Harvard students launch campaign to revoke degrees of Trump supporters including Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw

A group of Harvard students have started a petition asking for people in the current Trump administration who have graduated from Harvard have their degrees revoked.

This would presumably include people like Texas Senator Ted Cruz, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany and firebrand Texas Representative and ex Navy Seal Dan Crenshaw.

It's important to note that the petition is referring to people who actually went to Harvard as students and graduated in due course. The petition isn't referring to honorary degrees as one might think at first glance.

The full text of the petition has been put up for public viewing, with the ominous title "Revoke their Degrees"; it states, in part:

"It’s no secret that over a dozen Harvard graduates worked hard to spread the disinformation and mistrust that created last Wednesday’s insurrection – from Representative Dan Crenshaw (HKS ‘17), who supported the December Texas lawsuit to invalidate the election, to Senator Ted Cruz (HLS ’97), one of the loudest claimants of fraud and a rare senator still objecting to the election certification after  the violence at the Capitol, to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (HLS ’17),who dutifully denies the validity of the election."

"Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes–rooted in a history of  white supremacist voter suppression –incited the violent insurrection on January 6. This includes all who have used their platforms to deny the validity of the presidential election. They do not and should not represent a university committed to 'strengthening democracy' and 'the advancement of justice.'"

"The violence on Capitol Hill is not an isolated incident, and it will not be the last if institutions like Harvard continue to allow white supremacy to go unchallenged."