Harvard Student Paper ‘The Crimson’ Defends Resident Dean Who Called Police ‘Racist, Evil’
“Davis has since expressed regret for any harm his comments may have caused — but, in any case, participation in past political discourse should not disqualify him from continuing to hold his position”
Is anyone surprised by this? No matter what they claim, this is the fallback position of most people on the left.
The College Fix reports:
Harvard Crimson defends resident dean who called cops ‘racist, evil’ and said ‘if [Trump] dies, he dies’
The Harvard Crimson yet again has decided whose speech merits protection, and as you might surmise it doesn’t belong to someone on the right.
Its latest editorial defends Gregory Davis, the resident dean of Dunster House, whose past controversial social media remarks recently were unearthed.
Davis had suggested Donald Trump was the “worst of Nixon and Hitler” (2016), said “whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it” (2019), claimed looting and rioting were part of a democracy akin to “voting and marching” (2020), and said he doesn’t blame people for wishing ill upon Donald Trump (complete with a “fuck that guy” and Ivan Drago “Rocky IV” GIF of “If he dies, he dies“).
David also told anyone with “cop friends” to pressure them to quit as they’re “racist” and “evil.” His most recent social media post read “Wishing everyone a great Pride. Remember to love each other and hate the police.”
The Crimson editors note “Davis has since expressed regret for any harm his comments may have caused — but, in any case, participation in past political discourse should not disqualify him from continuing to hold his position.”
“A number” of the dean’s posts “were part of the broader political conversation of the time, at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement,” the editors continue, noting they would not call for a conservative dean to be fired if he had “criticized” BLM.
“[I]t would be foolhardy to fire an employee on account of now-harmless past comments dug up by a politically prejudiced website,” the editors conclude in part.
This is the same paper which poo-poohed a blatantly antisemitic Instagram post by a pair of campus pro-Palestinian organizations (one of which was a faculty/staff group), and said Riley Gaines didn’t deserve an audience regarding the discussion topic of biological men playing in women’s sports. (Wasn’t that “part of the broader political conversation” … as it is now?)
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“the editors continue, noting they would not call for a conservative dean to be fired if he had “criticized” BLM.”
A safe, unfalsifiable claim to make, since you don’t have any.
I’m astounded. The Dean “told anyone with “cop friends” to pressure them to quit as they’re “racist” and “evil.”” So does that mean that people are “racist” while they are on the police force but once they quit, retire, or otherwise leave any inherent “racist” thoughts then are purged perhaps in the exit interview. Wow! I wonder if the good Dean is researching this to better understand the precise mechanism for this purging operation? Perhaps the purging of “racist” thinking in humans by an exit interview is analogous to the demagnetization performed on the CRT monitors of old. This line of thinking potentially opens up a rich vein of new and valuable insights into the human psychic and human organizations. I look forward further elaborations in the future.
There’s an awful lot of stupid people polluting the education system with their communist ideology.
Local cops should respond, “Okay, since we’re.racist and evil, we won’t respond to any more campus calls.”
There are conservative deans at Harvard? IF there were, they’ve have been fired for saying they wished death on anyone, not that they would have.
The Crimson has a right to publish an obnoxious editorial, and the “court of public opinion” has a right to note who the Crimson’s editors are and refuse to hire any of them for anything ever.
Blatant hypocrisy at Harvard; they hounded out a house dean a number of years ago because his serving on Harvey Weinstein’ defense team “made students feel unsafe.”