Surprise: Harvard Continues Practicing Illegal Racial Discrimination Against Whites; When Called Out for Their Website Advising Administrators About How to Discriminate Against Whites, They Delete That Page But Keep the Policy

Trigger warning for those who might faint to learn obvious things.

Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo
BREAKING: Following my reporting, Harvard has deleted its discriminatory faculty hiring guide from its website. The guide recommended monitoring applicants by race, favoring "women and minorities," and sending white men to the back of the reading list--violating civil rights law.

Rufo:

The Trump administration has escalated its battle with Harvard University, freezing all future grants and threatening to strip the school's tax-exempt status. In response, Harvard has adopted some conciliatory measures-- rebranding its DEI office and cancelling its racially segregated graduation ceremonies--but, behind the scenes, the university's discrimination machine continues to operate at full capacity.
We've obtained a trove of internal documents that reveal Harvard's racial favoritism in faculty and administrative hiring. The university's DEI programs are more than "unconscious bias" training. They are vectors for systematic discrimination against disfavored groups: namely, white men. As one Harvard researcher told us, "endless evidence" suggests that the university continues to discriminate against the supposed oppressor class in hiring and promotions.
For years, Harvard's DEI department has explicitly sought to engineer a more racially "diverse" faculty pool. The university-wide Inclusive Hiring Initiative provided "guidelines and training" for those involved in the hiring process and was explicitly tied to Harvard's DEI goals. The stated mission of the initiative is to "[i]nstill an understanding of how departments can leverage the selection process" to build "an increasingly diverse workforce."
In another hiring guide, "Best Practices for Conducting Faculty Searches," the university recommends several discriminatory practices. At the beginning of the hiring process, Harvard instructs search committees to "ensure that the early lists include women and minorities" and to "consider reading the applications of women and minorities first." The university counsels that committee chairs should "continually monitor" the racial composition of the candidate list and, as they narrow it down, "attend to all women and minorities on the long list."
Harvard deliberately factors race into the hiring process. The university gives committee chairs privileged access to "self-identified demographic data, including gender, race, and ethnicity" and encourages chairs to "use this information to encourage diversity in the applicant pool, long list, and short list." Harvard admits that some of its hiring programs have explicit "placement goals" for women and minorities--which, despite the university's denial, function as a soft quota.
In the past, the university has made extensive use of DEI statements--a "required qualification for all position descriptions and job postings"--and university-supplied "diversity-related sample interview questions," which effectively filtered out candidates who did not adhere to the principles of left-wing racialism. Though Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences officially discontinued its use of mandatory DEI statements last year, the university continues to promote non-mandatory diversity statements for faculty positions and includes language about "diversity, equity, and inclusion" as guiding principles.
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Harvard's discriminatory programs are not limited to faculty hiring. According to one of the internal documents we obtained, the university has adopted explicit racial hiring goals for administrative and support positions under the guise of affirmative action. For various divisions and occupations within the school, Harvard lists the percentage of each workforce that belongs to a "protected class," as well as target goals. For example, the university declared a goal of increasing the share of minorities in one department's alumni affairs office nearly sixfold, and of raising the share of female assistants in the School of Public Health to more than 90 percent.

90% women hires to 10% male hires is equality? And note this isn't some temporary remedy; this is the ultimate goal that they want to keep forever. They want to get women up to 90% of their workforce and keep it there.

"Employers seldom set goals like these if they don't intend them to be acted on," Heriot said after reviewing the document. "These particular goals are hilarious," she added. "Harvard has a few job categories that are already female dominated, sometimes with over seventy percent of its employees in those categories being female. Rather than being concerned with why more men aren't applying, Harvard sets a goal to make these job categories even more female dominated."
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Harvard, asked whether it still operates these programs, did not respond. The only major change to the university's faculty-hiring process of which our source was aware was the above-mentioned repeal of mandatory DEI statements at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

From two weeks ago: Harvard's own internal investigation found rampant antisemtism at Harvard, not just in the student body, but in the faculty.

Harvard University, in the midst of its funding fight with the Trump administration, released its long-awaited anti-Semitism report on Tuesday. It provides a scathing account of life at the Ivy League institution in the wake of Oct. 7, finding that "politicized instruction" in four Harvard schools "mainstreamed and normalized what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism."
The report raises particular concerns with the Graduate School of Education, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Divinity School, and Medical School, four schools that the Trump administration also targeted for "egregious records of antisemitism or other bias." At those schools, Jewish and Israeli students were routinely ostracized and subject to instruction "that effectively made a specific view on the Israel-Hamas conflict a litmus test for full classroom participation," according to the report.
In one example, a "Pyramid of White Supremacy" graphic disseminated to students in a required School of Education course stated that those who oppose the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement are engaged in "coded genocide." That portion of the pyramid was just one step removed from "overt genocide," which included the KKK, "lynching," "burning crosses," and "bombing black churches." When a Jewish student expressed concerns, the instructor did not remove the graphic from course materials and instead "referenced the 'land acknowledgement' made earlier in class."
The "Pyramid of White Supremacy" presented to some Graduate School of Education students.
The report details similar incidents at the School of Public Health, where Jewish students raised concerns over anti-Israel webinars only to be asked, "Who is more marginalized, Jews or Palestinians?" At the Divinity School, Jewish students were subject to "the embrace of a pedagogy of 'de-zionization'" in which instructors "attribute to Jews two great sins: first, in the Levant, the establishment of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba; and second, in the United States, participation in White supremacy."
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The report also includes anecdotes from students who were discriminated against for being Jewish or Israeli. In one case, a Jewish student planned to deliver a short speech at a Harvard conference describing "how their grandfather survived the Holocaust by migrating to the then-British Mandate of Palestine," now Israel. The conference's directors objected, saying the speech was not "tasteful" and was "inherently one-sided because it does not acknowledge the displacements of Palestinian populations." In another example, Jewish students said they were "routinely asked to clarify that they were 'one of the good ones' by denouncing the State of Israel and renouncing any attachment to it."

From Hot Air, the NYT says that some Harvard officials are starting to worry about criminal charges.

Harvard has basked in acclaim from White House critics for fighting back so far. After Mr. Trump threatened the school's federal funding, Harvard sued the administration, and legal experts said the university has a strong case.
But behind closed doors, several senior officials at Harvard and on its top governing board have acknowledged they are in an untenable crisis. Even if Harvard quickly wins in court, they have determined, the school will still face wide-ranging funding problems and continuing investigations by the administration.
Some university officials even fear that the range of civil investigations could turn into full-blown criminal inquiries.

Posted by: Ace at 05:20 PM

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1 Hola!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 19, 2025 05:21 PM (/HDaX)

2 And nooded.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 19, 2025 05:22 PM (/HDaX)

3 At this point DOJ needs to file federal civil rights violation charges against harvard. I am sure they can find a few whites or asians that have applied and been turned down.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 19, 2025 05:23 PM (e5NfL)

4 Ace, please go back and delete all of atateless' comments. For her good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 19, 2025 05:23 PM (Z566n)

5 Jewish students discriminated against should sue Harvard if they aren't already doing so.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2025 05:23 PM (nFq4j)

6 From last thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 19, 2025 05:24 PM (Z566n)

7 Sarah Hoyt's shocked face must be throwing sparks at this news.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 19, 2025 05:24 PM (gKWVE)

8 Nvm, ace. Weasel got it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 19, 2025 05:25 PM (Z566n)

9 The only way to fight Nazis is to support Hamas.

You wouldn't understand because you didn't go to Harvard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2025 05:25 PM (2Tjd+)

10 86 Harvard administrators.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 19, 2025 05:26 PM (17s+e)

11
"Trigger warning for those who might faint to learn obvious things."
--Ace, being kind, yet still heartless, lol

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:26 PM (ELWzZ)

12 Whenever I see someone on X with one of those idiotic "land acknowledgment" statements, I ask them exactly how much rent they're paying to the Lakota (or whoever).

