deem and hold and judge and decide that they may be allowed to live.
In tarp-tents in the dessert, of course. After all: Their houses and farms are deemed and found and held and judged and decided to belong to Israeli settlers now.
you seem to be forgetting the bit about terrorists running into civilians homes and killing women and children… and you want the rest of the world to look up to these people? i mean, they knew there would be a backlash, so the terrorists are putting up their own people as sacrifices.
That said, Israel’s goal so far has been to bomb Gaza to oblivion. Destruction of property is hard to bounce back from.
By this ridiculously strict definition, even the Holocaust wasn’t a genocide. After all, the Nazis didn’t try to destroy all the Jews in the world, just a few million inconvenient ones in Europe. Is what the IDF is doing in Gaza merely a massacre then? Would you argue the killing of civilians is not deliberate, when anyone with eyes and ears can see it clearly is, in fact openly so? How would you classify Srebrenica? Courts up to and including the ICJ ruled it a genocide, but it was ‘only’ 8,000 murders and 30K displaced, much less than what Israel is doing now. Surely Serbs weren’t realistically trying (even if they would have like to) to destroy all Muslims, not even all Bosnian Muslims, so by your standards the courts were wrong, we should enlighten and correct them?
The Final Solution was to kill all the Jews.
This is the correct definition
OXFORD: gen·o·cide /ˈjenəˌsīd/
noun: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
There is no goal of Israel to do anything but destroy Hamas, not a nation, nor any ethnic group.
if Israel’s goal is not to do something, well, just type what you think their goal actually could be…..are you afraid to state the truth..?? I totally support Netanyahu….he understands R E A L I T Y…
If we look at the Old Testament, god was clearly in favor of killing all non-Jews, even their animals. It’s not a stretch to think modern Jews are still following god’s commandments.
Most definitely not. This is accentuated by the fact that if Israel really meant to kill all the Palestinians in Gaza it has the firepower to easily do that in a matter of days (as opposed to other situations where say one group wishes to wipe out some other group but does not actually possess the means to do so).
Now this is not to say that what is happening in Gaza isn’t a tragedy. It most certainly is. Genocide however, it is not.
Bill Ackman (a Harvard alum) basically called the president of Harvard an affirmative action hire in a public statement. I gotta say, dude’s got balls.
is Bill wrong?
Hear all the “defenders of free speech” screech about people exercising their right to free speech.
Political correctness and cancel culture are well and truly out of hand.
These institutions only allow Progressive, Cultural Marxist speech.
The whole point is these institutions don’t allow free speech. They regularly stifle speech that doesn’t align with their orthodoxy.
Is the $70,000/year elite college where the gals flash the Boston Marathon runners involved in this tomfoolery? Stay west of the OH-PA border and most of this goes away. However, was at Oberlin for a day. Tour guide talked more about their various bathrooms than Bob Vila.
There’s actual genocid being committed now against the Palestinians rather than this fake drama on campuses.
If you think there is not serious indoctrination at US campuses you need to pull your head out from where it does not belong into the open air. This is not “fake drama”.
Besides, there are two issues here: What Israel is doing and what is happening here.
Also, you are clueless about the meaning of genocide.
Finally, there is legitimate debate over what Israel is doing. I do not support more aid for either Israel or Ukraine. But those are separate issues.
you are a fool on this issue mish. of course it’s a war crime against humanity the zionists are doing. gaza is akin to the warsaw ghetto……….you really are mixed up old sport.
“If you think there is not serious indoctrination at US campuses…”
No more, nor less, than in any other institution of the US. If anything, less.
While still nothing but totalitarian helholes per anything resembling any absolute standard; you can still get away with saying things as a student, prof or college admin, that you could never get away with saying as a corporate officer, government employee, TV anchor etc…
America is a totalitarian dump. All institutions are hopelessly tainted by the unconstrained totalitarianism. There is nothing “better” out there than Universities. At least unless one leaves for such obvious bastions of freedom as communist China or similar…
It really isn’t, you should try Eritrea or Turkmenistan, if you want to see what a real totalitarian dump looks like.
