'j'ever wonder how suposedly Liberal elite universities churn out so many wingnuts?!1 Here's Harvard
Granted, the wingnuts so produced are bottom tier on the mental scale: Clarence THOMAS, Ben CARSON, Ruben NAVARRETTE, and O'LOOFAH got some kind of specialized bragging rights. If I were O'LOOFAH's professor, my first question would be, "What do you imagine *learning* here (as opposed to your own preaching)?!1" And if somebody quibbles about CARSON being on my list, I submit that whatever his professional expertise is, his deprecation of science in his other opinions is flabbergasting.
Reminder: NAVARRETTE got his niche as a "non-traditional" voice (vis a vis his home minority ethnic group) with a book griping about "White Liberal males" after he (finally) graduated.
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http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/does-harvard-have-a-secret-history-as-a-major-force-for-evil/
[font size=5]Does Harvard have a secret history as a major force for evil?[/font]
.... Now, there are plenty of criticisms of Harvard, though rarely the one Eun-jung levels: that Harvard swanned its way to dominance by maintaining a false front of liberalism when it is, in fact, an arm of the governing right.
“Verita$” recites a litany of bad acts: the Salem witch trials, eugenics, a so-called “collaboration” with Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler, architects of financial collapse such as Robert Rubin and Larry Summers, McCarthyism, racism, sexism, tyrannical labor practices and “a poison called elitism.” ....
The institutional corruption stems from Harvard’s hungry endowment, Eun-jung says. The Harvard Corporation invests wisely if not well, for instance backing Enron then mysteriously cashing out before it tanked the energy markets. This black box of university finance, she says, shows Harvard is an undemocratic pawn of international corporate overlords.
“This made me wonder: Why would Harvard go through the trouble of hiring leftist professors in the first place, if they are only going to marginalize them while they’re there?” She asks. “After thinking about this question, the answer became obvious: Harvard’s pride in the myth of its progressive character.” ....
Within the college — the core of Harvard’s elite brand — there are many mansions: WASP legacy Harvard, the dirty white baseball hats of athletics and male-only drinking clubs; the precious, artsy and gay Harvard; a drone-like premed Harvard, and so on. These Harvards hardly know each other after freshman year — they are all too busy taking over the world. ....
Eun-jung’s book reads like a campus tour delivered by an embittered sophomore. ....
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