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Woke ideology rejects the idea of individual rights in favor of group rights. Thus, Harvard, having been captured by progressive ideology, views removing Claudine Gay as president not as firing an unqualified, plagiarizing scholar, but as an oppressive act against black women.
@jeffreyatucker
We've destroyed the world as we know it because we panicked over what is statistically a bad flu. This is quite literally the dumbest thing human beings have ever collectively and purposely done.
While I’m glad people like Ackman are speaking up, we get nowhere until they begin to understand how fundamentally institutions like Harvard are broken. Gay wasn’t a “bad choice.” She was exactly the kind President Harvard wanted to accelerate its ideological agenda.
If
@Harvard
President Gay resigns, it does not restore Harvard’s reputation. That would only begin when the Corporation board members acknowledge that they made a bad choice of leader, which they have been unwilling to do.
The first step to reputational repair is to acknowledge
@realchrisrufo
You cannot have academic freedom or free speech under a DEI regime. The "I" (inclusion) of DEI explicitly precludes it by demanding every part of an institution be a "safe space" from harmful speech. Only by eradicating DEI can we resurrect academic freedom.
@angrybklynmom
Pandemics don't end when the virus goes away. They end when the fear goes away. I don't see much evidence that the fear is going away (at least here in the NYC area).
@NYCMayor
That might have been true a few years ago, but not now. Let me fix it for you. There are two types of New Yorkers: those you are leaving NYC and those who wish they could.
@eyeslasho
The crime stats don’t paint an accurate picture of NYC. There’s a sense of lawlessness that hasn’t existed since the city was cleaned up in the 80’s.
The teachers unions have only two purposes. To raise money for the Democratic party and to recruit children to the Democratic party. Once you understand this, everything they do and say makes sense.
Parents and educators, be sure to check your kid's Halloween candy this year. We just found an out-of-touch billionaire funneling dark money to undermine public education inside our candy bar. Wow.
Whatever you think of her, Claudine Gay is not the problem, but a symptom of the problem. Harvard’s mission hasn’t been “Veritas” for a generation or more. Its mission is to tear down western civilization by indoctrinating our leadership class in far-left revolutionary ideology.
Veritas is divine truth, moral truth. Let me be clear, Veritas does not depend on the context. This is a moral failure of
@Harvard
’s leadership.
President Claudine Gay should have been fired.
@ConceptualJames
I wish people would understand that nearly every word in the education world has a non-colloquial meaning and has been weaponized. There are no neutral words. This is why it is so hard to explain to parents what is happening. You have to translate every word.
Universities like Penn & Harvard have adopted and institutionalized an illiberal ideology that is fundamentally antithetical to free speech, open discourse and true scholarship. A change of leadership feels good but accomplishes little. I hope donors like Ackman understand that.
The problem is not just the presidents of the universities. It goes much deeper than that. It is about leadership, principles, and values, broadly defined.
My latest Substack on the real reason for the failed red wave: young woke voters indoctrinated in our nation's schools, led by the teachers unions. If we don't fix our schools - and quickly - a President AOC led Marxist dictatorship is in our future.
My latest in today's
@nypost
. After three years of the parents movement being shamed, ridiculed and silenced, the
@nytimes
finally admits-on the front page no less-public schools are teaching critical race theory and are bastions of leftist activism.
@KeithOlbermann
@BillAckman
Well, Keith, given your deep and longstanding experience as a useless entitled fuck, I take your criticism quite seriously.
@epkaufm
Eric, I’m running for Congress in a district in Palm Beach County, Fl that is likely the most Jewish congressional district in the country. Since October 2023, we’re averaging 8 times as many voters switching registrations from Dem to Rep than the other way around.
The fight is for our country, not Harvard. The ideology, which is fundamentally a rejection of America's founding values of free speech, free markets and individual rights, has taken over nearly every institution of this country, including our entire education system.
The far-left has always wanted to tear down society. When they realized the working class wouldn't revolt as Marx theorized, they needed a new class of revolutionaries so they convinced everyone that they were victims of society. Depression is a natural side effect of victimhood.
It’s not just young women whose depression rates have surged — it’s specifically young liberals, with liberal teen boys actually faring worse than conservative teen girls.
Absolutely correct. DEI is the main vehicle for the implementation of woke/social justice ideology. You cannot separate this ideology from antisemitism.
@FreeBlckThought
The goal of DEI/wokism/etc is to dismantle western civilization & American values and replace it with a Marxist/collectivist society. To convince/indoctrinate non-radicals, they reframe good things e.g. meritocracy, objectivity, etc. as "white supremacist."
In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:
@anya1anya
The movement to which you refer does have a high percentage of religious Christians. However, there are also many Jews, Asians and non-religious people who are anti-CRT and pro-school choice and recognize the existential danger of woke education to our country.
@ConceptualJames
Intersectionality is probably the leftists' most brilliant creation. It ushered in a unified movement to tear down civilization from disparate groups (e.g. feminists, queers, black militants) that each wanted to tear down civilization for their own selfish & envious reasons.
@epkaufm
@ManhattanInst
@ZachG932
It’s more than just social justice ideology. The main purpose of both gender ideology and climate alarmism in schools is to dissuade children (especially girls) from wanting to marry and have their own kids. The left knows that if you keep them single you keep them progressive.
