The Boston Globe bought its palms on Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth’s grasp’s thesis from his time at Harvard College—and the truth that he attended the Ivy League faculty doesn’t, thoughts you, make him an effete elite, as a result of that’s reserved for baristas with blue hair who annoy conservatives.
However again to Pete. Do you know that Mr. Unbridled Warfighter of Woke was, uh, kinda woke when he was a Harvard grad scholar? Or not less than was keen to jot down a whole grasp’s thesis to that impact?
Hegseth’s thesis focused on establishing a high-performing public faculty with a STEM focus in Minnesota, his house state. Involved that brilliant younger Minnesotans of all stripes have been being shut out of high quality science, know-how, engineering, and math schooling, he proposed a faculty for the “greatest and the brightest” (god, he was a cliché machine even then) but additionally cautioned that the college would wish to “guarantee a stability of race, class, gender and geography.”
Poor children? Black children? Come one, come all to Petey’s STEM faculty!
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“Making certain low-income and minority youngsters have the identical alternatives as extra prosperous majority college students is a necessary objective and value pursuing with vigor and substantial funding,” the younger Hegseth insisted.
Man, that’s some woke shit, Pete. “Substantial funding”? As in give them cash?
2025 Pete Hegseth is gonna name up 2013 Pete Hegseth and scream at him for this, isn’t he?
Hegseth interviewed Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman extensively, and the thesis refers to her extensively. In reality, Hegseth’s plan to make the Pete Hegseth’s Center For Kids Who Can STEM Good faculty a actuality relied upon partnering with Hortman, a longtime champion of the thought.
You may search excessive and low, and you’ll not discover one official phrase from Hegseth about Hortman after she was assassinated in July, alongside along with her husband, in a politically focused killing. Fairly cool the way you made somebody do free labor on your Harvard thesis, however you possibly can’t say one phrase about their homicide.
As an alternative, Hegseth stayed mum even whereas President Donald Trump did his “I don’t know her” bit in excusing his failure to decrease flags for her whereas racing to make murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk an honorary founding father or no matter.
As a lot as that is straightforward to mock or name out as hypocrisy, it isn’t fairly that. Certainly, it’s in line with Hegseth’s worldview. His paper was based mostly on the concept children like him—children from Minnesota who weren’t the richest of the wealthy—is perhaps left behind in STEM, so there needs to be packages to repair that hole.
As of late, Hegseth’s worldview remains to be that individuals like him want and deserve particular remedy, no matter their {qualifications}. So, he’s pretending that killing programs for girls or creating bigoted grooming standards designed to eliminate Black men from military service are simply impartial issues. However they’re not. Not solely are these strikes wildly discriminatory, however they’re additionally about Pete Hegseth eager to create a military of Pete Hegseths.
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Hegseth can encompass himself with like-minded varieties, all vicious, all fueled by petty grievances and a deep and abiding racism and misogyny. Lord is aware of the Trump administration is filled with them. However they’re all, at root, painfully conscious they’re deeply unqualified and solely there as the ultimate diversity hires.
Worst DEI plan ever.
