Kids in high school know Wikipedia is off limits. This is a MIT doctoral student copying entire paragraphs.

It was never about plagerism. Plagerizing while black was just the excuse for the traffic stop.

also it seems ackman and the harvard alumni threatened to stop donating. that's probably the #1 reason why gaye is gone.

Claudine Gray’s legacy at Harvard: Promoting hate.

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The thing that bugs me the most about the Context debacle is that Claudine Gay’s “walkback” statement on Twitter still didn’t say that a call for Jewish genocide violated Harvard code of conduct. She said calls for Jewish genocide were vile, and that they had no place at Harvard. But she didn’t say that they violated Harvard policy. She had time to work out a written statement and she still didn’t say it.

She said that those who make threats against Jews would be “held to account”. But direct threats of violence against individuals are illegal in the US. Is it Harvard who will be holding threateners to account? The police? Society? And what “account” will they be held to? The President of Harvard University, of all people, knows how to avoid a passive voice issue. But she didn’t.

It is not enough to say that Jewish genocide is bad. Action must be taken to prevent it. She is refusing to acknowledge her responsibility over her institution and it’s role in propagating antisemitism. She made a fool of herself and an Ivy League University in front of both congress and national television. She was given the opportunity to correct herself. And she chose a vague tweet. She made it clear to the world that Jews have no place at Harvard anymore.

Ted Cruz, at the behest of Nazi oligarchs of course, is a leading purveyor of the attacks on Harvard and institutions of higher learning. Even though he is an alumni of Harvard he calls it a bastion of “cultural Marxism.” He likely couldn’t even explain that and street level MAGAts have no idea what he is talking about but they’ll regurgitate it. Ted and friends could never tolerate a black woman running Harvard. It must have been like sandpaper rubbing their reptilian skin.

The central pillar of Republikkkan culture wars is a rejection of authority and basic social structure. Respect for education, science, medicine, common decency, and anything progressive or compassionate is being ground into dust by 24/7/365 Republikkkan propaganda spewing across news media, social media, print media, and through relentless conservative talk radio.

Republican propaganda and the political think tanks behind it have been doing this in a coordinated manner since the 1960’s. They have nearly unlimited dark money from neo-Nazi fascist oligarchs like Koch, Walton, Crow, DeVos, Murdoch, Muskrat, etc.

The Democrats have literally nothing in place to counter this and still relies on crossing their fingers and hoping that individual charismatic candidates will buy us time before we are lost to corporate fascism. Somebody on the left needs to step up and create a coordinated nationwide resistance network to resist the fascist onslaught from the right before all is lost.

If you think both parties are the same you are too dumb to be allowed access to my content.

If you are not a close follower of American college campus politics, you are likely to be unfamiliar with a woman who has been making headlines for over a month in the US and increasingly around the world. The lady in question, one Claudine Gay, was President of Harvard, one of the most renowned educational institutions in the world, until earlier this week when she resigned over plagiarism allegations.

Why does or should anyone care about this? Well, Gay’s decision to step down is the culmination of long-running efforts to address the cancer at the heart of Western societies: the idea that the way to fix injustices of the past is to commit injustices today.

Following her resignation, Gay’s defenders were quick to emphasise the racial dimension of this story. Ibram X. Kendi, for example, tweeted that “Racist mobs won’t stop until they topple all Black people from positions of power and influence who are not reinforcing the structure of racism”.

And while his claims of this being a racist campaign are absurd, it is true that Gay was not targeted solely for seemingly adopting the personal motto: “I came, I saw, I copied”. She became a focus of major Harvard donor concerns and a media campaign led by Christopher Rufo – a man I would approvingly describe as the diversity industry’s greatest enemy – in the light of her mind-boggling testimony in Congress. Her statements, given alongside the Presidents of MIT and UPenn, revealed the core of the ideology the entire Western education system is based on in all its glory.

The oppressor vs. oppressed mindset which is - no matter how uncomfortable this may make some readers - cultural Marxism, says simply that white people and “over-performing” minorities like Indians, Jews, Chinese, Japanese and Korean Americans should be discriminated against in hiring and student applications in favour of “underprivileged groups”. As a result, college campuses on which regular meltdowns have occurred for a decade over such “hate speech” as dressing in a Mexican costume for Halloween found themselves with nothing to say about pro-Hamas demonstrations and the harassment of Jewish students on their campuses in the wake of the October 7 attacks.

But even that is not painting the full picture. Yes, Gay, a darling of the diversity industry, was targeted for her plagiarism following her complete failure of leadership in recent months. But she was also partially targeted because of the assumption, if not outright conclusion, that the reason she was appointed in the first place was, to put it mildly, not merit alone.

