By adamg on Mon., 3/10/2025 - 12:21 pm
Naftali Bennett, who spent a year as Israeli prime minister, was at Harvard Business School last week for one of those off-the-record, just-between-us-Masters-of-the-Universe talks that make Harvard Harvard. And he got off such a rip-snorter of a joke that at least six participants couldn't wait to tell the Crimson about it: After the moderator warned that any protesters interrupting Bennett would be ejected, Bennett quipped "I think we’ll just give them a pager."
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Imagine if a Palestinian or
By Anon
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 1:17pm
Imagine if a Palestinian or Muslim speaker joked about blowing up any who interrupted them. Trump and the media like fox and NYTimes would be calling for his prosecution as a terrorist.
An unfortunate example of how Trump pulled the wool over
By Daan
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 1:27pm
The fact that there are a relatively small number of people disconnected from the billions walking upon the Earth helps explain the rise of Trump et al. They appeal to that feeling of disconnection and manage to create an illusion of being one of the many, when the reality is that they gladly sacrifice to pain and suffering any and all, to maintain their position.
Reminds me of how I was taught the colonists perceived the king of England versus Parliament during the American Insurrection. Many folks held onto the belief that Parliament was at fault, not the king. In hindsight we know the king of England had as much regard for his American subjects as a snake has for a mouse. But the illusion is powerful. It is the same illusion that propels religious fanaticism in the belief that a singular image will give some temporal or cosmic salvation.
The industry of college professors and university is often especially guilty of existing in their own ethereal reality, divorced from the reailty of most people. An ethereal reality that has less to do with political orientation and more to do with the insularity of the profession. Same for religions. Painfully proven by the non-stop flow of sexual abuses, violence and hypocrisy in general.
The more insular the institution, the more disconnected from the larger society, the more likely abuses, violence, hypocrisy and all sorts of bad behavior and bad actors. Ironically, a lesson that of all people professors of religion and history already know.
Ummn, what?
By Muerl
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 1:50pm
Ummn, what?
It would have been
By Rob
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 3:28pm
It would have been interesting if the host/moderator had decided to pull out the University handbook, and warned the guest to rein himself in a bit. I'd just bet that there is some sort of passage in code-of-conduct about appropriate/inappropriate discourse and making threats (even joking ones) and sensitivity to trigger topics, etc...
...of course, there are probably those of the capped-and-gowned set who believe such a codex exists to be applied ONLY to undergrads, if to anybody at all...
It would have been
By Rob
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 3:30pm
...duplicate...
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