Comments on: Coming out as a conservative at Harvard, but very late in the game https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 03 May 2022 14:14:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621712 Tue, 03 May 2022 14:14:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621712 Related:
“Read the Letter the Harvard Crimson Won’t Publish;
“A former Crimson president wanted to blast the paper’s decision to endorse BDS. Crimson president Raquel Coronell Uribe won’t publish his letter.”—
https://freebeacon.com/campus/read-the-letter-the-harvard-crimson-wont-publish/
H/T Powerline blog.
Opening graf:
‘The Harvard Crimson on Friday broke with the paper’s longstanding editorial position to endorse—in a lengthy but borderline illiterate editorial—the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement that aims to economically isolate the Jewish state of Israel. The endorsement came at the tail end of an “Israeli Apartheid Week” hosted by the Ivy League school’s Palestinian Solidarity Committee, replete with an art show that equated Zionism with “racism” and “white supremacy.” (The Crimson editorial characterized this as “a colorful, multi-panel ‘Wall of Resistance’ in favor of Palestinian freedom and sovereignty.”)…’

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621702 Tue, 03 May 2022 13:02:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621702 Wonder if they can retroactively rescind her degree…or put an asterisk next to her name with the note, “Perp bamboozled us.”

(Wonder if they’ll try!)

File under: “Detritus”

]]> By: Cappy https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621700 Tue, 03 May 2022 12:47:51 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621700 Can’t say that I blame her.

It has value that she spoke up. She did avoid retaliation at the college by waiting until near graduation. Don’t forget that she has chosen to carry the standard into a very woke work world.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621698 Tue, 03 May 2022 12:16:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621698 I hace no idea which, of the various possibilities, most concerned this young lady about the results of coming out.
However, decades after the events of one or another type, due to catching up with some folks and rethinking what would puzzle me if it ever came to mind, I found what I should have known then.
Women are more concerned about being assaulted in public than men are. Consciously, unconsciously, subliminally.
Which should make sense without much effort to people less dense than Aubrey.
I found it out when various folks said, “I was glad you were around.” Me? What for? Didn’t have anything heavy needed lifting….. No flat tire in that situation. Nothing I knew was likely to be useful.
It was because the circs had been dicey and having the big frat-jock guy around was a comfort. Wish somebody’d told me. Might have parlayed….oh…well. They had been…concerned. Even afraid.

So back to the young lady. She had seen much fuss on and off campus. Violence from one coast to another. Vicious self-righteousness with not the slightest restriction on potential behavior. Reluctance on the part of authority either to protect or punish, depending on political stance.

Could she, consciously or unconsciously, be completely free of the fear of physical violence as a result of coming out? She could not.

]]> By: John Guilfoyle https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621687 Tue, 03 May 2022 09:47:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621687 Lived through this very thing in the late ’80s in a US midwestern denominational theological training institute. More than a few of the faculty were already on the road to endorsing/embracing Liberation Theologies of every stripe…basically Critical Race Theory in clergy garb.

When I refused to write my various papers or expound to meet those criteria I was certainly threatened by a portion of the faculty. I actually invited one of the more egregious to join me in the parking lot if he really felt he wanted to tangle…I was brash & a bit ridiculous back then. He declined and decided he really wanted me to graduate & go away…I did. I’m certain I would not be welcome there now nor would I even think about trying to go there nor recommend it.

I’m pleased the young lady has done her best to retain her integrity and with her the best. Not an easy place to be.

]]> By: Skip https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621686 Tue, 03 May 2022 09:28:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621686 Dennis Prager does say courage is the greatest human trait..
Just as a side note have found two free movies on YouTube about resistance to Leftism
A Hidden Life about a Christian who is a conscious objector in Nazi Germany
https://youtu.be/qJXmdY4lVR0
Sophie Scholl, the Final Days – a student protestor in Nazi Germany.
https://youtu.be/nrbBlXqc1Is

]]> By: Eva Marie https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621681 Tue, 03 May 2022 07:36:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621681 This discussion got me thinking: The difference between the 1990’s and today is that in 90’s liberals didn’t condemn every Republican/conservative as a racist/white supremacist.
I was trying to figure out why that was. Then I remembered – They had to wait till Democrat Congressman and former KKK leader Robert Byrd died.

