CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, January 20, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — As cancel culture and its attacks upon free speech accelerate, a campaign at Harvard University to “revoke” degrees of certain conservative alumni seeks to elevate this trend to a more serious level.
A petition is being circulated demanding the university rescind the degrees of former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany; U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas; and several others due to spreading “disinformation” and “mistrust that created” the “insurrection” on January 6.
This trend apparently has been building at the Ivy League college since last fall’s election.
George Washington University law professor and commentator Jonathan Turley reported in November how a group of Harvard students demanded the administration bar “former Trump officials and consultants from entering the campus until they are reviewed and vetted.”
And last week, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, was removed from the Harvard Institute of Politics Senior Advisory Committee for making “public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election” that the dean of the school of politics believes “have no basis in evidence” (sic).
Stefanik was among the 147 Republicans who voted in a joint session of Congress to challenge the election certification of Joe Biden.
Turley charged
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