The Curious Case of Claudine Gay

[George K]

[George K]

@Horace said in The Curious Case of Claudine Gay:

I wonder how much truth there is to Obama stepping up to support her, and I wonder how much clout he has.

I would google it, but I don't really want to google "obama gay".

[jon-nyc]

Take a bow, Mr Ackman.

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in The Curious Case of Claudine Gay:

Take a bow, Mr Ackman.

You too, sir. I just opened this thread for the first time in weeks and saw your prediction 14 days ago.

[jon-nyc]

And Stefanik for getting the ball rolling in the first place.

[jon-nyc]

By the way, the Harvard Corporation statement at least mentions her transgressions. Not with specifics but it at least mentions that there were some.

[George K]

And though she has resigned as president, she still keeps her job at Harvard as a (cough) "scholar."

The salary is about $900K, which is more than I made in 7 months.

[George K]

And the Associated (with Democrats) Press finds conservatives pouncing. Or is is seizing?

https://apnews.com/article/harvard-president-plagiarism-claudine-gay-3b048da1f2ee17b5edec3680b5828e8f

[Copper]

@George-K said in The Curious Case of Claudine Gay:

I thought that was from the Bee when I read it.

But no!

It is real AP.

https://apnews.com/article/harvard-president-plagiarism-claudine-gay-3b048da1f2ee17b5edec3680b5828e8f

[jon-nyc]

The interns aren’t taking it very well.

[LuFins Dad]

Has somebody ran that AP article past a plagiarism detection program?

[Jolly]

Gee, don't you imagine the Columbia President is counting her blessings about a scheduling conflict right now. That was supposed to be the fourth witness at the hearing.

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in The Curious Case of Claudine Gay:

Has somebody ran that AP article past a plagiarism detection program?

Makes you wonder how accurate these things are.

https://plagiarismdetector.net

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in The Curious Case of Claudine Gay:

Take a bow, Mr Ackman.

Ackman sort of explains:

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in The Curious Case of Claudine Gay:

And the Associated (with Democrats) Press finds conservatives pouncing. Or is is seizing?

https://apnews.com/article/harvard-president-plagiarism-claudine-gay-3b048da1f2ee17b5edec3680b5828e8f

On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote “SCALPED,” as if Gay was a trophy of violence, invoking a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans.

Uhm, what?

[Mik]

Ackman’s tweet is terrifying.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in The Curious Case of Claudine Gay:

Ackman’s tweet is terrifying.

Yes, it is.

Wonder if he would take Gay's old job?

[89th]

What I learned, however, was that DEI was not about diversity in its purest form, but rather DEI was a political advocacy movement on behalf of certain groups that are deemed oppressed under DEI’s own methodology.

Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed. Under this ideology which is the philosophical underpinning of DEI as advanced by Ibram X. Kendi and others, one is either an anti-racist or a racist. There is no such thing as being “not racist.”

Well summarized.

[89th]

I might have mentioned before, but when I was doing graduate work at Syracuse University in 2016, I was surprised that "safe spaces" were literally physical locations. Signs in a coffee shop would declare the space "safe space for all" or something... until then I thought it was just a joke/phrase! Of course, I was tempted to test if the space was really safe for "all" or if it was really just a place to be safe from opinions that might hurt your feelings.

[George K]

The question that Ackman hints at, in a general way, is this: Would any person with a CV consisting of 11-12 publications be considered qualified to be president of Harvard University, or would a higher academic standard be invoked?