I don’t think you know the definition of genocide.
fiat $dollars(free to universities) has been problem since 1972
why aren’t these institutions LIABLE for say 40% of student loan debt
and 80% of graduate student loans
yah, responsibility – they don’t offer it and won’t give it to you either
skip HIGHER EDUCATION if can
one of my sons has and has already purchased 2nd home, married with 2 kids at 25
barely graduated high school, but had good adult advisors in real life(we’ll call it CHURCH)
oops another wokie problem
Best thing said in my opinion. I don’t feel the need to add to this…
– The great benefit of last week’s performance by three elite-school presidents before Congress is that it tore the mask off the intellectual and political corruption of much of the American academy. The world was appalled by the equivocation of the academic leaders when asked if advocating genocide against Jews violated their codes of conduct. But the episode merely revealed the value system that has become endemic at too many prestigious schools.
> Once seen, it’s extremely hard to unsee…
We are only at round one in the fight to take back the school system and much more to follow. One year to each round so in nine years it will have been won.
I wish it would happen that fast.
But the truth is that the rot that has seeped in has been there for decades now. A whole generation of kids has gone from Kindergarten through university and into the working world.
It will take at least a generation to undo it all.
Some that went into the working world went into teaching this $hit at the same Universities. It will take one to two generation (at least) to clear this out. If we are lucky.
Stopping small ball donations will have zero impact. The money is coming from Arab nations. Massive amounts of it. Refusing to donate your $250 and change is a fine gesture but nothing more. NO IMPACT.
link to meforum.org
Rich Jewish folks on Wall Street are the ones pulling their big money
Major US universities get large bags of cash from Muslim countries:
“…Arab states have managed to funnel money into institutions in at least 46 states. Cornell topped the list of these, with over double the amount of money received than the second highest recipient, Georgetown University.
Saudi Arabia has donated over $2 billion, while the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has donations totaling over $1 billion. Other top universities that accepted the donations include Harvard University, which received $187 million, and New York University which received $162 million.
link to meforum.org
This Penn President would have been ok but it looks like Penn was not in the “club”. Time to pay the price with your job. She likely gets a job with an Arab funded university in no time.
DEFUND! It’s the only answer.
It seems that too many people have forgotten about the historical context of, well, pretty much anything. In short, for the last 10,000 years or so, the area in the general neighborhood of Israel was subdued, conquered, occupied, mistreated, enslaved, etc. in no specific time-frame order, by numerous forces, from Egyptian, Arabic tribes, Judaic tribes, Greeks, Turks, Assyrians, maybe Persians, definitely by Romans, later also by Christian forces, Islamic forces, the Ottoman Empire, the British, and I am probably leaving out a few (because this is not a term-paper). Each one of these had their military might, their brutality, their customs and their religion. Almost all of them had some sort of “grand idea that they were told by God” to carry out their fighting, killing, enslaving, over-lording and so forth, by whatever means. So, is anyone fully justified to be there now? Hardly anyone.
That’s one aspect of this. Another aspect is this: The Jews have been a people who
were historically and continually persecuted within many countries, world-wide. The last terrible persecution under Hitler cannot be forgotten. Against the backdrop of the
end of WW2 and the next decade thereafter, it was decided by the powers that be,
including a good number of United Nations members, that the Jews should have their
own country where they could live in peace. It came to pass that Great Britain, eager to retreat from numerous lands and colonies, and motivated by the burden of the debts of WW2 victory & the related budgetary constraints, felt ready to give up their
rule of what is now Israel & Palestine, and hand it over to some millions of Jewish people who wanted to return to “their promised land”. At the time, around 1948/49,
the majorities in countries of Europe were generally in favor of reparations (much in the same way as reparations for black Americans are currently considered, and for good reason, the right thing to do in progressive circles). Without it being a valid excuse, the concept of “It sounded like a good idea at the time” comes to mind.
It’s easy now to look back and say: “Oh, this did not turn out the way we intended”.
It certainly is true that the various Islamic nations, i.e. their representatives at the United Nations, were voting against the plan. But, their vote was considered not
worthwhile to be taken into account. It was simply not clear to the Western nations in the UN that the undercurrent of hate against the Jews by fanatic Islamic interests was as strong as it turned out to be. To me at least, it is clear that Hamas is an expression of these long and deeply held sentiments against the Jews by the those who are governed according to right-wing warring factions within Islamic nations. These factions only have the goal to destroy the Jewish State, even at the expense of hurting their own people in the process. Once you realize that Hamas is not just a
local Gaza phenomenon, but an attempt to start the complete destruction of Israel,
then you might see that the paranoia of Israel is at least understandable. If people dropped rockets on your home, just because of racial/religious hatred, wouldn’t you
fight back?
