Why would anyone who wants a good college education ever go to Harvard?
Harvard: where you can spend a lot of money
getting a shoddy education
Two stories last week proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Harvard is at this moment in time the worst American college in the nation, its faculty and staff clearly having no interest in teaching critical thinking. Instead, they are more focused on suppressing dissenting views while making their prime task indoctrinating students into the Marxist and queer agenda that is divorced from reality but eager to discriminate against whites and Jews.
First the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and the College Pulse published their fifth annual College Free Speech Rankings, surveying almost 60,000 students across more than 250 universities. Guess which university ranked at the very bottom of the list, for the second year in a row?
Harvard University retained its position as the lowest-ranked institution for free speech for the second consecutive year. Harvard, Columbia University, New York University all received an “Abysmal” rating for their speech climates. The University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College round out the bottom five. These schools not only have low levels of administrative support for free speech. They also have low levels of student comfort in expressing their views on controversial political topics and a strong bias in favor of allowing liberal speakers on campus over conservative ones.
Next, to prove this ranking was well deserved, it appears that Harvard’s administration has refused to cooperate with the local district attorney and the police in investigating the pro-Hamas rioters who attacked Jewish students during the violence that occurred on campus in October 2023, violence committed in support of the rape, torture, and murder of innocent men, women, and children near Gaza that same month.
Harvard University has refused to cooperate with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation into the assault of an Israeli business school student that occurred during a protest in October 2023. That decision has delayed the ongoing criminal case against two of the students caught on camera accosting their Jewish classmate, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Assistant District Attorney Ursula Knight, who leads the office’s Civil Rights and High-Risk Victims Unit and is prosecuting two of the students who participated in the assault, during a Wednesday hearing admonished the university. “Harvard police essentially refused to investigate,” she said, according to an attendee, adding that the school’s behavior “has been a shock to the Commonwealth.”
The DA’s office has repeatedly been forced to delay arraignment of these two students because of Harvard’s stonewalling. The DA also notes that the unwillingness of Harvard and its campus police to cooperate is “unprecedented.” As one attorney noted, “Never in all my time have I ever heard of a police department refusing to investigate a case in which the D.A.’s office is asking for their assistance.”
It appears that university officials are hoping they can, by stonewalling, get the charges dismissed, thus allowing these anti-Semite pro-Hamas rioters to get off without any punishment.
Wow, what a wonderful place to get an education! Wouldn’t you just love to send your kids there to learn similar values?
They won’t learn much else. Harvard in the past year has also been cited for producing shoddy research papers with numerous errors and faked data. Worse, the university initially resisted taking any actions even when faced with irrefutable proof, and in fact seemed quite okay that many of its faculty don’t know how to do good research, or are even willing to fake their work.
What you get from an Ivy League education
Meanwhile, Harvard continues to employ its former president Claudine Gay as a teaching professor, even though it has also now been proven that she not only condones anti-Semitism, she is a serial plagiariser whose academic work has been found to be empty-headed DEI drivel.
All in all, it seems utterly insane for anyone who wants to come out of college with a good education to pay many hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to this garbage university. It also seem utterly insane for anyone to nonchalantly hire any students who have gone there. You will have no guarantee you are getting someone capable of critical thinking. Instead, you might be hiring a rabid social justice warrior who knows little, hates a lot, and cares only for pushing Marxist identity politics wherever they work.
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You state what the radical Left is doing, but you do not explain what lies at its foundation and the philosophy that is driving it.
Everything and anything that a male, particularly what a white male has had anything to do with from religion to a standard of beauty for females, to the structure of government and the things that it must never do to infringe on the publics Rights. EVERYTHING white male is to be torn down and thrown out the window and reformulated in the more “fair” and “just” model that is prescribed by those who now have the political power to possibly realize it.
“CONSPIRACY THEORIST” : U.N. = GLOBALISTS = DEMOCRAT
“Paoletti’s admissions didn’t stop there. He went on to reveal that globalism is not just a vague idea but a concrete goal of the United Nations. He explained that one of the UN’s objectives is to foster a global identity where individuals see themselves as part of a planetary community rather than as citizens of a particular nation.”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/the-conspiracy-theorist-the-u-n-globalists
Today’s politics is very different than before this is if they can accomplish it a paradigm shifting moment in American history. If they can accomplish it. The Democrat party that today’s Democrats believe they are voting for died a while ago and they are now unknowingly supporting radical Leftist that see an authoritarian future for all of them.
Quite brilliant that they have an icon of America to play off of.
