Like many people, I own a ladder.  From time to time I use it for various household tasks that involve doing something out of my immediate reach.  Whenever I climb up a ladder I try to always practice extreme caution, while simultaneously realizing that an accident could still occur.  And if, God forbid, I should ever be in an accident involving a ladder, I have no plans to sue the ladder manufacturer.

But because there are so many people out there who would sue a ladder manufacturer even if it was their own stupidity or carelessness that caused the accident, ladder manufacturers are forced to take legal precautions.  They understand that because there’s no way to idiot-proof a ladder, they have to cover themselves legally by plastering their products with warning labels.  Otherwise, they could get sued out of existence.  Consequently, my ladder has four separate warnings on it.

So, we live in an extremely litigious society, to the point of absurdity.  And yet . . .

And yet, left-wing American universities like Harvard and Columbia, among many others, seemed to have actually thought that they could allow crazed, Jew-hating, terrorist-supporting lunatics to take over their campuses, shut down classes and normal business, intimidate and attack Jewish students, all while calling for genocide, and they wouldn’t be held legally liable in any way.

Ha!  LOLOL!  You blithering idiots!  Every consumer product under the sun has warnings about every conceivable thing, no matter how ridiculous, because of potential legal liability, and yet . . . and yet . . . and yet . . .  You were still this stupid because of your all-consuming leftist ideology that demanded that you take the side of Jew-haters and genocide-promoters because somehow they were higher up on the intersectional chart of acceptable human beings, according to some-damn-body.

Oy vey!  You boneheaded schmoes!  But karma’s a bitch, baby, and if there’s a Judeo-Christian god in heaven, at least some of you are going to pay a substantial price.

Let’s take Harvard, for instance.  Its DEI former president, Claudine Gay, was forced to resign after Congressional hearings on anti-Semitic protests on campuses.  It seems she was unable to articulately explain why she allowed Harvard to be turned into a mini-Gaza Strip, replete with a bunch of Hamas wannabes who were allowed to dole out a kind of “soft” terrorism while she blathered about free speech and the right to protest.  Apparently, it never occurred to her — or any of the other university geniuses who were grilled at those hearings — that in an extraordinarily litigious society where everything requires a safety warning, organized protests calling for the actual genocide of a people might not be okay and might be subject to legal redress.

She, and they, were wrong — stupidly and colossally wrong.  And to the surprise of no one with an ounce of common sense, lawsuits and investigations aplenty have blossomed across the land in what amounts to the most fertile legal soil imaginable.

And, of course, it’s almost hackneyed at this point to say that if what was allowed on those campuses had been directed at any people of color or people of the rainbow, the Biden Justice Department would have conducted the law enforcement equivalent of a blitzkrieg, the “protestors” would have ended up under the jail that contained the Jan. 6 political prisoners, and the campus officials who allowed it all would have been sued, shamed and sent to reeducation camps.  But I digress.

So, even now, after all the bottomless stupidity of what was allowed on campuses, Harvard University is attempting to intimidate one of its former students who is suing it.  That would be one Shabbos Kestenbaum, a former divinity student who wasn’t content to just move on after this DEI institution allowed hate crimes on steroids while it blathered about “equity” and “inclusion” while not giving a damn if an entire people were rhetorically targeted for genocide.

So, what are they doing to Shabbos Kestenbaum?  Well, in the discovery phase of the trial, Harvard is trying to force him to release communications he may have had with certain political leaders and members of a pro-Israel group on campus. Why?  It seems to be an attempt to intimidate Kestenbaum into dropping the lawsuit by implicating others whom Harvard wants to accuse of colluding with him.

Who cares if anybody “colluded” with him?  The only important issue is if the allegations against Harvard are true. Here’s what we know:

Harvard allowed mobs of pro-Hamas hooligans to march around campus for days and weeks on end, spewing vile slogans and calling for death to Jews and Israel.  Harvard allowed them to occupy buildings, classrooms, libraries, student lounges, plazas and study halls while Jewish students feared for their lives.  It’s about as open-and-shut as a case can get since the entire world watched it on television.  Again, who cares if Kestenbaum “colluded” with somebody?  This is obviously desperation on the part of Harvard since it can’t deny what happened.

And it’s not just lawsuits, of course, but the potential of federal funds being withheld by the Trump administration from Harvard and other universities.  That threat spurred the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, to make this hyperbolically silly statement: “If this funding is stopped, it will halt life-saving research and imperil important scientific research and innovation.”

Yeah, right, uh-huh.  All scientific progress will grind to a halt, people will die and the country will be plunged into authoritarian darkness.  Please.

First of all, Harvard is the most well-endowed university on earth, at roughly $52 billion dollars.  So, it can continue doing “life-saving research” to its heart’s content.  But second, does Harvard know what a woman is?  Because if it’s bowing down to the trans cult and denying biology, I don’t want to hear about “scientific” anything coming out of that place.  And third, does Harvard know the difference between good and evil, Israel and Hamas?  If not, the world will be just fine without it, better even.

We can only hope that these universities will be “scared straight” by what amounts to a tsunami of exorbitantly expensive lawsuits, as well as the withholding of federal funds.  Since their ideological blinders seem to cause them to operate outside the bounds of rational thought, there’s probably nothing other than the prospect of financial ruin that could change their behavior.