Clay Travis (29:13)
Specifically on the college campuses on that issue of the anti Semitism, as I've been saying all along. And I think this has now become something that we discuss and this show is somewhat known for putting out there. I'd never heard anyone else make the argument before I made it here on this program, talking with Clay on the air about how the American left views Israel, Palestine as a race conflict, conflict essentially. And that the, all the stuff about, oh, 1948 and 1967 and UN Resolution 242 and 338 and the Balfour Declaration, all these things that you can. No, no, no, it's white people oppressing brown people. That's what the campuses think. And that's why you have all these groups that know nothing and care nothing about the Middle east that are so very, you know, they get to be super sanctimonious, super self righteous. The virtue signaling can be off the charts and you have people talking about how much they care about Gaza. I would note I've seen some left, some left wing media types in the last few days bringing you've Seen this bringing up Sudan. Where have you, where have you heard that talked about other than on this program? Right. Just saying we're ahead on a lot of this stuff. We were saying here that the left views the Israel, Palestine or, you know, Hamas, Israel thing as a race conflict because that fits into the very neat boxes that they set up in their minds of how these. Even though that's, I mean, it's wrong on the facts, it's just, it's absurd, but that's how they view it and that's why they feel so morally superior even when they know nothing about it. And they just inherently think non white means oppressed. That's, that's just their view. That's what they've been. Because on campus that's what you're told. Non white, oppressed, doesn't matter. You could be one of the richest athletes in the world. You could be the President of the United States. Non white oppressed. That is a, the, really that I think the central ethos that holds the left together and the Democrat Party overall, that is the thing that, you know, collectivism, moral relativism and, you know, and this whole notion of what is not what is non white or who, those who are non white are inherently oppressed. So that's, that's a big part of what you see going on on the Harvard campuses. That, that is a, all these college campuses is a major aspect of it. But then I also get back to this because people say, well, why, you know, what's Harvard supposed to do? Trump's gonna, Trump is not saying, you know, you better, you better start teaching things in that Shakespeare 101 class the way I want you to, or else this school, by our own Supreme Court's ruling, which looked directly at Harvard, I might add, that's why Harvard is in the crosshairs. This school is engaged in racial discrimination. That is what is going on. It is clear as day if Harvard said, as a matter of policy, we will no longer take anybody who is, you know, Hispanic. Let's just put that out there for a second. If Harvard just said, sorry, we'll take everybody except the Hispanics, or if we're going to take Hispanics, they have to have perfect SATs, perfect grades and be in the like the, the one percentile to even consider getting in here of all of our applicants, not like nationally. And that's the way it's going to be, people would say, well, hold on a second, that's not right. Why, why have you created a specific, a specific entry requirement for People based on their ethnicity, their, their skin color that's wrong. And they, they would be right. I think that it was this recognition back when I was in high school and I had a kind of unique experience because I was in a very academically rigorous scholarship high school where most of the students, you know, I came from a comfortable background. I had a successful, you know, Wall street dad, but I was, you know, not, not some super rich kid or anything. But a lot of the kids there came from low income and sort of lower middle income households, and a lot of them were white. And this was the thing. And when they would apply to schools and because everybody knew too, it was a very intense pressure cooker kind of a school academically. And everyone knew who was like the top in the class and who was, you know, who was going to be. It was 130 kids, I would say, in my class. And, you know, we knew who the top 10 kids were. And we. And if you were a top 10 kid and you were white or Asian, we had a lot of Filipinos, a lot of South Koreans, because you had to be Catholic to go. So not a lot. No one really that I can remember from like mainland China, but we had a lot of Filipinos, obviously a big Catholic population. South Koreans is a robust Catholic population there too. And I just remember if you were white or one of the Asian kids, even if you were top 10 or top 20 in the whole class, which meant you were, you know, it had to be a National Merit scholar, no question. You know, you, you would have been the top of any school anywhere in the country. I mean, I think Regis has like the. I don't know. I mean, it was the Stuyvesant kids always say they have higher average SATs, but we were right there. And Stuyvesant's like number three in the country or