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...Kwong is vice president of Harvard Right to Life (HRL), professes that abortion is murder, but has nonetheless elected to be the head of Students for Rudy Giuliani—a man who does not seem yet to have hit the precise position he will pretend to believe on abortion. In the past, and apparently today, Giulani has been for government funding of abortions, and he’s also given thousands of dollars to Planned Parenthood...
...what many ever-more-curious e-mails over GOP-open have hinted at: What can this make Jeff Kwong, other than a hypocrite? But despite so many challenges, he has refused (perhaps because he’s unable) to defend this position when challenged over GOP-open...
Which leads to another emblematic practice of his HRC leadership: His 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...
...Kwong points to an anti-divestment article as evidence that Salient editors don’t care for the genocide in Darfur. On the contrary, we very 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?...
...change if we are to attract new blood in preparation for 2008 and inspire hope for the future. The Salient, unfortunately, only contributes to this negative perception by publishing reactionary and fringe ideas that distract from the larger political discourse and embarrass the vast majority of campus conservatives. Jeffrey Kwong ’09 is a government and East Asian languages and civilizations concentrator in Winthrop House. He is the president of the Harvard Republican Club, vice president of Harvard Right to Life, and an associate editor for The Harvard Salient...