Oh, none? Well, it doesn't look sound you're actually "occupying Lakota land" after all, does it? Or maybe you're just a deadbeat?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 19, 2025 05:26 PM (W5ArC)

13 Minority Women Privilege.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2025 05:27 PM (vFG9F)

14 Burn it down. Cut all funding. And tax their endowment at 90%. For equality.

Posted by: Czech Chick at May 19, 2025 05:27 PM (vK/Ja)

15 Trigger warning

The only trigger warning I need is if you hand me a gun with a trigger pull of less than 3lbs.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 19, 2025 05:27 PM (Uzn0I)

16 Some university officials even fear that the range of civil investigations could turn into full-blown criminal inquiries.

An outcome devoutly to be desired.

Posted by: Miklos, momentarily merciless at May 19, 2025 05:27 PM (053s8)

17 Well I guess I'm not going to work at Harvard.

Posted by: Weasel at May 19, 2025 05:28 PM (jUN6x)

18 Willowed, to Stateless:

Stateless, hang in there. Please reach out to the Horde if you need any support. We are all here for you.
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:28 PM (77rzZ)

19 90% women hires to 10% male hires is equality? And note this isn't some temporary remedy; this is the ultimate goal that they want to keep forever. They want to get women up to 90% of their workforce and keep it there.
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So it actually calls for higher than 90% women hires currently.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 19, 2025 05:28 PM (UBKzV)

20 I like how the early stories on Trump cutting subsidies to Harvard crowed that Harvard had hired a bunch of Trump-friendly lawyers to defend them.

"Ha, ha! Trump won't go against his friends! What a brilliant move."

The cuts continued.

They're not crowing now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2025 05:29 PM (2Tjd+)

21 But, they're so smart. How did they ever get caught?

Posted by: huerfano at May 19, 2025 05:29 PM (n2swS)

22 Twenty-five years ago, a quarter of Harvard students were Jewish.

That is now down to five percent, much less than the percentage of Jews attending Harvard during the explicit religious quotas of the 1930s.

Harvard's campaign to make the campus Judenrein is proceeding nicely.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2025 05:30 PM (xTIDn)

23 Well I guess I'm not going to work at Harvard.
Posted by: Weasel

Nope.

You don't have a shot.

Posted by: Miklos, of a Certainty at May 19, 2025 05:30 PM (053s8)

24
Speaking of disgusting racist failures...

that fat black unfunny fake "funny lady" leslie jones guest-hosted the Daily Show (that no one watches anymore) and she made all kinds of stupid faces, and said all kinds of stupid shit. And she bombed. Hard. Even the trained-seal clapping audience didn't like her.

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:30 PM (i+D/u)

25 Stateless, do you have any local support besides your lawyer? I really think you ought to talk to one of us Morons offline, just to vent. Like today.

... and unless you have concerns about leaving the house unattended, plan on getting your ass to the NoVa MoMee (since it's the next one available).

You deserve to take some time OFF after 14 years.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 19, 2025 05:31 PM (QRFVs)

26 Well I guess I'm not going to work at Harvard.
Posted by: Weasel

But then who is going to head their Mustelidae Studies Department?

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:31 PM (77rzZ)

27 These smelling salts smell like ass!

*hic* *shart* *cackle*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 19, 2025 05:32 PM (zKVqU)

28 I still believe that an outside party should be brought in to review every faculty doctorate thesis to determine if there is inappropriate plagiarism and/or unattributed sources. I believe that would solve a large portion of the problem.

Most of these gender type pronoun hounds seem to fall within a pattern.

Posted by: Orson at May 19, 2025 05:32 PM (dIske)

29 >>"In another hiring guide, "Best Practices for Conducting Faculty Searches," the university recommends several discriminatory practices. "

I tried to apply for a position at Harvard, but all the job notices were written in jive.

Posted by: Frustrated in Peoria at May 19, 2025 05:32 PM (+lLXu)

30
The Harvard Jews were replaced by Orientals. Then the Orientals were replaced by illiterate blacks and "asians." The campus is filled with them.

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:32 PM (i+D/u)

31 "Well I guess I'm not going to work at Harvard.
Posted by: Weasel"

You could name your farm "Harvard" and then when you go out there you can tell people you are going to Harvard.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2025 05:33 PM (vFG9F)

32 Now do the rest of the Ivies and ALL other Universities receiving Federal Funding.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2025 05:33 PM (SIRiz)

33 >>> 12 Whenever I see someone on X with one of those idiotic "land acknowledgment" statements, I ask them exactly how much rent they're paying to the Lakota (or whoever).

Oh, none? Well, it doesn't look sound you're actually "occupying Lakota land" after all, does it? Or maybe you're just a deadbeat?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 19, 2025 05:26 PM (W5ArC)

THIS.

You'd think an enterprising ~~ambulance chaser~~ lawyer would offer pro-bono support to a tribe or two for a class-action lawsuit against these nitwits. istr deep-pocketed Microsquish named *seven* tribes in one of their corporate conference calls???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 19, 2025 05:34 PM (QRFVs)

34 Would veterans be under those protected groups that Harvard wishes to diversify with?

I’m betting not.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 05:34 PM (vm8sq)

35 I am blessed… I have never gotten near Harvard… God is, indeed, good..

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2025 05:34 PM (PCK5/)

36 Leslie Jones can be funny. She wasn't nearly the reason that Pompous And Feiggy Ghostbusters failed (actually her scenes tended to be the better ones).
But she takes herself seriously which comics can't do. Getting trolled into Twitter / Youtube drama was rookie.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 19, 2025 05:35 PM (gKWVE)

37 Posted by: Hillary Clinton

So glad I'm finally out of that.

Had to "marry" a quasi-Jew with Intimate Menfriends, but at least he's got money.

Posted by: Huma at May 19, 2025 05:35 PM (053s8)

38
Asia...5 billion people, like, 60% of the World's population. About 50 different nationalities.

Calling all those people "asian" is one of the dumbest things in my lifetime, and I've seen a lot of dumb shit in my life.

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:35 PM (i+D/u)

39 On the one hand, the policy is horribly illegal.

On the other, what better way for Harvard to burn their elite reputation than through hiring massive numbers of racist, sexist, and anti-Semite incompetents?

[sweating man meme]
button A: fight illegal discrimination
button B: destroy Harvard

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2025 05:35 PM (2Tjd+)

40 Sounds like a pretty easy discrimination suit with all that evidence out there for the taking.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 19, 2025 05:36 PM (i24o9)

41 Harvard, having lowered its admission standards causes one to wonder why its football team has not improved.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 05:36 PM (j9+uM)

42 The Democrats have turned every large institution they've infiltrated into a diversity cult and then the cult turns into a self-perpetuating racket.

They are the Scientology of political parties.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

43
Some university officials even fear that the range of civil investigations could turn into full-blown criminal inquiries.

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Gee. Why?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2025 05:36 PM (n7rxJ)

44 Some years ago now, Dallas ISD ads appeared on my FB feed with words to this effect?

“Are you a black teacher looking for employment?”
“Are you a Latino teacher looking for employment?”

This from a school district. Someone there is familiar with the “I have a dream” speech to say nothing of laws, right?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 05:36 PM (vm8sq)

45
btw, the funny Hodge Twins like to call blacks "those Sub Saharan people. I like it. It's quite...polite.

