Interview · moment 13 of 29
Harvard as an Institution That Corrals Elite Thought
from Francis Ellis · #144
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3 minGuest
Tim and Francis discuss how elite institutions like Harvard streamline people into mainstream thought, comparing it to Trump's outsider appeal, and Francis reflects on being at Harvard just before campus political correctness took hold.
- 28:41Harvard and Yale take brilliant people and corral them into the mainstream of American thought.
- 29:17Government officials from these institutions share similar points of view, which made Trump's outsider appearance appealing.
- 29:51Tim graduated in 2011, just before campus protests, sexual assault scandals, and microphone-cutting started.
- 30:14Louis C.K. performed at Harvard when Tim was a senior and wasn't pulling punches.
- 30:32Asian American students are suing Harvard over admissions discrimination because they're being held to a quota.
- 30:54Tim declares himself a Chinese supremacist, noting that Asians dominate when judged by facts and numbers.
- 31:07Tim asks where his Charlottesville is—where he can express appreciation for a group doing better than him.