@ConceptualJames
Few have ever heard of Restorative Justice. One of the reasons it is so hard to make progress in this fight is because we seem to be fighting (and need to educate on) so many different battles (CRT, SEL, RJ, etc) when they are all really the same thing.
@Anaximandeos
Great thread. A nuanced question. If covid is endemic AND immunity from vax wanes much faster than natl immunity THEREFORE lifelong boosters are required AND vax has significant side effect profile, is it not plausible that the overall cost/benefit of vax is negative?
@DrJBhattacharya
That might make public health officials even more beholden to big pharma than they already are. Better to focus on stripping or limiting emergency powers from elected officials.
Not exactly Vivek. The path to victory is reminding Americans that those values are not radical and that nearly all of us share them. We’ve just forgotten.
The path to a landslide victory in 2024 isn’t showing up in “the middle” and saying let’s “compromise.” It’s by embracing the radicalism of the very ideas that set America in motion 250 years ago.
@ConceptualJames
In schools and universities especially, the vast majority of people (alums, parents of alums, ex-faculty, etc) do not remotely comprehend how different these institutions have become in the last few years.
@eyeslasho
Wrong on paragraph 4. There are few conservatives (or centrists) in universities because universities can't compete with the salaries of Wall Street and tech (both subsidized by the Fed over the past 35 years). Said differently, very few smart people go into academia.
@ConceptualJames
One really has to give the left credit. You indoctrinate one kid in a class, they indoctrinate their parents and then every other parent in the class is silenced for fear of being ostracized. It’s like a perfectly efficient method of taking over society.
@BlueBoxDave
I’d argue the opposite. He’s the only major Republican candidate that both understands and is willing to fight on the culture war and education issues. If we don’t reverse the political indoctrination happening in schools very soon, we will have President AOC in our future.
@nycexpatmom
Global financial system is imploding. That's what rising interest rates do in a hyper-fragile system. Central banks can only plug so many holes in the dyke.
Everything James says in this thread is absolutely correct. MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech reaffirmed America's founding principles and inspired us to strive to live up to them, thus rightfully taking its place amongst our country's founding documents. That is MLK's legacy.
I know the controversy is coming, so I'll say that the reason we have venerated Martin Luther King, Jr., is specifically because he struck a perfect chord with the just principles underneath the Declaration and Constitution in his "I Have a Dream" speech, and almost nothing else.
@BillAckman
This is not about governance. It’s about ideology. All elite universities are infected with a progressive ideology that is foundationally antisemitic.
@KonstantinKisin
In today’s world there’s no such thing as a centrist. We’re talking about two completely different worldviews. There’s no middle position.
Progressive (woke) ideology was always fundamentally antisemitic. But most young people didn't become outwardly antisemitic until the Palestinians became the progressive grievance du jour post October 7th.
In the new Harvard/Harris poll, 67% of respondents aged 18-24 agree that "Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors."
Consistent with other polls that have found relatively high anti-Jewish sentiment among young American adults.
COVID will be better remembered not for the unprecedented lengths to which governments went to wage war on a respiratory virus, but for the unprecedented lengths to which governments went to wage war on their own people.
@ConceptualJames
Credit where credit is due. The left's co-option of language and takeover of nearly every important institution of America has been brilliant.
@wil_da_beast630
Very true but it should be understood as even more insidious. The progressives view affirmative action as a form of justice. If white males have ruled America for hundreds of years, then it’s only fair and just for other groups to rule for the next few hundred years.
@JenniferSey
We need people to run as independents. The only way to save our country is to break the toxic polarization. To do that, we need to disrupt today's two party system.
We are witnessing end stage democracy. Politicians are manufacturing an enemy (the unvaxxed) to distract the public from the fact that they have lied and misled for nearly two years, causing unimaginable damage to society.
After two years of despicable fearmongering by the NY Times, the narrative is finally changing. Not because the science changed but because the politics changed. Never forget the unfathomable damage they helped cause, especially to children.
Excited to be officially on the ballot for my election for Congress in Florida's 22nd District in Palm Beach County. I'm running as a Republican to unseat one of the most far-left progressive Democrats in Congress in a district that is turning red. Now the real work begins!
Been thinking about this a lot and believe I finally understand it. There are 4 strains of modern political ideology: conservatism, classical liberalism, modern liberalism, wokeism/progressivism. 1/6
Now I am a white supremacist apparently.
Am I also antisemitic because I suggested that
@MIT
’s Kornbluth should resign or be fired?
Am I anti-Christian because I said
@Penn
’s Magill should be fired?
Why must one be deemed a racist or white supremacist when one raises
Sexualizing 5 year olds is wrong. These schools have gone completely off the rails and are destroying a generation of children behind the backs of their parents. Time to wake up.
via
@nypost
@ConceptualJames
That anyone, with talent and effort, can succeed. That's the American Dream. But it doesn't mean, contrary to today's misinterpretation, that everyone can succeed.
@TheEliKlein
For all the people saying Zeldin would have won if people hadn’t moved to Florida - it’s wrong. If conditions in NY hadn’t been bad enough to make people leave, Hochul wins much bigger.
@buttonslives
We need to translate what the left means by the word "inclusion." Inclusion is to remake an organization, indoctrinate with radical ideology and shut down free speech and dissent. It does not at all mean "acceptance."
Almost everything the Left does only makes sense when you understand that there are broadly two classes of people with wholly different rules, "the people" and "the enemies of the people," who are not considered valid people. This logic underlies ALL of their thinking.