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:37 PM (K2mYx)

46 "Well I guess I'm not going to work at Harvard.
Posted by: Weasel"

You could name your farm "Harvard" and then when you go out there you can tell people you are going to Harvard.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2025 05:33 PM

The beverly hillbilly's did a show like that. Jethro went to grade school at princeton back in the hills and graduated the 6th grade from there. When Miss Jane found out he was a Pinceton man she fell all over him.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 19, 2025 05:37 PM (e5NfL)

47 >>Calling all those people "asian" is one of the dumbest things in my lifetime

It's not dumber than Latinx

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2025 05:38 PM (SIRiz)

48 I look forward to the day when their Alumni deny going there and claim they went to a state school.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 19, 2025 05:38 PM (wBaIH)

49 >>>Had to "marry" a quasi-Jew with Intimate Menfriends, but at least he's got money.
Posted by: Huma
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And you can choose who you go muff diving with.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 05:38 PM (j9+uM)

50 32 Now do the rest of the Ivies and ALL other Universities receiving Federal Funding.
Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2025 05:33 PM (SIRiz)

Kill a chicken to scare a monkey.

Posted by: Chinese proverb at May 19, 2025 05:38 PM (vm8sq)

51 No peace until Harvard establishes a Whitey department that teaches Whitey culture. No sailboats or lacrosse. Just Aspects of Bar-B-Cue and History of ValURite vodka.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:38 PM (8avO+)

52 I tried to apply for a position at Harvard, but all the job notices were written in jive.
Posted by: Frustrated in Peoria

My brother has a funny story from his time at the University of Michigan in the early 1970s. He was taking some history class taught by a black Nigerian professor. One of the black students in the class decided to get cutesy and write a term paper entirely in jive.

The Nigerian professor was not amused. In front of the whole class, he returned the paper to the student, yelling (and here I imagine a James Earl Jones voice with an RP accent), "You go rewrite this in the KING'S English!"

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:38 PM (77rzZ)

53 Had an argument on Facebook with a friend who I grew up with. He's Jewish and a massive leftist. He kept arguing that the cuts to Harvard and other colleges would ruin research and scholarship. I pointed out that descriminating against Jews would ruin both. His response "you're wrong, I'm Jewish you know". Even smart individuals can be stupid when it comes to politics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2025 05:38 PM (ef25Y)

54 The Harvard Jews were replaced by Orientals. Then the Orientals were replaced by illiterate blacks and "asians." The campus is filled with them.

Basically.

In response to the Asian discrimination lawsuits, Harvard has doubled the number of Asian students since the lawsuits started.

However, Harvard had no intention of reducing the number of spots offered to favored racial groups, so all the additional Asian spots came entirely at the expense of the white quota.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2025 05:39 PM (xTIDn)

55 First the left beat the word "racist" into the ground by applying it to any person they didn't like. Now, they are making the word "genocide" meaningless by applying it to any policy they don't like.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 19, 2025 05:39 PM (DIweC)

56 Well I guess I'm not going to work at Harvard.
Posted by: Weasel"

You could name your farm "Harvard" and then when you go out there you can tell people you are going to Harvard.
Posted by: fd

Classic moron think. Betting your membership card is laminated.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 19, 2025 05:40 PM (Uzn0I)

57 >>Now, they are making the word "genocide" meaningless by applying it to any policy they don't like.

I was promised a Tranny Genocide and God Dammit, I want to see my Tranny Genocide.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2025 05:40 PM (SIRiz)

58 47 >>Calling all those people "asian" is one of the dumbest things in my lifetime

It's not dumber than Latinx
Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2025 05:38 PM (SIRiz)

My favorite is hearing all white people called “Anglo”. Yeah, I’m Anglo, all right. By 50%. Germans and Slavs are NOT Anglo.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 05:40 PM (vm8sq)

59 Some university officials even fear that the range of civil investigations could turn into full-blown criminal inquiries.

An outcome devoutly to be desired.
Posted by: Miklos, momentarily merciless at May 19, 2025 05:27 PM (053s

Give us their names, we can start with them.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)

60
What, exactly, are Saxons?

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (K2mYx)

61 Sit down for another shocking reveal! Top foreign funder to elite universities is ...Qatar.

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (g47mK)

62 Calling all those people "asian" is one of the dumbest things in my lifetime, and I've seen a lot of dumb shit in my life.
Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First

Siberian Russians are "Asian." This includes Boris Yeltsin.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (77rzZ)

63 “ Harvard sued the administration, and legal experts said the university has a strong case.”

Experts. LOLOLOLOLOL.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (vdlll)

64 No peace until Harvard establishes a Whitey department that teaches Whitey culture. No sailboats or lacrosse. Just Aspects of Bar-B-Cue and History of ValURite vodka.
Posted by: Oldcat

I would fund that

Posted by: Miklos Valuwright, heir to the Family Fortune at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (053s8)

65 My favorite is hearing all white people called “Anglo”. Yeah, I’m Anglo, all right. By 50%. Germans and Slavs are NOT Anglo.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 05:40 PM (vm8sq)

Irish aren't Anglo either. Nor the French, Italians, Balkans or Caucasians.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (8avO+)

66 60
What, exactly, are Saxons?

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (K2mYx)

They invented the Saxophone…

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2025 05:42 PM (PCK5/)

67 The Harvard Jews were replaced by Orientals. Then the Orientals were replaced by illiterate blacks and "asians." The campus is filled with them.
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Those rugs were intricate.

(lol, woke Asians don't like being called Orientals.)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2025 05:42 PM (2Tjd+)

68 Well I guess I'm not going to work at Harvard.
Posted by: Weasel"

You could name your farm "Harvard" and then when you go out there you can tell people you are going to Harvard.
Posted by: fd

Classic moron think. Betting your membership card is laminated.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 19, 2025 05:40 PM

The moron membership cards are clearly labeled "do not laminate".

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 19, 2025 05:42 PM (e5NfL)

69 32 Now do the rest of the Ivies and ALL other Universities receiving Federal Funding.
Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2025 05:33 PM (SIRiz)
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Set a legal prescient with one the rest will fall like dominoes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 05:42 PM (j9+uM)

70 Harvard studies in redneck dominance in life.

What would the graduation cert look like?

Let the argument begin:
- 9mm
- 45 ACP
-Moonshining
- Ginseng

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2025 05:43 PM (Q4IgG)

71 “ Harvard sued the administration, and legal experts said the university has a strong case.”

Experts. LOLOLOLOLOL.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

I wonder if their "experts" include Dershowitz

Posted by: Miklos has Questions at May 19, 2025 05:43 PM (053s8)

72 From Hot Air, the NYT says that some Harvard officials are starting to worry about criminal charges.

Yes, you should.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2025 05:43 PM (2VST1)

73 53 Had an argument on Facebook with a friend who I grew up with. He's Jewish and a massive leftist. He kept arguing that the cuts to Harvard and other colleges would ruin research and scholarship. I pointed out that descriminating against Jews would ruin both. His response "you're wrong, I'm Jewish you know". Even smart individuals can be stupid when it comes to politics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2025 05:38 PM (ef25Y)

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Considering the dubious quality of what's coming out of universities the past few decades, especially in the humanities, I don't think this will be any great loss to mankind.

I say cut down everything but Medical & STEM research by 75%+ and raise those two by 100%.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 05:43 PM (6ydKt)

74 What, exactly, are Saxons?

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (K2mYx)

They invented the Saxophone…

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2025 05:42 PM (PCK5/)

Buncha phonies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 19, 2025 05:43 PM (i24o9)

75 What, exactly, are Saxons?

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (K2mYx)

German tribe, used to live on North Coast of Germany in Roman times. About where Hamburg is.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:43 PM (8avO+)

76 Harvard sued the administration, and legal experts said the university has a strong case.”

Experts. LOLOLOLOLOL.
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right.

