Here is a citation posted by a reader on Paul Alexander’s Substack. While it is BS on its face for many reasons, two authors are from Yale. I imagine Harvey Risch would not endorse it but unfortunately people like judges are influenced by official looking trash. I hope some one will take it apart and publish the rebuttal.
Naomi, your impassioned confrontation of Yale administration inspired me to write a letter to the editor of the Connecticut College Alumni magazine imploring my college to drop the mandate for the Covid injection with prioritization of students' safety, health, and reproductive future. Thank you for being the catalyst for this letter.
I simultaneously wept and raged while listening to your speech. It's lit my flame into a full-scale bonfire around this issue. I myself had already filed an Ethics Complaint with George Washington University where my son attends school. I have named most of the top administrators of the university in the complaint on this very issue. I attached 7 studies related to the increased harms to this age cohort in particular. The complaint has been shuffled around and I am currently scheduled to speak with the Chair of the panel that made the decision to continue the vaccine requirement into 2023. We speak tomorrow. He has already labeled our call "Review of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures". I have reminded him that is not the purpose of our call, rather it's for him to explain how the university is integrating the findings of these numerous studies on the risk/reward ration of these vaccines. Period. So I feel emboldened and grateful to have this as a resource. Please know that I will always remember, and seek to channel, your bravery. I admire your courage in a way I cannot describe, there are no words. Thank you Naomi.
Lisa, my daughter graduated from GWU in 2019. My 2 sons are currently in colleges in the South with no mandates and/or very understanding exemptions and they are getting a better education. One of my sons transferred to get there. Their lives are more important than their education, which we know is a life long learning process. There was a time in my life that I thought getting an Ivy League education was important or the rankings of colleges should be considered. I no longer believe that. There are so many places to get a good education and become a well rounded person and succeed in life. I keep expecting these colleges to be sued for a wrongful death or anything that Dr. Wolf referred to, but I am still waiting. We need many more brave parents fighting back and just saying no, and most importantly, no, you are not getting another penny. This all about money and not caring about lives hurt either physically or psychologically. They are a business and you are the paying customer. You are in charge. Know you have people supporting you and you are in the right. Good Luck.
Kimberly, thank you so much for your response and encouragement. I can feel like a small fish swimming upstream in that behemoth that is this university. And you are right, I'm the customer, appalled often that it has taken so long for them to even respond to me (over a year). So practicing sitting with 'what is' -- my son actually got an exemption and they accepted it. I am pursuing this on principle on behalf of all our children! Thank you again...
Nice speech and emotion but parents have abrogated their responsibility as guides and parents to teach the critical thinking they should have been learning and passing on to their responsibilities.
They have allowed the educational system to tell the kids “your parents don’t know anything - listen to us”. “Listen to us for your gender, listen to us for your sexual proclivities even though you are only a few years old we know what is right for you”.
Parents have allowed the lessons of “growing up” to fall on “deaf ears”. What is wrong with debate to teach your children to critically think.
Teach them to think and research their ideas, their exposure to what is being said, what is being read.
I learned rather late in life how valuable my parents question of “Well, what do you think?”. Then the unspoken requirement of a reasoned response became paramount to each to learn.
Unfortunately, the ones who need to be convinced won't listen to emotional outbursts, only force. This is not a polite academic debate, it's a power struggle. The only rules are those that can be enforced, which means no rules with the current power structure. The hopes for political action were dashed with the failed US election. Every major country seems to be controlled by agents of the scam, and half the voters like it. That's unlikely to be resolved peacefully. The best hope might be litigation, but that is painfully slow and brutally expensive, and not guaranteed to prevail. Maybe we can hold out til 2025, and hope populations learn the truth before the 24 election. Until then, prepare for the worst.
There's power in an emotional speech like this, not to affect the decision-makers, but wake people up and inspire them to pressure universities to change their policies. Refuse to pay tuition, en masse, sue the pants off them, encourage student strikes and/or whatever else puts a wrench in the works. We can't wait for elections.
