When Will People Learn?

I will say it again, appeasement (and rewarding negative behavior) doesn’t work–it doesn’t work in the case of paying off welfare recipients for violent behavior nor does it work for paying off a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27819-2005Jan21.html”blubbering feminists /aat Harvard. Sorry to see you go, Mr. Summers, but I would personally be thrilled to see a a href=”http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=022206G”guy like this /a replace you:br /br /blockquoteSummers unfortunately gave in to the feminist multiculturalists. He apologized and gave them $50 million. Such a Neville Chamberlain-like approach doomed his presidency. Once the radicals knew he could be intimidated he could never again do anything they opposed. My hope is that you have fired Summers so as to put someone in place who can and will take on the radicals now in control of your Arts and Science Faculty. I am such a person.br /br /If made president of Harvard I would spend the $50 million Summers pledged to the feminists to instead set up a center to study genetic differences in intelligence between men and women. The center would prove that Harvard, once again, is committed to free inquiry.br /br /…If you allow the feminist multiculturalists to win this battle then intellectual diversity in higher education will be imperiled. Consider the fate of a graduate student or untenured professor who holds “politically incorrect” views. If the president of Harvard can be fired for expressing such views, surely lesser beings in the academic world will fell compelled to self-censor or leave academia. The best hope for academic freedom is that you don’t let the radical feminists win, and choose someone they will despise even more than Larry Summers./blockquotebr /br /Wouldn’t Summers have been better off standing up boldly to the dyspeptic “I’m going to be sick” feminists in his audience then hightailing it out of Harvard in shame? Afterall, women with such sick stomachs don’t belong in the scientific world. What will they do if their research is rejected–throw up on the reviewers? I would rather have gone out with my dignity intact and knowing that my actions served as a proper role model to future generations than to lamely leave with my tail between my legs.