]]> By: Geoffrey Britain https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621649 Tue, 03 May 2022 01:49:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621649 “I have opinions that if expressed out loud, I’m not sure if I would be permitted to stay in the program. (My chief example would be LGBT issues). Regrettably, corporate culture has trended in the same direction as the universities.” Cameron

“Today, you risk getting doxxed and blacklisted from every possible employer you wished to seek out.” NS

No doubt both sentiments above are currently true.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” neo quoting Edmund Burke

“Integrity and Character means taking a stand, when it gets to a certain level of problem. And it’s well beyond that point.” ObloodyHell

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?” Mark 8:36

If there is no soul, then what possibility of an afterlife can there be? In which case, it really is a case of get all you can for you and yours and devil take the hindmost.

But if there is an afterlife, then some vehicle for interacting with that life must exist, known colloquially as a soul.

Better to be left with only janitorial work to sustain the body, than to lose our ‘vehicle’. For compared to eternity, we are here but for the briefest of moments.

]]> By: NS https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621642 Tue, 03 May 2022 01:04:13 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621642 Like Cameron, I’m in my mid-30s. I spent a few years at IU Bloomington in the music program, obviously heavily leftist. But I was pretty open about my conservative beliefs when they came up (I literally grew up in a log cabin in the foothills of the Smokies, so you can imagine how vast the political divide was between me and, well, nearly everybody there).
Two professors stick out in my memory. One was my political science professor (I think I took for fun? I can’t imagine it was necessary for a music performance degree), who took great strides to appear impartial the entire semester. On the last day of class, he took a poll of his students asking them to guess his true affiliation. Most people guessed he was a moderate, and the remainder were pretty evenly split between democrat or republicans. So I’d say he did a pretty good job of staying neutral. He never did tell us what his leanings actually were.
The other one was a sociology professor. She was super left-wing, I disagreed with pretty much every single word out of her mouth, and so many of her lessons seemed full of left-wing propaganda. Her lessons were not balanced in any way. However, we had to write an essay at some point, and while I forget what her instructions were, I remember that I chose to write about abortion, even though I was (and am) staunchly pro-life. I knew she was gonna fail me and rip my paper apart. But I just couldn’t bring myself to write a paper that went against my core beliefs. If I failed, I failed.

I got an A. I honestly didn’t see it coming.

Anyway, those were the ancient days of 2004-2008.

I wonder if either of those two professors are still there. And I wonder if either has changed their methods in today’s environment. Regardless, I would bet good money that you couldn’t find many professors like either of them much anymore. You certainly couldn’t find a neutral one – silence is violence, after all. And as for the one that spouted her beliefs proudly, but could still grade papers objectively….what’s the incentive to do that these days? If anything, I think even being objective is now risky as a professor. If you agree with BLM but still gave an anti-BLM paper an A, for example, I guarantee you would be roasted as a racist for “supporting” the “white supremacist” who wrote the paper.

Anyway, I say all that to say I don’t blame this girl for waiting till the eleventh hour to come out as a conservative. It’s been barely a decade since my college days, and so much has changed in that little time. Back then, you might risk a bad grade. Today, you risk getting doxxed and blacklisted from every possible employer you wished to seek out. Back then, no one ask for my pronouns. Today, you’d be kicked out for refusing to play along with that silly game.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/02/coming-out-as-a-conservative-at-harvard-but-very-late-in-the-game/#comment-2621623 Mon, 02 May 2022 22:42:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116531#comment-2621623 david foster:

Don’t carry that thought over to Antifa, inconceivable cognitive dissonance might ensue (if you haven’t paid attention to what they say they are versus what they actually do). 🙂 Different kind of groomers?

As you are well aware. 🙂

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