Claudine Gay resigns the Harvard presidency
I assume she’ll now achieve a sort of martyr status on the left: the racist right plus the Jews drove her out, or something like that.
At any rate, Gay has resigned. I believe it was more the plagiarism evidence than her Congressional testimony that caused her to finally quit, plus the defection of some donors. Perhaps no one of the three elements alone would have done it, but the combination was just too much, and even Jew-haters might be upset by the plagiarism and the loss of money (despite Harvard’s humongous endowment).
More:
Harvard President Claudine Gay will resign Tuesday afternoon, bringing an end to the shortest presidency in the University’s history, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.
University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 will serve as Harvard’s interim president during a search for Gay’s permanent successor, the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — announced in an email on Tuesday.
If it hadn’t been for Elise Stefanik’s questions of the three university presidents, none of this would have happened. The plagiarism accusations probably wouldn’t have otherwise gotten much traction but for the sound bites of the testimony. Now the only president still in place of the three testifiers is MIT head Sally Kornbluth.
ADDENDUM: Gay cries “racism.”
I have little doubt that Gay received messages that were racist. But that wasn’t what motivated the vast vast majority of her opponents. She doesn’t address the actual issues – her championship of DEI, her testimony in Congress, and her plagiarism – except to write this:
Amidst all of this, 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—and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.
It is distressing to have doubt cast on your commitment to scholarly rigor? How about the manifold objective evidence for your lack of commitment and rigor? How about your actual testimony to Congress? Why is your distress more important than answering the charges?
She will be a martyr for the DEI/Woke crowd and look for her to get a job at MSNBC.
I assume that Harvard will eventually just find another DEI… er sorry, DIE acolyte to serve as their president. But they’ll be a bit more circumspect about it, vetting the academic record of the potential candidates a bit more carefully as well as finding someone who is better at dissembling under scrutiny.
But despite that, I’ll chalk this up for a win overall for the forces of sanity and reason over the anti civilization forces.
She won’t need the MSNBC gig. The left takes care of its own. She will have a faculty or administrative position of some consequence somewhere, well-compensated.
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Tyler Cowen complains about the mediocrity of the board without acknowledging how boards fail: by failing to suppress the institutional pathology generated by the faculty, the student affairs apparat, the admissions office, and the HR staff.
I assume that Harvard will eventually just find another DEI… er sorry, DIE acolyte to serve as their president.
The likelihood that it will be another black woman has to be approaching 100%. Maybe gay, maybe not, but anyone other than a black woman and Trump wins, or something.
For now she’s rejoining the faculty, where I’m sure she’ll be welcomed with open arms.
Has Harvard learned any lesson? Doubtful, but even if it has, it’s not clear there’s any mechanism at all for cleaning house by ousting anyone from the Corporation. It’s like the Israeli Supreme Court, entirely self-perpetuating with seemingly no accountability.
She’s going into the faculty…just great.. a serial plagiarist teaching college kids. I know what would have happened to me if I had that level of plagiarism. But then, kinda hard for me to steal data that no one had produced before.
I had alums, students, and board members trying to fire me because they didn’t like my views on climate. The claim was I was not a legitimate scientist because I presented logical, physics based arguments against AGW.
The Board of Trustees are responsible for this travesty. University Boards are focused on the rate of return on the endowments and who manages the huge cash hoards. Dr. James Mullin wrote a enlightening article over at American Thinker “Taking the Fight to Academia “11/17/2023. Non profit boards are controlled by progressives. Once one is elected by the Board they make a beeline to sit on the nominating committee, then reproduce like rabbits! Academic excellence is replaced by political correctness and demand for grant money.
Maybe they’ll make the effort to find someone who is actually an academic, and otherwise does not lie, cheat, and exhibit outright bigotry?
Was her resignation letter plagiarized? It has that race hustler ring to it.
I’ll reiterate: a possible tonic might be to have modest boards (5-19 members, contingent on the stakeholder population) consisting of and elected by alumni registered to vote in the state in which the institution is headquartered. Posit such balloting would be supervised by state and county boards of elections, would occur always on the year preceding a federal presidential election, that trustees so elected would serve four year terms, and that their tenure would be subject to a rotation-in-office rule (e.g. persons who have served for 14 of the last 16 years or would hit that wall in the coming term are compelled to stand down). A board made up of 13 business and professional types living in greater Boston might look more skeptically than the current board on the miasma the faculty and others generate. A board of a dozen members meeting monthly might be more likely to act than one of 63 members whose attendance is spotty.
