Posted on 10/17/2023 2:42:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last month, the President of Yale, Peter Salovey, announced his eleven-year run would end in June 2024, capped by record-setting financial success. During his tenure, the university raised from alumni the staggering sum of $7 billion. Over roughly the same term the university’s endowment doubled from $21 billion to $41 billion. Nothing like money.
Amidst the accumulation of billions, President Salovey found time on October 10, three long days after Hamas attacked Israel, to write five paragraphs that will forever stain Yale, its author, the supine Yale Board of Trustees that permitted the letter to be sent, and the more than 5,000 faculty members who have yet to pen a written objection.
The bravest line of the letter is here. “As a member of the Yale community, I am compelled by our shared sense of humanity to condemn the attacks on civilians by Hamas in the strongest possible terms.”
But it turns out, that’s it. Nothing follows about the specifics of the attack, the point-blank execution of hundreds at the music festival, the burning alive of men, women, and children, the rapes and mutilations, kidnappings, the hour upon hour hunt and extermination of those surviving the initial attack, the murdered babies, the boasting online, the ecstatic celebration of death, in all, horrors so unspeakable that seasoned war correspondents have said it exceeds in cruelty anything they have ever seen.
Worse yet, the entire point of the letter undercuts the condemnation, draining it of meaning. “The world has watched in horror as over 1,700 individuals in the region have been killed in the resulting violence.” As of October 10, the reported murdered Israelis numbered 700, though that number now exceeds 1,300. So Salovey explicitly mourns the death of Hamas jihadists as the moral equivalent to the innocents they have slaughtered.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
https://president.yale.edu/president/statements/war-middle-east
This from the holder of an endowed Yale chair of Psychology, knowing that the blood of October 7 had barely dried. Name another massacre in history in which the victims are grouped with the perpetrators as objects of collective sorrow.
Lest anyone miss the true theme of collective woe, Salovey hammers it home. “The death toll in Israel continues to climb. Non-militant Palestinians have been killed or displaced.” Full stop, no explanation needed. The moral equivalence espoused in these sentences is matched only by its arrogance. But Salovey fears his audience is slow, so repetition never hurts, “I am shocked and anguished by the loss of life and the pain and suffering of so many.”
Et tu, Yale? Elihu Yale is spinning in his grave.
The meaningless cliche “in the strongest possible terms” identifies its user as a shallow fool.
Sheila Jackson-Lee "graduated" from there.
The ghettopotomus with two “Confederate” names?
The very kind of mealy-mouthed, fence-sitting, craven, weaselly, empty language that undoubtedly landed Peter Salovey the presidency of Yale.
The fact is the Ivy Leagues were already in freefall in public opinion prior to this, this episode will just increase the process of their utter and complete downfall.
SPJNK
Why do CEOs feel compelled to makes statements about this stuff?
I guess I am old because I don’t understand it. What do they benefit from it.
This is about what you would expect from a university president, and it’s far from the worst they come up with.
Hyperventilating about it doesn’t do anybody any good.
From his wiki page:
Salovey’s grandparents’ families originally came from Poland, Jerusalem, and Austria.[27] The Saloveys are descendants of the Soloveitchik rabbinic family.[28] His paternal grandfather, Yitzchak Leib was born in Jerusalem in 1895 to a community worker and pharmacist named Zalman Yoseph Soloveitchik (b. 1874). Zalman Yoseph was the son of Simchah (c. 1830-1921), a Lithuanian born Jew who emigrated to Jerusalem where he was called “The Londoner”, due to the time he spent living in London. Simchah was the son of Eliyahu Soloveitchik, an uncle to the famous scholar Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, known as the Beis Halevi. This part of the family’s origins trace to Kaunas (Kovno/Slobodka), Lithuania and then Volozhin, Belarus.
Peter Salovey’s Soloveitchik forebears were learned teachers who understood the world. Their descendant, Peter Salovey, deludes himself about the world with empty platitudes.
The ivy has fallen.
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