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2022 Nobel Prize Winner Blasts Claudine Gay and DEI
2023-12-16
[HotAir] I may be among the few who think Claudine Gay’s head is still on the chopping block.

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.

...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.

"You had your turn; it’s mine now, and I am going to get revenge" is the underlying message of DEI.

’I realize I have been too pure. I assumed that a lot of people shared my dream (expressed for example by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King) of ending oppression. However, the dream of most people (especially but not exclusively the oppressed) seems to be becoming the oppressor. This is why there is a strong correlation between abusers of children and people who were abused as children.

Claudine Gay has power now and she is the oppressor of any group not favored by her and other people in power. This is a common pattern in governments heading for totalitarianism. First, say you represent the oppressed. Then you get power and oppress non-favored groups. This leaves you in a morally indefensible position that could not survive given free speech, so you do what you can to destroy anyone ("counterrevolutionaries") who disagrees with your narrative.’’
My own theory to explain the (pseudo) intellectual Western "elites" attraction to Islam is that subnormals stick together against normals.
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