In an opinion piece released on Fox News on Thursday, Harvard sophomore Jacob Russell criticized the Ivy League's response to the Trump victory. Russell questioned exactly what the Ivy League was protesting, as Trump’s victory was completely legal.
He said that Ivy Leaguers “have been traumatized by the will of the American people” and they should not protest the “orderly transfer of power under the Constitution."
He cited the example of how the Introduction to Economics midterm was made optional at Harvard after the election. He believes there is a double standard at the Ivy League, and that if Hillary had won, the exam would not have been made optional.
Russell likens discriminating against people with different opinions to racism and says that Trump could have won because people were tired of being told what to think. Ultimately, Russell said the way the Ivy League dealt with a Trump victory is “an embarrassment” from the generation accustomed to receiving participation trophies.
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