Without doubt I know and agree that the majority of Islamic people would like to live
in peace as well. It is the same the world over: A minority of angry fanatic war- mongers will poison the well of peace, turning it into a disgusting brew of war.
I know that many of you will disagree with me, because I sound like a 100 year old
guy who is blabbering about war and peace. But no, the good old times never were.
For proof, read history.
How many ideas providing a new hope at one time came to nothing but suffering, death and war a few decades later? So, I am presenting my old-fashioned perspective only as a way of remembering that many who now are fully enraged
about one issue might later on see, that there are alternatives not currently considered. Sometimes there are no alternatives, except leaving.
It’s easy to come up with simplistic ideas to fix something. Like, for example, here
is one pipe dream.. Israel could go and tell England: “Hey, that promised land you
gave us turned out to be a complete lemon! Please help us all to emigrate to Canada,
take back that desert, and see how you like it!” Is that a good idea? Who knows?.
(No, I haven’t asked Canada yet. And surely some of you will say that England has no right to Canada, because it stole it from the native Indians.)
I hear some “Good luck with that!” comments in the cheap seats.
Another dream, having nothing to do with the above issue, is: Taiwan.
Does the USA need Taiwan? Not really, it just needs the people who live on it
and the electronics factories on it. So, why not transfer people, factories, and
knowledge to the US, and let China keep that island, without people, factories and
jobs? Impossible? Well, if the Soviets in 1941 to 1943 were able to move all their
heavy industry 750 miles further to the East, then the US could tackle a similar task.
Also, they might have to keep it secret, which is almost impossible these days.
Then again, the idea is crazy enough that no one expects it, so that’s an advantage
right there.
Will they? Not likely, because the US is currently full of people that are so full of
themselves that one wants to hand them a mint, so they explode. (Like it happened in the Monty Python movie “The meaning of life”, and I explain this only because no one
remembers anything anymore.)
That’s just me, thinking about things I don’t have the least bit of control over.
Juggling ideas like mathematicians juggle imaginary numbers from here to there.
When was the last time you thought about something constructive and peaceful?
I don’t agree with everything you said (just a few minor quibbles, honestly), but I like that you said it. I’m of the belief that we have really neglected and forgotten many lessons of history, and that we seem to be doomed to repeat these relatively recent mistakes.
I think we need to listen more to older, wiser people, and less to screaming, unwise younger people.
I think of things constructive and peaceful every single morning.
It is a habit of intentionally thinking positively I established decades and decades ago.
Error #1: the US has become part of the problem and not part of the solution.
I will continue to try to understand why over thousands of years people of the Jewish faith eventually get thrown out of every country. What causes almost universal antisemitism? Is it because they are smarter and more practical, and everyone else is jealous? The oldest and possibly best code of laws to live by? Poor personal hygiene? It appears to be independent of race and ethnicity and geography.
FYI: There are no native American Indians, only Siberian immigrants that arrived well before the Europeans. Remember, we are all Africans.
Thank goodness I live in the US, where we can have open discussions on blogs. There are a lot of countries where this is not possible. What I do miss, however, is the ability to block or ignore the commenters who I consider racist, hateful, cultists, or just plain old idiots, as I prefer to not have to even accidentally read their garbage.
They are free to post whatever they want. I just wish I never had to see any of their posts.
And thank goodness I live in a country that still provides me with a decent chance to be successful and enjoy a decent life. Many here like to complain about our country. If you don’t like it, feel free to leave. Good luck finding another country as good as this one. The US will never be perfect. But I can live with that.
And I encourage everyone to continue to acquire as much education and skills as you possibly can throughout your lifetime, whether that is from a university or not.
There are many countries that don’t even have universities.
Never stop appreciating what we have here in America. Once you take it for granted, and stop working hard to keep it, it will be gone in no time…
I love the unusable public transit and fentanyl addicts populating the major cities.
It’s because you’re a boomer and it was possible to bumble your way through life back then. Now, it looks impossible for most people starting out to do things like buy a home.
Every generation has had whiners like you
there’s just a lot more of them now that the ladder has been pulled up.
alas, having 25% wiped off pension pots, and rising cost of living, it doesn’t look like all the boomers are going to get away scott free.
PapaDave is a sterling example of what can be accomplished in the US. He is often unjustifiably opinionated, but entitled to his opinion non the less. And he is not a isolated example.
