Claudine Gay on Tuesday following controversy over numerous plagiarism accusations and a costly perception that Harvard University became a hotbed of both anti-Semitism and racist tendencies under her leadership. , resigned as university president.
In her resignation letter, Gay presented herself as a victim of “personal attacks and intimidation fueled by racial hostility” to those who tried to defend her.
Critical race theorist Ibram did.
Kendi tweeted“Racist mobs will not stop until all black people who do not reinforce structures of racism are overthrown from positions of power and influence. It should be obvious to reporters who care about truth and justice that they are doing the same thing.'' Collisions and clicks. ”
Kendi's tweet was quickly posted in a community note linking to a recent New York Times article. detail The latest of nearly 50 plagiarism charges against Gay, who appears to have plagiarized material from black and white scholars alike.
Of Gay's 17 published works, seven have been implicated in plagiarism charges, including his 1997 doctoral dissertation.
The latest complaint, filed Monday, is obtained According to the Washington Free Beacon, Gay quoted from University of Wisconsin political science professor David Cannon's 1999 book “Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts.” He claims to have quoted almost exactly the contents of one page.
Despite this and any indication that she may have benefited from the efforts of others, Gay said in a Dec. 11 statement, “I stand by my academic integrity.” .
In addition to the plagiarism scandal, Professor Kendi recently suggested at a Congressional hearing early last month that calls for the genocide of Jews could be protected under the university's policy on bullying and harassment “in some circumstances.” He frowned.
On Tuesday, Kendi came under fire for claiming that the controversy about a lack of gay academic integrity and tolerance of anti-Semitism on campus was actually about her race.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) I have written“Kendi's cry of 'racism' over a dismissal that had nothing to do with race – and was apparently done with great care, perhaps based on race-related considerations – itself It is a form of ugliness similar to racism.” ”
Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas) answered To Kendi: “'Yes, I understand. So I know that I refuse to condemn genocide or anti-Semitism, and that perhaps I plagiarized my way to the top of academia. But the truth is, you're all just a bunch of racists.''
Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis; answered“You didn't expect anything less from Henry Rogers (his real name)? It's clearly racist to point out plagiarism.”
megyn kelly made a joke“Henry Rogers joins us (spoiler: they're all racists).”
audience columnist and author Douglas Murray tweeted“Or… don’t be a plagiarist blindsided by anti-Semitic racism.”
Free Black Thought, an organization pursuing intellectual diversity I have written“Can you imagine how much motivated reasoning it would take to convince yourself that Claudine Gay was defeated by racism?”
Kendi doubled down on his claims of racism in a series of posts, which were again refuted with facts.
“When a racist mob attacks a black person, it finds a seemingly justifiable reason for the attack that allows it to gain public support and trust, thereby increasing the mob's suspicion that the person is black. You can deny that you are attacking the person in this way because Black,” I have written Kendi. “In this latest incident at Harvard University, the seemingly legitimate reason is primarily academic misconduct or plagiarism.”
“The question of assessing whether this was a racist attack is not whether Dr. Gay committed any wrongdoing,” the identitarian scholar continued. “The question is, if the Harvard president in this case had been white, would all these people have investigated, surveilled, harassed, written about, and attacked her in the same way?”
Respondents noted at least two instances in the past few months in which they provided solid answers to Kendi's questions, thereby undermining his preferred narrative style.
Liz McGill, a white woman who served as the 27th president of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned in disgrace in December. Although she is not ostensibly another plagiarist, she has similarly failed to address anti-Semitism on campus, with recent Congressional hearings calling for the genocide of Jews to amount to bullying and harassment on campus. He did not explicitly say whether or not.
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a white man who served as president of Stanford University for seven years, resigned in July after the board found that several academic reports he authored contained false information.
Dr. Anthony Bradley, a distinguished fellow at the Acton Institute, highlighted another example for Kendi that proves his understanding is inadequate: retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen. resigned He became president of the University of South Carolina in 2021 after being exposed for plagiarizing portions of speeches rather than seven books and doctoral dissertations.
Bradley I have written“Professor Kendi mistakenly thinks Professor Gay's resignation is about race. It's about plagiarism. And yes, @ibramxk if you do a little digging, you'll see that white presidents are very regularly accused of plagiarism. We cannot hold our students to higher standards than our universities.'' Presidents. ”
Kendi wasn't the only one to suggest that Gaye's resignation was about race, or at least something other than her weaknesses.
Left-wing blog “Mother Jones” was suggested Gay was “the latest victim in a growing conservative movement against 'diversity in education,'” and her resignation was further evidence of a “larger racially regressive trend” underway.
Don Moynihan, a professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, said: claimed“Gay is attacked because she is seen by the right as unworthy of the job. Diversity hiring.”
Daily Beast Contributor Wajahat Ali remove Was that it? ”[r]Right-wing actors are so obsessed with “truth” that they don’t target, bully, or “scalp” those who threaten them in academia (people of color, women, liberals, books). . ”
New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay said efforts to hold Gay accountable amount to an “attack on diversity.”
“The fact that she was a Black woman and the first Black American to lead Harvard University made it even more emotional. [critics’] Desperate to usurp her throne,” Mara Gay Said MSNBC. “That attack…I don't have to say it was racist, because you can hear and see the racism in the attack.”
Al Sharpton said in a statement. obtained CNN reported on Tuesday: “The resignation of a gay president is about more than an individual or a single incident. This is a crack in the glass ceiling and an attack on every black woman in this country.”
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