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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being under a microscope isn’t easy for anyone.

Having every word scrutinized through the lens of the Israel/Hamas/Palestinian crisis is nearly impossible for anyone to navigate without controversy.

Bottom line: she didn’t handle her crisis well. She should have acknowledged something/anything remotely sympathetic to Israel rather than bizarrely digging in.

Harvard is running a business. She’s an at will employee. Nobody is entitled to their job…even if you are a minority. She became a liability following her testimony and the multiple incidents of plagiarism were too much to overcome. Why on earth would any employer keep her at the helm?

I’m breaking this down because I’m troubled by social media chatter trying to make this out as an unfair witch hunt against black women. I know I activist who says we need a new racial reckoning specific to black women since this conservative Lynch mob will continue to go after all black women in any position of power. It’s poppycock. [/quote]

Well, it's pretty clear that SOME went after Gay in order to attack DEI and perceived affirmative action. Not exactly the same as a "witch hunt against black women", but certainly related to both her Blackness and her politics.

OTOH, others went after her solely because of the perceived tolerance for antisemitism and/or the bungled Congressional hearing (which was truly awful).

Others for plagiarism.

Others to go after "woke".

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Good list. I would just add:

Others are going after "elite" universities as part of a wider GOP effort to dismantle what they perceive to be the pillars of progressive society (oh the irony since so many of the GOP rising stars like Stefanik are actual Ivy League grads)

“A reckoning is coming to higher education,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), whose questioning during a congressional hearing led to the resignations of the president of the University of Pennsylvania and then, on Tuesday, Gay. [b]“This is just the beginning of exposing the rot in our most ‘prestigious’ higher education institutions.”)[/quote]

I'm a bit amused because the last decade showed plenty of left wing witch hunts against people who defied their ideological narratives. Gay herself was part of this movement because she used her powers to nearly destroy the career of Roland Fryer at Harvard whose real crime was producing research that contradicted the left wing racial narrative surrounding the police.

That aside, for all of you decrying witch hunts, it also remains that Gay is a mediocre, third rate academic whose astonishing rise through the ladders of academia was despite extremely weak publication and research history and one that was already dubious back in the day with multiple red flags. Why are you defending such a person? It's hard not to see she weaponized her race and her ideology to deflect criticism and advanced despite mediocrity. Is she really the person you want to defend?

If people went after Gay because she was a symbol, they did have a point. She was the face of an ideological movement that hurt people and introduced its own forms of inquisitions and ideological intolerance. It was under Gay that Harvard was ranked as the school with the least amount of free speech. There is a revolt, both public and private, against the zealotry of DEI and it's natural that Gay, as a prominent figurehead for DEI, should come under extra scrutiny. And lo and behold, it turns out her background confirmed all the criticism levied against her. [/quote]

Couldn't agree more.

I am in Europe with family now, and everyone is half surprised half making fun of how low Harvard has gone. The antisemitism thing can be mixed, but her obvious plagiarism and weak research leads to massive ridicule, which expands to the DEI trend.[/quote]

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