There are many places to live that are nicer than the US. But the US has the highest value by far. Most of us can’t afford to live in those nicer places. And they often speak strange and difficult languages. And have strange currencies. And difficult business practices.
The US is the safest country in the world, isolated by an ocean on each side, Canadians (nice but confused folk) to the North and gardeners, roofers and Chinese component assemblers to the South. Ok, New Zealand is probably just as safe. Tasmania is better.
Come to think of it, I guess Gaza doesn’t have a University anymore.
Been ranting a lot today, my apologies.
The US is definitely not the safest country in the world, there are quite few, especially small population, remote places where you really don’t have to lock your door, or fear going out at night, and a lot of these nicer places speak English (e.g.: Caribbean, South Pacific), or languages that aren’t so strange (Azores, Canaries, Madeira). There are larger population developed places safer than the US, Japan is certainly safer than the US. The USA is just the biggest consumer, and a lot of it looks very run down and impoverished.
I repeat – you can’t afford to live there.
Unless you adopt the living standards of the lowest segments.
And with that they won’t give you a residency visa.
Close your eyes then, if you don’t have the basic skills to skip past something then maybe the internet (or even life outside your own house) isn’t for you.
» tore the mask off the intellectual and political corruption of much of the American academy «
Not so much tearing the mask.
Much more like the Bubble of Academic Solipsism Spiked (A.S.S.)
Semantic verbal gymnastics smacked hard by pavement rising up abruptly.
“Look Mom, no hands” impacted by “rubber hitting the road.”
Thank you for not being afraid to stand up for the truth. It’s very rare these days.
Ok, so:
– When universities make it easier for black and harder for white students to get in, the elites cheer.
– When BLM gets embraced and white people are hared, the elites cheer.
– When boys and girls are encouraged to switch gender, making themselves infertile, universities and the elites cheer.
…. But Israel… noooooo… off limits. Lift a finger and it’s antisemitism. And do not ask if many elites are actually zionists, because that is equally bad.
… It is perfectly fine of course to say that those who rule us are Freemasons or anything else. I rest my case.
Oh and I forgot to ask… what genocidal slogans? My guess is that calling for freedom for the Palestinians is conveniently given the label “call for genocide”.
The slogans that use the word “genocide” right in them would be an example.
This is a perfect example of how effective Netanyahu is.
The decision-makers in DC go at each-other over the possibility of antisemitism while Netanyahu twists America’s arm to abide the murder of children.
He could have handled Gaza completely differently, we might have had a say, but ‘Pubs and Dems are too busy seeking political opportunity here to do anything effective.
We have bigger things to spend time on, fire the damned professors and move on to those things.
You’ve got to be kidding me.
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No bigger anti-Semite than Netanyahu.
Nobody has a better claim to being Semites than Palestinians.
In a reflexive way, Netanyahu is also anti-Jewish, since his actions spell disaster for the Jewish homeland.
You know what’s a disaster? Having bronze age savages murder, kidnap, and raping you at random while having the ‘society’ that spawns them right next door.
The world doesn’t need more 70 IQ Neanderthals.
So, to get back at Hamas for murdering/raping several hundred innocents, it’s ok to bomb and starve a population of 2 mil comprised of 40% children.
There’s a violent drug gang hiding in Memphis, let’s bomb Memphis.
You’re right, we need less Neanderthals.
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There isn’t really any other way to deal with an urban terrorist population. Nobody had any problem with carpetbombing Germany and Japan in WW2, or napalming the Vietnamese. The Egyptian army dealt with islamist savages brutally and effectively not so long ago. The people who are guilty for putting children in harms way are those using them as human shields instead of moving them to refugee camps on the Egyptian border.
Under the banner of antisemitism the west is fighting the spread of Islamic state
in Europe, in S.America and in US.
PA gov Shapiro sacked Magill. MA gov Healey will protect Claudin Gay bc she
is black and MIT president bc she is a self hating Jew.
I suppose that any Jew who is outraged by the slaughter of Innocents must be self-hating.
These diversity hires thought “never again’ wasn’t serious.
These colleges are only hurting themselves. Who is going to hire these kids? How meaningful is a Harvard education when 80-90% of students get an A? What parent is going to continue to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their kids
educatedindoctrinated at these schools?I currently regard anyone with a resume from these places with great caution. I will work at almost all costs to keep the “progressive” crazies out of my business and business culture. They are a cancer that will metastasize rapidly if you do not explicitly work to keep it out.