Name one that predicted Trump would win the 14th Amendment case at the Supremes by the margin he did.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2025 05:43 PM (2Tjd+)

77 Federal funding for ANY school is a bad idea.. for Higher Ed it is risible…

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (PCK5/)

78 72 From Hot Air, the NYT says that some Harvard officials are starting to worry about criminal charges.

Yes, you should.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Should I start holding my breath!?!?!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (ycI94)

79 Is the Harvard President still wearing those big glasses?

Or did she get reassigned to another place?

Posted by: dantesed at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (Oy/m2)

80
I thought Germans were huns.

Where was Gaul?

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (K2mYx)

81 You'd think an enterprising ambulance chaser lawyer would offer pro-bono support to a tribe or two for a class-action lawsuit against these nitwits. istr deep-pocketed Microsquish named *seven* tribes in one of their corporate conference calls???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

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give us time, this is where we are going.
Like the black "reparations" talk, it is a generational plan.
Look at the Australia and Canada -- little by little whitey is making himself a 3rd class slave in those lands.

Posted by: Frustrated in Peoria at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (+lLXu)

82
Calling all those people "asian" is one of the dumbest things in my lifetime, and I've seen a lot of dumb shit in my life.
Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First

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"Asia" is a completely Western concept and term, which is why I go nuts every time Asian lefties use it. This dumb bitch in San Francisco cheerily declared "I'll just vote for the Asian name!" and I thought, you fucking... what??? You mean Nguyen is the same is Lee is the same as Yamamoto is the same as Lao? Try that in Asia, you bimbo.

I could go on... like, if you want to be governed by Asians, there's a whole continent you could consider moving to...

But back to Harvard. The STEM people who are having their laboratories defunded and whatnot are just going to have to take a stand. Sorry your five-year study of some cutting-edge cancer treatment is being axed four years in, but it's time for you to do something about your institution's crimes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (n7rxJ)

83 Remember, the University of Pennsylvania is trying to strip Amy Wax of tenure and fire her, because she persists in demonstrating the yawning gap in admissions standards between favored racial groups and disfavored racial groups.

The qualifications of the average black student accepted at Penn would result in the immediate rejection of a white or Asian applicant.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (xTIDn)

84
*I learned all my world history from watching Spartacus, btw.

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (K2mYx)

85 I say cut down everything but Medical & STEM research by 75%+ and raise those two by 100%.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 05:43 PM (6ydKt)

There's a lot of crap research in both those fields. Uni gets 50-90 percent of that off the top.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (8avO+)

86 What, exactly, are Saxons?

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (K2mYx)

They invented the Saxophone…
Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2025 05:42 PM (

No wonder they began to hate.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 19, 2025 05:45 PM (dLmtu)

87 (lol, woke Asians don't like being called Orientals.)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I got chewed out by a girl in college for using that term, albeit as an adjective, not a noun.

I pointed out to her that it just referred to the east. Didn't help.

I dodged a bullet with that one.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:45 PM (77rzZ)

88 Irish aren't Anglo either. Nor the French, Italians, Balkans or Caucasians.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (8avO+)

Good point. But I am none of those things either. 😎. (All the Slav in me are from points north.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 05:45 PM (vm8sq)

89 Saxonphone!

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 05:46 PM (g47mK)

90 Some university officials even fear that the range of civil investigations could turn into full-blown criminal inquiries.

Fraud? Material support to terrorist organizations?

Posted by: I want them broken and imprisoned at May 19, 2025 05:46 PM (TbWk/)

91 Why does Ace never have posts linking to the renowned Hot Air Art Thread?

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:47 PM (77rzZ)

92
Harvard sued the administration, and legal experts said the university has a strong case.”

Experts. LOLOLOLOLOL.

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Well, the part about not distributing funds that were already promised or committed or whatever could be legally dicey, they say.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2025 05:47 PM (n7rxJ)

93 When the British started with the Asian Male thing, I went back to referring to SE Asians as Celestials.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2025 05:47 PM (SIRiz)

94 Gaul is basically France today.

Posted by: dantesed at May 19, 2025 05:47 PM (Oy/m2)

95 "What, exactly, are Saxons?"

20 bucks. Same as in town.

Posted by: Saxon, Saxoff at May 19, 2025 05:47 PM (vFG9F)

96 I want to see civil rights prosecutions of Harvard administrators NOW.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 05:47 PM (ZVgZ4)

97 Calling all those people "asian" is one of the dumbest things in my lifetime, and I've seen a lot of dumb shit in my life.
Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First

Its even dumber when the Euros use it for Asians on their side of the mega continent and we use it for those on our side. Some Turk in anatolia, a Pakisani or Indian or Chinese and Korean and Japanese are not all alike.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:47 PM (8avO+)

98 I got chewed out by a girl in college for using that term, albeit as an adjective, not a noun.

I pointed out to her that it just referred to the east. Didn't help.

I dodged a bullet with that one.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:45 PM (77rzZ)

You should have challenged her to a Sumo wrestling match. It's how they settle disputes over there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 19, 2025 05:47 PM (i24o9)

99 I was offered an out-of-the-blue full ride scholarship to Harvard. The letter was dripping with condescension. Apparently they were short of Rednecks with excellent SATs that year.

I did not respond, and went Elsewhere for Kollidge. A friend got very similar from another Ivy, and hated it. Said she was the only girl at the table in the dining hall who didn't get up and go do bulimia (bulimia was a Thing in the 80s).

Posted by: Miklos decided well at 17 at May 19, 2025 05:48 PM (053s8)

100 well, shoot. Pyramid of White Supremacy was my favorite game show. I used to come home from grade school, let myself in, and have a snack while I waited for my mom and dad to come home from the jobs they had that they worked all those hours, and I would guess the questions along with the studio audience.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2025 05:48 PM (D7oie)

101 Is the Harvard President still wearing those big glasses?

Or did she get reassigned to another place?

She kept her tenured faculty position at Harvard, despite the fact that basically all her "work" was plagiarized.

She initially got tenure at Stanford, which apparently caused some grumbling among the faculty there, given her complete lack of academic achievement; but no one was suicidal enough to publicly complain.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2025 05:48 PM (xTIDn)

102
The idea that "oriental" is somehow offensive is so absurd, and 100% fabricated.

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:48 PM (K2mYx)

103 I love how they are permanently destroying their brand. Think of all the people who paid big $ for their degrees and now everyone will assume they were suckers for wasting money on a clown college. The donors must be furious. Talk about pissing your money away by donating to Harvard!

Posted by: Eternity Matters at May 19, 2025 05:48 PM (yT7Wa)

104 Heck, even Turks are oriental. What's the big deal?

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2025 05:48 PM (vFG9F)

105 Some university officials even fear that the range of civil investigations could turn into full-blown criminal inquiries.

Fraud? Material support to terrorist organizations?
Posted by: I want them broken and imprisoned at May 19, 2025 05:46 PM (TbWk/)

plus scientific fraud, plagiarism, and having a crap football team.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:49 PM (8avO+)

106 >>I was offered an out-of-the-blue full ride scholarship to Harvard. The letter was dripping with condescension.

Princeton and Columbia, here.

I went out West instead.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2025 05:49 PM (SIRiz)

107
Is "occidental" also "offensive?

How about calling someone from the South Southern?

