Harvard University’s Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging hosted “affinity celebrations” again at its 2024 commencement.
Harvard plans to hold a “Disability Celebration,” a “Global Indigenous Celebration,” an “Asian American, Pacific Islander, Desi-American (APIDA) Celebration,” a “First Generation-Low Income Celebration,” a “Jewish Celebration,” a “Latinx Celebration,” a “Lavender Celebration” — which refers to LGBT students — a “Black Celebration,” a “Veterans Celebration,” and an “Arab Celebration.”
Do you know what is missing here?
This is one of our ‘elite’ universities. Why are they dividing people by race and ideology? Oh, wait, I forgot they would be oppressed if Harvard only included them with white people.
The university will also hold a central commencement ceremony for students of all backgrounds.
A HARVARD PROFESSOR ADDRESSES THE DEI STATEMENT
DEI ideology is so deeply ingrained in Harvard’s culture that applicants for professorship positions must submit descriptions of their “orientation toward diversity, equity, and inclusion practices,” Harvard Law School professor Randall L. Kennedy wrote in an op-ed in the Harvard Crimson. He puts the Pledge of Allegiance in the same category. Kennedy also criticized allegiance to diversity statements. He believes that “faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom.” He called it “soft-spoken indoctrination.”
I wouldn’t put the Pledge in the same category as racist oaths, but his point is well-taken, especially from his standpoint as a professor who supports academic freedom.
“In addition to exerting pressure towards leftist conformity, the process of eliciting diversity statements abets cynicism. Detractors reasonably suspect that underneath the uncontroversial aspirations for diversity statements…are controversial goals including the weeding out of candidates who manifest opposition to or show insufficient enthusiasm for the DEI regime,” he said.
We are supposed to be the UNITED States. This only causes more discrimination. Diversity is a strength if we are all united under common principles. Freedom should be number one, and that’s where the professor and most of us would agree.
Harvard needs more conservative professors to improve the university.
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Divide and conquer. That is how a weak enemy beats a strong one.
If I ever were faced with hiring a Harvard graduate, I would never hire such an individual unless we never a replacement because the crash test dummy could not be replaced.
Our USA continues its descent into dark times.
People that are dedicated to DEI make bad employees. They are distracted by an agenda instead of doing a good job. They tend to lack the qualifications anyway to do that job.
At one time a degree from Harvard meant a person had the highest qualifications. Now it means a person is a hapless, helpless, brain-washed dupe.
Guess that helps explain Barack Obama.
Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review publication, and never submitted an article, as all other past presidents had done.
This reflects on the intelligence of those who selected the Kenyan rather the merits of microscopic talents and qualifications Obama displayed.
Diversity = Perversity. People say we are a melting pot. I say No, we are a garbage pail divided by race, religion and so forth where people gravitate to their own kind. Japan succeeds because they are Japanese. China succeeds because they are Chinese. What are we?
A thought provoking question!
Do people living within the borders of the USA know who they are?
least one does. Ilhan Omar knows she is a woman of Somalia and the loyal subject of the President whom she calls “uncle” and claims he calls her “his girl”. “Somalia is our home. It is our heart. We always think about Somalia.”
Under the Biden administration can citizens of the USA even know any longer what our citizenship really means?
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When I married my foreign born wife I told her you cannot describe a typical American. I explained Americans are rather united by firmly held values that made them the exception in the world, unique, and therefore the envy of the world.
As an American , at least the America I was born into, your religion, color, sex, class, parents, class didn’t matter in the long run so much as your determination, industry, focus, concentration on excellence and quality. Those who provided a better service and product would prosper. Those whose reputation was good did prosper. Honesty was vital, your word meant something. Work ethnic was vital.
And generation after generation of the world’s immigrants came, worked and prospered. The Irish, Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Mexicans, and all the rest.
But we now have the grifters and losers. Those who would return to the caste systems, tribalism, crony systems. I have no use for the politics of envy. I spent over 30 years overseas and saw how these systems work. The American system is unique, but the diversity mantra is bs. No nation has survived that is not united. There has never been a diverse society not united by the force of arms.