Maybe they’ll make the effort to find someone who is actually an academic
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Hire an elderly or retired man from the world of business, the military, or hospital administration. Don’t hire one of the faculty. Hire someone who might just dislike the faculty.
I would say great, one down 1,000 to go. But as mentioned above her replacement won’t be any better.
With the plagiarism charges she shouldn’t be teaching at all, but as they say “It’s Harvard”
Karine Jean-Pierre might be a perfect fit for Harvard: black lesbian willing to lie about anything.
I’ve added an ADDENDUM at the end of the post.
. Non profit boards are controlled by progressives.
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Well, we might just ask our Republican state legislators why they don’t have bills on deck to require trustees appointed by a self-regeneration procedure
1. be limited in number,
2. reside within a few hours drive of an organization’s headquarters,
3. not be permitted on any board of any corporation founded > 60 years ago.
4. be supplemented with trustees elected by stakeholder bodies from the time a corporation reaches the 20th anniversary of its founding, if not earlier.
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Other rules:
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(1) corporations be debarred by law from making grants and donations (in the form of cash, other negotiable instruments, real property, equipment, comestibles) unless such donations are expressly permitted by the state’s corporation law.
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(2) the franchise to make grants and donations would be limited to specific subtypes of corporation, and each subtype so permitted could make donations only to parties of a sort specified in law. By way of example, political parties could donate to campaign committees and contribution bundlers could donate to campaign committees and that exhausts who either parties could donate to. Specifically charitable (not generically philanthropic) corporations and religious corporations could donate to individuals and private households and religious corporations could bundle donations to charitable corporations, but that would be it. “Charitable” corporations would be understood as those providing food, shelter, and first aid along with miscellaneous services.
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(3) there would be one type of corporation – ‘foundations’ – which would be permitted one function only: to make donations to other philanthropic bodies. Foundations would be compelled to liquidate under the supervision of a surrogate’s court within 60 years of their incorporation with their capital returned to donors and / or divvied up among service-providing philanthropic bodies.
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(4) The definition of stakeholder bodies would be defined by law and the supervision of elections to boards by stakeholders would be by public agencies.
Claudine Gay is but a symptom of the rot in our universities. Dissertation supervisors and academic journals are supposed to thoroughly examine papers submitted to them before approving them. Yes, Claudine Gay plagiarized, and perhaps worse. But it was the duty of those examining her papers to detect plagiarism and other violations of academic standards. They did not. In not taking the effort to thoroughly examine her papers, they did her a disfavor.
Naomi Wolf’s doctoral dissertation at Oxford, which she later turned into a book, claimed that “death recorded” indicated there were executions of homosexuals in 19th century England, when the term meant that a death sentence was being recorded, not necessarily carried out. An Author Learned of a Mortifying Research Mistake Live on the Radio. Here’s How Twitter Reacted. A historian on a radio show caught the error, but her dissertation advisors did not.
Consider Hannah Nicole Jone’s 1619, published in the NYT. Historians caught numerous errors. I took only one history course in college, but I was able to catch several errors in five minutes of skimming 1619. Here is one.
Jefferson died in debt. His debt was paid off, but it took 50 years. So much for “dizzying profits.” If I had submitted that as a history paper in college, I would have deserved a C+: A for volume, D for research errors. The editors at the NYT, who thought they were giving Hannah Nicole Jones a break by not thoroughly examining her work, actually did her a disfavor.
Claudine Gay’s testimony showed the hypocrisy of Harvard’s administration, which bent over backwards not to condemn the anti-Semitism of Hamas supporters on campus, while Harvard “won” the lowest free speech ratings on colleges and universities in the country. Harvard gets worst score ever in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings
While Claudine Gay did her part to earn Harvard those poor ratings on free speech, I very much doubt that her resignation will do much to improve free speech at Harvard. After all, most of the above free speech issues at Harvard predate her 6 months as President of Harvard.
The rot is too widespread. Claudine Gay is not the cause, but a symptom.
The Board that hired her should resign.
I’ve added an ADDENDUM at the end of the post.
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I suspect most of the people who run consequential institutions in this country are sociopaths.
Geez. Can’t conservatives take a win and enjoy it?
No, Gay’s resignation doesn’t restore Reagan’s “Morning in America” in one fell swoop. Nor even take us back to 2000.