I will almost always take someone from a good program with good credentials from “big state U” than the Ivy’s. MIT can be an exception.
100%
As a business man, you hire for attitude and train for skill. You can’t change attitudes but you can change skills. Obviously, you start with educational background but that’s not the end.
Caltech and Stanford are pretty good too, despite being in California.
it’s just a breeding ground and club to meet ruling class of the world. ruling class people send their kids from all over to attend us ivy league. you dumbfucks don’t even get this game.
Oh we get that part and most people are fine with it.
But once upon a time those places were also where you went to get the very best learning opportunities from the brightest minds. Unfortunately that part has all but disappeared leaving just the the former.
They’ve always been a club. Acceptance rates used to be much higher, but most people weren’t interested in college then. But like most institutions they’ve been taken over by Leftist / Progressive radicals.
WHAT A load of horse shit. you have no clue. when was the last time you took a class at a state U or ivy league. i have in the past few years. you are ignorant and living in nit wit ville of reading idiots on idiot boxes…………ZIONISTS want genocide and no debating…………
i also studied at ivy and state u and cc 35 years ago too. you have no clue. neither does mish. it’s just gonna be elite from globe if amerikans don’t go. most amerikan students too dumb to compete in STEM anyway, ivy or state u. go look at physics departments at any ivy or state u. my god mish readers are dumb.
Are you always so emotional and vulgar? Most people gain wisdom with age. You just seem to have gained anger and condescension.
2005 era was last time I took classes at Stanford when I was living in Cali and my company paid for them.
All were in computer science and 100% of the class work had to do with computer science.
That’s because the Chinese and East Indians would not put up with anything other than STEM. That’s what they’re paying for.
We get it just fine. Your name-calling undermines anything you say.
“Who is going to hire these kids?”
The same Fed enabled idiot farms where their parents “made” enough money to send their middlebrow, dilattante offspring to so-called “elite” schools: Wall Street, Ambulance Chaser “firms”, “prestigious” government departments, “career track” locations of Fed enabled corporations…….
Middlebrow parents handing control of the output of more valuable people to middlebrow offspring, is why we have a Fed and totalitarian government, after all. America is owned and ran by nothing but middlebrows now, and that won’t change by next generation.
Our country has gone completely MAD and will in a few short years fail to exist as our founders intended.
We are populated by “experts” and “know it all’s” that are tossing everything in the dumpster and setting it ablaze. Can “some ” things be improved or improved – likely “yes” but today everything is being trashed in order to create a country that wont function for any of its citizens.
May GOD have mercy on our children.
Agreed, but it already fails to exist as our founders intended. They never envisioned that we would welcome its rapid ascent into an all-knowing, all-caring government that seeks to control almost every aspect of our lives.
Because the leviathan controls so much money to the states, federalism is all but gone.
What is wrong with minorities —It’s not slavery, It’s not white privilege, it’s not poverty– THE GREAT SOCIETY LBJ and the Democrats since 1964 has destroyed those who use Welfare as a business producing money babies that grow to be criminals supporting the lawyer class and political swamp in DC. Millions born for money rather than self supporting families. 75% of minorities have children out of wedlock —That is the self inflicted problem minorities suffer from and the chaos we all suffer with.
family breakup is usually preceded by sustained financial stress, the stats bear it out.
People stop going to college = problem solved. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?
ALL Universities (for-profit/non-profit) must focus on academics only. The faculty must focus on educating students. The grade inflation must stop. Universities must pay taxes on profits beyond a certain amount and they must limit their expenses on sports related activities.
American universities are primarily research institutes and America and the world have benefited fantastically well because of that. Teaching is really just a minor sideline that doesn’t nearly pay its way, research money subsidizes a lot of it. That’s something people don’t realize.
At most larger universities:
1) sports more than pay for themselves, thru football and basketball.
2) universities bring in vast amounts of money thru research grants, mostly federally funded. They don’t make money for themselves but they sure do for the states they’re located in. As in tens of billions.
Small liberal arts colleges would fund athletics to some degree and their main purpose is education although even they are really putting the screws on faculty to bring in research money.
