In Harvard's view, this is a bad racist:
"Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate." -Sarah Palin
Just one example of very many where Sarah Palin shows she doesn't quite have a grasp of the English language. Don't expect Palin to be invited to Harvard anytime soon. Bad, poorly educated racist.
Compare:
"Frankly, Muslim life is cheap, especially for Muslims." He writes, "This is a statement of fact, not value." - Marty Peretz
Now you see, that statement is clear. No error in grammar. No made-up words. That will get you into Harvard. Good racist.
Marty Peretz is finally receiving some long overdue recognition: Harvard's Committee on Social Studies in its forthcoming 50th anniversary celebrations will pay homage to the man. Participants in the 50th anniversary celebrations include: Michael Walzer, Stanley Hoffmann, Marty Peretz (who will speak over lunch), Amy Gutman and Harvard President Drew Faust. But questions are starting to be raised as to whether it should go forward. Here
Questions were asked by a few as to whether this Editor for The New Republic should receive such an honor. Then answered. Of course he will. Did he offend anyone important? and look at this man's grammar!
See if you can catch a single problem with any Peretz's bits of "wisdom" below. Find a grammatical error? I bet not!
I actually believe that Arabs are feigning outrage when they protest what they call American (or Israeli) "atrocities." They are not shocked at all by what in truth must seem to them not atrocious at all. It is routine in their cultures. That comparison shouldn't comfort us as Americans. We have higher standards of civilization than they do. But the mutilation of bodies and beheadings of people picked up at random in Iraq does not scandalize the people of Iraq unless victims are believers in their own sect or members of their own clan. And the truth is that we are less and less shocked by the mass death-happenings in the world of Islam. Yes, that's the bitter truth. Frankly, even I--cynic that I am--was shocked in the beginning by the sectarian bloodshed in Iraq. But I am no longer surprised. And neither are you. Peretz
Why are there beheadings when a more civilized nation like the US can kill millions of Arabs, Central Americans, Asians with Napalm, B-1 bombers, carpet bombing and drone attacks!
The moderate Arab "is a figment of the imagination" (May 7, 1984)
Can you imagine Palin saying that? She probably would have said "is a pigment of the imagination". Not worthy of Harvard at all.
"Well, I am extremely pessimistic about Mexican-American relations, not because the U.S. had done anything specifically wrong to our southern neighbor but because a (now not quite so) wealthy country has as its abetter a Latin society with all of its characteristic deficiencies: congenital corruption, authoritarian government, anarchic politics, near-tropical work habits, stifling social mores, Catholic dogma with the usual unacknowledged compromises, an anarchic counterculture, and increasingly violent modes of conflict." The Daily Beast
You think words like "cogenital" or concepts like "social mores" are in Sarah Palin's brain? No, not like the learned Marty Peretz.
Citing statistics on out-of-wedlock births among blacks, Martin Peretz, editor in chief of The New Republic, said, "So many in the black population are afflicted by cultural deficiencies." Asked what he meant, Peretz responded, "I would guess that in the ghetto a lot of mothers don't appreciate the importance of schooling." Mfume challenged Peretz, saying, "You can't really believe that. Every mother wants the best for their children." Peretz agreed, then added, "But a mother who is on crack is in no position to help her children get through school." Some in the audience of 2,600 young Jewish leaders hissed at Peretz's remarks.The Daily Beast
If a racist wants to be welcomed at Harvard, they need only study up on their English skills.