As future leaders in our society, we are truly counting on you for that.” “But apply your abilities to critically analyze and examine, which you have honed well here at Princeton, to discern and challenge weak assertions built on untruths.
“Seek and listen to opinions that are different from your own,” he told his audience. … Yet the outrage and dissent against this alarming trend has been muted and mild.” Regarding “the normalization of untruths,” Fauci said he felt troubled “that differences of opinion or ideology have in certain situations been reflected by egregious distortions of reality. He categorized healthcare disparities as “failings of our society” and asked the graduating seniors to “find the strength, the wisdom, the ingenuity, and the empathy to address these entrenched elements of injustice, manifested in so many subtle and overt ways, and work with all our might to remedy the cultural disease of racism, just as we fight the viral disease of COVID-19.” Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
