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| DATE | 2024-01-04 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Woudn't be allow to raise her goats
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Gay has published no books, written only 11 articles (most of which turn
out to have been plagiarized) but still she was appointed President of
Harvard.
As the Somali-born author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali told me in an
interview this week, “My grandmother wouldn’t have trusted Claudine Gay
to herd her goats.”
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https://nypost.com/2024/01/04/opinion/harvard-tarnished-itself-with-the-claudine-gay-debacle/
nypost.com
The Left’s hypocrisy over Harvard laid bare
Douglas Murray
6–8 minutes
What must you do to fail at Harvard?
It used to be pretty clear.
You had to be caught cheating.
Or doing something so outrageous that it’d get you chucked off campus.
Not anymore.
Today Harvard is an institution that thinks that antisemitism is OK and
believes that plagiarism is fine.
Not long ago a student would have been kicked out for either of these sins.
Today the President has been caught out on both.
And the board of the university stuck by her.
Even when she decided to step down this week both she and her supporters
went into full-on “victimhood mode.”
Nothing was her fault.
In a bitter farewell piece, Gay said she was the victim of a
“demagogues” who had “weaponized” her presidency to “undermine the
ideals animating Harvard since its founding: excellence, openness,
independence and truth.”
If those are the animating ideals of Harvard then they are ones that Gay
herself trampled all over. With her lack of academic distinction, her
total lack of scholarship, her plagiarism and self-pity.
Gay has published no books, written only 11 articles (most of which turn
out to have been plagiarized) but still she was appointed President of
Harvard.
As the Somali-born author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali told me in an
interview this week, “My grandmother wouldn’t have trusted Claudine Gay
to herd her goats.”
Unlike Hirsi Ali, Gay comes from a privileged background, and she will
continue her privileged lifestyle.
It emerged this week that although Gay has left the presidency, she is
going to stay on at Harvard as a lecturer.
On a salary of an extraordinary $900,000 a year.
Who knew lecturers were so well paid?
Almost a million dollars a year for being a lecturer!
Everyone else in America must be wondering where it went so wrong for
the rest of us.
Still, in Gay’s sorry rise and blaming-everyone-but-herself fall there
are lessons to be learned.
“Don’t cheat” should be one for her.
But for everyone else it should be the realization that the playbook of
the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity crowd is now out in plain, fetid sight.
Because Gay and her defenders are not done yet.
All week they have continued to pretend that her resignation is the
result of unfair attacks from “racists” and “the right.”
Take another Gay: Mara Gay of the New York Times.
She said yesterday that Claudine Gay’s resignation was “really an attack
on academic freedom. An attack on diversity” and “an attack on
multiculturalism.”
The NYT writer went on “I don’t have to say that they’re racist, because
you can hear and see the racism in the attacks.”
Actually, you can hear and see no such thing.
Though here are some things you can see.
People who have spent their lives assaulting academic freedom now
complaining that there is an assault on academic freedom.
People who have been caught being racist now complaining about racism.
People who got where they got to on everything except merit now
complaining that there is an assault on merit.
People who judge other people on their race falsely claiming falsely
other people are judging them that way.
The truth is that you can have these things one way, but not every which
way.
Supporters of Gay need to realize that a person with so little academic
expertise should never have been expected to lead an institution of
academic excellence.
They need to realize that a university (Harvard) which was last year
found to have 2.5% of the faculty willing to admit to being
“conservative” and 0.4% willing to admit to being “very conservative” is
not a place of intellectual freedom.
But they are such hypocrites.
These defenders of Gay dare to talk about academic freedom when Harvard
just ranked dead last among all American universities in the Foundation
for Individual Rights and Expression´s “2024 College Free Speech Rankings.”
Indeed Harvard came in at number 248 in that list with a 0.00 overall
score, Harvard under Claudine Gay was rated as having an “abysmal”
climate for free speech.
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And it doesn’t stop there.
Just four years ago, in 2019, Harvard decided not to renew the contract
of Law School professor Ronald Sullivan, Jr., to act as a faculty dean.
His crime?
As a practicing lawyer Sullivan was on Harvey Weinstein’s defense team.
This led to a backlash from idiot students.
And in her then role as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Claudine Gay reportedly had a say in the decision to stop Sullivan’s
contract.
Such a moment might have been a good time to explain to students in the
law school that a trial in a court requires lawyers for the defense and
for the prosecution.
And that if the students wanted to have a career in the law they would
find that out someday.
Instead Claudine Gay and others abandoned the principles of academic
freedom, gave into the mob, and failed completely to explain the most
basic principles not just of Harvard but of the United States legal system.
Today Gay’s defenders may hide behind big claims.
But they are flushed out into the open now, for all to see.
As race-hustlers, frauds and hypocrites.
America would do well to be rid of them from all such positions.
Does Ukraine need a deal?
This week there have been further major rocket and drone attacks on the
Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
More than 500 missiles and drones were fired against Ukraine in just
five days.
The largest Russian bombardment of Ukraine since the war began.
Among other responses to this, Ukraine sent missiles into the Russian
border city of Belgorod with dozens dead and over a hundred people injured.
It is a reminder that although the world’s attention is elsewhere (not
least navel-gazing) the bitter Russia-Ukraine war grinds on.
I have always thought that support for Ukraine is obvious.
Whatever the flaws of the country or government, Russian aggression
cannot be rewarded.
But at some point the sides are going to have to sit down and negotiate.
And last year’s meager advances by Ukrainian forces means that day may
well be drawing closer.
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that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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