“Blinded by privilege.”
That sums up the angle of many of the Beautiful People embroiled within the current deluge of scandals involving entitled Democrats, members of varied protected lessons who really feel they will by no means be held accountable for something they do.
“Blinded by privilege.”
I got here throughout the phrase final week after I was studying up on an earlier antisemite who preceded “Dr.” Claudine Gray as president of Harvard University — A. Lawrence Lowell.
Like Gay, the Boston blue-blood Lowell presided over a virulently racist admissions coverage, the one distinction being that Lowell’s apartheid regime was by no means struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, as Gay’s was earlier this yr.
In 1916, Lowell after all objected to the appointment of Louis Brandeis, a Jew, to the Supreme Court. In a non-public letter after his affirmation, Brandeis wrote a buddy that he thought Lowell wasn’t a lot an antisemite as that he was “blinded by privilege… (someone) whose environment or innate narrowness have obscured all vision and sympathy with the masses.”
That appears about proper.
None of those individuals — Claudine Gay, Michelle Wu, Hunter Biden, fired Senate aide Aidan Maese-Czeropski and a number of others — has the slightest embarrassment about what they’ve achieved.
Not solely do they really feel entitled to do regardless of the hell they please — the regulation or ethics or frequent decency be damned — however in addition they determine that completely nothing goes to occur to them.
And what? They’re proper, at the very least up to now.
When they’re caught working a racist gig, or plagiarizing, or producing newbie porn, all of them say the identical factor: They’re responsible of nothing. In truth, for those who ask them, they’re the victims of nothing however Republicans seizing, pouncing and weaponizing nothing-stories for political benefit.
Look at Claudine Gay, who at a Congressional listening to pooh-poohed the savage antisemitism of the extra various components of the Harvard scholar physique.
Turns out she has one other drawback — plagiarism. In a slobbering puff piece, the Harvard journal known as her “A Scholar’s Scholar.”
Surely they meant to say, “A Plagiarist’s Plagiarist.”
One of these students she’s accused of lifting materials from is one other black girl named Carol M. Swain, from Princeton University.
Swain describes Gay as being from “a world where the privilege of diversity is king… Harvard can’t condemn Ms. Gay because she is the product of an elite system that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard.”
A decrease normal, I’d add, than those who “the masses” are held to.
As if we would have liked any extra proof of simply how low the requirements for “Dr.” Gay are, think about how lengthy it took for the Boston Globe to even tackle the… difficulty.
Yesterday, in an editorial, the paper talked about how the Harvard Corporation mentioned there have been “instances of research misconduct” in her abysmal scholarship, however that no “standards” had been violated. But she can be posting a couple of… corrections.
But after questioning why such, uh, clarifications have been essential if there was no misconduct, the Globe made its priorities clear. Protect the privileged! Above all else, consolation the snug.
“As far as this editorial board is concerned, Gay should remain president either way, as long as she has the board and the school community’s confidence.”
And she’s going to after all, as a result of… range. Diversity uber alles. The swells put her into the job figuring out that she was unqualified, so how can they fireplace her for being… unqualified?
Of course, not everybody can count on the identical stage of solicitude in terms of issues of scholarly papers.
Consider Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the previous president of Stanford University. He was an actual scholar, however he had a couple of issues along with his analysis, and he just lately received the boot. But then, he didn’t have the identical… intangibles as Dr. Gay.
Being a white male means you’re in “the masses.” But some white individuals do get handled with the identical form of child gloves as Gay and Wu. Am I proper, Hunter Biden?
Even for those who’re not in a protected class — not “blinded by privilege” — you’ll be able to take sure steps to guard your self. During the unique trial about Harvard’s apartheid admissions system, the varsity produced an Asian of relatively mediocre credentials, who had been accepted into the varsity, to indicate that the Poison Ivy League was on the extent.
Turned out, on cross-examination, that the child claimed he was “uncertain” about his sexuality. Well, there you go! That’s why he received in, he discovered the code. Why do you suppose near 40% of Brown University undergrads just lately claimed to be LGBTQ+?
I’ll let you know why. Because they will’t declare to be Native Americans anymore. Elizabeth Warren and Buffy St. Marie have ruined that grift for everyone else.
One factor a white man can do — hyphenate his final identify. Okay, it didn’t do Marc Tessier-Lavigne a lot good, however then, these hyphenated final names are thick on the bottom in Palo Alto.
That Senate aide who videotaped himself being buggered in a Congressional room is called Aidan Maese-Czeropski. He’s from Palo Alto, and he’s being oppressed due to “the man I love.”
Oscar Wilde used to write down concerning the love that dared not communicate its identify. Now it gained’t shut up.
Here’s one other white man from Palo Alto with a hyphenated final identify who now claims he’s been framed — Samuel Bankman-Fried.
One factor about all these smug below-average pukes who’re blinded by privilege: they’re all Democrats, 100% of them. One of George W. Bush’s political opponents in Texas used to explain him as being “born on third base and he thinks he hit a triple.”
Bush was a Republican, however born-on-third-base describes all people on this column. They all proudly declare victimhood, regardless of all proof on the contrary.
In Boston, candidates used to say their working-class roots. Now they brag about their non-working class roots. Their mother was on welfare. Their mother was on welfare — and he or she was an unlawful alien! Pols used to speak about hardscrabble jobs they’d had, scrubbing flooring, exhibiting up at daybreak for jobs on the dock, and many others.
Now they’re all neighborhood organizers, or advocates, or governmental liaisons. How many individuals on the Boston City Council have ever had a job — an actual job, that’s?
If I ever get jammed up, I ask for no particular therapy.
Just deal with me like Claudine Gay, or Michelle Wu, or Hunter Biden. Like everybody else within the plenty, I dream of sometime being blinded by privilege.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”