And… as someone who’s worked for decades at the PhD level in academia, industry, and government (dept of defense, mostly), I can say that neither the government/defense or industry have any business at all pretending they do any research that’s worthwhile for anyone. They just aren’t structured for it nor are they willing to take chances. It took Edison 1100 tries to invent the lightbulb. Try selling that to your local CEO or local federal GS-13 manager or bird colonel. (There are some exceptions: NASA, NIH, NOAA, and some government labs. I can’t think of any corporations that do any meaningful research except possibly google and amazon but even they depend hugely on academia to do the thinking for them).
One last thing. There are only two things a college education is going to teach you:
1) How to learn (very useful skill if you want to get a paycheck), and,
2) How to think (if and America are really lucky).
Very very few things you ‘learn’ in college are useful in life, except for those two.
Per ChatGPT,
“Academics” generally refers to the educational, scholarly, and intellectual aspects of institutions such as schools, colleges, and universities. It encompasses various activities related to learning, teaching, research, and the pursuit of knowledge. Here are key components of academics:
Not sure I’d trust Chat…. but at an R1 university (~100 of those in the US, that big big colleges) only about 10% of the man hours are devoted to teaching. All the rest, research. Well, probably 50% on gender studies and DEI, that leaves 40% for research. At smaller colleges about 20-70% would be on research…
IBM
Bell Labs & Western Electric – RIP
Yep….. Really sad.
Was there any blowback when protesters were calling for the subjugation of whites in the wake of the lifelong felon drug addict George Floyds death. Maybe the protesters on campus need to burn down buildings and loot and kill a few people. That way they will get the politicians to support them like they did the Floyd protesters
College football players and black students are more important than a white prof
Harvard used to have 20%/25% Jewish students, but now less than 5%. Obama used George Floyds death to sack Trump. Black leader force LA mayor to kneel.
People should have stopped donating long ago. Because universities stopped being so years ago. These days, its the Harvard Corporation, the Yale Corporation, the Princeton Corporation, etc.
The massive endowments overshadow & control the universities. They are institutional investors, Wall Street titans, concerned entirely with expanding the fortune erroneously called a university endowment.
In reality, the “university” is just some toy tacked onto the side of the Wall Street behemoth; a trinket of sorts, or a trophy.
Major universities are primarily research institutions and get a huge chunk of their money from federal research grants. Teaching is a sideline subsidized to a large degree by research money. See my post above. It’s worked out fantastically well for the world. Endowments are really small change. Harvard couldn’t care less about a donor thinking he can call the shots, even at $100 million.
They have become another form of professional lobbyists lobbying Congress and the Agencies for grant money.
The funny thing is that these healthy recommendations regarding universities appear when these universities attack the Jews. Apparently when they only attacked non-Jewish white people it wasn’t much of a problem.
Agreed, but it’s because white people–for various reasons–do not stand up for themselves as a culture or group. Until that happens, these things will continue.
It doesn’t help that many white people are culturally self-loathing progressives, who do their part to pile on. Other cultures/races pick up on this and use it to their own ends.
We were supposed to be done with all this race/ethnicity stuff, but apparently nobody reads or understands history any longer.
I am way ahead of you. I don’t think I’ve donated to my alma mater in over 25 years.
I have never given a cent to higher education either. I have contributed tiny amounts to the Catholic high school I graduated from, mostly in the form of raffle tickets.
Me either.
I’ve donated to mine (in Canada) but on their yearly drive for money they always give a list of choices for where you want your money to go. So I’m able to select that my donation can be used for things like new buildings / building maintenance rather than just go into general funds that ends up as salaries.
So an individual says something stupid and the University is rotten. Or do we simply have an individual who said something stupid or maybe is a rotten person.
I read comments in this blog every day I consider stupid, sometimes even racist, and rotten. Does that make you and/or this blog rotten Mish?
This comment is a textbook exercise in fallacy.
The University is not rotten because of an “individual’s comment.” It’s rotten because of decades of bad policy, poor leadership and discriminatory, illegal policies. The presidents’ comments are just illustrative of the bubble in which they reside and lead that very system.
In addition, commenters do not represent Mish’s blog. Often, they represent a counterpoint, or another point. If Mish were to make a comment that you consider “stupid” then yes, you could probably have the opinion that the blog is rotten. But labeling a blog as “rotten” because someone outside of it has an opinion is plainly a bizarre form of logic.
Your right, no more donations to either political parties, if they both are Israeli pawns, why bother? AIPAC should not run America.
Yeah, but if there’s no AIPAC who will run the country?
Obviously not a stand-alone Congress or Executive.