They've all effed up

Dare I say the words "Affirmative Action" (AA)?  Unfortunately, I have to.  Three women presidents of elite US Ivy League universities have f-cked up royally at congressional hearings in the US on anti-Semitism.  They all waffled and fumbled and used legalese double speak to explain that calling for death to Jews is not really anti-Semitic genocide.  "It depends on the context," said Claudine Gay, Harvard president.

Gay

OMG!  You have got to be kidding.  So, it's not always wrong?!?!  These are the depths to which such universities have sunk.  University of Pennsylvania president Sally Magill at least had the grace to resign, but not Gay and not MIT president Sally Kornbluth.  Big mistakes.  Their hanging on will only make an already big mess even bigger.

Magill

Kornbluth

You can bet AA and hysterical wokeness played a major part in their selection.  One letter in yesterday's 'Globe and Mail' said the word "elite" should be removed from any reference to their universities and that Canadian students should save themselves thousands and stick to universities this side of the border.  Hear hear.  The caché once attached to a framed Harvard degree on your wall has now evaporated.  And you just watch how endowments to these universities poof into thin air.   

A few MPs have written to five major universities here in Canada, asking them if they consider Palestinians calling for Genocide "Harassment" of Jews.  Can't wait to see how they respond!

Fareed Zakaria broadcast a scathing and brilliant analysis of these three.  It's on YouTube; have a listen.

And speaking of people who should resign, Greg Fergus is also at the top of the list for the shambles he is making of the speaker's role in the House of Commons.  Posing in your speaker's regalia in the speaker's office, while wishing a Liberal colleague a happy retirement, was very wrong.  You'd think Fergus, who has been in the House for decades, would have known this.  

Fergus

Hmmmm....Do you think the extra $195,000 in pay he gets, plus a fancy summer residence, for the job had anything to do with his refusing to step aside?  That's on top of the measly $185,800 he gets for just being a regular PM.  Rhetorical.  Personally, when I look at the vacant smirk he always has on his face, two words come to mind:  Empty head. 

The NDP are calling for a fine for Fergus.  What a joke!  That's an even bigger insult to the position.  He needs to go.

As a Canadian who couldn't get any more cynical, even I am straining at the parameters of my own bias.  We are sooooo badly governed.