Valuetainment - January 06, 2026


＂Attack Against White Men＂ - Harvard Professor BLASTS University's DEI Power Grip


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A Harvard professor says he is stepping down from the university after 40 years, claiming its focus on diversity and inclusion is doing more harm than good. Harvard Alumnus Shabos Kestenbaum joins us to talk about this and more.

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00:00:00.100 Complete different story here. Let me get to this story. A Harvard professor calls a university's exclusion of white males in scathing public resignation.
00:00:08.400 Rob, I believe you have a clip on this. If you do, please go to it. Watch this, folks. Very, very interesting on what's going on.
00:00:17.680 Rob, of course, we won't play the whole clip because it's three minutes and 54 seconds, but play some of it. Go ahead, Rob.
00:00:22.980 A Harvard professor says he is leaving the university after 40 years, claiming its focus on DEI is doing more harm than good, writing, quote,
00:00:31.780 In the fall of 2020, I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program.
00:00:37.800 In past years, this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool.
00:00:42.660 In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that that, meaning admitting a white male, was not happening this year.
00:00:51.640 Harvard alumnus Shabos Kestenbaum joins us now. Happy New Year, Shabos. Thanks so much for being on with us.
00:00:59.480 Happy New Year. Good to be here.
00:01:01.180 So the professor writes about this seemingly open, anti-white, anti-male environment that has really been growing in Harvard.
00:01:08.760 As an alumnus, is this something that you have experienced? Do you agree with what the professor wrote?
00:01:15.080 Certainly, I agree with what the professor wrote. It's shocking, but it's certainly not surprising.
00:01:18.480 I mean, a country that does not teach about its own history is certainly a country that does not have much of a future.
00:01:23.260 But honestly, my greatest concern is the greater societal implications and the greater societal ills, particularly the demoralization of young people in America.
00:01:31.320 So when you have cultural elites or professors who insist and instruct young people that their culture is not worthy of preservation,
00:01:38.020 that their race is something to be apologetic over, that their history is not worthy of scholarship,
00:01:42.380 then, of course, those young people, particularly young men, will become disillusioned and disassociated with the society they're meant to be interacting with.
00:01:49.980 And we need to be very clear now that we're in 2026 that...
00:01:53.080 Tom, thoughts?
00:01:53.820 So this is a professor, Dr. James Hankins, who had been at Harvard for 40 years and who finally had just had enough.
00:02:02.160 And 40 years, and if he was 24, 28 when he got his doctorate, so he's probably late 60s, maybe 70.
00:02:08.200 And he's saying we've had enough.
00:02:10.640 And one of the things he said is he talked about DEI and he says we've abandoned merit in favor of diversity quotas,
00:02:20.000 which changes the way we conduct our affairs and the qualities that we deliver.
00:02:25.320 He's saying it.
00:02:26.340 He's now saying it out loud, saying, guess what?
00:02:29.400 You know what?
00:02:30.180 We get away from merit.
00:02:31.320 This is where it goes.
00:02:32.260 And what's interesting today, there's a Wall Street Journal story that is today on the front of the journal that talked about that merit is making a comeback
00:02:44.360 as we come into what will be the spring recruiting season, is that there are companies that were saying it does matter where you go to school,
00:02:53.060 and we'll be recruiting and looking for merit, and we're looking for kids on merit.
00:02:58.660 And actually, there is McKinsey, a gentleman that was quoted in the article, talking about looking for merit not just at Ivy League schools,
00:03:05.840 at other schools, but actually stepping back from the schools where DEI does not give them, you know,
00:03:13.720 hey, we're going to come on campus to recruit.
00:03:15.640 They want to recruit strong people based on merit.
00:03:19.380 And so I think this is a tip of the iceberg moment.
00:03:22.480 Harvard's going to circle the wagons, and they're going to shut everybody down, and they're going to tell everybody to knock it off,
00:03:28.540 because Harvard is still doing this.
00:03:30.340 The Supreme Court case that was against Yale has teeth, but they're still doing it because you've got generations of these DEI leaders,
00:03:41.220 Vinny, that are still in there.
00:03:42.560 Just like Venezuela, you've got to get rid of a few guys, and you need to put new leadership in.
