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The Inquisition Comes to Harvard
By Dr. Michael Brown - June 20, 2019

Did you say anything stupid when you were 16? Did you do anything back then that caused you embarrassment? And did you change and mature by the time you were 18?

For many of us, the answer to all these questions is yes.

In my case, I was a heavy drug user at 16, playing drums in a rock band, dropping LSD like candy, and even shooting heroin and speed.

By the time I was 18 and ready for college, I was a born-again follower of Jesus, had read the Bible cover to cover 5 times, memorized 4,000 verses, and preached my first sermon. The change was dramatic. I was not the teen I used to be, and I ultimately went from LSD to Ph.D.

In the case of Kyle Kashuv, though, the verbal sins he committed at the age of 16 have come back to haunt him. Yes, Harvard University has rescinded his admission based on his prior use of the “n” word, at age 16.

Kashuv came to national prominence as an outspoken conservative who was one of the survivors of the tragic Parkland shooting. And he has apologized in the clearest terms for his “i***tic” behavior as a 16-year-old, demonstrating absolutely no hint of r****m since he been under public scrutiny following the school massacre.

Harvard, however, has determined that his past behavior is so egregious that it disqualifies him from entry into their elite institute. His admission has been rescinded.

Of course, Harvard is free to admit or refuse students based on its own criteria. But I’m not the only one to think that something here is just not right.

Does anyone really believe that if Kashuv had bashed conservatives in derogatory ways that Harvard would have conducted this witch hunt? That if he slurred Bible-believing Christians when he was 16 his admission would have been rescinded?

Katie Pavlich tweeted:

“Very curious if @Harvard will now accept and then reject all students who they convict of committing thought crimes while in high school via nonsense with friends. I already know the answer is dependent on whether those students believe in l*****t gun control.”
Similarly, Guy Benson opined:

“The use of a d********g word, in private, by a 16-year-old, should not be an unforgivable event. And the idea of teenage idiocy being weaponized in a retaliatory fashion like oppo research — and ‘succeeding’ — is frightening. Harvard’s role in this is reactionary and craven…”
I wonder if David Hogg, another survivor of the Parkland shooting also Harvard-bound, but the polar, political opposite to Kashuv, has been subjected to the same scrutiny.

In March, 2018, Jack Crowe reported on the National Review that:

“Seventeen-year-old gun control advocate David Hogg delivered a profanity-laced tirade on the evils of gun owners and Republican lawmakers in a recorded interview posted to YouTube on March 5.
“In the interview, conducted by The Outline, the Parkland shooting survivor describes the National Rifle Association and pro-Second Amendment lawmakers as ‘f***ers’ and accuses them of prioritizing campaign contributions over the lives of children.”
But rather than jeopardize his Harvard admission, this speech most likely enhanced his standing in the eyes of the l*****t elites.

Are there no double standards here?

And what of the possibility of forgiveness? What of rehabilitation and restoration, especially when the t***sgression was a verbal one?

As Ben Shapiro wrote:

“On Monday, Parkland survivor and outspoken conservative Kyle Kashuv announced that Harvard University had withdrawn his admission from the school over the revelation of r****t, offensive, i***tic posts written on a private Google document with friends when he was sixteen years old. Never mind that Kashuv apologized publicly for the comments; never mind that his public behavior has evinced no r****m whatsoever.
“Forgiveness must be withheld.”
If Harvard has any intellectual and moral integrity, it should apologize to Kashuv and readmit him, even on a probationary status where he can prove himself worthy.

As for the question of forgiveness, Harvard would do well to remember its origins:

The school was founded in 1636 as Harvard College with the motto “T***h” (Veritas). Its purpose was, “To train a literate clergy.”

Among the “Rules and Precepts” to be observed by the students were these:

“Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life”;
And:

“Every one shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day, that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein, both in Theoretical observations of Language and Logic, and in practical and spiritual t***hs . . . .”
Harvard has certainly come a very long way since then.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

PeterS

So the kid matured? Well good, he should do well at any of the other schools that he chooses to go to. I wish him luck and I hope he learned his lesson...

woodguru

There's a good chance he still carries the same "conservative" and despicable values, those are deeper seated. I wouldn't want my daughter exposed to that if it could be helped.

His problem was going visible with it, an excellent example of why it's best to keep despicable thoughts and r****t values to yourself.

Message sent, this is not okay.

Reality

Where do you trolls come from?

rumitoid

Why is it always Conservatives being caught using the "n" word and then whining they have changed or been quoted out of context or it was a joke or wh**ever?

teabag09

You must be forgetting KKK Byrd and his white n****r comment. Last I checked he was far from being a Conservative. Mike

Smedley_buzkill

Unlike your boy David Hogg, who apparently isn't smart enough to get into a number of colleges to which he applied.

Smedley_buzkill

Ever hear of an Orbitalfrontal Complex? I didn't think so. That is the part of the brain that deals with rational decision making. It is unusual for it to be fully developed in people under 18. That's why teenagers do stupid s**t.
Harvard is simply another l*****t paradise, where critical thought is only allowed if it agrees with l*****t talking points.

rumitoid

Okay, I have an honest question, and I hope you will take it as such. I grew up in what I did not know was a segregated housing project called Parkchester in da Bronx. Did not give it any thought all my friends were white and mostly Irish and Italian. Just how it was. I officially met my first Black person in HS, Tommy Davis, he was the star of our track team. He was an instant idol and took me under his wing. Willie Mays, not Mickey Mantle, was my favorite baseball player; liked his smile. I seemed devoid of r****m or prejudice. So my question: where did his r****m come from and how did it leave? Lincoln changed on the topic, so perhaps this kid too. It is just very curious to me he was the one pro-gun student: is there a connection?

Rose42

Yet r****ts like Don Lemon always get free passes from the left because he’s black. Why is that? He’s an adult. What’s his excuse? Oh thats right. He’s a democrat so r****m is ok.

See how that works?

rumitoid

Don Lemon? A talk show guy? Give me a few examples of his r****m, please.

Smedley_buzkill

Absolutely. Hahvahd is basically a loathsome enclave of self-righteous, hypocritical bigots.

JoyV

R****t comments always by conservatives?

"Let me see one of you adopt one of those ugly black babies." -- A******nist Ashutosh Ron Virmani

"Them Jews aren’t going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. …They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.” -- Jeremiah Wright

"(Obama’s) a nice person, he’s very articulate this is what’s been used against him, but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to f**g down the traffic." -- Dan Rather

"‘Hymies.’ ‘Hymietown.’" -- Jesse Jackson’s description of New York City while on the 1984 p**********l campaign trail.

"A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee." -- Bill Clinton to Ted Kennedy

"The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress. The Israeli leader then 'brings back millions of dollars' in aid to Israel." -- Ralph Nader

"(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black p**********l candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." -- Harry Reid's comments reported by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann

"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation." -- Former Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd (D.,Conn.)

“White folks was in the caves while we [b****s] was building empires … We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." -- Al Sharpton

“Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.” -- Mary Frances Berry, former Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

“White people shouldn’t be allowed to v**e. It’s for the good of the country and for those who’re bitter for a reason and armed because they’re scared.” -- Left-wing journalist Jonathan Valania

“You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent.” -- Joe Biden

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” -- Joe Biden

"I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street." -- Spike Lee

“I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.” — New York City Councilman, Charles Barron

“I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.” — New York City Councilman, Charles Barron

“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person…” -- Barack Obama

I didn't think these people were conservatives.