After all, Gay’s primary achievement is not stellar academic work, exemplary managerial skills or even charisma and force of personality. She was appointed President of Harvard following a distinguished career in fields like “improving diversity” and researching “race and identity”. To put it bluntly, many people believe that she is a diversity hire and the reason she pushed the DEI ideology that eventually led to her appalling testimony in Congress is that she is herself a beneficiary of it.

To be clear, she has not been forced out for being black. She has been forced out for being placed in a position for which she had neither the skills nor experience to succeed and then failing in it. This is the rotten legacy of affirmative action, which, as Thomas Sowell explained decades ago in 90 seconds and in many of his books since, hurts the very people it is attempting to help:

If allowing students to enter universities in which they are destined to fail for the sake of diversity harms them, then what might be said about hiring people for leadership roles in major institutions in which they are destined to fail? This harms not only them but also the people who work and study at those institutions.

To be clear, I have no evidence that Claudine Gay was hired ahead of better, more qualified candidates. But it is not hard to imagine that a position holding the prestige, reputation and nearly $1-million-a-year salary the role of Harvard President commands could have been filled by someone with more executive experience, academic achievements and other relevant expertise.

This is the other curse of the counterproductive attempts to artificially increase the presence of “underrepresented” groups in employment and education. Because everyone knows that some people are routinely given unfair preferential treatment, it becomes easier and easier for the rest of us to suspect specific individuals of being there for reasons other than merit.

So here is the truth: we must return to pursuing the goal of a colour-blind society immediately. There is no such thing as positive discrimination. All discrimination is wrong. And because it is wrong, it will create precisely the kind of resentment that Claudine Gay is now facing. She is seen as the standard-bearer of the DEI industry and is being treated as such by people who have had enough.

All of us must be treated on the content of our character. When we refuse to follow this principle, we hurt everyone: white, black, hispanic, Asian, Jewish. A healthy society relies on the equal treatment of all individuals. The fact that we have to say this out loud in 2024 is a sign of how far we’ve fallen.

DEI must be dismantled. This will take years, perhaps decades. But, in recent weeks, for the first time in a long time, we have grounds for optimism.

Q-Does Gay's resignation mark the end of DEI?A-No because Harvard is a cesspool.

ON OCTOBER 27TH, after roughly three weeks of campus turmoil surrounding student responses to Hamas’s October 7th attacks and the ensuing Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Harvard president Claudine Gay announced at a Shabbat dinner at Harvard Hillel that she was establishing an advisory group to guide her efforts to combat antisemitism on campus. In a November 9th email, she unveiled its members, a collection of Harvard administrators, alumni, professors, and affiliated rabbis. Her message to the campus community laid out some of the group’s initial plans, including “a robust program of education and training for students, faculty and staff on antisemitism broadly and at Harvard specifically.” The email also offered a clue as to the task force’s orientation: Gay noted that the training would address “the roots of certain rhetoric that has been heard on our campus in recent weeks.” It specifically condemned the phrase “from the river to the sea,” a pro-Palestine slogan that she said conveys “specific historical meanings that to a great many people imply the eradication of Jews from Israel and engender both pain and existential fears within our Jewish community.”

But while Gay’s letter suggests that the task force will explore what she casts as a worrisome relationship between antisemitism and activism for Palestinian rights, none of its members have conducted scholarly research into this supposed intersection. Most notably absent from the advisory group was Derek Penslar, the director of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies and a leading scholar of Zionism and its critics. His acclaimed recent book, Zionism: An Emotional State, includes a chapter entitled “Hating Zionism,” on the different motivations that have driven Zionism’s opponents since its creation. Given the relevance of his scholarship, Penslar would have seemed an obvious choice for the advisory group. But according to four faculty members familiar with Jewish studies at Harvard who requested anonymity to discuss internal university affairs, not only was he not selected, he wasn’t even consulted. One professor compared snubbing Penslar to “creating a task force on AI without consulting the chair of the department of computer science.”

Why wasn’t Penslar chosen? One likely factor is that he signed the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), which states that “criticizing or opposing Zionism” is not necessarily antisemitic. By contrast, most of the people appointed to the advisory group—none of whom have Penslar’s expertise—have made public statements alleging that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, or are affiliated with organizations that hold that view. Though Gay’s email claims that the advisory group is committed to “bringing our teaching and research mission” to bear in the fight against antisemitism, the group’s composition suggests that its members were selected less for their scholarly credentials than for their political beliefs, which align with those of influential donors, some of whom have already withdrawn funding or have threatened to do so.

