The fact that Harvard will allow her to remain on the faculty is truly unbelievable. Gay was and is a total fraud......a diversity hire, plain and simple. I've seen terminations of employment for people who barely embellish their resume or fudged their previous income. Its pretty obvious by allowing her to stay that Harvard leadership is terrified to terminate her employment completely. This is the perfect example of the rot brought on by diversity, equity and inclusion that has a stranglehold on board rooms and HR departments.
The Harvard Corporation leadership should be dismantled completely and here's to hoping that Jeffrey Flier, Bill Ackman, Steven Pinker and others will insist that happens. With any luck, 2024 will be the year DEI departments completely collapse in on themselves.
I loved what Michael Malice posted yesterday - "The next and final leg, the universities, will be the best. The academics are worse than the journalists by virtually every metric, and their pearl-clutching, foot-stomping shrieks alternating with pleas for mercy will hilariously fall on deaf ears."
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” - Samuel Johnson. Now it’s race. Claudine Gay hurts African-Americans worse than she’ll ever know or wants to know, by invoking racism to try and cover the stench of her own arrogance, incompetence, dishonesty, lying, and cheating. She hides behind her person-of-color privilege card, instead of being accountable. Shameful.
I find myself uninterested in Gay's resignation. To those in the mainstream media and in academia, they will frame her resignation as racism - a "mob" coming for her.
I don't think that's true, but it's how most within these institutions genuinely see it.
The problem is so much deeper. It's a generation of leading universities bloating with layer upon layer of administration. Faculty still has to pledge fealty to administrative ideology.
Gay's tenure might be the most egregious example - one of the most prestigious universities led by someone who probably shouldn't even be considered for tenure as a professor. But we'd be mistaken if we didn't recognize that this is going on at hundreds of other feted research universities.
They're not scared. They're indignant. And as we've seen recently at UCSD with its new code requiring student indoctrination to "climate science," this problem is so pervasive that MIT can dig in and protect Sally Kornbluth without even a shred of hesitation. Nor should we, again, have any interest in her removal. Just another symptom of the blight of critical thinking spreading through higher institutions in the '10s and '20s.
"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned" - Richard Feynman.
On Twitter, the Leftists are screaming that we ought to subject the academic work of ALL university presidents to the same scrutiny. I don't think they expected the critics of Ms. Gay to say, "Yes, absolutely!"
Personally, I think every professor at every American university ought to have their academic work subjected to the same scrutiny. I suspect that if discovered plagiarists were actually *fired* from teaching, some of the indoctrination on campus would diminish. The "By Any Means Necessary" professors very probably attained their degrees and published the necessary volume the same way.
Bill Ackman’s most recent X post outlines his well reasoned plan about what needs to happen next to dismantle DEI and return to a meritocracy in search of Veritas. The pressure on all institutions must continue.
Cornel West posted a virulently racist , antisemitic attack in defense of poor Claudine Gay. Worth reading to better understand how deeply entrenched this Woke garbage is and what it will take to fight these ideologues.
Martin Gurri - whoever the hell he is - can call Trump all the names he wants. But the Free Press, as good as it is, still does not understand the reason why many sane people support him. Much of the FP rightly exposes the utter rot of the elite institutions. All of them are aligned against Trump with both real power and deranged behavior. The gut reaction of many is “if the rotten crew hates Donnie so much, maybe he is not so bad”. Or, “he has flaws but does not support DEI based racism, hatred of Jews, open borders, green energy debacles, etc. I wish we had a better choice but he will at least try to stop the insanity”. Much of life is a lesser of two evils dilemma, hence his popularity.
Instead of acknowledging her mistakes - not condemning antisemitism and multiple accusations of plagiarism with lots of proof, Ms Gay resorts to playing the racism card. Yet another nail in her coffin.
It would seem that Ms. Gay is a very intelligent person. Stop and consider that she could have done the work, but the DEI industry told her she didn't have to. How many young people has DEI ruined by doing this?
It snickered at Diversity, most campuses don't have it.
It fiddled with Equity, telling the students they could get the same outcome without the effort.
It applauded Inclusion, creating marginalized groups with members that could ignore the rules.
Finally, and IMHO, the most damaging, was telling students to examine each interaction with other people for "micro-aggressions". Ruining the social fabric around them.
“It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor—two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am"
I think she must be enjoying saying things that are absolutely the opposite of the reality that people can see. "Because of 'who I am,' I can stand here in a nimbus of self-righteousness and lie to you, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Neener-neener."
