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Terry Quist's avatar

Excellent essay. The problem is renewing moral order from below. This cannot be done in principle from above. Moral order imposed by government policy tends towards moral theater and not moral character.

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CC's avatar

Rather ironic that Harvard preaches DEI and all that it entails yet what the DEI en goal is that of conformity, homogeneity, and sterility.

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CC's avatar

DEI is just an alternative system of racism against white people, including Asians and Jews.

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SlowlyReading's avatar

This is consonant with Lauren A. Wright's report from Princeton:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/conservative-students-college-ideology/678934/

Helen Andrews (Yale '08) dissents:

https://x.com/herandrews/status/1818645783798833163

One might argue that the responsibility for educating wilfully ignorant progressive undergrads about the existence of conservative ideas, and/or the existence of dissent from progressivism in general, really shouldn't fall on the shoulders of a few courageous undergrad classmates who happened to benefit from a conservative upbringing and/or conservative roots. You'd think that the mere exposure to non-progressive ideas ought to be part of liberal education as such. Sadly, academia has other ideas. Fortunately there are alternatives: https://lawliberty.org/offshore-core/

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Terry Quist's avatar

Excellent essay. The problem is renewing moral order from below. This cannot be done in principle from above. Moral order imposed by government policy tends towards moral theater and not moral character.

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