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 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.
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.