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When someone induces himself to vomit in a public forum, everyone wishes to impart their two cents. This past Thursday, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) issued a press release condemning the protestors who attended last Tuesday’s Careers in Counterterrorism event; more significantly, however, they called upon the Harvard College Democrats to formally dissociate from the Harvard Social Forum (HSF). We have already joined in decrying the protest techniques used during the presentation of the Careers in Counterterrorism panel, but it has been established that HSF was not complicit in the incident...
...HRC should not meddle in the internal decisions of its Democratic counterparts. With whom the Dems affiliate should not be of their concern and it is unclear to us why HRC even released its statement, though it’s not a stretch to infer that they are aiming to weaken...
Many people seem to misunderstand HSF and the role it plays on campus. Unlike the HRC and the Dems, the HSF is not a political group that takes policy positions; instead, it provides logistical support to a coalition of progressive campus groups, many of which share common goals—and many of whose ideals we share. In asking the Dems to disassociate from the HSF, the Republicans have misinterpreted both the role of HSF at the protest and the role of HSF as a student group on campus. The HSF appropriately represents a collection of progressive groups on campus...
...campus groups representing the U.S.’s two main political parties, it would be easy for HRC and the Dems to fall into an adversarial rut, where each group’s mission is nothing more than to oppose the activities of the other. But, this didn’t happen during last November’s presidential election, to both group’s credit. Each group devoted its activities to supporting its national candidate and platform, and since then, the two have staged several successful policy debates this school year. Thus the HRC?...
...expect that this foretells a breakdown in the relationship between HRC and the Dems, which, in recent memory, has been decidedly complimentary. To be sure, we are not condemning the HRC’s right to issue such statements—they clearly fall under the realm of free speech—but we believe that their release was unfair to both the Dems...