Claudine Gay’s defenders have embarrassed themselves
Zachary Faria
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Harvard University President Claudine Gay has finally resigned, embarrassing Harvard and her defenders in the process. Their judgment should not be trusted anymore.
Gay’s resignation on Tuesday came after it was revealed that yet another of her published academic works was facing plagiarism accusations, bringing the total of questionable works to eight. Given that Gay only had 17 works published, that means that half of her works are facing plagiarism accusations. Now, she has finally stepped down.
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It is embarrassing for her but even more embarrassing for those who pushed the university to keep her and dismissed any and all accusations of plagiarism or other criticisms. That includes former President Barack Obama, who reportedly lobbied for Gay to retain her job after she was unable to say that calling for the genocide of Jews is a violation of Harvard’s student code of conduct.
It also includes several in the establishment liberal media, who were far more concerned with protecting one of their ideological allies than they were with breaking open this plagiarism story in the first place. Axios decided to make the focus of Gay’s resignation about racist emails she received. Jonathan Martin of Politico belittled people paying attention to the most recent accusation of plagiarism, which appeared to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. On MSNBC, Alex Witt even took a small victory lap, noting that Gay would remain at Harvard as a professor.
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Therein lies the biggest problem. Gay’s biggest defender wasn’t a former president or a group of journalists. It was Harvard. The university refused to fire her, leaving her to resign on her own and still retain a position on staff. Gay was backed by the Harvard Alumni Association Executive Committee and 700 faculty members. If they had their way, Gay would still be the president of Harvard.
That means their judgment is critically flawed. They cannot be trusted to prioritize academic integrity or even any basic form of honesty. Nor can they be trusted to prepare students for the future, given their outright rejection of meritocracy in going to the mat for a mediocre scholar who became president of Harvard only to fill self-imposed diversity quotas. They tied their reputation to Gay as scandal after scandal followed her, and they thus exposed themselves as race-obsessed ideologues who care little for honest achievements or discussions.