I agree with you Anne. More people have to step forward and speak up. As we can see from recent history the politicians talk a big game but in the end nothing comes of it except more national debt and they get richer. We have to fight by using their tactics. I strongly believe the proverb, the journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. By the way a lot of these woke companies are beginning to have financial problems, like Disney 😁. You’ve probably also heard of ESG, well the state of Florida just pulled 2 billion dollars out of black rock😁. Even for black rock that’s a lot of money. Hit ‘‘em in the pocket book. You see if we could bloody Yales nose a bit it may start to change their authoritative administration. One thing for sure if we sit back and do nothing, nothing will change. J.Goodrich
If they had to, they would. But they don't, so they won't. Ain't gonna happen. If we want change, we have to convince a bunch of people: family, friends, and neighbors, who mostly don't even want to hear it. We're dealing with a cult, which requires stern interventions. Eventually most of them will figure it out on their own, if we're really patient. Then we could gloat, but they won't want to hear that either.
Yale and most schools have way more applications than seats. If 100% of students quit today, they could replace them tomorrow. But the students and their financiers won't hear Dr Wolf. Nor will the school's administrators. If you strapped them to a chair and forced their eyes open mechanically, their brain would refuse to process it. We're not dealing with rational people, just a cult. Different interventions are required.
Good point, but I assume there were students listening to Dr. Wolf's speech who agreed with her, for whom it hit home that they could be screwing up their bodies big time. Wondering what other interventions you're thinking of. I hear you that this is a cult, absolutely!
I do think education is key. But not education of the kids, education of the parents. I’m so tired of people rolling their sleeves up and have no idea what their getting, and in this case it’s their child”s sleeve. Massive boycotts have to take place and for that to happen parents need to be educated. At least Naomi is willing to put herself out there and put the issue in view, If one family pulls their kid from getting the shot it’s a success. She is an activist I wish there were 300 million more Naomi Wolfs!!
She's a great writer and I enjoy her work. But I'm not the one she needs to convince. I'm already convinced. I read her for inspiration, not enlightenment. That requires a different kind of messaging. We need to focus on enlightenment, and inspiration will follow.
THANK YOU, DR NAOMI. THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY SPEECH. YOU HAVE THE COURAGE & BRAVERY OF A TRUE SAINT. IT ALL NEEDED TO BE SAID, & YOU DELIVERED IT EFFECTIVELY (& I BELIEVE YOUR 'TONE' WAS EXACTLY! WHAT AIDED THE DELIVERY!). IT IS SO REFRESHING & ENCOURAGING TO HEAR SOMEONE WITH BOTH FACTS & PASSION. IT IS AN HONOR TO SUPPORT YOU. 'SENDING LOVE & ALL POSSIBLE BLESSINGS TO YOU, ROBERTA IN SOFL
Dr. Naomi Wolf, you are a rockstar! This brought tears to my eyes. I have 3 children in this age group and I would have rather thrown myself in front of a moving bus before I allowed any of these injections into their bodies. It took a lot of fight, a transfer, and an exemption. I am exhausted by it all and cannot believe with all of the evidence you spoke of and that we all know of, unless someone is being purposefully and willingly ignorant, that this is still going on. I actually went to Cornell many years ago and it is the last place on earth I would want my kids and they will never get a penny from me. Everything I have read from you these past months has been incredible and I deeply thank you for your fight!
Naomi, thank you again for standing up for what is right!!! Why do authoritarians always force their sick trial experiments on people, kids in this case, and exempt themselves. I believe it comes from a place of deceit and moral weakness especially when a group makes a decision like this. I’m sure that when this group made this decision there were some that didn’t agree, but went along to get along. This is part of the weakness. Before you know it people are harmed, sick or even dead. These very situations are why the Nuremberg Codes were written. I suggest parents pull their children from these schools and certainly don’t pay the tuition. There are many schools that will take them without having to be poisoned by these sick self exempted authoritarians. J.Goodrich
A wonderful speech. I watched the video. I agree that it sounds very much like human trafficking. My university has not gone so far, but there will be a reckoning.The Australian philosopher Charles Birch said: ''The appropriate response to the love of God is infinite passion.' This speech exemplifies that.
I respectfully disagree. Passion and reason are not mutually exclusive. These are the pathos (emotion) and logos (reason) elements of communication. If it's all one and not the other then, yes, that can be a problem. But that was not the case with Naomi's speech.
Resolving this will require more than passion. Dr Wolf doesn't seem qualified to back up her passion. Reason won't work, or it would have ended the assault long ago. Sterner responses will be required. We all need to learn.
Here is a citation posted by a reader on Paul Alexander’s Substack. While it is BS on its face for many reasons, two authors are from Yale. I imagine Harvey Risch would not endorse it but unfortunately people like judges are influenced by official looking trash. I hope some one will take it apart and publish the rebuttal.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/two-years-covid-vaccines-prevented-millions-deaths-hospitalizations
Naomi, your impassioned confrontation of Yale administration inspired me to write a letter to the editor of the Connecticut College Alumni magazine imploring my college to drop the mandate for the Covid injection with prioritization of students' safety, health, and reproductive future. Thank you for being the catalyst for this letter.
