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Nov 18 3 tweets 1 min read Read on X
OMG, the Harvard Crimson, which likely has exactly zero conservative employees, and whose students are at a school where 90% of the students and over 90% of the faculty are progressives and Democrats, think that their *conservative* classmates are insular. And the example they use of that insularity, concern over the sudden drop in the US fertility rate, which is, in fact, a huge problem for the country's future, if for no other reason than the solvency of Social Security and Medicare, is risible.Image
And I have to admit being puzzled as to why the Crimson editorialists think that it's self-evidence that worries about the national fertility rate are "ethically dubious" and "thinly supported." Insularity, perhaps?
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