Harvard Debacle Shows the Consequences for Rejecting Western Values

Indeed, these self-styled “progressives” are in reality trying to reverse four centuries of progress, taking us back to a time when a small cadre of elites ruled the world and everyone else basically lived as a serf.

They do so by rejecting foundational Western values like merit, the pursuit of truth, and the primacy of reason, rebranding them as “white supremacist” because they supposedly favor people of European descent—which is, of course, nonsense. …

In place of Enlightenment ideals, woke “progressives” offer vague and essentially meaningless concepts like “diversity,” “inclusion,” and “identity,” none of which requires any effort on the part of the beneficiary or signals any degree of achievement or competence.

The problem is that the ascendency of this mindset, especially in academia but also in the corporate world, has real consequences. Exhibit A is the President of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, who as of this writing still has her job despite being unmasked by journalist Chris Rufo as a serial plagiarist.

[It is a measure of how far the Poison Ivies have fallen in this regard that Harvard now issues academic “death penalties” once reserved for plagiarism to people who express opposition to radical ideologies, while excusing plagiarism as a form of reparations. — Ed]