One student feels like ‘an enemy of the university’ for right-leaning stance.
By Catholics for Catholics
Three Harvard students claim that the famed university is as progressive as ever and as hostile towards conservatives, despite the Trump administration’s backlash against woke ideology in the mind of the educational giant.
According to Fox News, the students, who asked not to be identified, spoke about feelings of unbelonging and experiences that undermined the idea that the school community is tolerant of all political ideologies.
“A good example of this, would be something like, the university is very strict on not co-sponsoring events with outside groups when it comes to the Republican Club, let’s say, trying to put on events,” one student said. “But the Democrats very often get away with doing that. No questions asked.”
Inside the classroom, the student described a culture of silence by those who might disagree with a left-leaning professor, for fear of academic and social reprisal.
“I think most students get the sense that the prudent thing to do is just sort of toe the line, both for academic and social reasons,” the student said. “I mean, the grading, particularly in the social sciences, is sort of subjectively left up to graduate students, usually, who are on the teaching staff of the course. So usually, what students just end up doing is sort of parroting whatever the professor says for the sake of the grade.”
One of the students also spoke about the sentiment of social “ostracization” that comes from “outing yourself in a class” as a conservative. The student later added that “liberal orthodoxy” is “baked into the institution.”
As an example of the latter, the student referenced a panel that took place on Oct. 9 by the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics called “Across the Divide: Organizing to Build Bridges in Partisan Times,” which he called a “lampoonish” example of official prejudice.
He noted that the three speakers on the panel about bridging the partisan divide were all Democrats: former Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III; Derrick Johnson, the president of the notably left-wing NAACP; and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
Despite the anti-conservative bias, one student prophesied a traditional uprising, citing the assassination of Charlie Kirk as fuel for more right-leaning college students to speak out.
“I will say that I think amongst the small contingent of conservative students, in the face of the fire, in the face of the enemy, as you may say, or at least in the face of the opposition, I feel like there is a zeal that is stronger than ever.”
Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.
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