CNN and PBS host Christiane Amanpour stopped by the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday to deliver what was billed as a commencement addressed, but was really just a plea for the graduates to find the courage to fight back against nameless forces—but understood to be President Trump and people who support him—who are pushing America into a 1984 or Mussolinian state of affairs.
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In 2023, Amanpour gave another commencement speech, this one at the Columbia Journalism School, ripping former boss Chris Licht for daring to have a town hall with Trump. Now, she pretended to be someone who greatly values ideological diversity, “I also think, of course, universities must be places of ideological diversity. If not here, where? If not when you are students, then at what point in your lives? Now, as often as I can, I do that in my program without fear nor favor. Not in a cable slugfest, but to talk, listen, and to understand. I believe really strongly that you can only move the dial forward when you learn the story of the other, it’s all about empathy, which is the foundational stone for any peacebuilding, for any nation building.”
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