It’s just one game in the season, plenty more to go, but we won this and it may — knock on wood — presage further victories.
Really. One difference I find between the Left and the Right is that the Left always blows on whatever sparks of change it finds and hopes for the best.
The Right just harrumphs and says, “OK. But this won’t change anything.”
If one has any notion of how humans work, this is stupid.
In the last two or three weeks, I stated the bet that President Gay would be gone by New Years. And physicsguy gamely stated he’d take that bet! (Fortunately, for me, we didn’t set terms, and rhus I suppose it was all about bragging rights.)
Through the last two holiday weekends, the issue festered.
Notably, Roger Kimble in the Spectator averred that keeping her in place was the best for America because she epitomized the gut rot of DIE. And hurting Harvard through rank hypocrisy helps America.(But does it? really?)
In another development, last week two dissenting editorial board members of the Harvard Crimson took to its pages demanding her resignation because of her egregious plagiarism.
Thus, I was tempted to write a decent concession to physicsguy to post here — but with an asterisk that this scandal would somehow continue.
But instead I spent the weekend with acutr Juniper tree allergies and college football championships at stake — two more important matters than this one, to be sure.
It’s maybe 6 hours after the announcement, so I’m late to the not unexpected party.
How she’s remembered remains the important talking point. With the people on the board, headed by a trans activist billionaire named Pritzker, I expect the fallout to get uglier
Anyone care to bet against me?
The roundup from Zerohedge:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvards-gay-hit-new-plagiarism-allegations-widespread-double-standards-exposed-elite
Anyone want to bet that most of the DEI faculty has committed the same or worse academic fraud that Gay is guilty of? She didn’t do it in a vacuum and had to have a lot of willing help to get to the top. Every one that helped her should get the boot too, though it won’t happen.
leClerc —
You beat me to it! But on a serious note, that fact that anyone — you OR me — would think that she might have plagiarized her letter of resignation just demonstrates that she has cheapened the position. Now both she and Harvard have been damaged. Sad.
huxley:
That’s not what the right is saying; not the people I’ve read, anyway. It’s certainly not what I’m saying. I’m saying this is a step, and the next steps would be this, and this, and this, and this. It’s a battle in a long war. I’m referring, by the way, to this post of mine, also written and published today. Here’s a quote:
I’ll take the win.
Some of the iceberg is cracking
Now onto mit
Well, well. Score one for Upstate!
Now Harvard “leaders” are praised her to high heavens, and said it was racism.
These people are not really self aware.
SHIREHOME:
As I predicted – and as was easy to predict – Gay will be used as a martyr and it will be said that racists drove her out.
She is more useful to the left having resigned than she was in the presidency. I believe she will be replaced with someone dedicated to similar goals, but with a less fraught history.
TJ,
Given Harvard’s general zeitgeist, I did expect her to last longer.
“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
Right there she reveals her utter lack of integrity, willingness to offer insult to our intelligence and unfitness for any position of leadership.
Just her manifold plagiarisms demand ostracization from any future position in academia. 50+ instances of plagiarism are indisputable evidence of willful intent.
So whether Harvard keeps her on or wherever she might next reside, her very presence will confirm both that institutions own lack of integrity and their actual rejection of “scholarly rigor”.
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1742301473633976330
Like churchill said in another context were negotiating over price
“Why is your distress more important than answering the charges?”
You know the answer to that one Boss…
Because she ticks so many intersectional boxes. She is Affirmative Action from hair ends to toenails. And she’s just one of many who need to receive the same treatment toward the same end. Incompetent, arrogant, & believably unethical are no way to pass through this life, but she’s trying.
If she had NOT cried ‘RACISM’, I truly would have been shocked. And while it’s good to see some consequences here, Neo is right that Gay will surely be lionized and will monetize this accordingly.
Furthermore, there are a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Claudine Gay’s out there, some of who might not have plagiarized (or did so more artfully). Surely Harvard’s next President will just be a cookie cutter version of her, but likely more mindful of any potential congressional testimony)
Oh dear lord – they’ve done it again!
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1742301473633976330?s=20
That’s not what the right is saying; not the people I’ve read, anyway. It’s certainly not what I’m saying.
neo:
I wasn’t singling you out. I was immediately thinking of this earlier comment:
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Nothingburger. Gay was appointed and defended by the Harvard corp and others. If they are forced out, that would mean something.