00:03:48.360 Again, it's going to be one step at a time, but what's interesting is this actually got play from the mainstream media talking about it,
00:03:56.220 and then it's actually being set out in the open, and I'm glad to see it, but it's only one small step.
00:04:03.260 There's a long walk.
00:04:06.440 There's going to be a Batang death march to rid the halls of the DEI and get higher education truly back to the measurement of merit. 1.00
00:04:15.340 What's going to happen to James Hankins? How will the market treat somebody like a James Hankins?
00:04:20.040 Well, if he's put himself in a place to retire, then the market can't do anything to him.
00:04:26.700 He can just retire, and he doesn't need it.
00:04:29.320 But I believe there's going to be folks out there that want to hear from him.
00:04:33.380 I believe you're going to have a publisher will ask him to write a book about his experience.
00:04:38.000 I don't think he's going to be welcomed with open arms, and there's a lot of people that are going to want to stab him in the back for what he did,
00:04:43.280 but I think there's going to be some people out there, a few of them, that are going to try to help him.
00:04:49.440 But I think, obviously, as he walks away from Harvard, he's done with that.
00:04:54.240 But I think there's going to be some islands out there that someone, I think, will want him to tell a story.
00:05:01.040 Yeah. I mean, for him to be able to say what he's saying right now, you've got to applaud him.
00:05:06.640 Respect to him on what he's seen taking place.
00:05:09.000 For someone at his caliber, Adam, if you have any thoughts on this, I'll come to you, and I'm going to the next story.
00:05:15.420 Well, it's been no secret there's been an attack against straight white men in America for over a decade, you know, a.k.a. the patriarchy.
00:05:23.760 It's all a farce.
00:05:25.320 So, you know, back in my days when I was doing a lot of Manosphere content, we talked about the red pill versus the blue pill.
00:05:32.500 I thought you were going to say something else.
00:05:33.840 I don't think I was going with that.
00:05:34.520 No, I thought you were going to say, like, you know, there's been a major attack on straight white male.
00:05:39.320 And I thought you were going to say back in the days when I was a. . .
00:05:41.980 Back in the days when I was a straight white male?
00:05:43.340 Yeah, I thought you were going to go. . .
00:05:45.040 Keep going.
00:05:45.900 All right.
00:05:46.300 But. . .
00:05:46.560 Is this an announcement?
00:05:48.160 No.
00:05:48.340 He made it a long time ago, but keep going.
00:05:50.160 So, my girlfriend will disagree.
00:05:52.780 But. . .
00:05:53.160 Say hi to Fred.
00:05:54.480 The reality is. . .
00:05:56.840 Biz Doc.
00:05:57.500 Not Biz Doc, right?
00:05:58.700 Biz.
00:05:59.200 Biz.
00:05:59.840 Yeah.
00:05:59.980 Okay.
00:06:00.200 Can we stop with the nonsensical freaking debate of what's better, capitalism or communism?
00:06:10.060 Is the fact that we're still having this debate in life, in campus, are we really playing this game?
00:06:16.020 Is this really what we're doing?
00:06:17.000 How many times have you talked about, you know, the campus, we're having a debate, guys.
00:06:20.320 What do you think is a better economic, socioeconomic system?
00:06:23.500 Capitalism or socialism?
00:06:24.540 Which one is it, guys?
00:06:25.700 I don't know. 0.97
00:06:26.440 Can we stop the freaking nonsense? 0.94
00:06:29.500 Meanwhile, capitalism might not be the prettiest system. 0.95
00:06:31.900 What did Churchill say?
00:06:33.840 It's just. . .
00:06:34.800 It's the. . .
00:06:36.360 The second best out there is better than everything else.
00:06:39.200 So, yeah.
00:06:39.640 It might be ugly.
00:06:40.400 It might be messy.
00:06:41.240 But at least it's in your face.
00:06:42.680 It's competitive.
00:06:43.580 And it's an example of how countries thrive.
00:06:46.660 What examples do you have of socialism, Marxism, or the warmth of collectivism?
00:06:51.560 Put a nice little communist blanket all over you that have worked. 0.77
00:06:55.040 Why are people fleeing Venezuela?
