Valuetainment - January 06, 2026


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


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11 minutes

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198.89252

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2,191

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178

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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.
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.
00:06:26.440 Can we stop the freaking nonsense?
00:06:29.500 Meanwhile, capitalism might not be the prettiest system.
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.
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.
00:07:05.460 And the fact that Harvard still indoctrinates their kids under this Marxist critical race theory, DEI bullshit downstream of Marxism.
00:07:15.600 It's just. . .
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.
00:07:38.380 It's so stupid.
00:07:39.320 This is why when I was arguing with Stephen A. Smith, he goes, you can't call them stupid.
00:07:42.960 I go, yes, I can.
00:07:44.700 Because they're stupid.
00:07:45.620 They might be able to read and write and do arithmetic, but they're stupid.
00:07:49.600 This is why they call them useful idiots.
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.
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.
00:08:05.000 And let's just stop with the fucking debate.
00:08:06.840 Sorry about the language.
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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