Harvard Must Fall

One expects nothing less than a moral panic and, dare I say, cancellation of an entire university, from the intellectual dark web types after such a representative sample.

These comments alone provide more intellectual stimulation than their entire front page.

What a stinker. A Hoover fellow complaining the same way legacy students complain, whining and moaning that there are consequences for pointless, exclusionary language. “Wokeness” is their scapegoat when the reality is there are absolute idiots with 1-2 generations of Ivy degrees sharing rooms with smart people from diverse backgrounds, not prep school detritus. They aren’t struggling or being excluded because of their backgrounds, but because of their lack of ability and cultural literacy. Can’t blame them, it’s not their choice to be coddled

The article sounded more like whining because the author does not like the present currents of thought in Harvard and elsewhere in the academia.

I'm not intimate with Roland Fryer or his research, but the phrase the author chose to quote from him ("no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account") does make him seem like an apologist of racial oppression.

Not to mention the closing quote (by the author) "truth is the first casualty of progressivism".

Harvard may need to fall, but for completely different reasons.

Wow wow wow what an absolutely horrible article, I can not believe this has got to the front page of HN. First of all, Roland Fryer was indeed suspended for sexual harassment. He himself admits that and has talked about the work he's done to improve himself after learning the affect that his comments had on young people. That's behavior very unbefitting of someone who got fired for "just spitting facts in the face of the woke mob". You'd expect him to, you know, actually fight the claims if it was the case.

Quote from Fryer: “I apologize for the insensitive and inappropriate comments that led to my suspension, which I regret deeply and which brought shame on the department and disrepute on me personally,” Fryer wrote. “I didn’t appreciate the inherent power dynamics in my interactions, which led me to act in ways that I now realize were deeply inappropriate for someone in my position.”

Failing to mention any of that is 100% journalistic malpractice and should immediately tip anyone off that this is not a real piece of journalism, it's a quick, hacked together culture war piece. It even says this "Gone are those such as Roland Fryer who sought to inquire freely into the most important questions facing society today through well-gathered evidence and rigorous logic." one paragraph after talking about how Fryer was welcomed back. Truly masterful levels of journalistic trash.

The rest of the article is just your standard fox news CRT bait piece about how every classroom (including, somehow, all the engineering and maths classes) are teaching your kids that America is bad and racist and only you can save them by teaching them the lost, forgotten idea that America is actually exceptional and never once destabilized a South American government to make bananas cheaper. There's no real evidence in the article to support this, you just have to take the author (who has already established themselves as someone willing to hide information to make a point).

If you want to criticize Harvard and other major institutions, I have no problem with that. They are institutions that admit legacy candidates by the boatload despite what often is a lack of merit, for example. But this isn't criticism here, it's just culture war. Its just "cultural Marxism" but avoiding saying that so that it can appear credible. But read any article about cultural Marxism and you'll find practically copy pasted content. What's cultural Marxism? A conspiracy theory that was originated by the Nazis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism) and is being peddled by neo-nazis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_...) try to justify the idea that people are actively destroying "culture". The Nazis did it to justify the most industrial genocide ever committed. Please don't buy into genocidal conspiracies because of hacked articles like this.

This submission just got flagged, so I guess the moral panic lies elsewhere.