–Jim
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Or a classic example from Gerard, which perhaps I took too personally, when I had the audacity to suggest that Joe Biden’s Insane Afghan Bugout might redound against against Democrats. Gerard responded that I should do something scatological with my hands and realize my foolishness.
But this, your, post is still something of an example. In your first paragraph and the later ones you quote, you immediately rush in to qualify any optimism about Gay’s resignation.
Where is the enjoyment, the celebration of a win? I see the lack thereof constantly in this blog and elsewhere.
To go Tony Robbins and make my point vividly and thereby sound stupid:
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If you feel Claudine Gay’s resignation is a win, make a fist and say, “YEAH!”
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When I was on the Left we always celebrated our wins, however small. I don’t see that much on the Right.
Yes, this is a long fight. We have to keep our spirits up to continue.
The interim president of penn jameson (not j jonah) was all dei on the medical school
…jameson (not j jonah),,,
Miguel cervantes:
Ho-ho-ho!
No AI can do you … yet.
@huxley: Fist raised, shouting YEAH! Mentally, that is, as I’ve got a cough.
It’s going to continue to be a fight, but DEI is finally becoming something they have to try to hide, rather than preaching it out loud everywhere.
Mike Plaiss:
That was one smart bomb!
huxley:
I think you’re correct that these days the right is not celebratory enough when there’s a win. I think it’s because the Gramscian march just seems so very well advanced. And I think you’re correct that more celebration of even the small wins is needed.
Like the Jews on Purim:
As for Gerard – as you know, now and then he exercised his flame war muscles. Probably nothing personal at all.
Marc Lamont Hill tweets, “The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman.” Probably, but I suspect Harvard will drag its feet for a while before naming a new head. Maybe they’ll even take the time to vet their next leader.
Somebody said Obama should take the job, but that’s not going to happen. I always figured Buttigieg would eventually become a college president and parlay that into a House seat. I thought Connecticut or Pennsylvania would be more likely. He’s not Irish enough to make a political career in Boston.
Has anyone noticed that “navigate” seems to be the word du jour….
…the new definition, of which goes something like “…BS my/our way through…”
The obvious unequal weight and measures put this unqualified ethically challenged faculty member into a prominent leadership position in the ivy leagues.
So Ms. (not really a PhD) Gay is a lying, plagiarizing, free speech thwarting, DEI scumbag; and thus she had no business being selected as President (or even a TA) at Harvard;
but
That does not mean she was wrong in her answer to Elise Stefanik. Free speech constitutional protections do depend on the “context”. And at a private university those protections* are pretty solid against governmental “corrections” or preferences. [Or they should still be.]
But the marketplace of ideas and public assessments does extend beyond the campus to the wider public, donors, alumni, et al. So let’s take that win as related to her many failings for her position, but (as I understand it) her weaselly testimony to Congress just so happened to be constitutionally valid.
And if Rep. Stefanik rises in the House as a result of this imbroglio, in spite of being off center on this particular 1st Amendment right, all to the good as she seems to have more spine than some of her male colleagues.
*Protecting the Jewish or Palestinian students and visitors on the campus from harassment or physical assault (and genocide) is/was also part of her remit, but that was not the situation involving hypothetical speech about genocide.
Related (and cogent, discussing the overarching rot in academia):
“Argue Honesty in the Claudine Gay Affair”—
https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/argue-honesty-in-the-claudine-gay?utm_campaign=post_embed
H/T Insapundit.
R2L:
The problem with the point you make is that free speech doesn’t exist at Harvard except for those calling for the destruction of Jews. If someone ever called for genocide against blacks or gays or any other group but Jews, you better believe that Harvard speech codes would have them tossed out on their ear, pronto.
That is the problem with what Gay said.
neo:
Well, now you’ve done it. I have to read the “Book of Esther.” 🙂
A quick survey of reaction on YouTube. Of note, Alan Dershowitz was FIRST to declare that she’s resign if more wrongdoing came out:
Weeks ago, Alan Dershowitz predicted trouble if more on Gay came out..
On Kudlow, FoxBusiness, who credits Washington Free Beacon’s old fashioned diligence on the plagiarism angle for this result..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbKua2w0hcI
“Harvard Law Professor-Emeritus Alan Dershowitz reacts to the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay” on ‘Kudlow.’