00:06:56.660 Why are people fleeing Cuba in rafts?
00:06:58.400 Right, Mikey?
00:06:59.420 Why are people doing this?
00:07:00.500 Why are people fleeing these Islamist nations?
00:07:03.280 Because it's not good to live under. 0.98
00:07:05.460 And the fact that Harvard still indoctrinates their kids under this Marxist critical race theory, DEI bullshit downstream of Marxism. 0.93
00:07:15.600 It's just. . . 0.98
00:07:16.100 They're still doing it.
00:07:18.420 And it's just different languages.
00:07:19.880 In some cases, it's economic communism.
00:07:22.140 Sometimes it's social justice warriors.
00:07:26.120 You're producing nothing.
00:07:27.780 You're producing people that just want to destroy the system.
00:07:30.720 The greatest country that's ever lived.
00:07:32.120 We're indoctrinating these young kids to go out there and protest on behalf of Maduro.
00:07:36.620 On behalf of Hamas. 1.00
00:07:38.380 It's so stupid. 1.00
00:07:39.320 This is why when I was arguing with Stephen A. Smith, he goes, you can't call them stupid. 1.00
00:07:42.960 I go, yes, I can. 1.00
00:07:44.700 Because they're stupid. 1.00
00:07:45.620 They might be able to read and write and do arithmetic, but they're stupid. 1.00
00:07:49.600 This is why they call them useful idiots. 1.00
00:07:51.440 So I'm so sick of what's happening in the institutions of higher learning indoctrinating our kids to hate America. 1.00
00:07:58.400 That's what this all comes down to.
00:07:59.980 How many of these people come out and graduate and be like, I love the USA.
00:08:03.220 They hate America. 1.00
00:08:05.000 And let's just stop with the fucking debate. 1.00
00:08:06.840 Sorry about the language. 0.99
00:08:07.420 Let's wrap it up really, really quick.
00:08:08.820 There's something got updated on Wikipedia that was not in my research.
00:08:12.620 He is going to the University of Florida, where he will be the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the U of F.
00:08:20.960 And that's where he is going to go, apparently.
00:08:24.280 To the free state of Florida.
00:08:26.560 That was not in the research earlier.
00:08:29.180 The nice thing about it, Harvard takes an L and somebody else comes to Florida.
00:08:33.940 Think about that.
00:08:34.860 Imagine going from Harvard to University of Florida.
00:08:39.280 What's wrong with University of Florida?
00:08:40.300 It's the number seven public university in the United States.
00:08:42.740 I'm born and raised in Miami.
00:08:43.680 I went to Florida State.
00:08:44.600 Half my friends went to UF.
00:08:46.520 It's a great school.
00:08:47.680 But it's not Harvard.
00:08:48.980 But it just shows what the professor goes.
00:08:50.840 I can't take this woke DEI nonsense.
00:08:53.780 Let me go to the free state of Florida where there's this rational, moderate people.
00:08:58.080 That's what this comes down to.
00:08:58.920 I had a call with a senior partner the other day at BCG.
00:09:04.280 And they do around $15 billion a year in engagements, whatever the number is.
00:09:09.180 It's a big company.
00:09:10.440 Top four.
00:09:11.300 Would you say top four?
00:09:12.280 Some of you would even say number two behind McKinsey, right?
00:09:14.780 Exactly.
00:09:15.480 And I said, so what is your recruiting process?
00:09:17.680 Is it still the same process of wanting Harvard, wanting all these guys?
00:09:21.020 He says, man, we're having more experience recruiting some guys that are coming from smaller schools that are competitive, top of their classes.
00:09:27.640 They're more scrappy.
00:09:28.740 They're willing to work harder.
00:09:29.780 Some of these guys that are coming from Harvard and CD schools, some of them are more entitled.
00:09:33.960 They're expecting not to eat this.
00:09:35.140 They want this.
00:09:35.760 They want that.
00:09:36.640 It's changing.
00:09:37.300 The market's changing.
00:09:38.420 It changes in a long time.
00:09:39.800 And let's see if Harvard's going to be able to maintain their prestigious name that they've had all these years.
00:09:45.280 We'll see.
00:09:45.620 We'll see what's going to happen.
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