Harvard University graduate Pete Hegseth and Fox & Friends co-host wrote “Return to Sender” about his diploma while on the air, promising to send it back to the elite school because of the politics of the far left in the United States teachings of the school, which he describes as “poisonous”. the children’s heads.
Hegseth appeared in a segment of Sean Hannity on Friday night with co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, who brought up his previous promises to send his degree back in protest of the school’s beliefs.
In his recently published book, Battle for the American Mind, Hegseth describes the “destruction” of public education and encourages people to send their degrees back.
At Fox & Friends on Saturday morning, Hegseth kept his own promise. He insisted he was making a statement — not a stunt — about higher education when he pulled out his master’s degree in Public Policy on Air, removed it from the frame and wrote “return to sender” over it.
Harvard graduate and Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth writes “Return to Sender” about his diploma with a promise to send it back to Harvard in protest of what he sees as far-left politics in the school’s teachings
Hegseth then crossed out “Harvard” and wrote in its place: “Critical Theory”, making it “Critical Theory University”.
“Will your mother be mad?” asked his co-host Campos-Duffy Hegseth.
Very,” he replied. “I don’t think my wife will like it either.”
Hegseth said he hopes this is a statement that “we as conservatives and patriots can’t keep sending our kids off to college and getting them into colleges that poison their minds.”
“People will say, ‘This is just a stunt. You still have a degree,’ and that’s okay. I left, I graduated, I went to classes, all of that,” he said. “But I hope this is a statement as conservatives and patriots, if we love this country we can’t keep sending our kids to colleges and putting them in colleges that poison their minds.”
He also accused Harvard of pushing critical theory and not being as religiously focused as it used to be.
“I don’t want to add prestige to Harvard given what has become of Harvard. Today’s chief chaplain at Harvard, the president of the chaplains, is an atheist. This was a university founded by John Harvard with the original motto: For the Glory of Christ. If you look at the ubiquity of critical theory, Marxist thought, racist thought, frankly, within Harvard, why do we hold it up as the vanguard of what is the imprimatur of what makes someone credible?
Speaking on Fox & Friends on Saturday morning, he insisted he was making a statement — not a stunt — about higher education as he got his master’s degree in public policy on the airwaves
Hegseth then crossed out “Harvard” and wrote in its place: “Critical Theory”, making it “Critical Theory University”.
In 2021, Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik was removed from a panel at Harvard for making comments that perpetuated President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud.
Stefanik accused her alma mater of giving in to the “woke left” after the school’s Department of Politics removed her from an advisory committee on Tuesday, citing her public statements about cheating in the 2020 election.
Hundreds of students and alumni had called on Harvard to sever ties with Stefanik, a 2006 Harvard graduate, after last week’s violent riot in the US Capitol.
US Rep. Elise Stefanik (pictured 2021) was removed from the Harvard University panel for comments perpetuating Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud
Hundreds of students (file image) and alumni have called on Harvard to sever ties with Stefanik, a 2006 Harvard graduate, following last week’s violent riot in the US Capitol
After the university’s announcement, Stefanik responded that it was a “rite of passage and badge of honor” boycotted by US universities.
“The Harvard administration’s decision to duck and cave in to the woke left will further undermine diversity of thought, public discourse, and ultimately the student experience,” she wrote in a statement.
She continued, “The ivory tower march toward a monoculture of like-minded, intolerant liberal views demonstrates the scornful contempt for ordinary Americans and will instill a culture of fear in students who will understand that a conservative viewpoint will not be tolerated and will be silenced.
“Congratulations Harvard, the entire board of the Institute for Policy is now just Joe Biden voters – how reflective of America.”
Earlier this year, Harvard students’ “awakened” beliefs were blamed when a police station on Harvard University’s campus was forced to close after students complained that their presence was “a violent, visual intimidation tactic.”
An on-campus Harvard University police station was forced to close after students complained that their presence was “a violent, visual intimidation tactic.” Pictured: A Harvard University police officer cordons off an area following a bomb threat made on campus in 2015
The police department’s sub-station, based in the living hall of Mather House, was closed in February after years of outcry from bright-eyed students and faculty.
They argued that the outpost, which opened in 2005 and was one of four on campus, was more intimidating than helpful, according to the Harvard Crimson, and even targeted officers for eating in the student dining room
Eleanor “Ellie” Taylor, a Harvard student and resident of Mather House, claimed the substation was being used as a “visual intimidation tactic” against students.
She added there were concerns about Harvard University police officers eating meals next to students in the dining room during the 2019-2020 academic year, which she says made many students uncomfortable.
Kai DeJesus, another Mather House resident, told the Harvard Crimson that closing the substation was a “really good first step,” but believes the university’s police department must eventually be abolished.
DeJesus pointed to an incident in 2020 in which an officer was accused of using excessive force while arresting a black man at Harvard’s Smith Campus Center.
“It’s really important that we keep these violent institutions outside of homes,” DeJesus said. “Ultimately, the HUPD remains the police force disproportionately targeting blacks and browns here on campus and in Cambridge.”
“For there to be any real justice on this campus, the HUPD must be abolished,” DeJesus said.
Most recently, in April 2022, Harvard students gave the classic musical The Mikado an “awakened” makeover to remove racial innuendos and turn it into a dystopian drama about herding goats.
Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert And Sullivan Players (HRGSP) students have adapted Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado into a musical about a goatherd in dystopian London (pictured)
“Yellowface” performances continued well into the 2000s, with American actors Michael Harris (left) and Laurelyn Watson playing lead roles in the 2003 NYGASP production. The NYGASP halted production in 2015 after a backlash on social media
Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert And Sullivan Players (HRGSP) students have reimagined the Gilbert and Sullivan drama in a rebranded production called The Milk Made, which opened late last month.
The Harvard students chose to keep Arthur Sullivan’s original score but completely rewrote the piece. Instead of drama about the main character’s search for love, they instead opted to tell the story of an Asian boat worker tending goats in a futuristic, Chinese-dominated London.
Keagan Yap, 25, the music director, said the changes were made to avoid the original track’s use of “yellowface” and racism to create a more awakened experience.
Yellowface sees white actors wearing makeup and traditional clothing to make them look Asian. It is similar to blackface and is also widely considered offensive and racist today.
“Some of our cast and crew members also have Asian heritage and belong to those cultures, and to be part of this project – and to bring their identities and their cultures and experiences into this work that marked music from centuries ago – was my opinion after a very enlightening experience,” said Yap of the Harvard Crimson.
After a spate of cancellations of the musical across the country, many, like the Harvard students, have tried to rewrite the story to avoid the Japanese stereotypes and “yellowface” performances.