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:49 PM (K2mYx)

108 What, exactly, are Saxons?

Posted by: Soothsayer

tiny.cc/3sck001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 19, 2025 05:50 PM (Uzn0I)

109 The idea that "oriental" is somehow offensive is so absurd, and 100% fabricated.
Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:48 PM (K2mYx)

It should be to us since the peoples described that way are to our WEST.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:50 PM (8avO+)

110 Say, while Harvard is in the spotlight, what has Yale been up to? Or for that matter, the rest of the Ivy League, including the Wharton School of Business at Trump’s old alma mater the University of Pennsylvania?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 05:50 PM (ZVgZ4)

111 Always remember this:

If Trump had lost the 2024 election, they would have kept doing this discrimination FOREVER. They would have amped it up til "minority" hiring and admissions at 100%, then moved on to reparations, and ultimately gulags. Don't you doubt it.

Posted by: zombie at May 19, 2025 05:51 PM (pMi6S)

112 64 No peace until Harvard establishes a Whitey department that teaches Whitey culture. No sailboats or lacrosse. Just Aspects of Bar-B-Cue and History of ValURite vodka.
Posted by: Oldcat

I would fund that
Posted by: Miklos Valuwright, heir to the Family Fortune at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (053s

I'm so old I can remember a time when white people were cool and a lot of non-white people wanted to be white people. I actually heard black grandmothers tell their grand-daughters to marry very light-skinned men.

Posted by: Eromero at May 19, 2025 05:52 PM (LHPAg)

113 Well, the part about not distributing funds that were already promised or committed or whatever could be legally dicey, they say.

There is also the slight problem that if you think the Federal government owes you money, you are required to file a claim at the Court of Claims, which is the Federal court tasked of hearing all disputes of that nature.

You're not allowed to go judge shopping in the Ninth Circuit to get money from the Feds, no matter what you or the left-wing judges think.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2025 05:52 PM (xTIDn)

114 I got chewed out by a girl in college for using that term

I....uh....no comment

Posted by: Discreet Miklos at May 19, 2025 05:52 PM (053s8)

115 Leftists will never willingly give up their death grip on these institutions. The next step will be to introduce a requirement to take a "victimhood studies" course requirement in order to graduate.
Ironically, many universities started as theological seminaries and students rebelled in the mid-1800s against the obligation of studying theology. Now there is a new theology. This is the end of a cycle.
The only solution is starting a parallel network of institutions. Hopefully moving everything online (or AI instructors?) will make the transition easier.

Posted by: PG at May 19, 2025 05:52 PM (afPT4)

116 After Mr. Trump threatened the school's federal funding, Harvard sued the administration, and legal experts said the university has a strong case.
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I did not know that a private school in the NE is entitled to the fruits of Nebraskan farmer. That they would even attempt to sue for this they should have their assets seized and staff sent to northern alaska to build pointless ditches.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 19, 2025 05:53 PM (/lPRQ)

117 Oriental is East
Occidental is West
That is all

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2025 05:53 PM (ef25Y)

118 I never use the word 'asian' but instead, 'asian bastard.'

I figure that covers all 5 billion of them.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 19, 2025 05:53 PM (zKVqU)

119 Irish aren't Anglo either. Nor the French, Italians, Balkans or Caucasians.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (8avO+)

Good point. But I am none of those things either. 😎. (All the Slav in me are from points north.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 05:45 PM (vm8sq)

Irish English Swedish German. All my relatives were fighting hellish wars against each other since the Roman Empire.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)

120 Oriental is East
Occidental is West
That is all
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2025 05:53 PM (ef25Y)

But the Orient is Occidental to us.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)

121 I went out West instead.

==

The University of West Indies ??

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 05:55 PM (g47mK)

122 @TrumpUpdateHQ 8h

BREAKING: 🇮🇱 Netanyahu just said that the military will take control on full part of Gaza
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What are they going to do with the empty part?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 05:55 PM (j9+uM)

123 I got chewed out by a girl in college for using that term, albeit as an adjective, not a noun.

I pointed out to her that it just referred to the east. Didn't help.

I dodged a bullet with that one.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:45 PM (77rzZ)

just go with slant eyes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 05:55 PM (uWKK8)

124 East and West in Western culture refers to east and west of Jerusalem, the West’s chosen center of the world. Han Chinese hate that because they think they are the center of the world: the Middle Kingdom (also midway between Heaven and Hell as someone pointed out).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 05:55 PM (ZVgZ4)

125 Having an Ivy League degree should be a mark of shame or at the very least have a large stigma attached to it. In the same way that Affirmative Action (and now DEI) has that stigma attached - did you actually earn this or was it just awarded to you because of what you look like.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 19, 2025 05:56 PM (6jgQM)

126 I got chewed out by a girl in college for using that term, albeit as an adjective, not a noun.

I pointed out to her that it just referred to the east. Didn't help.

I dodged a bullet with that one.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:45 PM (77rzZ)

just go with slant eyes.
Posted by: Tom Servo

She was a blonde from Cincinatti. I definitely had a thing for her. But yeah, bullet status: dodged.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 05:57 PM (77rzZ)

127 Always remember this:

If Trump had lost the 2024 election, they would have kept doing this discrimination FOREVER. They would have amped it up til "minority" hiring and admissions at 100%, then moved on to reparations, and ultimately gulags. Don't you doubt it.
Posted by: zombie at May 19, 2025 05:51 PM (pMi6S)

You can have all the crap rules and shit regulations but you will never fool reality. Reality always wins. They destroy themselves by 'showing me' by destroying their cities and burning their books.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:57 PM (8avO+)

128
LOL

obama's stupid ugly daughter is now a "director," having no experience (or skill) she "directs" racist TV ads for NIKE.

But her directorial debut was met with controversy when another DEI racist fake "director" said malaria obama stole material from her short film, which SHE stole from the movie The Color Purple.

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:58 PM (K2mYx)

129 Meanwhile Capuchin monkeys in Panama are kidnapping howler monkey babies.

When did the Democrats last visit Panama?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 19, 2025 05:59 PM (uwNDP)

130 My brother did that 23 and me crap, and apparently we are German, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, English, Dutch, Danish, Finnish.

Wife also did 23 and me: 98% German, a little French thrown in. Her ancestors were from the Alsace. She was annoyed and amused at the same time. She has relatives in Ohio who won't speak to her because she married a guy with a Scottish surname.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 19, 2025 06:00 PM (0aYVJ)

131 Han Chinese prefer Asian because it refers to a place, Asia Minor (Anatolia) that is connected, distantly, to the landmass they are in (Asia Major, as it were). They prefer this cognomen to Oriental (Eastern) because then they have to give up their position at the center of the world, the Middle Kingdom.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 06:00 PM (ZVgZ4)

132 BREAKING: 🇮🇱 Netanyahu just said that the military will take control on full part of Gaza
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What are they going to do with the empty part?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 05:55 PM (j9+uM)

LOL.

Israel should have done this at least a year ago; they should have set up an occupation government to oversee food aid. Instead they would attack an area, kill most of the militants, then just leave and Hamas would come right back in and run it, stealing all the food aid. It's meant that the IDF has had to fight for the same territory 3 or 4 times, in some cases. Bad bad policy and tactics.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 06:00 PM (uWKK8)

133
Say, while Harvard is in the spotlight, what has Yale been up to? Or for that matter, the rest of the Ivy League, including the Wharton School of Business at Trump’s old alma mater the University of Pennsylvania?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 05:50 PM (ZVgZ4)

Hastily scrubbing their websites and course descriptions, probably.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:01 PM (8avO+)

134 My favorite is hearing all white people called “Anglo”. Yeah, I’m Anglo, all right. By 50%. Germans and Slavs are NOT Anglo.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 05:40 PM

Of course you are not 50% Anglo.

The cow half means you are 50% Ungulo!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 19, 2025 06:01 PM (HlyYF)

135 CAPUCHIN SWING

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=3u9ldMUiMcY

Posted by: JACKIE McLEAN at May 19, 2025 06:02 PM (SIRiz)

136 A liberal, lesbian, feminist, vegan, crossfitter from Harvard. Would there be a more annoying person?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2025 06:02 PM (u73oe)

137 Speaking of Obama's daughter, I can't but help notice that it seems to derive from the word malice. At least that comes to mind knowing what I do of her parents.

