The Day The Empress’ Clothes Fell Off – by Andrew Sullivan

It may be too much to expect that the Congressional hearings this week, starring the three presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn, will wake people up to the toxic collapse of America s once-great Ivy League. But I can hope, can t I? In the immortal words of Hitch (peace be upon him), as you listen to these people, You see how far the termites have spread, and how long and well they have dined.

The mediocrities smirked, finessed, condescended, and stonewalled. Take a good look at them. These are the people who now select our elites. And they select them, as they select every single member of the faculty, and every student, by actively discriminating against members of certain privileged groups and aggressively favoring other marginalized ones. They were themselves appointed in exactly the same way, from DEI-approved pools of candidates. As a Harvard dean, Claudine Gay s top priority was making more progress on diversity, i.e. intensifying the already systemic race, sex and gender discrimination that defines the place.

Thanks to the recent Supreme Court case, the energetic discrimination against Asian-American candidates for admission at Harvard is no longer in doubt. But countless other candidates for admission have little to no chance, regardless of their grades, or extracurriculars, because they belong to the wrong race, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. As soon as students are admitted under this identity framework, they are taught its core precepts: that the truth or, in Harvard s now-ironic motto, Veritas is a function not of logic or reason or of open, free, robust debate and dialogue, let alone of Western civilization, but of inimical and evil power structures rooted in identity that need to be dismantled first. Identity first; truth second because truth is rooted in identity and cannot exist outside of it.

In the hearings, President Gay actually said, with a straight face, that we embrace a commitment to free expression even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful. This is the president whose university mandates all students attend a Title IX training session where they are told that fatphobia and cisheterosexism are forms of violence, and that using the wrong pronouns constitutes abuse.

via andrewsullivan.substack.com

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