Seems like such a contradicting message from a school that is supposed to encourage independent thinking.
Edit: colleges with large endowment funds seem like glorified businesses with conflicts of interest.
Harvard does not encourage independent thinking. Where would you get that impression?
Suppressing what was clearly a peaceful protest. Almost all these colleges have used the police and violence to escalate things and then blame the students for their inability to take criticism.
Edit: I think I misread your comment, I agree maybe they don’t encourage it, but should if they want to be considered a college.
Any college that refers to their graduates as “a [college name] man” clearly expects a large degree of conformity.
“any institution with an endowment as large as Harvard’s isn’t a school, it’s a hedge fund that offers classes, and should lose it’s tax exempt status”… Sorry I forget who said it, and I’m paraphrasing
They’re denying the degrees ENTIRELY or simply not granting them at commencement?
Because after 4 years and who knows how many thousands of dollars, there’s likely a contractual obligation to supply the degree.
CAMBRIDGE - Thirteen Harvard University students who participated in the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on campus will not get their degrees at commencement Thursday.
Harvard is dead. Fuck em. They’ve lost all my respect.
I haven’t been able to find any explanation from Harvard about who the specific students were, or why they were singled out for punishment. Does anybody know? Were they the leaders of the protest? Were they accused of specific acts that were considered more serious than what other students did? I saw one article that said two of them are Rhodes Scholars, but I can’t find much more information.
Good any protestors who support bigots don’t deserve a degree.
well then bye bye to pro-natenyahu protestors
Protesting against murdering people is not the same as supporting those people’s beliefs. If someone doesn’t like gay people it doesn’t mean they all deserve death. That would be like a genocide or something
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EXTREME DICK RIDING CONTEST
It’s not about participation, but rather the socially unacceptable ways to express it. Come on, please be decent, others are here too.
Here, here. Won’t somebody think of the moderates, and their refined sensibilities? After all, they certainly didn’t personally blow up aid trucks and hospitals in Gaza.
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
-two excerpts from MLK Jr’s letter from Birmingham jail.
Is that sarcastic? Because Israel certainly isn’t being decent.
the socially unacceptable ways to express it
What does that even mean?
