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The Harvard President Scandal Has Become
So Bad It Could Be Killing Off Diversity-Equity-and-Inclusion

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 12/21/2023 12:47:40 AM

Things have not calmed down on the campus of Harvard. Quite the opposite — behind the ivy-choked masonry in Boston, the atmosphere is roiling. After the campus president inflamed the country, we now have faculty members stepping up to decry her stature, and businesses are showing signs of backing away from the once austere character of the college’s graduates, as we are seeing evidence of a viral mindset infecting this school. You know things are bad when a story like this not only remains in the news cycle but continues to evolve. Following her testimony before Congress over the actions (or specifically, the lack thereof) towards blatantly antisemitic protests

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dreadnought 12/21/2023 12:49:15 AM (No. 1621378)
Nah. There's nothing duct tape, a bigger hammer, a can of WD-40, and Harvard Corporation’s gaslighting can't fix.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Lawsy0 12/21/2023 1:03:34 AM (No. 1621382)
By definition, a mercy killing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Trigger2 12/21/2023 1:38:09 AM (No. 1621386)
Anything that kills off DEI is a plus for the country.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Newtsche 12/21/2023 1:44:01 AM (No. 1621389)
The expected result of having been given enough rope.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: watashiyo 12/21/2023 2:45:07 AM (No. 1621394)
Affirmative Action, only the best of the worst needs to apply.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 12/21/2023 3:50:15 AM (No. 1621403)
Come on now. Claudine's just practicing cultural reparations. Borrowing content from other publications without credit is justified due to centuries of ignorance. IOWs she's incapable of original thought.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Rather Read 12/21/2023 6:04:30 AM (No. 1621440)
Lets hope, but I can tell you from working in a university that the whole DEI thing is practically worshiped there. Sometimes it's hard to tell which is more revered, DEI or LGBTQ (and whatever letter they put on this week). It's hard sometimes being normal there.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: jinx 12/21/2023 6:33:30 AM (No. 1621443)
Does this mean that plagiarism is in now?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: 5 handicap 12/21/2023 6:35:14 AM (No. 1621444)
Looks like there are two 9oerhaps only two) professors at Harvard with a smidgen on integrity.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: downnout 12/21/2023 7:29:51 AM (No. 1621459)
Wait until some professor tries to punish a student for plagiarism!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 12/21/2023 9:22:43 AM (No. 1621555)
Nope. Won't happen. Marxists never go away. They go underground and reemerge in a new form with the same diseased, rotten core. They leave parasitic eggs that hatch long after they are gone; it will just go dormant.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: anniebc 12/21/2023 9:42:16 AM (No. 1621582)
That would be a good thing. DEI is so fake. It's another division similar to HR. HR exists to make sure the company is covered; they are not there for the workers except to explain the government interference and mandates that are there to make your life miserable, ur better. For the workers, DEI and HR are paid informants and opposition. When there's a RIF in your company, HR is the last to go and the first hired back. DEI will now be next to last. Two useless (for the workers) drains on a company's bottom line, but so yet so effective for the company to do evil against its workers.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 12/21/2023 10:27:58 AM (No. 1621643)
The biggest laugh I've had over the past few years was when MENSA hired a DEI director. I'm still trying to figure out why.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 12/21/2023 10:38:46 AM (No. 1621659)
Like cockroaches when you turn on the light, they hide but are still there.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: ronniethek 12/21/2023 11:05:56 AM (No. 1621685)
If only that were true....
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Reply 16 - Posted by: DiegoDude 12/21/2023 11:29:36 AM (No. 1621704)
Faster, please. DeI looks connected to The Peter Principle in that people rise to their level of incompetence.
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