It would be notable if Harvard was merely overlooking Snyder’s fatal neglect in Flint, but to do so while touting what he can teach the Harvard community about civility seems especially perverse
Rick Snyder. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder is scheduled to begin a fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School on Monday. Snyder is infamous for presiding over the Flint water crisis and its mishandling, which was set in motion when the city switched water sources from Lake Huron and the Detroit River to the Flint River to cut costs. The Flint River was contaminated and officials failed to treat it properly to mitigate the effects.
None of this was mentioned in Harvard’s announcement of Snyder’s fellowship on Sunday. Instead, Jeffrey Liebman, director of the Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government, cited the ex-governor’s commitment to “civility” as one of the key reasons why he will be granted a year to think, write, and lecture about governing on Harvard’s dime.
. Calls for “civility” have been invoked to shield or justify a laundry list of atrocities in the past year. Civility, according to its most vocal proponents, was why former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen should be allowed to dine publicly without interruption, despite separating immigrant children from their families and locking them in cages.
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