Harvard Crimson op-ed complains about their new president being a white male.

[Rion]

66-Year-Old Married White Male With a Doctorate | Opinion | The Harva…

Titles currently messed up due to mobile.

Any how, the most ironic quote from the piece:

Harvard’s next president does not look like me. He does not look like the majority of the freshman class or classes to come. He does not understand, first-hand, what it means to be reduced to your gender or the color of your skin.

 

[brinny]

66-Year-Old Married White Male With a Doctorate | Opinion | The Harva…

Titles currently messed up due to mobile.

Any how, the most ironic quote from the piece:

Harvard’s next president does not look like me. He does not look like the majority of the freshman class or classes to come. He does not understand, first-hand, what it means to be reduced to your gender or the color of your skin.

It sounds "phobic".

 

[EdwinWillers]

Sounds classically racist to me - tenor, tone, and content practically screams the definition of the term.

I wonder what he really sees each morning staring back at him in the mirror? Himself, or a person of color?

 

[SolomonVII]

The article lays out how great this administrator will be for everybody. Then they paper it over by saying that his greatness is all on paper.
Self-contradiction is only a problem for those who hold truth to be a value, apparently.

 

[brinny]

66-Year-Old Married White Male With a Doctorate | Opinion | The Harva…

Titles currently messed up due to mobile.

Any how, the most ironic quote from the piece:

Harvard’s next president does not look like me. He does not look like the majority of the freshman class or classes to come. He does not understand, first-hand, what it means to be reduced to your gender or the color of your skin.

A comment from a reader of the opinion piece sums it up quite succinctly:

"I love the irony of how the author states "[Bacow] does not understand, first-hand, what it means to be reduced to your gender or the color of your skin" after spending the whole article reducing Bacow to his gender and the color of his skin" ~Publius

 

[Theodoric]

Trying to work something up here, but...

I. Just. Don't. Care.

Boo Hoo. This poor little thing got himself admitted to Harvard but still obsesses over his own skin color. The rest of us really don't care.

Note to the writer of this op-ed piece: When we look at you, we don't see the color of your skin. We see a privileged, self-absorbed little brat. You know, the kinds of things that cross all color barriers.

 

[Ana the Ist]

66-Year-Old Married White Male With a Doctorate | Opinion | The Harva…

Titles currently messed up due to mobile.

Any how, the most ironic quote from the piece:

Harvard’s next president does not look like me. He does not look like the majority of the freshman class or classes to come. He does not understand, first-hand, what it means to be reduced to your gender or the color of your skin.

Irony so thick you can cut it with a knife.

 

[SolomonVII]

The Identity politics that this writers subscribes to creates a climate where feeling sorry and pity for people in the identity group has now become the default position in universities.

Is having people walking on eggshells around him really worth the fact that he is a perpetual object of pity for anyone that comes in contact with him? Admittedly there will be a feeling of power in the fact that people will all feel obligated to stifle themselves in his presence, but stilted formality cannot be as meaningful as actual friendships based in honesty.