PSSSSSST -- It's an illusion.
Posted on 12/16/2023 4:20:41 PM PST by george76
Harvard’s Corporate Board may have expressed unanimous support for Gay, but it’s pretty clear they did so mainly because they didn’t want to appear weak in the face of donor and political pressure to dump her. They likely also feared that Gay would make a huge stink, likely accusing them of racismsexismblahblahphobia because that is her whole shtick..
Not that they have let me in on their deliberations, but these guys are smart and know that Gay is a liability. They just need a more graceful way to get rid of her. Compared to forcing Larry Summers out for stating the obvious, Gay’s ouster would be a no-brainer under most circumstances. Under these circumstances? Pride likely stopped them from doing the obvious.
So I still think her tenure at Harvard will be short and that the Board will find a way to buy her out with some form of “promotion” that makes her look good and gets her out of their hair.
Why? Because Harvard will be taking prestige hits as long as she remains, and prestige is their only real asset as a going concern. They have an endowment, of course, but their power–which is what they care about–derives from prestige. And having a second-rate, plagiarizing scholar who won’t stand up against genocidal maniacs is a bad look.
A great example of the hits that will keep on coming is the criticism aimed at Harvard, DEI, and Claudine Gay by 2022 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Philip Dybvig.
Dybvig, whose specialty in economics brought him to modest prominence, is not known to drop political bombs on a whim. But Gay’s troubles gave him an opening and he seized it.
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Dybvig’s criticism is nominally aimed at Gay, but its target is really DEI and critical theory. He rightly points out that DEI is not about ensuring justice but seizing power and using it to oppress others.
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Claudine Gay has power at Harvard and clearly is the least oppressed person there. But she can hide behind her skin color and claim to be oppressed.
Dybvig hit the nail on the head here and calls out the hypocrisy in a difficult way to dispute. Even the reference to totalitarianism is apt–we have Antifa blackshirts roaming our streets using this ideology as an excuse to terrorize people. Look at every college campus, and you can see the mobs intimidating disfavored groups.
And no, that is not an exaggeration. The Editor of the Harvard Law Review is caught on camera doing this to a Jewish student, along with a mob he leads:
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DEI is all about seizing the mechanisms of power and weaponizing them against disfavored groups. It doesn’t oppose discrimination; it is about using it for the purposes of the newly empowered group.
Few academics could do what Dybvig did here, and he could do it because he was so recently awarded the Nobel Prize. Good for him; unfortunately few others could follow his path without risking their careers.
I strongly hope that Harvard has damaged its brand just like Disney and Bud did.
AND...Gay needs to be stripped of her PHd, given that she obtained it through fraud.
A racist Caribbeaner token at Harvard. America doesn’t need that sh*t.
“Compared to forcing Larry Summers out for stating the obvious, Gay’s ouster would be a no-brainer under most circumstances.”
Why can’t Haaaavaaaaaddd get it right on a number of instances of [relatively] late?
[Retards they are?]
Who would send their kid/relative there?
“Who would send their kid/relative there?”
Beats me. Hopefully just the Chinese and other foreigners will attend.
PSSSSSST -- It's an illusion.
The current PhD students where she received her degree need pressure that university (I think it is Stanford) to either revoke her degree or let all of them cheat.
Harvard is run by idiots who were stupid enough to put that Gay bigot in charge. The have a school full of retards
Nobel ain’t what it used to be. Ask O’bama what he did for his.
Not quite true. They have an enormous endowment, somewhere north of $80 billion, last time I heard.
The massive Harvard endowment can be taken away in short order for proven discrimination in a federal civil lawsuit.
I believe these university endowments WILL eventually be seized as the discrimination train picks up a full head of steam in the courts. Those discriminated against can and SHOULD take away all these riches from the universities whose boards and leaders knowingly and happily supported this unlawful conduct.
This flagrant discrimination IS AGAINST FEDERAL LAW and there are civil and criminals penalties that apply.
Further, the “degrees” awarded have been reduced to worthless paper by discrimination.
Ivy League Rot - bump for later....
If you hire DEI employees, you are putting your organization at great risk.
but Larry Fink will keep the price of your stock pumped up ...
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