Bio-fudging trustee Rufo lies, whines, and still refuses to correct his education record misstatements
It is not hard to write "Harvard University Extension School" on one's public bio as Harvard requires. Why insult your fellow graduates by behaving as if your degree is shameful?
When you’re explaining, you’re losing.
Check out anti-woke grifter New College trustee Chris Rufo attempting to explain on Twitter, at great length, with typical Bad Ken petulance, why he refuses to simply write out the phrase “Harvard University Extension School” on his public bios. I’ll post it at the bottom of this brief article.
Here’s the article I published yesterday detailing this grifter’s silly credentialism.
With many, many, many words — none of which included the phrase “I will proudly change my public resume to read Harvard University Extension School” — Rufo tries to explain that he’s really an anti-credentialist at heart, anti-norm at heart. LOL.
There’s nothing shameful about Harvard Extension School
It’s a transparent lie, as evidenced by the fact that none of his public bios I can see include the phrase “Harvard University Extension School.” You are what you do. And for all his bluster, what has Rufo not done? Write “My masters degree is from Harvard University Extension School.”
Here’s his New College bio, still ashamed of his truth, still insulting his fellow “Harvard University Extension School” graduates by refusing to associate with them publicly, mean girl style.
In fact, I suspect credentials are the only thing remotely real to Rufo in this entire grift. His self-image needs to imagine itself as the aggrieved little white boy who earned all his credentials by executing on all the norms — unlike those people. That’s the underlying bit of grievance psychology he’s managed to weaponize in his short, happy pursuit of billionaire welfare.
Trustee Rufo is clearly ashamed or embarrassed by the fact that he’s been trafficking on the Harvard name/brand as part of his grift, just like any other rank credentialist. Harvard is a massive part of the schtick. The core of the schtick.
The “Slippery Rock Extension School” would not have carried the same grift cache. It’s a lot easier to attack Harvard as Harvard. (By the way, that cache is also precisely why Harvard instructs graduates of the Extension School to write “Harvard University Extension School” on their resumes. It’s precisely why Rufo refuses. )
For the record, unlike “Ken” Rufo, I am actually deeply indifferent to abstract credentials. Unlike Rufo, I do not look down on Harvard Extension School — or Slippery Rock Extension School, if such a thing exists. I would have zero problem putting either on a resume accurately. I am what I do, too. That’s the resume I care about.
Credentials are a human sorting cousin to useless standardized testing, to which I am actively hostile — even though I rode standardized testing (and a little bit of small town white boy affirmative action) to the only vaguely “impressive” abstract credential I possess, admission to Amherst College in 1990.
The country would be far better off if we de-emphasized abstract “achievement” in education and focused on genuine human development. I have a very long public record advocating for this, unlike “Ken” Rufo.
Some questions neither Rufo nor New College will answer
So, in the spirit of my anti-human sorting, anti-credentialism record, I’ve sent another email to Nathan March, New College, with two questions for Rufo, one of which is less abstract than Rufo’s credentialism:
In his Ken screed below, you’ll see Rufo mumble something about measuring himself by his “victories.” Let’s test that, shall we?
Rufo — and the grifter New College — has two options here:
Accurately write out his education credential because I tell him to.
Pretend to ignore me and go on clinging to his needy credentialism and public misrepresentation, while I laugh at him in public and he says nothing about it.
It’s most likely to be #2. But I think I win that exchange either way. What do you think, Ken, errr, Chris?
Ron didn't grow up "working class," Casey wasn't a D1 Athlete or an Emmy-winning journalist...notice a pattern?