Your mileage may - and probably does - vary.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 19, 2025 06:02 PM (6jgQM)

138 A body positive liberal lesbian vegan from Harvard has entered Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 19, 2025 06:03 PM (uwNDP)

139 134 My favorite is hearing all white people called “Anglo”. Yeah, I’m Anglo, all right. By 50%. Germans and Slavs are NOT Anglo.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 05:40 PM

Of course you are not 50% Anglo.

The cow half means you are 50% Ungulo!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

I'm 50% Uniqlo and 50% Benneton.

Posted by: zombie at May 19, 2025 06:03 PM (pMi6S)

140 Fun fact: the Saxon name came abour because all adult males (and many of the women) were expected to carry a Long Knife at all times, known as a Seax. The tribe took its name from the practice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 06:04 PM (uWKK8)

141 Howler monkeys ? why ??

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 06:04 PM (g47mK)

142 Hadn't been around much lately but just saw that Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) has terminal prostate cancer and probably won't make it past the summer.

Oh, and has admitted that the COVID vaccine likely harmed a LOT of people like him.

https://tinyurl.com/53m2nap

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men are the romantic sex, pursuing love regardless of income or potential at May 19, 2025 06:04 PM (xsEa+)

143 Israel should have done this at least a year ago; they should have set up an occupation government to oversee food aid. Instead they would attack an area, kill most of the militants, then just leave and Hamas would come right back in and run it, stealing all the food aid. It's meant that the IDF has had to fight for the same territory 3 or 4 times, in some cases. Bad bad policy and tactics.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 06:00 PM (uWKK

Sounds eerily reminiscent of our tactics/strategy in Viet Nam. Take ground, take casualties and then repeat same a few weeks later. Sherman rolls over in his grave.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 19, 2025 06:05 PM (6jgQM)

144 My momma was a singer in a traveling band.

Daddy was a shifty-eyed gambling man.

Posted by: zombie at May 19, 2025 06:05 PM (pMi6S)

145 Israel should have done this at least a year ago; they should have set up an occupation government to oversee food aid. Instead they would attack an area, kill most of the militants, then just leave and Hamas would come right back in and run it, stealing all the food aid. It's meant that the IDF has had to fight for the same territory 3 or 4 times, in some cases. Bad bad policy and tactics.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 06:00 PM (uWKK

More grist for my mill of mis or malfeasance of the IDF, Mossad, and Government. They should know what world they live in and be vigilant.

The Gazans need to be expelled from Gaza and put somewhere else. There's always Spanish Sahara, they'd fit right in.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:06 PM (8avO+)

146
“ Harvard sued the administration, and legal experts said the university has a strong case.”
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I don't see anywhere in the US Constitution that says Government will tax Joe Public and universities are entitled to a cut.

Posted by: Ciampino - Silylation is the slick at May 19, 2025 06:08 PM (sPQoU)

147 My momma was a singer in a traveling band.

Daddy was a shifty-eyed gambling man.
Posted by: zombie

My mama sewed my new blue Jeans

My father was a gamblin' man

Down in New Orleans

Posted by: Miklos recalles a place called the House of the Rising Sun at May 19, 2025 06:09 PM (053s8)

148 Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee May 18

Thomas Crooks shot Pres Trump and we still know nothing even though we are in charge.

Ryan Routh tried to assassinate him and we still have not seen his trial.

James Comey threatens to assassinate him and publicly calls for it and he’s on his way to a best seller.

Trump makes a phone call to Zelensky and gets impeached.

Trump says “go peacefully and make your voices heard” and gets impeached again.

Bannon and Navarro go to jail for refusing to show for a sham congressional subpoena, but Christopher Wray walks free for refusing to show for our congressional subpoena.

Don’t tell me to get outraged when nothing is done to hold these people accountable.

No accountability means people stop caring

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:09 PM (j9+uM)

149 LOL

obama's stupid ugly daughter is now a "director," having no experience (or skill) she "directs" racist TV ads for NIKE.

But her directorial debut was met with controversy when another DEI racist fake "director" said malaria obama stole material from her short film, which SHE stole from the movie The Color Purple.
Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:58 PM (K2mYx)

Both still probably better than "The Acolyte"

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:10 PM (8avO+)

150 128
LOL

obama's stupid ugly daughter is now a "director," having no experience (or skill) she "directs" racist TV ads for NIKE.

But her directorial debut was met with controversy when another DEI racist fake "director" said malaria obama stole material from her short film, which SHE stole from the movie The Color Purple.
Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual

See. This is why The Babylon Bee struggles at times. It just can't keep up with this timeline.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 06:11 PM (sAmhv)

151 Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee 2h
It was 2018 for me after the “midterms are safe” turned out to be a lie. Then Pelosi became Speaker after people didn’t turn out to vote for Republicans bc R’s did nothing to fight to protect Trump and did not pass the agenda.

Feels the same now for many.

Before the “do something” comments start, I have one vote,
don’t have the power to arrest or prosecute people,
don’t control the congressional calendar and can’t control
which bills we vote on.
If I could control all that, the MAGA base wouldn’t feel this way

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:12 PM (j9+uM)

152 I find it hard to believe that Israelis have no plans, for Gaza, for Lebanon, for Syria based on much evidence to the contrary. Their ST plans change based on constantly changing facts on the ground, and geopolitical situation. But I believe the LT plans - getting rid of Hamassholes once and for all, getting all hostages back, buffer zone between gaza and lebanon, never changed. In fact they achieved what they wanted on the Lebanese border - Hezbos are gone and powerless few are sitting behind the Latani river. Bonus ! Syria is now under new management that might be beneficial to Israel in the long run.

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 06:12 PM (g47mK)

153 No, but seriously, my paternal great-grandmother was a 15-year-old runaway girl, and my paternal great-grandfather was some random hobo of unknown parentage who fucked her in an alleyway. For real. Never done 23 and Me, but if I did their computer would probably start spewing steam and flashing warning lights, as it blares, "Does not compute. Illogical paradox. Cannot be calculated" before exploding in a ball of fire.

Posted by: zombie at May 19, 2025 06:12 PM (pMi6S)

154 Han Chinese prefer Asian because it refers to a place, Asia Minor (Anatolia) that is connected, distantly, to the landmass they are in (Asia Major, as it were). They prefer this cognomen to Oriental (Eastern) because then they have to give up their position at the center of the world, the Middle Kingdom.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 06:00 PM (ZVgZ4)

They aren't even in the Center of Asia. Its somewhere around Lake Baikal.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:12 PM (8avO+)

155 I got chewed out by a girl in college for using that term

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I....uh....no comment
Posted by: Discreet Miklos at May 19, 2025 05:52 PM (053s

Same here. I couldn't sit down for a week.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:13 PM (lrfZA)

156 ...obama's stupid ugly daughter is now a "director," having no experience (or skill) she "directs" racist TV ads for NIKE...

Do the ads show rioters and looters wearing Nike's as they riot and loot?

Just wondering.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 19, 2025 06:13 PM (6jgQM)

157 Hamassholes issue is taking longer, but what we are seeing is what our friends in the CHEKA called zachistka (ask Bulg what that means).

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 06:13 PM (g47mK)

158 didn't 40+ Repubs quit/retire before the 2018 mid-terms? Just to f- with Trump?

