Harvard Law Is Decadent and Depraved

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Have you ever heard of Isaac Royall Jr.? Me, neither, until I started reading about “Reclaim Harvard Law,” an anti-white protest group at Harvard University Law School. Earlier this year, Harvard’s administration surrendered to an unruly mob of student grievance-mongers who had demanded that the official seal of the Law School be changed to remove a symbolic reference to Royall, a wealthy Massachusetts man who died in 1781 and left a bequest in his will that endowed the first professorship at Harvard Law. Why did these students target Royall’s legacy? Because they learned that Royall owned slaves and therefore his wealth, part of which he gave to Harvard Law, was tainted, and therefore Harvard Law’s seal — showing three sheaves of wheat, a symbol derived from the Royall family crest — was a legacy of slavery.

Does that make sense? No, of course not. But these young hooligans have convinced themselves they are Victims of Oppression, which means that their arguments don’t have to make sense. This is how it goes in elite education nowadays: “I am oppressed, therefore, yield to my demands.”

Predictably, the craven fools who run Harvard Law (annual tuition $58,242) granted the ridiculous demands of the mob. Good-bye, three sheaves of wheat! Good-bye, symbolic legacy of Mr. Royall, who made his fortune the way a lot of Yankees made their fortunes before Yankees became convinced that slavery was an intolerable wrong.

This kind of weaponization of history by race-hustlers is a phenomenon that Thomas Sowell addresses in The Quest for Cosmic Justice. Instead of worrying about any practical problem of their individual lives in the 21st century, these Harvard Law students have gone rooting around in history to locate something they can construe as a collective wrong, employed as a grievance in an identity-politics drama. Here is some dead white guy who owned black slaves, and therefore black Harvard Law students have a reason to be angry, despite the fact that (a) Royall has been dead for 235 years, (b) these black students are in fact indirect beneficiaries of the wealth Royall left behind to Harvard Law, and (c) it is absurd to expect intelligent people to believe that any student at Harvard Law is actually oppressed.

Dear God in heaven! You whining brats have been fortunate enough to be admitted to one of the most prestigious schools on the planet!

Wake up and smell your privilege!

Has any student at Harvard Law — black, white or whatever his or her ethnic background might be — ever read The Quest for Cosmic Justice? Or have they read what I consider Sowell’s most brilliant book, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy? Highly unlikely, I’d say. Neither do I expect any of them have read Sowell’s Conquests and Cultures: An International History, nor even Basic Economics. Instead of reading anything by arguably the greatest black intellectual of our era, these idiot students at Harvard Law are sitting around complaining about how oppressed they are because a white guy who died in 1781 owned slaves. And the gutless fools in charge at Harvard University — President Drew Faust and Dean Martha Minow — actually gave into these claims!

“We cannot choose our history but we can choose that for which we stand,” Minow wrote to the campus community. “Above all, we rededicate ourselves to the hard work of eradicating not just symbols of injustice but injustice itself.”

Well, good luck with that plan, Dean Minow. You can give Hitler the Sudetenland and call it “peace for our time,” but when the Wehrmacht unleashes its blitzkrieg and the Stukas are dive-bombing Warsaw, don’t pretend nobody tried to warn you that appeasement would fail.

Harvard Crimson, March 9:

Three weeks into their occupation of the lounge in the Law School’s Caspersen Student Center, student activists said they will remain in the hall, despite the concerns of other students and administrators.
Members of the student group Reclaim Harvard Law have occupied the lounge . . . . since Feb. 15 in order to create a space they say minorities on campus lack.
The occupation is part of an ongoing movement that began in November and has focused on calling for improvement in diversity at the Law School. While the school has addressed some of these demands—including convening a committee that recently recommended to change the school’s contentious seal—activists remain unsatisfied.
Over the past few weeks, occupiers have been sleeping, eating, and hosting daily events relating to critical race theory in the hall.

“Critical race theory”!

This arrant nonsense is akin to feminist theory, in that both are obsolete remnants of Marxist dialectical materialism, which ought to have been entirely discredited by the collapse of the Soviet Empire. However, because the anti-Americanism of the 1960s New Left had subverted elite academia (see, e.g., Roger Kimball’s 1990 classic Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education), the losers of the Cold War have spent the past 25 years teaching evil ideas borrowed from Marx and Lenin in our nation’s most prestigious schools.

