The Left’s Hilarious but Pathetic Attempt to Spin Claudine Gay’s Resignation Won’t Stick
It’s been a delightful few weeks of “will they/won’t they” as Harvard has grappled with the fallout of former university president Claudine Gay’s disastrous congressional testimony tangle with Representative Elise Stefanik, but Harvard is finally rid of Gay, who disgracefully resigned from her undeserved post earlier this week.
It is worth noting that it took Chris Rufo providing verified allegations of gigantic, career-long plagiarism to finally shake Harvard’s love for this particular diversity hire; apparently, Gay’s unwillingness to say that calling for genocide would not be allowed at Harvard was not enough.
As TPUSA previously reported, “Harvard first drew significant attention when more than 30 student organizations, led by the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, issued a joint statement blaming Israel for the recent conflict. The letter accused Israel of being an ‘apartheid state’ and stated that it was ‘entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.'”
But setting those pesky facts aside, the media have dizzied themselves spinning this story away from “clear and obvious plagiarism, of the kind that would get a freshman expelled“ toward “it’s about race, actually“, maybe “about her sex.”
Drew Holden provided an entire list of these ridiculous attempts to deflect and disprove the allegations against Gay, and Omri Ceren quipped, “‘The political right weaponized my plagiarism just because they didn’t like my antisemitism’ is quite the defense.” That has been, more or less, the argument from Gay herself, but also the liberal media more broadly. It’s been enlightening.
At the end of the day, one thing is clear: the removal of Claudine Gay from her position at Harvard is bigger than her, as she wrote in her New York Times op-ed (because, of course, she gets an op-ed). She’s right about that. But she’s wrong about what it actually means: it means that we’re wising up to higher education’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) proclivities. This cannot end here. Hopefully, conservatives will keep the pressure on until the problem of woke thinking in colleges is fixed altogether.
