As you most likely already know, the Trump government has frozen 2.6 billion dollars in grants to Harvard after that university refused to abandon its D.E.I. programs or take action against campus demonstrations which the Republicans feel are anti-Semitic and morally repulsive. The school’s President, Alan Garber, declared self-righteously that his institution “will not surrender its independence” to Trump’s tyranny.
While I frequently find Trump’s approach to the issues before him arrogant and needlessly confrontational, I nevertheless agree with most of his views on those issues. Garber obviously feels Harvard’s D.E.I. initiatives to be noble efforts on behalf of Social Justice. But this could not be further from the Truth. For any individual to be denied admission to the university of his/her choice because of “injustices” committed decades if not centuries earlier, injustices with which they were in no way involved, is itself grossly Unjust! The Rationale behind the D.E.I. agenda is of course the idiotically simplistic Neo-Marxist notion that all Human Disparities are the result of Oppression. What the “progressive” Left has done is ramp up the stupidity of that narrative by suggesting that White, Western Civilization, because of its conspicuous achievements in various areas, is in fact the most Oppressive Regime ever to have infected the planet. As the Victims defined by this notion are Women, People of Colour and Gays, Straight White Men have therefore come to be seen as the major perpetrators of Social Injustice throughout History. Yet it was Straight White Men who banned slavery from the British Empire early in the 19th Century. And it was Straight White Men who committed America to a devastating Civil War a few decades later in an attempt to liberate Black Americans from a scourge that was still accepted throughout much of the rest of the world.
Due to the irrefutable facts of Human Nature, the history of White, Western Man, as is that of every ethnic group, is rife with abominations. But 2500 years ago Plato and Socrates were discussing Women’s Rights with more intelligence and compassion than is evident in many cultures even today. That Dialectical Process which they saw as fundamental to Human Progress, while derailed by a myriad of factors over the centuries, is nevertheless self-evident to anyone who views Western History through the lens of Common Sense rather than the distorting bias of Marxism. My point, which is neither complex or profound, is simply that a University whose admission standards give preference to members of various “oppressed” minorities over others whose qualifications are clearly superior, is in fact committing an act of Injustice based on an Ideological Bias that is utterly Irrational. Harvard’s president, of course, is no doubt convinced that it is Trump who doesn’t give a damn about Social Justice.
P.S.: I have read several articles over the last few years lamenting the rejection of Oriental kids from their schools of choice due to their D.E.I. categorization as members of the “privileged” majority. Apparently the Fact that Asian parents tend to promote Hard Work, Self-Disciple and Academic Achievement in their offspring, does not effect their status as “privileged.” Their skin, I suppose, is just not dark enough to warrant special treatment. Such is the absurdity of the contemporary Left and its Neo-Marxist “intellectuals” who value neither Merit, Intelligence, Achievement or Hard Work!