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Harvard University student Shabbos Kestenbaum reacts to Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation and the fallout following the announcement, Fox Business. He credits Harvard students pushback against the administration who just want to learn, not be activists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wxnim66pY
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THE FIVE Harvard president cites racism as fuel for resignation, on Fox News reaction to Gay’s Resignation as Harvard President. New clip today of Congresswoman Stefanik on Gay’s failings leads off the discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0jjuPrMzyo
Much shame and castigation on Gay for making it about race, and not taking responsibility herself.
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“Does Gay’s resignation mark the end of DEI?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5rutdeX1k
The Dershowitz finds Alan in fine form, he calls for an impartial investigation of this scandal. Tuesday, 30m. One choice comment: “It is time for Thomas Sowell to be the next Harvard president.”
Some posts addressing a few of the comments raised herein.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/31/dissent-gay-plagiarism/
“Dissent: For Harvard’s Sake, It’s Time to Let Gay Go”
Dissenting Opinions: Occasionally, The Crimson Editorial Board is divided about the opinion we express in a staff editorial. In these cases, dissenting board members have the opportunity to express their opposition to staff opinion.
(Most of you probably know that the official staff position was to praise Gay and dismiss the plagiarism evidence as unimportant.)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/31/honor-council-member-gay/
“I Vote on Plagiarism Cases at Harvard College. Gay’s Getting off Easy.”
By An Undergraduate Member of the Harvard College Honor Council, Contributing Opinion Writer
https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/speaking-to-president-gay-harvard-chabad-rabbi-blasts-schools-handling-of-antisemitism/
https://jewishinsider.com/2024/01/root-problem-of-antisemitism-at-harvard-remains-after-gay-resignation-jewish-leaders-say/
How Claudine Gay destroyed Harvard’s Best Black Professor. (A mini documentary from a year ago.) Roland Fryer, economist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8xWOlk3WIw
Race hustling Leftists do him in. Gay oughta be fried for this travesty alone.
@ Barry > “Argue Honesty in the Claudine Gay Affair”
There were several interesting sections of Cochrane’s post that I hadn’t seen before, especially some of the testimony excerpts other than the justly-derided ones about antisemitism at Harvard.
In particular, he notes several extensive examples of how to not respond to the actual question that was asked — something we have all seen in other Congressional hearings.
If the Democrats don’t learn anything else, they certainly have mastered that skill.
The lesson of Democrat-speak in action:
In re the “Conservatives are welcome” lies, see my next comment.
Back to the Cochrane post:
Back to the beginning (well, not the beginning-beginning, but analogous to it) of the problem at Harvard, in an addendum:
Conservatives are NOT welcome at the universities, nor in many other professions.
See the linked story from this comment, and look at all the time-frame graphs it cites, showing the ideological lopsidedness everywhere.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2024/01/01/roundup-98/#comment-2716201
AesopFan on January 2, 2024 at 12:36 am said:
About those predictions …
https://notthebee.com/article/this-med-student-compiled-graphs-showing-how-different-professions-have-shifted-far-left-over-the-past-decades-the-one-about-doctors-really-surprised-me-
Ed Driscoll – A reaction to a screencapped tweet I can’t copy, but it’s great gaslighting from Nicole Hannah-Jones aka Ida Bae Wells.
https://instapundit.com/624752/
JANUARY 2, 2024
ELISE STEFANIK AS BOND SUPERVILLAIN:
@ huxley > Glenn Reynolds is kinda-sorta celebrating, in a modified limited way.
https://instapundit.substack.com/p/claudine-gay-has-gone-away?r=9bg2k
“We have a long way to go to fix America’s broken institutions. But the new year is off to a decent start.”
RTWT of course.
Yes, Harvard got exactly what they wanted: the merit and qualifications they asked for were front and center:
https://freebeacon.com/media/flashback-media-rave-about-harvards-groundbreaking-choice-of-claudine-gay-as-president/
Thaleigha Rampersad
January 2, 2024
Harvard University president Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid mounting allegations of plagiarism in her academic work. When Gay was initially announced as Harvard’s new president in December 2022, mainstream media outlets raved about the diversity she would bring to the elite university. Outlets touted her as the “daughter of Haitian immigrants” and the “first person of color” to hold the office of president at Harvard.
Gay’s tenure as president was the shortest in Harvard history.
