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When I decided to join a final club, my mother was not pleased. Her voice tinged with disappointment as she asked how her son could participate in something so steeped in racist, elitist, sexist privilege. I countered that white skin and blue blood were no longer club membership requirements. But she wasn’t sold. What about the women? She persisted. After a few abortive rationalizations, I realized I had no good answer. I was embarrassed...
...Crimson staff consider “atrocities” rather than legitimate self-defense? Rather than answer such questions and provide concrete policy prescriptions, the Crimson falls back on the trope—popular among totalitarian regimes during the Cold War—that Israeli actions are imperialist and racist. The Crimson appears to place unilateral blame for the failure of the peace process on Israel, making no mention of the rejectionism or eliminationist ideology of Israel’s enemies. Nowhere does the Crimson recognize the multiple times Israel has shown itself ready to give up land?...
...kids for doing what they should be doing of their own volition. Psychologists warn that money can actually make kids perform worse by cheapening the act of learning. Parents predict widespread slacking after the incentives go away. And at least one think-tank scholar has denounced the strategy as racist. The debate has become a proxy battle for the larger war over why our kids are not learning at the rate they should be despite decades of reforms and budget increases...
...President Faust. I am replying on behalf of myself alone. Their letter gives voice to their sincere reactions to Mr. Kramer’s statements, reactions that many of us feel those positions deserve. Their words are statements of resistance to attitudes that can easily be taken as racist and inhumane. It demonstrates the strength of our university and our society in general when its members insist on opposing what they believe to be hateful statements, especially ones that initially appear to be supported by a venerable institution such as Harvard. As these students are no doubt aware, the remarks...
...Weatherhead Center needs to publicly distinguish between hateful, racist speech and open discourse in an academic setting...