Posted by: free tibet at May 19, 2025 06:14 PM (fhy1d)

159 Its even dumber when the Euros use it for Asians on their side of the mega continent and we use it for those on our side. Some Turk in anatolia, a Pakisani or Indian or Chinese and Korean and Japanese are not all alike.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 05:47 PM (8avO+)

That is insane. I mean, they don't even all have squinty eyes.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2025 06:14 PM (D7oie)

160 Bring these Ivy League tyrants down! Expose them in and out of court and gut all their government funding.

Posted by: Tracy at May 19, 2025 06:15 PM (KnYVp)

161 No, but seriously, my paternal great-grandmother was a 15-year-old runaway girl, and my paternal great-grandfather was some random hobo of unknown parentage who fucked her in an alleyway. For real. Never done 23 and Me, but if I did their computer would probably start spewing steam and flashing warning lights, as it blares, "Does not compute. Illogical paradox. Cannot be calculated" before exploding in a ball of fire.
Posted by: zombie at May 19, 2025 06:12 PM (pMi6S)
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Eh. Considering the nature of people throughout history, no doubt we all have ancestors like that...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2025 06:15 PM (GlyvH)

162 In fact they achieved what they wanted on the Lebanese border - Hezbos are gone and powerless few are sitting behind the Latani river. Bonus ! Syria is now under new management that might be beneficial to Israel in the long run.
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 06:12 PM (g47mK)

I might be impressed if it was not the Turks who did that.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)

163 didn't 40+ Repubs quit/retire before the 2018 mid-terms? Just to f- with Trump?

Posted by: free tibet at May 19, 2025 06:14 PM (fhy1d)

Yep (although I think it was more like 20, but still enough) and they were encouraged by that useless, evil, back-stabbing POS Paul Ryan.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 19, 2025 06:16 PM (6jgQM)

164 No accountability means people stop caring
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:09 PM (j9+uM)

She better not run for higher office. She might lose!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:16 PM (lrfZA)

165 If you live in Turkey but reside in Istanbul, you actually live in Europe not Asia, and so are a Westerner.

https://is.gd/WWeOqj

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 06:17 PM (ZVgZ4)

166 Is there any Republican that can herd all those GOP cats in the House?

Because Johnson is no better than the last 4 or 5 Republican Speakers.

I don't think it's possible.

While the Dems can vote in lock step nearly every time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 06:18 PM (6ydKt)

167 82
But back to Harvard. The STEM people who are having their laboratories defunded and whatnot are just going to have to take a stand. Sorry your five-year study of some cutting-edge cancer treatment is being axed four years in, but it's time for you to do something about your institution's crimes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2025 05:44 PM (n7rxJ)
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Yes.
In Africa we managed to do research with a very small fraction of the money going here. Also the researcher got 100% of the grant money, no admiinistrative overhead to skim.

Posted by: Ciampino - Charge them with civil rights violations at May 19, 2025 06:18 PM (sPQoU)

168 Eh. Considering the nature of people throughout history, no doubt we all have ancestors like that...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2025 06:15 PM (GlyvH)

I remember a story about a company that could view back in time by your genes and find all the relations back. Finally the founder tracked his and they went back, and back for 40000 years when there was like 10 tribesmen in France and he was just one of the guys. His line never produced one notable figure in all that time.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:18 PM (8avO+)

169 I might be impressed if it was not the Turks who did that.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)

Erdogan is a joke, and no one is taking the nonsense that is coming out of his mouth seriously. He has a ...reputation in International circles.

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 06:19 PM (g47mK)

170 >>> No, but seriously, my paternal great-grandmother was a 15-year-old runaway girl, and my paternal great-grandfather was some random hobo of unknown parentage who fucked her in an alleyway. For real. Never done 23 and Me, but if I did their computer would probably start spewing steam and flashing warning lights, as it blares, "Does not compute. Illogical paradox. Cannot be calculated" before exploding in a ball of fire.

Posted by: zombie

>This is the strain of genetic stock that makes America robust and free.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 19, 2025 06:19 PM (zKVqU)

171 See. This is why The Babylon Bee struggles at times. It just can't keep up with this timeline.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 06:11 PM

Bearded Spock: "Wow, this universe is even more radical than my universe!"

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 19, 2025 06:20 PM (HlyYF)

172 If you live in Turkey but reside in Istanbul, you actually live in Europe not Asia, and so are a Westerner.

https://is.gd/WWeOqj
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 06:17 PM (ZVgZ4)

I hear even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

Why'd they change it?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:20 PM (lrfZA)

173 didn't 40+ Repubs quit/retire before the 2018 mid-terms? Just to f- with Trump?

Posted by: free tibet at May 19, 2025 06:14 PM

They had "aged out" of all committee spots because of gop rules on committee assignments and were going to lose the choice spots for graft so they retired instead of becoming just another house member.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 19, 2025 06:20 PM (e5NfL)

174 Generally in Spanish I just tell people I am a Gringo, and if they seem taken aback, I just say "Estaounidense" is too hard to say and I am no "Yanqui"

I also like to refer to "fighting the tar-baby" to college educated whites, who then get wrapped around themselves trying to figure out how to object to the term while pretending they don't know what that term means

Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2025 06:20 PM (D7oie)

175 Paul Ryan, to me, is the epitome of everything that I hate about the Republican Party. Oh yeah, the Democrats might be worse in that they're actually communists, but they don't look me in the eye and lie about it. They're honest and up front commies. But the Ryans of the world are the worst kind of miscreant, looking you in the eye and asking for your support in fighting the Democrats, and then stabbing you in the back in cahoots with the commies. I think Cicero had something to say about that wrt traitors in our midst being the most dangerous threat.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 19, 2025 06:21 PM (6jgQM)

176 didn't 40+ Repubs quit/retire before the 2018 mid-terms? Just to f- with Trump?

Posted by: free tibet at May 19, 2025 06:14 PM (fhy1d)

Yep (although I think it was more like 20, but still enough) and they were encouraged by that useless, evil, back-stabbing POS Paul Ryan.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 19, 2025 06:16 PM (6jgQM)

26

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:21 PM (8avO+)

177 66 60
What, exactly, are Saxons?

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 05:41 PM (K2mYx)

They invented the Saxophone…

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2025 05:42 PM (PCK5/)
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So the Xylons (Cylons) invented the xylophone?

Posted by: Ciampino - Good theory at May 19, 2025 06:21 PM (sPQoU)

178 They invented the Saxophone…
Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2025 05:42 PM (PCK5/)

It's pronounced saxamaphone.

Posted by: H. Simpson Beer Baron at May 19, 2025 06:21 PM (5xuJ/)

179 I also like to refer to "fighting the tar-baby" to college educated whites, who then get wrapped around themselves trying to figure out how to object to the term while pretending they don't know what that term means
Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2025 06:20 PM (D7oie)

Its a baby made of tar. Uncle Remus didn't mince words.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (8avO+)

180 127 Always remember this:

If Trump had lost the 2024 election, they would have kept doing this discrimination FOREVER. They would have amped it up til "minority" hiring and admissions at 100%, then moved on to reparations, and ultimately gulags. Don't you doubt it.
Posted by: zombie at May 19, 2025 05:51 PM (pMi6S)
I don't doubt it.

Posted by: Eromero at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (LHPAg)

181 Is there any Republican that can herd all those GOP cats in the House?

Because Johnson is no better than the last 4 or 5 Republican Speakers.

I don't think it's possible.

While the Dems can vote in lock step nearly every time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 06:18 PM (6ydKt)

More than half the R's want to spend spend spend, on the Green New Deal, on Planned Parenthood... they want to give the DoD more money, for pete's sake!

Some R's don't.

That the majority of R's are in lock step with the D's is the problem, not that that some R's are not.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (lrfZA)

182
Eyewitless News says:

The Trump administration is set to pay out nearly $5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, a rioter fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News on Monday.

