The Ivy League Flunks Out DNyuz

It s hard to be on Stefanik s side, given that she epitomizes the grotesque transformation of the Republican Party to an insane Trump cult, but she was right to pin down the prevaricating presidents.

Citing a Washington Free Beacon report, Stefanik noted in The Wall Street Journal that Harvard has cautioned undergraduates that cisheterosexism and fatphobia helped perpetuate violence and that using the wrong pronouns qualified as abuse.

When Stefanik asked Harvard s president, Claudine Gay, whether calling for the genocide of Jews constituted bullying, Gay said it could, depending on the context.

I felt the same disgust with the Catholic Church sex scandal, seeing church leaders who were charged with teaching us right from wrong not knowing right from wrong. University presidents should also know right from wrong. As left-wing virulence toward Jews collides with right-wing virulence, these academics not only didn t show off their brains, they didn t show their hearts.

I think the inability of these individuals to articulate a simple, straightforward answer to what should have been the easiest question in the world was mind-boggling, Jonathan Greenblatt, the director of the Anti-Defamation League, told me. It s like a hurricane of hate in the last few months. You ask yourself, how is this happening? Now we know. He added, The truth is that these presidents are not committed to free speech. They re committed to favored speech. They selectively enforce the codes of conduct when it works for them or their friends in the faculty lounge.

via dnyuz.com

Maureen Dowd (MA English, Columbia U.)