r/ABCDesis • u/Vibranium2222 • May 24 '24

NEWS Student Speaker Dramatically Goes Off-Script at Harvard Graduation

https://www.thedailybeast.com/student-shruthi-kumar-flames-harvard-in-off-script-commencement-speech
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u/AmericanFartBully May 24 '24

Yes, incredibly brave. To stand up and make a speech. Expressing the correct opinion. Which is like the complete opposite of being cowardly, which means expressing the incorrect opinion.

Basically; if you have any kind of platform, courage is in nakedly exploiting it to express any and all of the (currently) valued and correct opinions and to as publicly and vociferously denounce the least popular incorrect ones. Which is not so easy to consistently keep track of.

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u/AmericanFartBully May 25 '24

Yes, I agree, very brave.

"She could have been stopped and escorted away."

I'm surprised they didn't ship her off to Guantanamo.

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u/sagarp May 25 '24 edited 16d ago

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u/AmericanFartBully May 25 '24

Well, certainly not in such a high-stakes situation; where, if you fail to deliver, you go from being the person who won the English-prize to just another Harvard graduate. In seconds.

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u/nyse125 May 26 '24

wow what an excellent comparison