<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-rowe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Rowe</a> slammed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-professor-says-school-should-abandon-mandatory-dei-statements-ideological-pledges-of-allegiance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard&#8217;s</a> &#8220;segregation&#8221; celebrations after the University once again said it would allow students to celebrate &#8220;graduation day with a series of affinity celebrations.&#8221;
In a lengthy post on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100044228419568/posts/pfbid037e5bvraYn8FoWhoUWawHFMkfgQT669HJnDKrhHkK8XxoJaHtCHR22ofu63EmqVaUl/?mibextid=cr9u03">Facebook</a>, the &#8220;Dirty Jobs&#8221; host mocked the Ivy league school and asked, &#8220;What better way to celebrate Harvard&#8217;s rich commitment to diversity, then by encouraging diverse groups to celebrate separately?&#8221;
&#8220;These [affinity] celebrations allow students to separate themselves from each other based on their racial and ethnic identities, and then, celebrate graduation with their own kind,&#8221; Rowe wrote, with a link to the move by <a href="https://gsas.harvard.edu/commencement/affinity-graduation-celebrations?fbclid=IwAR04TrHklV_y5rHl4RJV5OzFKYFdeaPqaaDYQptv_yr9R1oZciJpdVDVR-w_aem_AWEfkxpJBun5K-gAUUaK_xRLyOg2K0UtTnBP6Sy0D7injRwdB_XyrcwcVcu7tMXwIDwRWt4KW1RsiuH_uc3JvXYj">Harvard</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m old enough to remember when this was called &#8216;segregation,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;At Harvard, they call it &#8216;affinity.&#8217; To be fair, Harvard&#8217;s website says these celebrations are not in lieu of the official graduation, and open to all students who pre-register. But the celebrations themselves are clearly labeled, and the invitees are hard to misconstrue.&#8221;
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This year, Harvard is once again permitting its students to observe graduation day with a series of “affinity celebrations.” <a href="https://t.co/nOYbeZKYAh">https://t.co/nOYbeZKYAh</a> These celebrations allow students to separate themselves from each other based on their racial and ethnic identities, and then,…
— The Real Mike Rowe (@mikeroweworks) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeroweworks/status/1776071281265500538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
He then provided a list of the events, such as &#8220;The Latinix Celebration, The Black Celebration, The Arab Celebration, The Jewish Celebration…The Lavender Celebration, (LGBTQ, etc.),&#8221; and his &#8220;personal favorite, The First-Generation Low-Income Celebration.&#8221;
He closed out his post noting that <a href="https://mikeroweworks.org/about/">mikeroweWORKS</a> &#8212; a foundation that promotes the importance of skilled labor &#8212; &#8220;couldn’t care less about the color of your skin, the country of your origin, or the number of Y chromosomes you were born with.&#8221;
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&#8220;We are likewise utterly disinterested in your star sign, your blood type, your eye color, or any other characteristic out of your control,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We do however, care about your thoughts on personal responsibility, work ethic, delayed gratification, a positive attitude, and various other virtues we still believe can lead to a successful life and career. &#8220;
Several people blasted the former TV host’s criticism of Harvard, and Rowe hit back, nailing why they were wrong.
One person wrote, &#8220;Segregation is not optional. The Affinity celebrations are. Why do you care? Why can&#8217;t we celebrate how we choose?&#8221;
&#8220;No one is saying you can&#8217;t celebrate the way you choose, or with the people you prefer to be around,&#8221; Rowe replied. &#8220;I&#8217;m just saying that organized celebrations sponsored by an Ivy League institution that revolve around the color of a person&#8217;s skin are so&#8230;1960…&#8221;
Another wrote, &#8220;Mike, You&#8217;ve never been made to feel like an outsider based on your inherent identity and it shows glaringly. You&#8217;ve always been on the inside and at the very top of our society&#8217;s multi-tiered pyramid that has masculine, heterosexual, white, cis-gender men in charge of most things….&#8221;
Rowe replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not responsible for the way other people treat other people. I&#8217;m only responsible for the way I treat other people. And I choose to treat other people as if their color and ethnicity don&#8217;t matter…I&#8217;ll continue to do my best to ignore the things that don&#8217;t matter, and celebrate the things that do. I&#8217;d encourage you to do the same.&#8221;

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