When Playboy Had More Moral Clarity Than Harvard
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
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The same day that Hamas militants murdered thousands of innocent men, women, and children, over 30 Harvard University student groups signed a statement of solidarity … not with the victims, but with the militants. "We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence … [T]he apartheid regime is the only one to blame," they wrote.
Harvard's administration was deafeningly silent for days. Only after 500 faculty and over 3,000 university affiliates condemned the statement did leadership issue a "tepid" response, which it has since attempted to clarify.
Their moral inabilities stood in contrast to even Playboy magazine, which promptly cut ties with adult film star Mia Khalifa for statements celebrating Hamas' attack.
You know things are upside down in education when an adult magazine reaches the moral clarity that a preeminent institution of higher learning does not. That some student groups finally backtracked, saying they never read the statement, only exposes just how broken their moral reasoning is.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:05.0 | The same day, Hamas militants murdered thousands of innocent men, women and children. |
| 0:09.0 | Over 30 Harvard University student groups signed a statement of solidarity, not with the victims in Israel, |
| 0:15.0 | but with the militants. |
| 0:16.0 | Quote, |
| 0:17.0 | We the undersigned student organizations hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence. |
| 0:23.0 | The apartheid regime is the only one to blame they wrote. |
| 0:26.0 | And in response, the Harvard administration was deafeningly silent. |
| 0:30.0 | For days, only after 500 faculty and 3,000 university affiliates condemned the statement, |
| 0:35.0 | did leadership issue their teptid response, which it has since attempted to clarify. |
| 0:39.0 | And even worse, their moral inability, studying contrast to even Playboy magazine, |
| 0:44.0 | who promptly cut ties with adult film star Mia Khalifa for statements that celebrated Hamas's attack. |
| 0:49.0 | You know things are upside down in education. |
| 0:52.0 | When an adult magazine reaches the kind of moral clarity that a preeminent institution of higher learning cannot, |
| 0:58.0 | that some student groups finally backtrack saying they never read the statement in the first place, |
| 1:02.0 | just exposes how broken their moral reasoning is. |
| 1:05.0 | For The Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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