{"id":1447760,"date":"2024-01-04T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1447760"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:20:00","slug":"harvard-out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/harvard-out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire\/1447760\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard – Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvard – Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Harvard may assume the forced resignation of its president, Claudine Gay, has finally ended its month-long scandal over her tenure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gay stepped down, remember, amid serious allegations of serial plagiarism\u2014without refuting the charges. She proved either unable or unwilling to discipline those on her campus who were defiantly anti-Semitic in speech and action.<\/p>\n

But Gay\u2019s removal is\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0the end of Harvard\u2019s dilemma. Rather, it is the beginning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the respective press releases from both Gay and the Harvard Corporation, racial animus was cited as a reason for her removal.<\/p>\n

Gay did not even refer to her failure to stop anti-Semitism on her campus or her own record of blatant plagiarism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet playing the race card reflects poorly on both and for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n

One, Gay\u2019s meager publication record\u2014a mere eleven articles without a single published book of her own\u2014had somehow earned her a prior Harvard full professorship and presidency. Such a thin resume leading to academic stardom is unprecedented.<\/p>\n

Two, the University of Pennsylvania forced the resignation of its president, Liz Magill. She sat next to Gay during that now-infamous congressional hearing in which they both claimed they were unable to discipline blatant anti-Semitism on their campuses.<\/p>\n

Instead, both plead \u201cfree speech\u201d and \u201ccontext\u201d considerations.<\/p>\n

Such excuses were blatantly amoral and untrue. <\/strong>In truth, ivy-league campuses routinely sanction, punish, or remove staff, faculty, or students deemed culpable for speech or behavior deemed hurtful to protected minorities\u2014except apparently white males and Jews.<\/p>\n

Yet Magill was immediately forced to resign, and Gay was not. Also noteworthy was Magill\u2019s far more impressive and extensive administrative experience, along with a more prestigious scholarship that was free of even a suggestion of plagiarism.<\/p>\n

Academia\u2019s immediate firing of a white woman while trying desperately to save the career of a less qualified and ethically challenged black woman will be seen not as a case of racial bias but more likely of racial preference.<\/p>\n

Indeed, to keep Gay\u2019s job and to defend her from plagiarism charges, both Harvard and Gay herself were willing to say things that were simply absurd, if not patently untrue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvard invented a new phrase \u201cduplicative language\u201d to euphemize the reality of Gay\u2019s intellectual theft.<\/p>\n

Even after Gay resigned, Harvard jumped the shark by further downplaying her plagiarism by dubbing it as mere \u201cmissteps.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvard and its supporters further embarrassed themselves by alleging that if the victims of Gay\u2019s plagiarism didn\u2019t object, then why did her expropriation matter that much?<\/p>\n

Are we then to assume that plagiarism is not a serious violation of the entire ethos of scholarship, quite in addition to the aggrieved plagiarized party?<\/p>\n

The university descended even further by suggesting that if the complaints were lodged by anonymous scholars, they were somehow less serious.<\/p>\n

Has Harvard ever heard of the reasons why whistleblowers are often protected from retribution by grants of anonymity?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Liberal Harvard, through its lawyers, even threatened the New York Post with legal action if it aired charges of Gay\u2019s plagiarism.<\/p>\n

Yet only days later, the university was swamped by further proof of Gay\u2019s scholarly misconduct, involving improper use of data and more plagiarism extending back even to her dissertation.<\/p>\n

Harvard, remember, claimed that it had conducted a thorough investigation that had cleared her of actionable plagiarism\u2014even as more charges arose of her prior culpability.<\/p>\n

But more importantly, what happens to ex-president Gay now?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Does resigning from the Harvard presidency and returning to a full professorship mean that charges of plagiarism disappear?<\/em><\/p>\n

Would any other Harvard professors continue to be employed without addressing over two dozen separate charges of plagiarism lodged against them?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do Gay, the Harvard Corporation, and the more than 700 Harvard professors who closed ranks and wrote a letter supporting Gay now argue that plagiarism is no longer a serious offense at the nation\u2019s supposedly most preeminent university?<\/em><\/p>\n

Will students who emulate Gay\u2019s habit of copy-and-paste, failure-to-footnote, and misuse-of-data now be exempt from dismissal or suspension?<\/em><\/p>\n

After Gay\u2019s embarrassing December 5 congressional testimony and her resignation, what now is the Harvard policy toward anti-Semitism?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If next week, anti-Israel students once again call for the destruction of the Jewish people in Israel all the way \u201cfrom the river to the sea,\u201d or if they again storm Harvard\u2019s Widener library, screaming support for the October 7 massacre and intimidating Jewish students, what will the new\u2014or old\u2014Harvard do?<\/em><\/p>\n

Again nothing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, Harvard insinuated that Gay was fired by racist outside pressure\u2014despite the fact that many of her critics were large donors furious about the diminution of the reputation of their alma mater.<\/p>\n

Is Harvard suggesting that its own mega-donors are racists?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What then might come next?<\/p>\n

The resignation of the entire board of the Harvard Corporation that is the ultimate cause of Harvard\u2019s descent into mediocrity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 01\/04\/2024 – 17:20<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/harvard-out-frying-pan-fire<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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