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"Attack Against White Men" - Harvard Professor BLASTS University's DEI Power Grip
06 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Complete different story here. Let me let me get to the story.
Chapter 2: What led to the Harvard professor's resignation over DEI policies?
Harvard professor calls a university's exclusion of white males in scathing public resignation. 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. Rob, of course, we won't play the whole clip because it's three minutes and 54 seconds. We'll play some of it. Go ahead, Rob.
professor says he is leaving the university after 40 years, claiming its focus on DEI is doing more harm than good, writing, quote, in the fall of 2020, I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program. In past years, this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool.
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. Harvard alumnus Shabos Kestenbaum joins us now. Happy New Year, Shabos. Thanks so much for being on with us.
Happy New Year. Good to be here.
So the professor writes about this seemingly open, anti-white, anti-male environment that has really been growing in Harvard. As an alumnus, is this something that you have experienced? Do you agree with what the professor wrote?
Certainly, I agree with what the professor wrote. It's shocking, but it's certainly not surprising. I mean, a country that does not teach about its own history is certainly a country that does not have much of a future. But honestly, my greatest concern is the greater societal implications and the greater societal ills, particularly the demoralization of young people in America.
So when you have cultural elites or professors who insist and instruct young people that their culture is not worthy of preservation, that their race is something to be apologetic over, that their history is not worthy of scholarship, then of course those young people, particularly young men, will become disillusioned and disassociated with the society they're meant to be interacting with.
And we need to be very clear now that we're in 2026 that... Tom, thoughts?
So this is a professor, Dr. James Hankins, who had... who had been at Harvard for 40 years and who finally had just had enough. And 40 years, and if he was 24, 28 when he got his doctorate. So he's probably late 60s, maybe 70. And he's saying we've had enough.
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Chapter 3: What specific incidents highlight the exclusion of white males in admissions?
And actually, there is McKinsey gentleman that was quoted in the article talking about looking for merit, not just at Ivy League schools, at other schools, but actually stepping back from the schools where DEI does not give them, you know, hey, we're going to come on campus to recruit students. They want to recruit strong people based on merit. And so I think this is a tip of the iceberg moment.
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 because Harvard is still doing this. 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, Vinny, that are still in there.
Just like Venezuela, you got to get rid of a few guys and you need to put new leadership in. 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. 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. There's there's a long walk ahead.
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.
What's going to happen to James Hankins? How will the market treat somebody like a James Hankins?
Well, if he's put himself in a place to retire, then the market can't do anything to him. He can just retire, and he doesn't need it. But I believe there's going to be folks out there that want to hear from him. I believe you're going to have a publisher will ask him to write a book about his experience.
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Chapter 4: How does the panel react to the professor's claims about cultural shifts at Harvard?
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. But I think there's going to be some people out there, a few of them, that are going to try to help him. But I think obviously as he walks away from Harvard, he's done with that.
But I think it's going to be, there's going to be some islands out there. Someone, I think, will want him to tell a story.
Yeah. I mean, for him to be able to say what he's saying right now, You got to applaud him. Respect to him on what he's seen taking place. 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.
Well, it's been no secret there's been an attack against straight white men in America for over a decade, a.k.a. the patriarchy.
uh it's all a farce so you know back in my in my days when i was doing a lot of manosphere content we talked about the red pill somewhere else versus the blue pill i thought you were gonna say something what do you think i was going with that no i thought you were gonna say like you know there's been a major attack on straight white male and i thought you were gonna say back in the days when i was a back in the days straight white man yeah i thought you're gonna go yeah keep going all right but is this an announcement
He made it a long time ago, but keep going.
My girlfriend will disagree. Say hi to Fred. The reality is... Can we stop... Can we stop with the nonsensical freaking debate of what's better, capitalism or communism? Is the fact that we're still having this debate... in life, in campus? Are we really playing this game? Is this really what we're doing? How many times have you talked about, you know, the campus?
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Chapter 5: What are the societal concerns regarding the demoralization of young people?
We're having a debate, guys. What do you think is a better economic, socioeconomic system? Capitalism or socialism? Which one is it, guys? I don't know. Can we stop the freaking nonsense? Meanwhile, capitalism might not be the prettiest system. What did Churchill say? It's just, it's the... The second best out there is better than everything else.
So yeah, it might be ugly, it might be messy, but at least it's in your face, it's competitive, and it's an example of how countries thrive. What examples do you have of socialism, Marxism, or the warmth of collectivism put a nice little communist blanket all over you that have worked? Why are people fleeing Venezuela? Why are people fleeing Cuba in rafts? Right, Mikey? Why are people doing this?
Why are people fleeing these Islamist nations? Because it's not good to live under. And the fact that Harvard still indoctrinates their kids under this Marxist critical race theory, DEI bullshit downstream of Marxism, it's just, they're still doing it. And it's just different languages. In some cases, it's economic communism. Sometimes it's social justice warriors. You're producing nothing.
You're producing people that just want to destroy the system. The greatest country that's ever lived were indoctrinating these young kids to go out there and protest on behalf of Maduro, on behalf of Hamas. It's so stupid. This is why when I was arguing with Stephen A. Smith, he goes, you can't call them stupid. I go, yes, I can. Because they're stupid.
They might be able to read and write and do arithmetic, but they're stupid. That's why they call them useful idiots. So I'm so sick of what's happening in the institutions of higher learning indoctrinating our kids to hate America. That's what this all comes down to. How many of these people come out and graduate and be like, I love the USA. They hate America.
And let's just stop with the fucking debate. Sorry about the language.
Let's wrap it up really, really quick. There's something got updated on Wikipedia that was not in my research. 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. And that's where he is going to go, apparently.
To the free state of Florida.
That was not in the research earlier. The nice thing about it.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of abandoning merit for diversity quotas?
It's the number seven public university in the United States. I'm born and raised in Miami.
I went to Florida State. Half my friends went to UF. It's a great school, but it's not Harvard. But it just shows what the professor goes, I can't take this woke DEI nonsense. Let me go to the free state of Florida where there's just rational, moderate people.
That's what this comes down to. I had a call with a senior partner the other day at BCG. And they do around $15 billion a year in engagements, whatever the number is. It's a big company. Top four. Would you say top four? Some of you would even say number two behind McKinsey, right? Exactly. And I said, so what is your recruiting process?
Is it still the same process of wanting Harvard, wanting all these guys? He says, man, we're having more experience recruiting some guys that are coming from smaller schools that are competitive, top of their classes. They're more scrappy. They're willing to work harder. Some of these guys that are coming from Harvard and city schools, some of them are more entitled.
They're expecting not to eat this. They want this. They want that. It's changing. The market's changing. It changes in a long time. And let's see if Harvard's going to be able to maintain their prestigious name that they've had all these years. We'll see. We'll see what's going to happen. I've been getting a lot of my necks about people talking about
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