Is there a transcript of this anywhere?
I simultaneously wept and raged while listening to your speech. It's lit my flame into a full-scale bonfire around this issue. I myself had already filed an Ethics Complaint with George Washington University where my son attends school. I have named most of the top administrators of the university in the complaint on this very issue. I attached 7 studies related to the increased harms to this age cohort in particular. The complaint has been shuffled around and I am currently scheduled to speak with the Chair of the panel that made the decision to continue the vaccine requirement into 2023. We speak tomorrow. He has already labeled our call "Review of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures". I have reminded him that is not the purpose of our call, rather it's for him to explain how the university is integrating the findings of these numerous studies on the risk/reward ration of these vaccines. Period. So I feel emboldened and grateful to have this as a resource. Please know that I will always remember, and seek to channel, your bravery. I admire your courage in a way I cannot describe, there are no words. Thank you Naomi.
Lisa, my daughter graduated from GWU in 2019. My 2 sons are currently in colleges in the South with no mandates and/or very understanding exemptions and they are getting a better education. One of my sons transferred to get there. Their lives are more important than their education, which we know is a life long learning process. There was a time in my life that I thought getting an Ivy League education was important or the rankings of colleges should be considered. I no longer believe that. There are so many places to get a good education and become a well rounded person and succeed in life. I keep expecting these colleges to be sued for a wrongful death or anything that Dr. Wolf referred to, but I am still waiting. We need many more brave parents fighting back and just saying no, and most importantly, no, you are not getting another penny. This all about money and not caring about lives hurt either physically or psychologically. They are a business and you are the paying customer. You are in charge. Know you have people supporting you and you are in the right. Good Luck.
Kimberly, thank you so much for your response and encouragement. I can feel like a small fish swimming upstream in that behemoth that is this university. And you are right, I'm the customer, appalled often that it has taken so long for them to even respond to me (over a year). So practicing sitting with 'what is' -- my son actually got an exemption and they accepted it. I am pursuing this on principle on behalf of all our children! Thank you again...
Fabulous, inspiring, gut-wrenching, courageous and absolutely ON TARGET! Thank you, Naomi Wolf!
Nice speech and emotion but parents have abrogated their responsibility as guides and parents to teach the critical thinking they should have been learning and passing on to their responsibilities.
They have allowed the educational system to tell the kids “your parents don’t know anything - listen to us”. “Listen to us for your gender, listen to us for your sexual proclivities even though you are only a few years old we know what is right for you”.
Parents have allowed the lessons of “growing up” to fall on “deaf ears”. What is wrong with debate to teach your children to critically think.
Teach them to think and research their ideas, their exposure to what is being said, what is being read.
I learned rather late in life how valuable my parents question of “Well, what do you think?”. Then the unspoken requirement of a reasoned response became paramount to each to learn.
Unfortunately, the ones who need to be convinced won't listen to emotional outbursts, only force. This is not a polite academic debate, it's a power struggle. The only rules are those that can be enforced, which means no rules with the current power structure. The hopes for political action were dashed with the failed US election. Every major country seems to be controlled by agents of the scam, and half the voters like it. That's unlikely to be resolved peacefully. The best hope might be litigation, but that is painfully slow and brutally expensive, and not guaranteed to prevail. Maybe we can hold out til 2025, and hope populations learn the truth before the 24 election. Until then, prepare for the worst.
There's power in an emotional speech like this, not to affect the decision-makers, but wake people up and inspire them to pressure universities to change their policies. Refuse to pay tuition, en masse, sue the pants off them, encourage student strikes and/or whatever else puts a wrench in the works. We can't wait for elections.
I agree with you Anne. More people have to step forward and speak up. As we can see from recent history the politicians talk a big game but in the end nothing comes of it except more national debt and they get richer. We have to fight by using their tactics. I strongly believe the proverb, the journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. By the way a lot of these woke companies are beginning to have financial problems, like Disney 😁. You’ve probably also heard of ESG, well the state of Florida just pulled 2 billion dollars out of black rock😁. Even for black rock that’s a lot of money. Hit ‘‘em in the pocket book. You see if we could bloody Yales nose a bit it may start to change their authoritative administration. One thing for sure if we sit back and do nothing, nothing will change. J.Goodrich
If they had to, they would. But they don't, so they won't. Ain't gonna happen. If we want change, we have to convince a bunch of people: family, friends, and neighbors, who mostly don't even want to hear it. We're dealing with a cult, which requires stern interventions. Eventually most of them will figure it out on their own, if we're really patient. Then we could gloat, but they won't want to hear that either.
