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GoLocalProv | Whitcomb: Just Don't Call Them 'Reparations'; Back to Work; Summer Agoraphobia; Cash for Corridor


 
But seeming to bill people living now specifically because of the offenses of others, most of them long dead, could widen racial discord. And there’s no end to where you can go with history’s crimes.  (Seek reparations from the descendants of African tribal chiefs who kidnapped people and sold them to Western slave traders?) 
 
I would guess that most white Americans do not feel guilty about what some of their ancestors may have done against Black people, much as they regret the history. To create a “reparations’’ system would embitter many of them. And beware of extreme “identity politics’’ that can grossly reduce the perceived individuality of people. Each of us have our own genomes. We’re each much more than our race, class, sexual preferences, etc. And we’re all mongrels. ....

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Harvard's Counter Teach-In, 50 Years Later - Daniel Pipes, Commentary Magazine


Harvard’s Counter Teach-In, 50 Years Later
How a student disruption prefigured the extremism of today’s college campuses
Fifty years ago, some friends and I had the audacity to sponsor what we called the “Counter Teach-In: An Alternative View.” It took place at Harvard University on March 26, 1971, and argued in favor of American involvement in the Vietnam War a position roughly as outrageous then on campus as arguing in universities now that Israel should defeat the Palestinians.
Opponents of the war disrupted the event. In doing so, they took the first step toward the cancel culture that has overtaken campus life, with faculty and students alike now being investigated by star chambers before being fired or expelled for the sin of holding the wrong views. Similarly, the strong words and weak actions of Harvard’s leadership foreshadowed cowardly conduct of university administrators who speak bravely but act with pusillanimity. ....

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