You go to Harvard because Americans no longer recognize the concept of merit based hiring. Americans cheerfully chirp “It’s not what you know but WHO you know!”, not knowing or caring that such thinking leads to a corrupt society.
Hmm? Wouldn’t it be delicious to be a student in a Claudine Gay class, and plagiarize her plagiarism. If anyone had the temerity to call the student on plagiarism, ….well, it would be fun.
I wonder if part of hatred against Jews comes not just from intersectionality studys—but also from students who are children of oil sheiks
There are many expensive vehicles on the market that are little better (if that) than the less expensive vehicles upon which they are based. Other than a few bells and whistles, and POSSIBLY some better mechanicals, such vehicles’ greatest benefit to their owners are the showiness and bragging rights associated with the brands.
There is a similar paradigm in higher education. Often, a student will not actually LEARN any more from a Harvard than he would from a public university, but that student might benefit from the name “Harvard” on his diploma.
It is wonderful to stand witness to Harvard’s systematic destruction of its greatest advantage over other colleges and universities, as its sick-in-the-head faculty and administrators deserve to go down in flames. It is also tragic, as an institution that was once outstanding has rotted to its very core.
Most people, including most of those with wealth and power, do not know these details. Most probably don’t care either. Harvard still has a lot of ruin in it. As to those who support what it has become: they see Harvard as the most prestigious beginning for a good apparatchik of their globo-communist utopia.
One of the most effective measures we could take is anytime anyone mentions that they went to Harvard, just start calling them a NAZI whore and other pejoratives & insults until they go away. After a few years of being called all sorts of nasty names, these folks will realize what a mistake it was to attend Harvard.
Harvard has been a poor choice for decades if your priority is getting an education. When I was looking into colleges to apply to in 1977, I always checked the bookstores out for textbooks on subjects I knew about – astronomy, geology, biology. Harvard’s textbooks were often at high school level, unlike more serious colleges. When I found out that they denied Carl Sagan tenure, that completely ended my interest, and I didn’t apply.
I’ve dealt with Harvard graduates and am not impressed with many. Living in the Boston area, the general sense many of us had is that it was a community college for rich kids.
One positive about Harvard: If you travel to Boston, definitely check out the Harvard Museum of Natural History on campus. That is a gem.
Hmmm, Now if I was an AG or DA handling that case and was not getting cooperation from the Officials I’d just have to conclude that THEY were OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE and charge them! Yeah, and I’d probably add on “Accessory after the Fact” to the charges. Nothing like having your OWN butt exposed to PRISON TIME to make some of the libers kind of “loose lipped”!!
PRESIDENT TRUMP and the R’s need to make MANY difficult decisions on the direction of Our Nation (assuming the FRAUD is not on a MORE MASSIVE level)! One thing for sure – ELIMINATE FEDERAL FUNDING to any university with an Endowment of more than it takes to fund the avg FRESHMAN CLASS or maybe a dollar limit of say “ONE BILLION DOLLARS”! Let their illustrious alumni and current students FUND their facilities! I would bet that every liber uni could reduce their headcount by 40% and still get the “job” done! Cull the deadwood – put “professors” back in the classrooms full time – eliminate all the NON-EDUCATIONAL offices! So many ways to reduce the costs.
And Catch 33 has it right – It’s WHO you know for a great many of the nitwits and, unfortunately, they all seem to KNOW even higher up nitwits!
I wonder if part of hatred against Jews comes not just from intersectionality studys—but also from students who are children of oil sheiks
Embrace the power of “and”.
America has been subverted since the 1960’s.
The cold war taught the communists that they would never win an outright war. but they could influence the young people by just influencing the universities.
They started with the more influential ones and worked their way down. How many people went into politics out of the ivy league schools? each generation getting more and more communist.
Then in the 80’s the middle east started their same game.
Every year millions go into endowments with nice requests to make sure that specific subjects are taught.
Seriously if you want to teach witchcraft in a university all you have to do is find one that takes a few million and accepts your recommendation for instructor. They will find a room for him.
The US is a free and open society and allows this. Find out what nations do not allow this and you will find those that realize the activity goes on and do not want the US to do it back to them.
If Bill Gates wanted to improve the world he would finance classes in western thinking and consumerism.
But no he has been influenced and would rather just work against the US government and other western nations.
I would like to email the Harvard article to my daughter but in the “share” option this is not available.
I don’t subscribe to all the other options made available under “share”
Your comment
Larry: One of the share options is to “copy link.” Do that and paste it into an email. That will get the article to your daughter.
You should also provide as a subject my headline. :)
Interesting
https://americandebunk.com/2024/06/29/the-fine-people-hoax/