In the name of inclusion, Harvard wants to rewrite its alma mater to exclude founders

If you don’t think fascism has taken over college campuses in America, keep reading.

Prestigious Harvard University has a problem with its school song and suddenly after decades of singing about “Puritans,” that people group has become problematic for progressive students. The New York Times explains:

For decades, Harvard students and alumni have sung an alma mater that calls on them to be heralds of light and bearers of love “till the stock of the Puritans die.”

University officials teach the refrain to freshmen on arrival and sing it again when the students graduate years later.

But this week, a university steeped in tradition said the time had come for a change.

To affirm Harvard’s commitment to inclusion in a time when college campuses are routinely finding themselves at the center of national debates on race and identity, university officials said they are seeking suggested rewrites of that disquieting final line. The contest is open only to members of the Harvard community.

That’s funny, I would’ve though a “commitment to inclusion” meant not excluding Puritans, but what do I know?

More from The Times:

The line about Puritans concludes a sentence that is “an exhortation to pursue the truth until a certain endpoint,” said Danielle S. Allen, a professor and political philosopher on the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, which launched the competition.

Harvard’s motto is “Veritas,” Latin for “truth,” she noted, adding, “there shouldn’t be any endpoint to the pursuit of truth, nor should we imply that the pursuit of truth is for any particular ethnic group.”

And there’s the problem right there: the Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. If anything should be excluded at Harvard, it’s that task force. Groups like this are why fascism continues to rise at universities and why intellectual diversity has been commandeered by leftist groupthink. To them, “inclusion” is for their kind and anyone not inside their bubble, needs to be banished. That’s tolerance for you.

A blog called Never Yet Melted perfectly criticized Harvard’s pursuit of political correctness in a post titled, “The Stock of Puritans Has Apparently Died:”

Today, minority admittees and presiding administrations eagerly lobby for fundamentally changing the composition, constituency, and even the complexion of those schools. Matters have reached a point at which the non-traditional groups feel entitled to rename buildings and to purge references and memorials to illustrious alumni and benefactors on the basis of their own amour propre. Now, at Harvard, they are sending the founders and original constituency of the college into exile from the school’s alma mater. All this causes me to wonder: had the people who initiated the effort at diversity admissions been able to foresee this occurring, would they ever have admitted any of these minorities at all in the first place?

H/T American Power

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