Harvard tries to show just how far communist chic really goes by arranging an alumni trip to a really interesting location. Deborah Orin, writing in the New York Post:
May 1, 2006 -- HARVARD University has a bizarre idea of how to advance the education of its grads: Instruct them to bow down to North Korea's paranoid dictators and show proper "respect" for the Axis of Evil.
It's the ultimate in radical Stalinist chic - the Harvard Alumni Association's $636-a-night totalitarian luxury tour of a rogue nation where thousands are deliberately starved to death.
"Demonstrations of respect for the country's late leader, Kim Il Sung, and for the current leader, Kim Jong Il, are important," instructs the Harvard Alumni Association's tour memo.
"You will be expected to bow as a gesture of respect at the statue of Kim Il Sung and at his mausoleum."
Harvard even tries to pretend that bowing down to thugs is perfectly normal - explaining that it's because "North Korea, like every country, has its own unique protocols."
Well, yes, that certainly is a charming use of euphemism to cover up an ugly and unique reality - since North Korea is not "like every country."
North Korea's "protocols" feature massive human-rights abuses, deliberate famine, concentration camps, religious persecution, gas chambers, likely genocide and trafficking in women and children.
I wonder if the Harvard Alums are also advised not to notice the mountains of corpses. After all, different countries have their own protocols.
Aren't these Harvard Admin types the same folks who were appalled when Bush gave a speech at Bob Jones University? Was it this left, or some other that urged the boycott of South Africa? There is a moral blindness here that is breathtaking to behold.
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