something. So some sty people are probably listening. Yeah, we beat you. Maybe you did. But if you were Asian, if you were Hispanic or black and you were the number like 50 kid, it was, which Ivy League school do you want to go to? And I remember looking at that and recognizing that phenomenon and saying, that's just not right. It's very straightforward, just not right. And people would say, oh, but what about the legacy of slavery? Okay, well, first of all, I still disagree that that means that today in, you know, the year 20, 25, but put that aside for a second. So why the Latino kids? Why are they. And this is explicitly by the numbers, Harvard does this. Harvard discriminates on the basis of race. People say, what's Harvard supposed to do? How's Harvard supposed to, you know, make the concessions necessary to get more federal funding? Stop being racist. Harvard. They won't do it. They won't do it. That's how much they. It is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the people who run Harvard to continue to tell some poor white kid from Appalachia who has, you know, is like the pride of his town and, you know, is the, you know, he's got like a 140 IQ and 1600 SAT and everything. Yeah, I don't know if we have any space for you, but we do have room for people who have far lesser grades and far lesser boards who are a different skin color than you. The fact that we had to accept this as long as we did in this country, keep in mind, it is unconstitutional now. It is unconstitutional to do this is not just. I've been making this argument pretty much my entire life, but Certainly for now, 15 years of doing media consistently. This is wrong. This is wrong. They can't win this argument. And then you get all people playing all these games, too. It's like, oh, well, you know, my. My grandmother is from Polynesia, so I'm actually a. I'm applying to school as like a Pacific Islander. I know somebody who did that to get into Stanford. Just see. And she got in. Not an impressive student. Got in. Oh, I'm a quarter Pacific Islander. You know, it's like, by the way, I think her. I think her mom might have even been from, like, Hawaii or something. It's just the whole thing, it's a scam. It's a scam. It's absurd and we all know it. And by the way, this is true in the hiring process, too. It's racist. It's wrong. Supreme Court looked at this. Sorry. This is the system we have. Not allowed to do this anymore. Harvard still wants to do it. They refuse to change. So back to my initial premise of when someone's doing bad things to you, if you do something in response, you're not the cause of the problems. Harvard is unconstitutionally discriminating and also teaching all of his kids to hate America and also engaged in a lot of pandering to the anti Semitic, pro Hamas element on camp. All these things. Why should the administration remember? The administration's not saying we're sending in the, you know, we're sending in the, you know, the Marines to shut down your campus. You're not. No, of course, First Amendment. But they're not entitled to hundreds of millions of Dollars of funds from the government. This is the, this is what people. You know, this is like the same argument with npr. What is the argument? It's the government's money. The government should have never been giving this money, especially something NPR and now it says, you know what, we're not going to give the money anymore. They don't have. So they have the discretion to give the money, but not the discretion to stop. And I know there's already some judge who's like, you can't do this. Supreme Court's going to have to step in once again. But Harvard could make this whole thing a lot easier on itself. But it is so important to them because they have built this whole edifice of self congratulation and smugness around DEI and around diversity is our strength and all this other stuff. And they've first of all engaged in discrimination to do this. But also so much of what has happened been excellent in these institutions has been, you know, just given up in favor of this left wing religious belief of dei and that's why they're so upset. And that's what's going on. I say keep this fight going. Keep this fight going. Trump is doing the right thing. These schools, you know, they give their. And I say, well, why did Obama go there? Because the whole point is you get to go to one of these places and you're inherently. Harvard gets to pick and choose who the elites are. Well, to anyone who knows anything, by the way, you should not be impressed. I mean, I see some of these, there's like a national security analyst who I see on CNN sometimes and I used to know when I was there, who is like, teaches at Harvard in one of the schools. She's a dumbass. I mean, truly a dumbass. You're like, oh, Buck, can you and her sit down? You and her sit down. She's a professor at Harvard in like the Kennedy School or something. Can you hear her? Sit down and let's do, let's just do like an overall knowledge test for the world of national security. She gets smoked by the bucksters. Smoked. And I know this person teaches at Harvard. She's a Harvard professor. Yeah, give me a break. 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