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved, and no parent who is a Christian or a patriot would pay a dime to send their children to Harvard or Yale or any other such institution of intellectual and moral perversity. Marxism is not merely wrong, it is wicked. Historians estimate that as many as 100 million people were killed under Marxist-Leninist regimes in the 20th century, and yet this deadly lie — deceptively masquerading in costumes of social justice — has become the intellectual basis of 21st-century “progressive” politics.

Suppose you were an extraordinarily clever young fellow, with an excellent academic record and the kind of standardized test scores that might qualify you for admission to Harvard Law. Furthermore, suppose that your Daddy was rich enough that you could afford to attend that overpriced bastion of moral depravity and intellectual decadence. Well, if you look at the latest headlines (“Harvard Law activist group: ‘Countless other white spaces’ on campus for free speech”) certainly you must think to yourself, “Do I really want to go to Harvard Law?”

Well, suppose I told you that the University of Alabama Law School is rated in the Top 30 nationwide, and that even for out-of-state students, the tuition at UA Law is only $37,664 a year. You are an extraordinarily clever young fellow, aren’t you? Do you want to spend your three years of law school shivering through those New England winters while surrounded by a bunch of crypto-Marxist goons telling you how oppressed they are? Or would you rather be in sunny Tuscaloosa, surrounded by smiling Southern belles? Why, an Alabama coed might actually be flattered if a wealthy young law school student invited her to dine on delicious barbecue at Dreamland.

Picture yourself, young man, in beautiful Alabama! By choosing UA Law instead of Harvard, you’ve not only avoided the cold climate in Cambridge and tedious lectures about “critical race theory,” but you have also shrewdly saved your Daddy about $20,000 a year. For that kind of extraordinarily clever decision, your Daddy might reward with you with a bit of an extra allowance.

A nice car, a sharp wardrobe, an off-campus apartment, a little bit of walking-around money in your pocket — boy, they’re gonna love you in Tuscaloosa! Picture yourself on some splendid Saturday afternoon in October at Bryant-Denny Stadium, screaming “Roll, Tide!” at the top of your lungs. You’ll be cheering for the National Champions, the finest football team in all God’s creation, and you know what?

You’ll be laughing at all those fools who went to Harvard.

Let ’em go directly to Hell. You get yourself down to Tuscaloosa, boy.




 


51 comments

  1. The occupation is part of an ongoing movement that began in November and has focused on calling for improvement in diversity at the Law School.

    Um, so we improve diversity by creating a space where people of various ethnicities and melanin levels are excluded. Diversity through Monochromism!

    The Inner Party is on the phone. It thinks you’re going a little too far.

  3. Africans sold slaves to the Americas. Therefore something or other… plus this and that.

    And all Germans in America have to register for something… and turn in their cats.

    Convenience stores must change their name to “Easy-Rob” and feature a black person winking as a logo because gangs… gangs must be shamed.

    No Japanese tourists. Not until I see some reparations.

    Turks must apologize for Polish and Russian slavery, and no more Ottomans in furniture stores. They trigger my Silesian grandma.

  4. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a student of Communism who lied about our troops serving in Vietnam and had rough sex with hookers but there’s a statue of him in the National Mall in Washington, DC. Should I break out the sledgehammers and we’ll get to work?

  5. “calling for improvement in diversity at the Law School”

    Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc., and all these elite institutions spew paeans to “diversity” and how they value it. So you know what? Why don’t they just stop accepting white students for a decade or so? Have some extended moratorium on white students, and only accept diverse minority students. Nobody has the “right” to a Harvard “education.” Certainly not any entitled and privileged white students. From now on, the Ivy League club will only accept students of color which will hopefully sow enough “privilege” into the minority strata that the outrageous racial inequality in our vile society will start to dissipate.

    It’s not like they have to worry about being sued for rejecting white students. I’m sure Obama and the Department of Education have got their back.

    And they’d better not try to skirt the affirmative action “diversity” principle by taking a bunch of Asian students, because we know that “diversity” does NOT refer to successful or well-performing minorities.

    While they’re at it, tell all white Harvard faculty to resign and surrender their positions and salaries to some deserving minority academic.

  6. Also:
    Over the past few weeks, occupiers have been sleeping, eating, and hosting daily events relating to critical race theory in the hall.


    I bet that place smelled like a petting zoo. From the ’60’s communes to OWS and beyond, a lack of personal hygiene seems to be a common element with these Leftist movements.

