Claudine Gay Resigns

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13 responses to “Claudine Gay Resigns”

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   Joe Odegaard

   January 2, 2024

   Gay & Harvard (& BHO for that matter) have set Black Americans back quite a distance. Fortunately, there are organizations like Urban Conservatives of America to set us all on the right track again. Check them out:
   https://uca.us.org/
   And I found about them via Facebook. Don’t discount Facebook.

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   BV

   January 2, 2024

   Tony Flood sends us here: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/01/lew-rockwell/the-affirmative-action-hoax-2/
   Excerpt:
   Michelle Obama illustrates Sowell’s point that affirmative action leads to the admission of unqualified students. “In 1985, Michelle Obama presented her senior thesis in the sociology department of Princeton University. Although Michelle drew no such conclusion, the thesis is a stunning indictment of affirmative action. Those who benefited from it, Michelle most notably, may never recover from its sting.
   Her thesis reads like a cry for help. ‘I have found that at Princeton no matter how matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me,’ she writes, ‘I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as I really don’t belong.’
   She didn’t. Michelle should never have been admitted to Princeton. Thanks to the ‘numerous opportunities’ presented by affirmative action, however, Princeton is where she found herself. ‘Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren’t good enough for an Ivy League school,’ writes biographer Christopher Andersen, ‘Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.’ Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, ‘Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well.’
   She did not write well, either. She even typed badly. Mundy charitably describes the thesis as ‘dense and turgid.’ The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observed, ‘To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.’
   But millions would jump at the chance to help elect her president. Tony
   —
   Anthony G. Flood
   Writer. Editor. Researcher.
   Anthony G. Flood.com

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   Joe Odegaard

   January 2, 2024

   No lessons have been learned by the Left from he Harvard debacle, as this article shows:
   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/02/ibram-x-kendi-other-woke-activists-rage-over-claudine-gay-resigning-as-harvard-president-racist-mobs/

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   James Soriano

   January 2, 2024

   I agree that Rep. Stefanik is a hero, and others have given kudos to the Washington Free Beacon for staying after the story, but yesterday somebody on X (Twitter) recognized Elon Musk, for because of X the story would not have gained significance. That’s a good point.
   Content, conduit. Stefanik and the Beacon provided the content; Musk the conduit.

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   BV

   January 3, 2024

   James: “Content, conduit.” I like that. It is unfortunate, though, that you have to be a billionaire like Musk to effect change. But hats off to the man and his cojones.
   Bro Joe: Thanks for the link. >>“Gay informed the Harvard community of her resignation in an email that says it has been ‘frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus,’” it added.<< Gay, Kendi, and the rest of their ilk are such obvious losers and fools. Personal attack?? Not at all. Claudine dear, you are being legitrimately criticed for liter5ary theft. And please don't conflate plagiarism with 'citation errors'! Stop abusing the English language! Racial animus??

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   Vito B. Caiati

   January 3, 2024

   This interview with Rufo that appeared in Politico yesterday “reveal[s] the strategies behind the successful campaign to topple Claudine Gay.” Short but important: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/03/christopher-rufo-claudine-gay-harvard-resignation-00133618

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   Vito B. Caiati

   January 3, 2024

   Post Scriptum: Another positive outcome of the campaign to oust Gay is that the investor Bill Ackman, a man with enormous personal wealth and innumerable contacts among the ruling class, has learned about and now publicly opposes the racist and anti-meritocratic ideology that infects Harvard and many other universities and that underpins the current wave of antisemitism of the Left. Today, he called for the resignation of the entire pro-DEI Harvard board and the elimination of DEI at that institution. As we saw with Elon Musk, whose X provided the only means to keep this Gay scandal before the pubic, with weeks going by before it was picked up by the establishment media. it is essential that we work to gain allies among ruling class in this ideological struggle. Here is the Ackman piece: https://www.thefp.com/p/bill-ackman-how-to-fix-harvard

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   BV

   January 3, 2024

   Thanks for the Ackman piece, Vito.
   >>I came to understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion was not what I had naively thought these words meant.<< Why did it take him so long?? How old is this guy? He sounds like an old man living in the past. According to Wikipedia, however, he is only 57. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ackman
   Probably too busy making money to pay attention to broader, deeper, and more important issues.
   From the Politico article:
   >>In her letter of resignation, Gay said that she was troubled by “threats fueled by racial animus.” How do you respond to that?
   It was absolutely not fueled by racial animus. It was fueled by Claudine Gay’s minimization of antisemitism, her serial plagiarism, her intimidation of the free press and her botched attempts to cover it all up. It had nothing to do with her race or sex and everything to do with her merit, her competence and her failure to lead.<< Rufo's response is basically on the right track. But let me make two points in criticism of what he says, two points which will get me called a RAACIST by despicable fools. First, race does come into it, not because the criticisms of Gay are motivated by racial animus, but because her being black helps explain why she does not meet the high standards that Harvard used to uphold. Those standards are falsely referred to by wokesters as 'white' when they are nothing of the kind: they are universal standards. It is just that whites are better than blacks when it comes to discovering, articulating, and especially implementing and living up to those lofty standards. Second, although the criticisms of Gay are not motivated by racial animus but by concern for upholding long-recognized high standards of scholarship and inquiry, animus against Gay will arise in some because of her race when she does what blacks typically do when criticized: they get emotional, inappropriately defensive, and play the race card. "You criticize me because I am black and female!" No, no, NO! We criticize you because of your failure to behave as a president of a once-great university should behave! We have no objection to a black female's being president of Harvard -- if she meets the demanding criteria. Our point is that you do not meet the criteria and ought to be removed from your position. We believe in equality of opportunity. We believe in judging people as individuals, on the basis of their merit as individuals, and not on the basis of their sex and race. We are classical liberals who believe in equality. But we do not make the mistake of confusing equality with what you call 'equity'! Now I can't speak for Rufo, but I also can't imagine him disagreeing with what I have just said. Would he say it? Maybe not -- for prudential reasons. He has a big target on his back and he must be careful. Remember what I said about balancing prudence with civil courage. We have to be alive to defeat our enemies.

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   Vito B. Caiati

   January 4, 2024

   Something of interest: Rufo today on X: “I’ve written a manifesto for
   @IM_1776 calling for counter-revolution and outlining a strategy for “the New Right activism.” First Harvard, then America. The fight has now begun.”
   Here is the link to this manifesto, “The New Right Activism”: https://im1776.com/manifesto-counterrevolution/

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10. 

    BV

    January 4, 2024

    Well Vito, I was expecting more from Rufo. This is still mostly just talk. Where are the concrete suggestions? For example, there is no endorsement of Trump, when he alone can move is in the right direction.

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    BV

    January 4, 2024

    Tony,
    The No Neutrality theme of the ‘presuppers’ is sounded in a political key by Rufo.

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    Vito B. Caiati

    January 4, 2024

    Bill,
    I agree, Bill. Rufo has done good work, but I feel that he does not grasp the lateness of the hour. We simply don’t have the time for this piecemeal institutional tactical victories, satisfying though some may be. Right now, the only essential task is the winning of the presidency this year, i.e., that is the election of Trump. I also agree that the Left will employ any means to prevent this from happening. This is going to be a terrible year.

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    BV

    January 4, 2024

    Vito,
    The clearest indication that the Left will do anything to stop Trump is his being banned from the ballot in Colorado and other states. The brazen incoherence of defending democracy by such such a blatantly anti-democratic action boggles the mind. I see no grounds for optimism.

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