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...many years, there has been a d̩tente between ideological conservatives on campus and the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). HRC president Jeffrey Kwong??۪s tendentious little op-ed tears that asunder. I, for one, find it ironic that The Harvard Salient would be accused of forsaking a thoughtful, intellectually consistent conservatism, even when Kwong??۪s leadership of the HRC has cultivated a culture of insufficiently contemplated boosterism mirroring the pitfalls of the wider Republican Party...
...insistence over the club’s e-mail list that any heated conversation be removed to a blog that Kwong, on one notable occasion, didn’t even remember the URL to! What better way to encapsulate the violence HRC has done to reason and logic but Kwong??€™s repeated insistence that Republicans please, pretty please, stop having an intelligent debate over the club’s open-list...
...much do—so much so that when something that will have only a feel-good effect like divestment comes along, we have a moral obligation to point out that it will, in no way, stop the genocide and will only divert attention from remedies that can work. Kwong??€™s decision to sign the HRC up as a nominal sponsor to the divestment campaign only undermines HRC’s credibility and takes away from what could be a larger, more intelligent advocacy role. In a place like Harvard, which so needs a dissenting voice at times...