Dear Harvard,
Although I am confident that no one from Harvard will read this letter seeing that I could never qualify to attend there, I wanted to share my thoughts about the situation in which you find yourselves.
First, don't feel special because the Trump government is picking on yous guys. Just look at the other people he is picking on. Take the conditions that that the Trump government is putting on England to end U.S. tariffs against its products. One of those conditions stipulates that England must do away with its hate speech laws. Perhaps a reason for why that condition is because the Trump government either doesn't understand the purpose for those laws or rejects why those laws exist. Here we should note that Europe has learned from its history that hate speech is what fascists use to establish a beachhead in a society.
Second, my experiences within some of the intramural doctrinal battles within conservative Christianity tells me that while Trump's government claims that it is looking to end discrimination and DEI, it is really looking to replace one them with a different discrimination and protection for another group. This is true regarding the government's stated concern about anti-Semitism and when it comes to DEI.
The Trump government is obviously oblivious to other forms of anti-Semitism than the form that targets Jews. Certainly, anti-Semitism against Jews must never be tolerated. But since there are other ethnic groups that also qualify as Semites, the Palestinians for example, then discrimination and attacks against those groups should be counted as anti-Semitism as well. In particular, regarding the Trump government's demands that those who promote Palestinian concerns be prohibited from attending Harvard, such a demand is simply is not just letting another form of anti-Semitism fly in under the radar, it is promoting it.
Likewise, the Trump government's concerns for the elimination of DEI on campus along with the elimination of non merit-based hiring and admission of students shows that it is merely replacing DEI and non merit-based hiring and admission of students with another somewhat similar program. What the Trump government is actually promoting is what I call Privilege, Exclusion, and Inquisition, or PEI for short.
Notice that the Trump government is not concerned about a balanced ideological makeup of faculty at conservative Christian universities in America. His government is not pushing to make sure that universities like Bob Jones, Liberty, Oral Roberts, or Grand Canyon ensure that their faculty demographics are balanced between all political ideologies. Why is that? It is because the Trump government wants those Christians who are both religiously and politically conservative to have dominant roles at every institution because Trump's base consists of Christians who are both politically and religiously conservative.
And so Trump wants Harvard to employ merit-based hiring of faculty with the exception of employing religiously and politically Christians. So ensuring that qualified professors and students from formerly marginalized groups, like racial minorities, can be at Harvard is out while guaranteeing that Christians who are religiously and politically conservative can be at Harvard is in.
Now those who attend or teach at Harvard have no need to read what I just wrote because all that I have just mentioned is obvious to them. What I want those at Harvard to realize is that your battle against the Trump government is very critical to the survival of America in terms of restoring whatever levels of democracy we once had. You, Harvard are our canary in the mine. You, Harvard, will serve as either our democracy's last stand or its Alamo, or your victory will serve as the Trump government's Waterloo.
It is impossible to know what the future will bring. But do you, Harvard, see how important you are to America at this time in its history? See, you, Harvard, are not just fighting for the survival of a single University including its faculty, students, and others in its community; you are fighting to help restore what limited measure of democracy we once had in this nation. And though the our loss of our democracy occurred just a few months ago, it seems more like our loss occurred a century ago.
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