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michael reid hunter's avatar

Bravo Liza, brilliant!!

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Liza Donnelly's avatar

:)

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Neil Oliveria's avatar

Love the cartoon and I love the idea of equal opportunity for everyone. That was supposed to be the American way and it is outrageous that it is now considered a radical idea.

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S Campbell's avatar

Absolutely LOVE this drawing! 3D please!

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erin's avatar

"For Trump, attacking Harvard is shorthand for attacking woke-ism, and this has been a repeated theme for him, one that spoke very clearly to MAGA voters."

Yup, yup. But I would say it more strongly: Trump is attacking the wokism and wokesters that have been ruining universities coast to coast. Why not start at the top?

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Aida Farrell's avatar

Insightful!

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Michael's avatar

Great points Liza. A link between education and crime exists. As someone has said, "Open a school, close a prison."

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Meredith Leonard's avatar

Do MAGAs always swallow Trump's targetting of "woke" whatevers? Would it ever even occur to some of them to hate Harvard?

It's doubly a stretch because of the numbers of doctors, teachers and other professionals, for instance, who do undergraduate work there or at the many other Ivys and hundreds of other great colleges.

Will he ultimately cause another Civil War?

And don't get me started on Fox "News"

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Terry Cook's avatar

I must confess, I've always thought of Lady Liberty as a University of Virginia gal.

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Liza Donnelly's avatar

hahaha. I agree. Not saying she went to Harvard, just saying she supports their stand!

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Holly B's avatar

He is such a pathetic small minded person. I, too, remember that trump was always a punchline.

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Sharon Herrick's avatar

What do we mean by "elite" anyway? Pricey? Wealthy? Long-standing? Influential? Snooty? Snobbish? In Harvard's case, is it because you've got to have lot of money to afford to go there? You have to pass very difficult entrance exams? They have extremely high standards of excellence? What?

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Chuck Yanikoski's avatar

I loved this, Liza. Very interesting and, I think, very on-target. As a Harvard drop-out myself, partly for financial reasons, partly for educational ones ( didn't think they could teach me the one thing I most wanted to know: what should I do with the rest of my life? ), I get the love/hate thing, but I still admire Harvard and what it has stood for. For a long time, I wondered why they thought they needed to keep billions in their endowment (instead of, say, offering free tuition), but now I'm glad they did it their way. Hey, maybe they ARE smarter than I am!

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Liza Donnelly's avatar

Yes!

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Claudia Green's avatar

Lovely. But it is really hard now.

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Robert Berrier's avatar

Tyrants want to destroy all institutions that are an obstacle to the free exercise of their power. Trump has preverted the Supreme Court, emasculated the Congress, undermined independent agencies, attacked the press, weakened NATO . . . No need to go on. As the most recognizable name in higher education, Harvard is just the next target. I grew up in a lower middle class family. My sister and I were the first to go to college. I graduated from Stanford and got a PH.D. from MIT. Was I elite? Hardly. For some time both Stanford and MIT have not considered financial need in admissions. I interview for Stanford and am instructed not to discuss any financial issues. Many Stanford and MIT students come from families that are anything but elite. The same is true of Harvard. What characterizes students at these institutions is some smarts and lots, lots of very hard work and dedication.

By the way, please don't use the vocabulary of MAGA such as wock (what I call informed clear thinking about equality) or DEI, which is civil rights and decency. Whoever sets the verbal agenda usually wins.

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martha abernathy's avatar

Spot on

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KittyLiterate's avatar

Very intuitive explanation of the craziness. Still, as I keep saying, he is at war...not woke, but war with America.... a deadly pulling the rug from under us; destroying everything that makes or shall I say made America great. It's like watching someone gaslight your best friend and there is nothing you can do to make her believe it. If his higher education forays weren't all failures, he could have included a class on "The Selling of America." Very sad.

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Helen Palmer's avatar

thanks, Liza- I see Trump as the kid looking at the playground and feeling left out. he would never have been admitted to Harvard and if he had been able to buy his way in he would not have lasted long. so now he wants to destroy what he could never have. what character in Lord of the Rings fits this image?

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