Harvard's Kennedy School of Government rescinded a visiting fellowship offered to Chelsea Manning, the former military intelligence analyst who spent seven years in prison for leaking classified government secrets, after the university faced forceful backlash from CIA Director Mike Pompeo among others.
"I now think that designating Chelsea Manning as a Visiting Fellow was a mistake, for which I accept responsibility," Douglas W. Elmendorf, the school's dean, wrote in a 700-word statement released shortly after midnight Friday.
Manning was one of four visiting fellows announced two days earlier by the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. As part of the program, visiting fellows appear on Harvard's campus for speaking engagements and events, interacting with undergraduate students on "topical issues of today," the school's initial announcement explained.
Elmendorf decided to withdraw the invitation after realizing that "many people view a Visiting Fellow title as an honorific," though the school had not intended to "honor [Manning] in any way or to endorse any of her words or deeds."
The Establishment called.
Harvard University invited Chelsea Manning to be a visiting fellow, but withdrew the invitation after CIA Director Mike Pompeo wrote:
The students there are now owed an institution that acts responsibility; an institution that does not sanction or legitimize the criminal path Ms. Manning took to undermine our national security.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @04:34PM (4 children)
Pookie.
I suspect the down-mod was due to deliberate mis-gendering.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @06:39PM (3 children)
The Runsaway, she don't like the Chelsea. That's how the Runsaway rolls. She likes to call people by the wrong pronouns. Even if she gets modded down for that. Such a pity.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @07:37PM (2 children)
He/him/his are the correct pronouns to use when describing somebody who was born a male.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @07:46PM
But here's the thing: assholes don't have gender! So what pronoun to use for someone who was born an asshole, and insists on calling people by their birth-gender?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:51PM
Way too many people are far too concerned with other peoples' physical gender. I blame the mass-delusion commonly called "religion."