Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67868280

by mauvehaus • 3 years ago

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abozikry• 3 years ago

Should have done that earlier. People weren’t going to let that go and she basically made the whole board look like sh* for trying to run cover for her. Sometimes you need to just rest the room and see the inevitable happening.

atticora• 3 years ago

I'm not a fan of Gay or Harvard, but the slow hunt and take down by a pack of wolves on tangential issues just made things worse. Her replacement is likely to be a less accurate reflection of Harvard's current culture, and the difference amounts to stealth.

So much of the conservative coordination and amplification for this happened on X. There's a good argument that if Musk didn't buy Twitter, this didn't happen. Elon may never make a profit on the investment but he gets extraordinary leverage on the national conversation.

nailer15• 3 years ago

It's not - or it should not be - a uniquely conservative position that calling for genocide against Jewish people should be considered a violation of the Harvard code of conduct.

The biggest disappointment here was the racist administrator was not fired and not fired for racism.

ProjectArcturis2• 3 years ago

Alternatively, if Gay hadn't done all that plagiarism, she'd still be there.

smacky• 3 years ago

if Gay hadn't done all that plagiarism, she'd never have gotten there.

gustavus• 3 years ago

Or maybe you know she shouldn't have said that calls to "gas the Jews" requires context to determine if it constituted hate speech.

Or if she hadn't plagarized massive amounts of her work continually without accreditation and then threaten retaliation against those that brought up the issue, like in this letter: https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Complaint2...

That might've had something to do with it. But no I think you're right that evil Elon Musk and the ultra-MAGA twitter overlords are the ones who caused her to be kicked out. Not to mention the racism as she said "threats fueled by racial animus." it wasn't her fault she plagiarized it was the evil white patriarchial system that forced her to.

303uru• 3 years ago

I find it funny that conservatives want to play the hate isn’t free speech but something that gets you thrown out of school game, because it’ll be the end of conservatives on campus. Funny how a couple years ago shouts of “Jews will not replace us” were defended by the same people who now pretend to give a shit about Jews.

ejb999• 3 years ago

alternative opinion: if the board had done what it was should have done in the first place it wouldn't have been left up to social media to do the work for them.

quantum_state• 3 years ago

Should not the same standard be applied to high positions such as the US president? If it is only based on inconvenience, it begs a deeper question.

ProjectArcturis2• 3 years ago

As a free people, we the United States are able to elect whatever incompetent moron criminal we choose.

nailer15• 3 years ago

Has the US President called for genocide?

krapp• 3 years ago

The US President has pledged unwavering support for Israel, a state currently engaged in genocide, and has vetoed efforts by other countries to call for a humanitarian ceasefire, thus helping the genocide continue unabated, and is sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel so they don't run out of the means by which to commit further genocide.

While he did not literally stand at a podium and utter the phrase "I, Joe Biden, President of the United States, hereby call for genocide," one must be able to read the room.

ChrisArchitect• 3 years ago

[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844980

lapcat• 3 years ago

"UW professor 'not concerned' about claims of former Harvard president plagiarizing his work" https://www.wkow.com/news/uw-professor-not-concerned-about-c...

Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president

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