The settlement will resolve a $30 million suit brought by Babbitt's estate and the conservative group Judicial Watch alleging the Capitol Police officer who shot her as she attempted to breach a broken window of the House speaker's lobby was negligent in his duties.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (63Dwl)

183 But Istanbul extends across both continents.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (77rzZ)

184 hear even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

Why'd they change it?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:20 PM (lrfZA)

Was a Dutch colony, Brits took it over as a prize from some war with the Dutch.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:23 PM (8avO+)

185 I hear even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

Why'd they change it?
Posted by: BurtTC

The English kicked out the Dutch and renamed the city.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 06:23 PM (sAmhv)

186 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 19, 2025 06:24 PM (zZu0s)

187
Always remember this:

If Trump had lost the 2024 election, they would have kept doing this discrimination FOREVER. They would have amped it up til "minority" hiring and admissions at 100%, then moved on to reparations, and ultimately gulags. Don't you doubt it.
Posted by: zombie

When the Dems get all three branches it will start all over again.

Posted by: Eromero

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2025 06:24 PM (63Dwl)

188 This is the strain of genetic stock that makes America robust and free.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 19, 2025 06:19 PM (zKVqU)

Hybrid vigor.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:25 PM (8avO+)

189 I think the Dems say to their swing state fence-sitters:

"Hey, I know this is a tough vote for you, but if you lose your election over it, the party will take care of you."

While the GOPe says:

"Look, vote right on this, or you're on your own come November."

The Dems reward loyalty and punish their enemies.

The GOPe punishes disloyalty and craves the approval of their enemies.

Until Trump came along.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 06:25 PM (6ydKt)

190 Ryan Routh tried to assassinate him and we still have not seen his trial.

Braenyard, His suicide has not been scheduled yet.

Posted by: Eromero at May 19, 2025 06:25 PM (LHPAg)

191 hear even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

Why'd they change it?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:20 PM (lrfZA)

Folks seemed to have missed your setup. I thought this place was filled with old codgers.

*singing* "People must have liked it better that way"

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 19, 2025 06:26 PM (0aYVJ)

192 When the Dems get all three branches it will start all over again.

Posted by: Eromero
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2025 06:24 PM (63Dwl)

The current insane groups in charge are what the main Democrats spent 50 years trying to hide.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:26 PM (8avO+)

193 @catturd2 May 14

Predicting the midterms is easy …

If Republicans codify Trump’s agenda, unite, and stand behind the President, they’ll win a landslide.

If Republicans continue to do what they’re doing, which is going against Trump’s Cabinet picks, being worthless and lazy, and doing nothing to help Trump, they’ll lose in a landslide.

It’s almost like they want to lose.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:26 PM (j9+uM)

194 159 Its even dumber when the Euros use it for Asians... Some Turk in anatolia, a Pakisani or Indian or Chinese and Korean and Japanese are not all alike.
Posted by: Oldcat

That is insane. I mean, they don't even all have squinty eyes.
Posted by: Kindltot

I thought everyone knew this, but I've learned recently that many do not:

THe three largest racial groupings on Earth are "White" ("Caucasian"), "Black" ("sub-Saharan African"), and "Asian" ("Mongoloid"). (And yes, the terms constantly change, but you get the basic gist of it, whatever the labels.) Most people know that part but do NOT know that:

-- The dividing line between "White" and "Asian" populations runs from between Burma and Bangladesh, up tot hr Chinese border, then cintinues between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, then between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, then loops back through southern Siberia to the Pacific. In Simpler term: Indians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Afghan and Iranians are ALL CAUCASIAN.

-- -- The dividing line between "White" and "Black" is about across the center of the Sahara Desert, meaning all "north Africans: are also "Caucasian."

Should be more widely acknowkedged.

Posted by: zombie at May 19, 2025 06:27 PM (pMi6S)

195
The Dems reward loyalty and punish their enemies.

The GOPe punishes disloyalty and craves the approval of their enemies.

Until Trump came along.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 06:25 PM (6ydKt)

No, Democrats punish their enemies and any apostates from the religion double.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:28 PM (8avO+)

196 Saxamaphooooooooooooooone.....

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 19, 2025 06:28 PM (LKMDZ)

197 Steve Sax invented the 4-to-fan in upper bleachers put-out when throwing to Garvey at 1st base on an easy grounder.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 19, 2025 06:29 PM (LKMDZ)

198 Should be more widely acknowkedged.
Posted by: zombie at May 19, 2025 06:27 PM (pMi6S)

The dividing line now is simpler: if you don't toe the line you aren't Black. Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas are white.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:30 PM (8avO+)

199 Steve Sax invented the 4-to-fan in upper bleachers put-out when throwing to Garvey at 1st base on an easy grounder.
Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 19, 2025 06:29 PM (LKMDZ)

The Saxon were famous for throwing the Saxe into the opposing crowd when fighting then charging the disordered opponents.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:31 PM (8avO+)

200 If Republicans continue to do what they’re doing, which is going against Trump’s Cabinet picks, being worthless and lazy, and doing nothing to help Trump, they’ll lose in a landslide.

It’s almost like they want to lose.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:26 PM (j9+uM)

You keep doing this. We are the Republican Party. The GOPe are the heretics.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:33 PM (8avO+)

201 Uncle Remus is the father of Southern story-telling. (I also have an imported DVD of Song of the South, and since almost no one has seen it since it’s post-war release, I’ll add that it is set in the post-war South - different war - and is actually quite innocuous).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 06:37 PM (ZVgZ4)

202 Inside Knowledge here: Incoming Freshmen (or Froshpeople) questionnaire/survey on views and demographics at Hahvahd in Fall 1989: when asked about which political party/spectrum you leaned to: 75 % Democrat/Liberal, approximately 20% GOP/conservative, 5% undecided. Religion: 50% atheist. 20% Catholic. 20% Protestant, 10% Jew, 1% muslim. I noticed a lot of students, even dudes smoked cigarettes (especially New Yorkers and Bostonians). Only athletes did not really smoke. (Male Athletes as a whole avoided the whole "let's obsess about politics" crap to their credit. Most of them turned out ok when I saw them at alumni reunions. in fact, 4 players on the football team became neurosurgeons). Big culture shock as only artsy losers/metal heads smoked off campus at our west coast public school. Never med a conservative minority...aside from Asians in Christian fellowship club.
Not so fun fact; odd Classmate Chinyua Sanyika murder-suicided his South African girlfriend Althea Williams in LA in 1996 (he was at Stanford Med)..guess his faith. I remember in the Springtime during Lent, they seemed to always serve the previously rare menu item "steak" on Fridays. Same pattern all 4 years.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 19, 2025 06:42 PM (LKMDZ)

203 Where the heck did the Jutes go to after the 5th Century invasion?? Joisey/ Jersey Island????

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 19, 2025 06:50 PM (LKMDZ)

204 Undergrad purportedly 95% Liberal. Jill Stein, the weed-whacky bongo-playing Harvard psychiatrist got 3%....more than Trump 2% in 2016...when the old Republican Club of Harvard did NOT endorse him on purpose.....then came to their senses in 2020. (One good observation by Ann Coulter; all the College Republicans from 1992 until today liked to be like a young Tucker Carlson and sport the bowtie. Now it's a liberal thing. I sported one before these folks so I aint' changing!!

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 19, 2025 06:54 PM (LKMDZ)

205 "Some university officials even fear that the range of civil investigations could turn into full-blown criminal inquiries."

Other than it being 100% criminal, why would they think that?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 19, 2025 07:17 PM (gDhA9)

206 90% women faculty is not going to retain an elite status for long.
STEM is not a field where women excel.
Keep it up Harvard, become the Oberlin of the next century.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at May 19, 2025 08:50 PM (g2rye)

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