Progressivism ages like milk, and Americans don’t have a taste for spoiled products served by spoiled leftists.
Now, institutions like Harvard are realizing that there is a shelf life to their ideology and that their constant need to step into every political and cultural issue has only put a bad taste in all our mouths.
Tuesday, Harvard’s new work group announced that they will no longer be vocal on public issues that don’t impact their institutions core functions.
According to their new policy, Harvard leaders will debate when it would be appropriate for the university to make public statements while keeping their core functions as the north star for their decisions.
“If the university and its leaders become accustomed to issuing official statements about matters beyond the core function of the university, they will inevitably come under intense pressure to do so from multiple, competing sides on nearly every imaginable issue of the day,” the report explained.
“This is the reality of contemporary public life in an era of social media and political polarization.”
Well duh!
Harvard, like many of us, suffers from the impulsivity of our modern overly opinionated culture.
Social media scolds believe that saying nothing is a weakness and proclaiming your stance is a necessity.
Even when you choose to forgo adhering to this new cultural norm, bad faith actors will translate your desire to remain neutral as being fearful of choosing a side and they will ultimately decide where you stand anyway.
The days of accepting that everyone has an opinion that they should probably keep to themselves have been swapped out for a new era of proselytizing every half thought that streams through their brains.
Instead of silence, we must now deal with ego driven “activists of the day” who regurgitate unoriginal slogans that they plagiarized from the playbooks of political partisans.
Michael Jordan once famously stated that in jest that “Republicans buy shoes too” in response to why he wasn’t vocal about his social and political viewpoints.
It’s a lesson Harvard, and hopefully corporations, retailers and sports teams all re-learn.
Entities do not need to take a stand on anything that doesn’t directly impact them, and for the vast majority of social issues, political endeavors and foreign conflicts.
Because most of these issues don’t affect them, they are also not part of the solution, and they end up becoming politically divisive for no long-term benefit unto themselves.
Their advocacy to end things they cannot control appears as empty virtuous nonsense that we can all see through.
As an avid sports fan, the hyper-racial and political rhetoric coming from sports leagues and entertainment networks in 2020 forced me to abandon a past time that I spent decades enjoying.
Sports leagues like the NBA and NFL spread narratives that I and many others did not agree with, and they turned athletic giants into whiny activists who performed useless gestures while wearing leftist swag .
Harvard has a responsibility to itself, not the rest of society, but the problem is that many within its walls hold an elitist mentality that convinces them to embrace being uniquely tasked with dictating the direction of our society.
Hopefully this is the first step of getting over themselves.
Adam B. Coleman is the author of “Black Victim to Black Victor” and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. Follow him on Substack: adambcoleman.substack.com.