Reading her resignation letter, I am always interested in the racism attack. First, let me state the obvious. In some comments or messages, a lot of trolls and a fringe group of men with IQs less than 70 could and probably did send some personal and racial attacks.
But the broad middle and reasonable middle pay no mind to her race, look at her testimony, read the evidence, and don't think about race first, just the truth. For too long, the political right has cowered in fear of the Claudine Gay's of the world. We have given them this moral authority to impose their values on society. This example shows that our institution's leaders are idiots who are educated in parlor games rather than achievement.
To get rid of DEI, a focus on performance, results, and responsibility have to happen. Brave people have to attack the premise of the charge of racism. The changes of systemic racism have to get pushed back on strongly with style and substance. This is an opening to defeat this lousy ideology, but if the leaders of that resistance sound like idiots who have little style or substance, there is a chance for them to remain on their perch. How the opposition fights are critical to winning this battle.
Time for frank and naked honesty. The situation described at Hillcrest High School in NYC is symptomatic of the anti-White hatred launched by none other than our imbecile in Chief - the corrupt JR Biden. Talks of "puttin' yo back in chains." "Reparations" to people who were never slaves just because of their skin color. Creating a deep sense of unwarranted grievance and division. You can see it in the half-witted lunatic who stabbed two white girls in Grand Central Terminal, announcing he wanted to "kill all white people." In the replacement rhetoric of some of the politicians, exulting in a supposed "white minority status" for the country's future. In the barely concealed hostility and simmering glares on the subways. This is nothing less than a devolution to tribalism. It is dangerous and anti-American. And racist to its core. And it will lead to nothing good. I know it and you know it. Time to put a stop to it. The Democrat Party is behind this. Stop pretending otherwise.
Perhaps the Harvard students and faculty will devote Jan 15 to listening closely to the I Have A Dream Speech and really hear the words : content of character.
Progressives are some of the most dangerous people on earth. They all need to be fired and handed the door and have it slam their asses hard on their way out.
Great job Aaron and the Free Beacon! Followed both on Twitter last night. Best wishes - we FP people support you ! Thank you Bari and team as always. You’ve so profoundly changed my life. Love from Philly.
The fact that Harvard will allow her to remain on the faculty is truly unbelievable. Gay was and is a total fraud......a diversity hire, plain and simple. I've seen terminations of employment for people who barely embellish their resume or fudged their previous income. Its pretty obvious by allowing her to stay that Harvard leadership is terrified to terminate her employment completely. This is the perfect example of the rot brought on by diversity, equity and inclusion that has a stranglehold on board rooms and HR departments.
The Harvard Corporation leadership should be dismantled completely and here's to hoping that Jeffrey Flier, Bill Ackman, Steven Pinker and others will insist that happens. With any luck, 2024 will be the year DEI departments completely collapse in on themselves.
I loved what Michael Malice posted yesterday - "The next and final leg, the universities, will be the best. The academics are worse than the journalists by virtually every metric, and their pearl-clutching, foot-stomping shrieks alternating with pleas for mercy will hilariously fall on deaf ears."
We can only hope Michael.....we can only hope.
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” - Samuel Johnson. Now it’s race. Claudine Gay hurts African-Americans worse than she’ll ever know or wants to know, by invoking racism to try and cover the stench of her own arrogance, incompetence, dishonesty, lying, and cheating. She hides behind her person-of-color privilege card, instead of being accountable. Shameful.
Someone needs to check whose work she plagiarised for her resignation letter.
I find myself uninterested in Gay's resignation. To those in the mainstream media and in academia, they will frame her resignation as racism - a "mob" coming for her.
I don't think that's true, but it's how most within these institutions genuinely see it.
The problem is so much deeper. It's a generation of leading universities bloating with layer upon layer of administration. Faculty still has to pledge fealty to administrative ideology.
Gay's tenure might be the most egregious example - one of the most prestigious universities led by someone who probably shouldn't even be considered for tenure as a professor. But we'd be mistaken if we didn't recognize that this is going on at hundreds of other feted research universities.
They're not scared. They're indignant. And as we've seen recently at UCSD with its new code requiring student indoctrination to "climate science," this problem is so pervasive that MIT can dig in and protect Sally Kornbluth without even a shred of hesitation. Nor should we, again, have any interest in her removal. Just another symptom of the blight of critical thinking spreading through higher institutions in the '10s and '20s.
"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned" - Richard Feynman.
Harvard is where young minds go to DEI.
