Read a Harvard student’s open letter to ‘the delicate flowers of the Ivy League’
Harvard student Jacob Russell penned an open letter on FoxNews.com criticizing college campuses for the way they are handling President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
In the post, which FoxNews.com calls “A Harvard student’s open letter to the delicate flowers of the Ivy League,” Russell chastises universities for their decisions to “coddle those who have been traumatized by the will of the American people.”
Russell, a sophomore studying history, said he disapproves of Harvard’s decision to make a midterm optional due to the election, saying officials are guilty of “capitulating to the hysteria of the Flowers.” He tells students to put away their Play-Doh, which he says some universities have doled out to help students cope. As for the protests happening at college campuses across America, Russell writes, “What are you protesting … the democratic process?”
He calls the protests “a head-scratcher,” and writes that perhaps it has to do with his generation’s childhood full of participation trophies.
“Many never learned how to be graceful in defeat, much less handle it,” he writes.
Russell writes:
Trump won, and he did not overthrow the government or kill people to silence them. He won in the standard fashion — by getting 270 votes in the Electoral college. You have a right to be upset, but what we have on our hands now is an embarrassment.
Read the letter in its entirety at FoxNews.com.
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