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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why is this in the politics forum?[/quote]

Because that's the reason such an unqualified person was hired to begin with.[/quote]

What's the reason? Your use of the word "that" is ambiguous. [/quote]

I recognize that you’re trying to embarrass the PP or force them to “be loud about their racism” or whatever but I’m a minority woman and I’ll do it. DEI politics (specifically the perceived need to choose a Black woman) was very obviously the reason this person was chosen to lead Harvard. And why she lasted as long as she did, with Harvard’s support, even after credible allegations of plagiarism were made. A white president would have either shared the same fate as Liz Magill (Penn) after the hearing or would have been forced to resign after the first plagiarism allegations.

I actually don’t have a problem with her handling of the Israel/Palestine issue and these allegations were pretty obviously dug up by well-funded pro-Israel donors as revenge, which is pretty crappy. And I was actually pro-Harvard keeping her in place to send a message to donors that they don’t run the university. But the PP’s original point stands.

Feel free to call me racist. I really don’t care.[/quote]

Thanks for the response. I don't know you from Adam, so I wouldn't call you racist.

But, if PP was trying to say "[Being a black woman] is the reason such an unqualified person was hired to begin with," the argument falls apart pretty quickly - so maybe he meant something else. It falls apart quickly because this is just one position and there are millions of black women in the world. Surely some number of them are qualified. If Harvard was dead set on hiring black woman as President for the position, the University has enough pull that I'm sure it could induce one of the qualified women to take the job.

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NP but you are correct.  Harvard has the world at its finger tips, choice of any candidate they could want and yet they chose one that couldn't write an original thought if her life depended on it.  
Which leads us back to the idea of merit and not DEI or affirmative action.  No one should question of the president of Harvard (for gods sake) is qualified or just the person that checks the woke boxes.  [/quote]

All it shows is that Harvard has a crappy board and they should all resign [/quote]

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