<p>Lololololol.</p>
<p>OMG, you guys make me feel like I don’t stand a chance ;)</p>
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<p>Actually, Harvard would prefer if you brought communism to a democratic country. Crimson isn’t the school colors for nothing.</p>
<p>@collegealum: Hahahahaha</p>
<p>^@collegealum, actually, if you read The Crimson’s editorial page lately, you might think we were Bob Jones University; a couple members of True Love Revolution, the abstinence group, have been blowing up the pages against gay marriage, against abortion, etc. etc.</p>
<p>It’s rather surprising.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, it’s shocking. One in every five editorials is like… mildly conservative. This sort of stuff doesn’t belong in a diverse intellectual community like ours. </p>
<p>If I had wanted to deal with people who disagreed with me, I’d have gone to Liberty University. I came here to be affirmed!</p>
<p>I wasn’t talking about the fact that 1/5 (I actually think more like 2/5 political ones, to exclude “campus issues” etc.) editorials are conservative, or that the staff of the newspaper often comes out for mildly conservative outcomes, like being vaguely anti-OWS. I was talking about the handful of shockingly poorly reasoned socially conservative articles of late, on the things like the social destructiveness of gay marriage (which don’t always do very good jobs avoiding homophobia on their way to just arguing against gay marriage) or the indisputable philosophical evil of abortion. (Both of which I’d be glad to see well-reasoned perspectives on.)</p>
<p>Actually, you know, I wasn’t going to share my politics here, since I almost never discuss them in real life or on the internet. But I feel like I should share the real reason I am so steamed at the shockingly bad conservative editorials in the Crimson, since it ain’t that I’m a socialist just wanting to be affirmed: it’s that they make me ashamed to be a Republican at Harvard.</p>
<p>Point me to any well-reasoned editorial in the Crimson, and I’ll be delighted. It’s not the best showcase for either ideology. </p>
<p>Sorry I read your post incorrectly… I read it in the tone that I expect of the students here. Many of them are repeatedly shocked and appalled by the existence of conservatives, and that’s what I thought you were indicating.</p>
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<p>Ah, that’s a classic Gestapo trick–shoot one of your own to show that you’re not one of them. </p>
<p>It’s worse than I thought!!</p>
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I’ve actually felt more comfortable as the lone conservative in my liberal groups of friends than the lone moderately-so in my conservative group of friends. The liberals know they’re in the majority, so they leave it alone. The conservatives sometimes get a “you’re an imposter, a wolf in sheep’s clothing” mentality (only a very little bit or we wouldn’t be friends, but enough that political talk is less comfy with them than with the liberals.)</p>
<p>I was expecting Harvard to be really anti-conservative, since one husband Harvard alum in my family, back in the early 80s, told a then-friend that “he couldn’t be her friend any more” when he found out she’d voted for Reagan. Those two are now married so grain of salt, but I think that while Harvard’s reputation has stuck like that, the actual school now is quite tolerant of a wide range of views. Just maybe not for those views that verge on homophobia.</p>
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<p>Point.</p>
<p>@exultations: I was just having a little fun at Harvard’s expense–always a good choice, I think.</p>
<p>Haha, no worries; just given how convinced I was that it was still going to be a “oh my god, only a Democrat not a Socialist???” place (given the family lore; the family lore, I now realize, was from The Hippy Days), figured it was worth setting the record straight. A lot of my posts are aimed at me-three-years-ago.</p>
<p>Also tooling on the Crimson is fun. :)</p>