[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.
BLUF:
[PJ] Isn't that interesting? Charles McGonigal
...who spent 22 years working with the FBI...
played a role in the investigation of Trump for bogus Russian collusion but ended up colluding with Russia himself after leaving his role in the FBI.
In a post on X/Twitter, investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed that in 2016, there was a bunch of "DOJ personnel hirings and firings surrounding the operation against @realDonaldTrump," and "McGonigal was one of the flurry of changes/ placements around the campaign."
"To me it looks like a group of folks were put in place in DC and NY to carry out the operation," she wrote.
[Free Press] The following five ex-Muslims grew up in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, but they were all indoctrinated, they say, with the same views on Jews and Israel. They remember a childhood shot through with antisemitic moments ranging from the mundane (one woman recalls her aunt claiming Jews put cancer in her vegetables at the market) to the deadly (a former extremist went as far as to pick a location in London for a terrorist attack he planned to carry out at 17).
These hateful ideas, repeated by their family members, religious leaders, and teachers, are part and parcel of the same animus, they say, that fueled Hamas’s attacks on October 7.
Some of the people you will hear from below have received death threats for speaking out on issues like antisemitism and sexism in the Muslim world. One uses a pen name to protect herself and her daughter from her terrorist ex-husband, who is currently jailed in Egypt. All of them came to reject their loathing for Jewish people and the West, and have rebuilt their lives in the wake of their realizations. Here are their stories, which you can read or click to listen to each author recite in the audio recordings below.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
