Harvard Prof Who Chaired ‘Institutional Neutrality Group’ Advocates ‘Resistance’ to Trump
“The main thing is to keep sending a clear message that what’s going on isn’t normal, isn’t okay, and won’t be tolerated.”
Professor Noah Feldman of Harvard was the co-chair of the school’s Institutional Voice Working Group, which recommended that “[t]he university and its leaders should not . . . issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function.”
Feldman is also active on Substack, where he recently advocated ‘resistance’ to the Trump administration, particularly regarding ICE.
Ira Stoll reported at the Washington Free Beacon:
Chair of Harvard’s ‘Institutional Voice’ Committee Insists: ‘You Need To Participate in … Resistance’
The Harvard professor who co-chaired the university’s institutional neutrality working group, which concluded that the university should not “issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function,” has started a new Substack in which he exhorts readers to “participate in … resistance” against the Trump administration.
“The takeaway is that you need to participate in sustained, sustainable resistance,” the column says. “If ICE hasn’t yet deployed where you live, that resistance can include speaking out online and to your friends and neighbors. It can include donating money to organizations that are supporting protestors. The main thing is not to be silent. The main thing is to keep sending a clear message that what’s going on isn’t normal, isn’t okay, and won’t be tolerated.”
The professor, Noah Feldman, is the first signer of the May 2024 Harvard “Report on Institutional Voice in the University,” which cautioned the university against speaking out on political issues.
“The integrity and credibility of the institution are compromised when the university speaks officially on matters outside its institutional area of expertise,” the report said. “If the university adopts an official position on an issue beyond its core function, it will be understood to side with one perspective or another on that issue. Given the diversity of viewpoints within the university, choosing a side, or appearing to do so can undermine the inclusivity of the university community.”
A quick look at Feldman’s Substack reveals all of the talking points currently favored by the left.
On the Value of Sustained Resistance in Preserving Democracy
Of all the Trump administration’s efforts to expand and consolidate its authority, the ICE operations in Minneapolis feel the most terrifying. In the U.S. system, we are accustomed to police being limited in their ability to grab people up on the streets and send them away to detention centers without hearing or trial. Seeing that happen gives us a sense of what a true police state looks like. Careful, thoughtful writers and analysts who have been wary of drawing analogies between Trumpism and fascism are starting to use the term less guardedly. That’s a direct result of the atmosphere created by ICE.
Is there any wonder why Pete Hegseth recently announced that the War Department is now severing academic ties with Harvard?
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…and Cardi b told her people that if she sees ICE agents she was going to do some violence on them
they wont stop
until they are told to
Another a-hole from Harvard…
The goose-stepping, brown-shirted, communist/Marxist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist/black supremacist/tranny “Resistance,” says, “Resistance is futile.”
This kind of nonsense is why some alumni are not sending money to Harvard.
I say let’s put a few murderers from El Salvador in his house , for”safe keeping” and hands on experience
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