Video: chat about relationships with paedo Epstein but still teach at Harvard

Professor and former Clinton US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers opened his address to his class at Harvard University this week with an admission of his ‘shame’ and ‘regret’ over his years of emails with paedophile and Israeli agent Jeffrey Epstein, but said that while he was stepping back from public life, he intended to fulfil his teaching role:

Summers’ involvement, if any, in Epstein’s activities is not laid out in the emails and Summers did not specify what exactly in them he was ashamed of, but years after Epstein’s conviction for trafficking kids for sex, Summers was still corresponding with the serial paedophile and even asking for his advice on a relationship with a woman.

Larry Summers to Epstein:

“I said what are you up to. She said ‘I’m busy’. I said awfully coy u are.”

Larry Summers to Epstein:

I’m trying to figure why American elite think if u murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be irrelevant to your admission to Harvard, but hit on a few women 10 years ago and can’t work at a network or think tank. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT.

However, the ‘Cats against Genocide’ Instagram account, which posted the above clip, contrasted Summers being allowed to still come to class with the war waged on behalf of Israel by many ‘educational’ establishments (link added):

You can be in a pedophile ring and be a professor at Harvard, but lose your whole career for saying Palestinians have a right to exist. That is zionism.

Summers also appeared to dismiss the importance of women in science and engineering. He told the National Bureau of Economic Research that women might lack an “intrinsic aptitude” for them.  He later claimed he had been misconstrued. Colleagues at Harvard have not been supportive.

Prof. Joseph Blitzstein said that:

The cozy friendship between Epstein and Summers on display in the emails is disgusting and disgraceful,

While history professor Alison Frank Johnson added that:

He’s known to be a bully.

Namesake, and history colleague Prof. Walter Johnson — who has acted as an adviser to the campus’s Palestine Solidarity Committee — called Summers a “prejudiced and unprincipled bully” who attacked anti-genocide activists at Harvard. He added that:

I wouldn’t miss him.

Summers has reportedly since said that he will also voluntarily step back from his teaching post while the university investigates. He has already stepped down from roles with Santander Bank, the Center for American Progress and other roles.

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