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Harvard student groups issued anti-Israel statement, CEOs want them blacklisted

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Re: Harvard student groups issued anti-Israel statement, CEOs want them blacklisted

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I see stuff like this, and the first place my mind goes isn't to the antisemitism (it really never dies), or student-run organizations saying dumb things (again, not surprising).

The first place my mind goes, is... does Harvard not teach history classes?

Re: Harvard student groups issued anti-Israel statement, CEOs want them blacklisted

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I see stuff like this, and the first place my mind goes isn't to the antisemitism (it really never dies), or student-run organizations saying dumb things (again, not surprising). The first place my mind goes, is... does Harvard not teach history classes?

What do you mean not teach history class? I am not well informed about this area—is there specific history you referring to?

Re: Harvard student groups issued anti-Israel statement, CEOs want them blacklisted

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I see stuff like this, and the first place my mind goes isn't to the antisemitism (it really never dies), or student-run organizations saying dumb things (again, not surprising). The first place my mind goes, is... does Harvard not teach history classes?

It doesn’t take much to reject someone else’s accounting of history.

In fact, almost every conflict involves competing histories because they’re an essential part of establishing legitimacy for a cause. People put a lot of effort into developing persuasive ones.

Histories can do a better or worse job of relating facts, but they’re never authoritative. Activists will always have their own, as will the authorities that they are agitating against.

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