On Twitter, the Leftists are screaming that we ought to subject the academic work of ALL university presidents to the same scrutiny. I don't think they expected the critics of Ms. Gay to say, "Yes, absolutely!"
Personally, I think every professor at every American university ought to have their academic work subjected to the same scrutiny. I suspect that if discovered plagiarists were actually *fired* from teaching, some of the indoctrination on campus would diminish. The "By Any Means Necessary" professors very probably attained their degrees and published the necessary volume the same way.
Bill Ackman’s most recent X post outlines his well reasoned plan about what needs to happen next to dismantle DEI and return to a meritocracy in search of Veritas. The pressure on all institutions must continue.
Cornel West posted a virulently racist , antisemitic attack in defense of poor Claudine Gay. Worth reading to better understand how deeply entrenched this Woke garbage is and what it will take to fight these ideologues.
Martin Gurri - whoever the hell he is - can call Trump all the names he wants. But the Free Press, as good as it is, still does not understand the reason why many sane people support him. Much of the FP rightly exposes the utter rot of the elite institutions. All of them are aligned against Trump with both real power and deranged behavior. The gut reaction of many is “if the rotten crew hates Donnie so much, maybe he is not so bad”. Or, “he has flaws but does not support DEI based racism, hatred of Jews, open borders, green energy debacles, etc. I wish we had a better choice but he will at least try to stop the insanity”. Much of life is a lesser of two evils dilemma, hence his popularity.
Instead of acknowledging her mistakes - not condemning antisemitism and multiple accusations of plagiarism with lots of proof, Ms Gay resorts to playing the racism card. Yet another nail in her coffin.
It would seem that Ms. Gay is a very intelligent person. Stop and consider that she could have done the work, but the DEI industry told her she didn't have to. How many young people has DEI ruined by doing this?
It snickered at Diversity, most campuses don't have it.
It fiddled with Equity, telling the students they could get the same outcome without the effort.
It applauded Inclusion, creating marginalized groups with members that could ignore the rules.
Finally, and IMHO, the most damaging, was telling students to examine each interaction with other people for "micro-aggressions". Ruining the social fabric around them.
“It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor—two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am"
I think she must be enjoying saying things that are absolutely the opposite of the reality that people can see. "Because of 'who I am,' I can stand here in a nimbus of self-righteousness and lie to you, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Neener-neener."
Reading her resignation letter, I am always interested in the racism attack. First, let me state the obvious. In some comments or messages, a lot of trolls and a fringe group of men with IQs less than 70 could and probably did send some personal and racial attacks.
But the broad middle and reasonable middle pay no mind to her race, look at her testimony, read the evidence, and don't think about race first, just the truth. For too long, the political right has cowered in fear of the Claudine Gay's of the world. We have given them this moral authority to impose their values on society. This example shows that our institution's leaders are idiots who are educated in parlor games rather than achievement.
To get rid of DEI, a focus on performance, results, and responsibility have to happen. Brave people have to attack the premise of the charge of racism. The changes of systemic racism have to get pushed back on strongly with style and substance. This is an opening to defeat this lousy ideology, but if the leaders of that resistance sound like idiots who have little style or substance, there is a chance for them to remain on their perch. How the opposition fights are critical to winning this battle.
Time for frank and naked honesty. The situation described at Hillcrest High School in NYC is symptomatic of the anti-White hatred launched by none other than our imbecile in Chief - the corrupt JR Biden. Talks of "puttin' yo back in chains." "Reparations" to people who were never slaves just because of their skin color. Creating a deep sense of unwarranted grievance and division. You can see it in the half-witted lunatic who stabbed two white girls in Grand Central Terminal, announcing he wanted to "kill all white people." In the replacement rhetoric of some of the politicians, exulting in a supposed "white minority status" for the country's future. In the barely concealed hostility and simmering glares on the subways. This is nothing less than a devolution to tribalism. It is dangerous and anti-American. And racist to its core. And it will lead to nothing good. I know it and you know it. Time to put a stop to it. The Democrat Party is behind this. Stop pretending otherwise.
Perhaps the Harvard students and faculty will devote Jan 15 to listening closely to the I Have A Dream Speech and really hear the words : content of character.
Progressives are some of the most dangerous people on earth. They all need to be fired and handed the door and have it slam their asses hard on their way out.
Great job Aaron and the Free Beacon! Followed both on Twitter last night. Best wishes - we FP people support you ! Thank you Bari and team as always. You’ve so profoundly changed my life. Love from Philly.