Analysis Of Harvard Rescene Memes By Hannah Natanson

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The main argument made in Hannah Natanson in her work, Harvard Rescinds Acceptances for at Least Ten Students for Obscene Memes, article is that the Harvard students that participated in the class of 2021 group chat titled “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens” were way out of line. More specifically in the sense that their comments and memes were vulgar as well as offensive and represented, not just themselves, but Harvard as a whole in a negative way. For instance in paragraph 1 she states that the groupchat contained “sexually explicit memes and messages that...targeted minority groups”. In this quote she suggest that the topics that were spoken about in the groupchat were inappropriate and also quite derogatory. In conclusion Natanson

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