I totally agree, James!
Yale and most schools have way more applications than seats. If 100% of students quit today, they could replace them tomorrow. But the students and their financiers won't hear Dr Wolf. Nor will the school's administrators. If you strapped them to a chair and forced their eyes open mechanically, their brain would refuse to process it. We're not dealing with rational people, just a cult. Different interventions are required.
Good point, but I assume there were students listening to Dr. Wolf's speech who agreed with her, for whom it hit home that they could be screwing up their bodies big time. Wondering what other interventions you're thinking of. I hear you that this is a cult, absolutely!
I do think education is key. But not education of the kids, education of the parents. I’m so tired of people rolling their sleeves up and have no idea what their getting, and in this case it’s their child”s sleeve. Massive boycotts have to take place and for that to happen parents need to be educated. At least Naomi is willing to put herself out there and put the issue in view, If one family pulls their kid from getting the shot it’s a success. She is an activist I wish there were 300 million more Naomi Wolfs!!
She's a great writer and I enjoy her work. But I'm not the one she needs to convince. I'm already convinced. I read her for inspiration, not enlightenment. That requires a different kind of messaging. We need to focus on enlightenment, and inspiration will follow.
THANK YOU, DR NAOMI. THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY SPEECH. YOU HAVE THE COURAGE & BRAVERY OF A TRUE SAINT. IT ALL NEEDED TO BE SAID, & YOU DELIVERED IT EFFECTIVELY (& I BELIEVE YOUR 'TONE' WAS EXACTLY! WHAT AIDED THE DELIVERY!). IT IS SO REFRESHING & ENCOURAGING TO HEAR SOMEONE WITH BOTH FACTS & PASSION. IT IS AN HONOR TO SUPPORT YOU. 'SENDING LOVE & ALL POSSIBLE BLESSINGS TO YOU, ROBERTA IN SOFL
Bravo Naomi Wolf!!!
What an impassioned speech advocating for our young men and women.
WHO ELSE IS DOING THIS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES???
Thank you Naomi.
May God keep you safe from all harm as you speak the truth and try to help our next generation.
Dr. Naomi Wolf, you are a rockstar! This brought tears to my eyes. I have 3 children in this age group and I would have rather thrown myself in front of a moving bus before I allowed any of these injections into their bodies. It took a lot of fight, a transfer, and an exemption. I am exhausted by it all and cannot believe with all of the evidence you spoke of and that we all know of, unless someone is being purposefully and willingly ignorant, that this is still going on. I actually went to Cornell many years ago and it is the last place on earth I would want my kids and they will never get a penny from me. Everything I have read from you these past months has been incredible and I deeply thank you for your fight!
Naomi, thank you again for standing up for what is right!!! Why do authoritarians always force their sick trial experiments on people, kids in this case, and exempt themselves. I believe it comes from a place of deceit and moral weakness especially when a group makes a decision like this. I’m sure that when this group made this decision there were some that didn’t agree, but went along to get along. This is part of the weakness. Before you know it people are harmed, sick or even dead. These very situations are why the Nuremberg Codes were written. I suggest parents pull their children from these schools and certainly don’t pay the tuition. There are many schools that will take them without having to be poisoned by these sick self exempted authoritarians. J.Goodrich
Ivy league colleges depend on and pride themselves on their endowment. I hope alumni accept your challenge! This would be historic. BRAVA, Naomi!!
Great speech. Thank you for your courage Naomi.
A wonderful speech. I watched the video. I agree that it sounds very much like human trafficking. My university has not gone so far, but there will be a reckoning.The Australian philosopher Charles Birch said: ''The appropriate response to the love of God is infinite passion.' This speech exemplifies that.
I respectfully disagree. Passion and reason are not mutually exclusive. These are the pathos (emotion) and logos (reason) elements of communication. If it's all one and not the other then, yes, that can be a problem. But that was not the case with Naomi's speech.
Resolving this will require more than passion. Dr Wolf doesn't seem qualified to back up her passion. Reason won't work, or it would have ended the assault long ago. Sterner responses will be required. We all need to learn.