Talking Progressive College Sudents Off The Ledge
By Bob Small
A friend of mine who only wants to be known as “an Independent in Swarthmore” sent me this article from ZeroHedge: “Devastated”: Classes At Harvard, Penn, Columbia ..
Among the many comments on post-election devastation ; “Jews endured calls for their genocide day and night last semester, and Columbia did nothing. Half the country votes for a candidate and Columbia elitists can’t deal,” posted Eliana Goldin on X .
She added, “their blatant double standard couldn’t be more offensive to the Jewish community at Columbia.”
Besides Columbia, this article touches on reaction at Harvard, Michigan State, Ohio University, The University of Pennsylvania, and our local Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore College, our local bastion of political progressivism, responded with cancelled class and declaring Sharples Commons being a “safe space to land,” for Harris supporters.
The University of Pennsylvania, Trump’s Alma Mater (Wharton “68, whether they like it or not) also had professors who cancelled classes but political science professor Ian Lustick was not among them.
“Students deserve normalcy,” he said and that classes “are practically sacred spaces.” He thought that the failure of Harris to break from Biden’s Israel policy led to a loss of progressive voters.
Political Science professor Matthew Levendusky felt that Harris did not represent a change from the Biden administration.
At Harvard the reaction was similar.
Samantha M. Holtz ’28 was quoted as saying “Being at Harvard, I was surrounded by a lot of people who were very pro-Harris, so in my mind it was already a decided election. It was a little bit shocking to me.”
There are dissenting voices at Harvard, however, including ”The Harvard Republican Club — which endorsed Trump in July — and the Salient, a conservative student magazine which has published pro-Trump content this year. “
We got to Eliana Goldin for the final comments from The New York Post.
“Columbia has a serious problem with neutrality,” she said. “I’m sure that if Harris won, they would not have canceled classes”
Talking Progressive College Sudents Off The Ledge
This is a direct result of not picking on nerds in the modern era. Where is Noël Godin when we need him most.