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Harvard President Gay is Weasel of the Year and the competition has never been steeper. She edged out past winners FBI Director Wray and USAG Garland at the last minute with a truly appalling performance before Congress. When asked to comment when contacted this afternoon in his retirement home in the UAE Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (AKA "Baghdad Bob") simply replied "LOL. Amazing!"
FIRE ranks Harvard as the university most openly hostile to free speech. In response, its President explained that "free speech" is about learning to be sensitive to what listeners have been trained to accept and expect. The "tools" to be mastered on one's "Harvard journey" are actually honing the skill to use only the language of the mandatory ideological framework and then calling that "free speech." Indoctrination is called "exploration." There is no persecution or cancellation at Harvard, merely natural outcomes of a community expectation of "sensitivity." It does not matter if Jewish students are afraid to leave their dorm rooms because Harvard continues to strive to create a welcoming campus. Just look at the brochure.
On their best day, neither Josef Goebbels nor Leo Trotsky could have delivered that much crapola with a straight face and the calm demeanor of Claudine Gay. This lady could have delivered an upbeat Expedia ad for Auschwitz.
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She's a real piece of work, isn't she? I'd better stop there before I violate the CoC.
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Get down to the copyright office and put in a claim. I'd love to see the annual Weasel of the Year pageant. Like the old days of Miss America, there'd be a song for the winner, and the five other contestants would gallantly support that winner, though they have tears in their eyes.
Holding an armful of red roses, choking back tears of her own, the lucky winner gets to speak: "I'd like to call for world peace. That is, according to intersectional principles of fair trade, gender-fluidity, racial equity and an understanding that violence is ultimately peaceful."
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If supporters of Israel began chanting
From the river to the sea
Israel for Israelis
we’d soon find out how committed these institutions are to free speech or whether this language is deemed to be a prohibited call to genocide.
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"In the event that Claudine Gay cannot fulfill her duties as Weasel of the Year, those duties will be taken up by the Runner-up Weasel, Anthony Blinken."
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Or Anthony Fauci.
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