—Harvard Is Ignoring Its Own Antisemitism Experts

by Dion J. Pierre Dozens of anti-Israel student groups at Harvard University, along with several allied campus groups across the US, have issued a set of demands to Harvard President Claudine Gay and given her until Monday to respond, adding further fuel to what’s become an explosive situation at one of the world’s most elite universities over the Israel-Hamas war. Earlier this week, students protested on campus and issued the list of demands, which included the reinstatement of a student proctor who three weeks ago participated in mobbing a Jewish student and screaming “Shame!” into his ears.  According to The Harvard Crimson, the campus newspaper, the university had suspended indefinitely Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, a second year student at the Harvard Divinity School, from his role as a proctor over his involvement in the incident, video of which went viral earlier this month. Tettey-Tamaklo reportedly has been ordered to vacate free housing he received as compensation for holding the position, which gives graduates the opportunity to mentor freshmen. This week, the students also demanded that Gay commit to pursue no disciplinary or punitive actions against “pro-Palestinian students and workers engaging in non-violent protest.” The letter came as, according to The Harvard Crimson, eight undergraduates students had been summoned to hearings as part of disciplinary proceedings against students who last week occupied University Hall on campus for 24-hours. The third demand in the letter to Gay was for Harvard to “disclose [its] investments in the internationally recognized illegal settlements in Palestine and divest from those holdings” — an apparent nod to the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The BDS campaign seeks to isolate Israel from the international community as a step toward the Jewish state’s eventual elimination. “Harvard University continues to attempt to silence the voices of those who refuse to watch idly by as crimes against humanity are committed against the Palestinian people,” said the letter containing the demands. “The university continually wants to ‘affirm their commitment to protecting all members of our community from harassment and marginalization.’ However, they are currently attempting to fire a Black first year proctor, Elom, for standing on the side of justice.” The letter additionally chastised Gay for earlier this month condemning the popular anti-Israel chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — a slogan that has been widely interpreted as a call for the destruction of Israel, which is located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Now we will find out who is in charge at Harvard, the administration or the spoiled, little, terror-supporting, Jew-hating motherf***ers,

Conservatives have lost academic institutions and can only get them back through coordinated bad faith attacks using propaganda, distortion, and manipulation.

Chris Rufo said the quiet part out loud.

This is not about CRT and DEI. They are just the tools for the smear campaign. Conservatives are about whiteness and white superiority.

by David M. Litman

As the nation saw during a recent Dec. 5 House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing, the leadership of Harvard University, which claims to be one of the world’s most elite institutions, struggles with common sense when it comes to antisemitism. Harvard president Claudine Gay was unable or unwilling to state the obvious: Calls for the genocide of Jews should not be welcome on college campuses. Fortunately for Gay, the Harvard Corporation fellows turned out to be equally incapable of leadership and her job was saved.  

The day after the Harvard Corporation said it stood behind Gay, news emerged that the university had instructed Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi to pack up and hide the group’s menorah after the Hanukkah lighting “because there will be criminal activity [they] fear and it won’t look good.” In case it isn’t clear, Harvard is afraid antisemites on campus will vandalize the menorah, and that wouldn’t be a good look for the university.

All this took place at a university where, according to one analysis that said its figure was likely a dramatic undercounting, at least 98 staff are assigned to various diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices. The average annual wage in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Harvard is located, is $153,504 according to city officials. Assuming the 98 staff reflect the average, that’s more than $15 million spent just on DEI salaries.  

Yet despite hiring so many presumably brilliant minds and sinking millions into addressing the issue of diversity, equity and inclusion, the best answer to antisemitism the university could come up with was “hide the Jews.”  

Put simply, the university prioritized maintaining a false image of inclusivity by deciding to exclude from campus a display of Jewish life. It chose not to practice actual inclusivity by promoting and protecting the right of students and staff to be openly Jewish. Rather than stand up to the bigots who have created the climate of antisemitism on campus, the university chose to become the antisemites’ enforcement arm.

Here’s a commonsense solution to the problem: Fire whoever’s idea it was to hide the menorah and use the money saved to hire a security guard. For the salary range advertised on a LinkedIn job posting for “Associate Director, Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging” at the Harvard Kennedy School, the university could hire three security guards to protect the menorah and any other displays of Jewish life on campus. The three guards would accomplish far more for “diversity, equity and inclusion” at Harvard than all the 98-plus DEI staff members combined and for approximately one one-hundredth of the cost.

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