On Primo Education ala Harvard

[Annie]

Damned if you do or don't. Larry Summers and women at Harvard...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/production/files/wisseadvance.html

...I see no reason to doubt Summers’s sincerity; he usually says what he means and means what he says. Taking him at his word, then, I conclude that he was not sorry for having offended liberal orthodoxy; he was sorry, genuinely so, for having given some sort of offense to women, for sending them “an unintended signal of discouragement.” Having first done our sex the courtesy of treating us as peers, he was now determined to treat us as a victimized species. Henceforth, he would tailor his thoughts to the ability of women to bear the hearing of them.

Not only did the president apologize, he rolled out a six-point program that would make affirmative action for women a top priority in hiring and promotion at Harvard. To anyone who has followed the career of group preferences in America, the process at work here was depressingly familiar. First come the threats—in this case, the tears—of the designated victims; then come the anguished efforts of well-meaning liberals to alleviate the pain; then follows, inevitably, the stirring of further, unappeasable resentments. “The person one pities is a person one may like but does not truly respect,” writes John W. McWhorter, one of a number of courageous blacks who have seen through the misplaced charitable inclinations that lie behind the American regime of affirmative action, and the web of lies and crippling self-deceptions that ensues from it.

But the exploitability of liberal white guilt is as nothing compared with the exploitability of liberal male guilt. Through their accusations of bias, through their testimonies of suffering and of hurt feelings, the tenured women of Harvard vaulted to the top of the heap of the truly disadvantaged, including, it seems, in the eyes of the man they had laughably named as their chief oppressor....

 

[Trigg]

Affermative action has outlived it's usefullness.

Yes, there was a time when people were denied entry into jobs and schools because of color or sex. But, the schools should never had lowered there accademic expectations in order to admit people. That's where they went wrong. They should have put everyone on equal footing and that's it, no special treatment, no doctored tests.

There are always going to be jobs where some groups are under represented for whatever reason. If there arn't a lot of women in high positions in corporate america it's not necessarily because there's a problem, it's also a choice of some women not to work 80 hour weeks, some of us want to raise our children instead of the nanny.

If femamists are discusted because some women choose to work parttime and raise good kids that's their problem.

 

[William Joyce]

“The person one pities is a person one may like but does not truly respect,” writes John W. McWhorter

This is absolutely correct. This is essentially the white position on minorities: they pity them, and at the same time, call them equals. But they are not equals, as proven by the pity.

Larry Summers got into big trouble because he broached the most taboo topic in our society: the possibility that races and sexes are different not because of "oppression," "economic conditions" or "cultural constructs," but because they are inherently, biologically different. He gets a bye because "sex" is not as controversial as "race," and, he's the Jewish president of Harvard and will have defense from the Jewish publication "Commentary." If he'd been a white gentile making the statement about race, he wouldn't be apologizing right now, he'd be on the welfare line.