You know, I haven’t actually followed this story all that closely. It’s all just too stupid to take too seriously. Just now reading the lead editorial in today’s WSJ where they quote from her original apology. She says that in her testimony to congress she “failed to convey what is my truth.”
Now there’s one of your interview questions for her replacement right there. “Have you ever used the phrase “my truth” in any way that wasn’t sarcastic?”
“Truth?
You want the truth?
You can’t handle my truth!”
From some movie or someone’s sworn testimony. Who you gonna believe, me, or your lyin’ eyes? ….
The problem comes down to this: our professional-managerial stratum is chock-a-block with chronic liars. This is most intensely so in the world of higher education. I don’t think this was the case 80 years ago. How did this happen?
See huxley?
https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/03/claudine-gays-resignation-from-harvard-isnt-the-victory-the-right-thinks-it-is/
Stop celebrating damn it!
Marc Lamont Hill tweets, “The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman.”
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Cue Mandy Rice Davies.
Gay was lousy, even worse than Obama.
It was Obama’s nomination that changed the direction of racism in America. It had been going down, with the ideal of color blindness. MLK’s great words to judge people on their character, not the color of their skin.
With Obama, every single critic of any of his policies was called a racist.
Dems effectively weaponized the accusations of racism. Tho only against those who oppose Dem Blacks.
Thanks for Grumpy on substack, changing just a few weeks ago, still free.
https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/welcome-to-substack
He has his own domain.
Neo should change, too, so as to make a LOT more money, and get more comments, with more links by others who are worthy—worth your time to read, and more comments.
So many comments it becomes a different community. I’m spending most of my blog time there, making comments on other stacks, which become Notes that one can see on my substack Notes page.
I still don’t like podcasts much.
I’m glad Gay is gone. Colleges which illegally discriminate against hiring Republicans should lose tax exemptions. Those with less than 30% Reps should be presumed guilty of discrimination for the purpose of gaining a tax benefit.
Conservatives are NOT welcome at the universities, nor in many other professions. See the linked story from this comment, and look at all the time-frame graphs it cites, showing the ideological lopsidedness everywhere.
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I’m somewhat skeptical of his data. One feature is the disappearance of people who aren’t taking a side.
According to a comment on Fox Business this morning, Gay retains a teaching position and her $900,000 salary. Some victim.
I didn’t find out about this until watching Gutfeld last night, but is anybody else bothered by the fact that Gay is Haitian and not African-American? We were guilted into accepting affirmative action because it allegedly was to “remedy “past discrimination but someone like Gay we owe nothing to. she’s just cutting in line like Rosie Ruiz.
That’s one of the things that is so insulting about DEI. “Black” people are all the same in their view. Gay is the child of Haitian immigrants and did not grow up poor. Barack Obama is half Kenyan. Kamala Harris is half Jamaican and half Tamil.
Its a thorough going racket enabled by every professor i remember with hilton kramer i think pointing out skip gates for attacking the canon of western classics back in the 80s (now hes as respectable as morgan freeman)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/01/03/nyts-mara-gay-rights-racist-claudine-gay-attacks-targeted-diversity/
Claudine Gay was not only not “oppressed,” she was privileged. The president of UPenn resigned over the congressional testimony. She’s white. It took the additional scrutiny of Gay’s thin and plagiarized academic output to take her down.
Re: Celebration
neo, Mike Plaiss, AesopFan et tout le monde:
I don’t mean to beat it into the ground but celebration is important for homo sapiens. Life is hard. Getting something, anything done is HARD.
Life deals us mostly SORRY! cards. Yet we must keep going. For that one must have a vision and the means to maintain motivation.
So if you see something Good happening, Celebrate! For that moment anyway. No, it’s not over. Yes, you will have to return to the grind of pushing through to the next step.
Saul Alinsky, another of Satan’s Imps to be sure, but if you read his “Rules for Radicals,” you will note he never lost sight of opportunities for his followers to enjoy their work for the Movement.
Speaking for myself and bragging a bit, I’ve studied French everyday for 4-6 hours for over a year now. I couldn’t have done this when I was younger because then I was constantly doubting myself and focusing on how much further I had to go.
Now I stay aware and when I notice progress:
Make a fist and say “YES!”
its like when they take down the first walker in empire, the schadenfreude level is off the charts,
Fist raised, shouting YEAH!
Kate:
Wow. You caught that on the first bounce!
Rome wasn’t dismantled in a dayhttps://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1742639530069348784