  7. The only moral choice is to shut down the university, liquidate all the assets and use those assets for reparations to POC all over the world.

    In fact, since so many people have shared in the illicit gains of Harvard University, the assets and income of all students, faculty and staff who have ever worked at or attended Harvard should be subject to immediate confiscation and those assets likewise distributed in the form of reparations to POC all over the world.

    Those who have benefited from the immoral and unethical proceeds of the university should be asked to sign confessions of their privilege, renounce said privilege and flagellate themselves for a period of no less than 7 years.

    At that time, they should all move to the Amazon and plant trees, tend the rain forests, and serve the indigenous people there in whatever limited capacity they might have.

    It is only fair and right and just.

  9. I am willing to bet that you, unlike every SJW out there, knows where the word “slave” comes from.

  10. Am I being naive in asking if Harvard is intending to return the endowment, adjusted for inflation plus interest, to the Royall descendents?

  13. Good luck with that. Although that was a good rhetorical question and bears some consideration. For a nominal fee, I’d be happy to do some research on that problem for you.

  15. It smells like the Chinese petting zoo their ancestors will be sitting in. Complaining doesn’t build aircraft carriers and you can’t occupy invention. By symbolically destroying our institutions, they are passing themselves back to the stone age. Proof this madness is coming from colleges is that they are the nuttiest places in America.

  20. All Havard Law students and grads are forever tainted by the Royall’s legacy.
    They should be ashamed of themselves for ever accepting admission, let along a diploma, from such an institution.

  23. Related to the social engineering and lunacy of modern colleges, an acquaintance of mine has a son who’s currently in his freshman year at Notre Dame (out of state tuition, fees and expenses with room and board currently $64,775) informs me that the installation of “gender neutral” bathrooms is all the rage on campus right now. In his residence hall and the campus library he uses, they now have nonspecific “toilets” instead of men’s and ladies rooms.

    If anyone thought the historical abuses of Fiat Money were bad, just wait until Fiat Sexuality gets underway.

  25. The Occupiers of the Couch should have been thrown out of the lounge the first week they pulled this crap. Someone at Harvard must want them there.

    Have these “occupiers” gone to class? Done any work? Will they expect to be exempted from exams in May?

  26. Evidently, we improve diversity by creating a space where the blacks are segregated. By choice. Yes, the legacy of Rosa Parks lives on in the minds of young fools.

  27. Indeed they will expect to be exempted, and of course, they will be.

    I’d totally want to hire a lawyer who spent his law skewel years avoiding any learning, and was instead holed up in a lounge with his idiot buddies. /sarc

    If it were me running Harvard (and too bad it isn’t), I’d find a hard working black father and husband on the janitorial staff to go in there, crack some heads, and make those little SOBs clean that room up, on the grounds of “Do I look like a slave to you, boy?”

  29. I would have a “Tax the Endowment” party that day. What a paradox for the SJWs running the schools!

  31. They think the Harvard Law lounge is a ghetto.

    Well…maybe it is now, after idiot kids have been eating and sleeping in there.

  36. The weight should fall especially heavy on Harvard Law Grads. Particularly those who were beneficiaries of affirmative discrimination admissions.

  37. I registered for classes and I don’t have a cat,as I prefer dogs. So, this kraut has no trouble with your proposal.

  40. I’m all for this protest against cultural appropriation but lets make it equal across the board. All black people should stop going to universities and speaking English. It is, after all, cultural appropriation of Anglo-Saxon culture and I for one as an Anglo-Saxon am outraged. Outraged I tell you.

  42. Your outrage would carry more weight if you damned Anglo-Saxons hadn’t lifted so much culture from the Romans.

    Who ripped off the Greeks.

  45. If this movement were based on logic rather than a con game to cover a hatred of whites, they’d all be streaming to Africa. Always watch feet, not lips. Black supremacists cling to whitey as much as they claim to hate him. If you exiled these people to Nigeria then you’d really hear some screaming.

  50. You’re quite welcome!
    Thanks for all your research and writing about feminism.
    Paraphrasing what my friend’s son said, it’s difficult enough to be a STEM major at a college where there’s lots of Freshman partying going on, but now he feels odd since these nonspecific “toilets” all have Kotex dispensers–like a High School nightmare of accidentally using the Girl’s bathroom

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