Commenting on Harvard’s increasingly apparent appointment of an under-qualified, diversity hire as the university’s president, Dr. Dybvig, who was a co-winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for research on banks and financial crises,” said,
‘‘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.’’
In related commentary, Jason Riley wrote in the Wall Street Journal in answer to the question of why Harvard can’t and won’t fire Gay, “To admit she has performed poorly is to raise basic questions about the entire ‘diversity’ enterprise.” Prof. Glenn Reynolds, commenting on both pieces, suggests that there are benefits “for her to remain as a lasting discredit to Harvard.” I agree with that as well. The mask has dropped, and all can see (who are willing to see) the ugliness beneath.
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Am I the only one who think Gay and Harvard perfectly deserve each other? I have no problem with her staying. If she goes, it gives the appearance the problem has been fixed without having to fix it. Let her stay so the spotlight can shine bright on the situation. Therefore, when things continue to go bad (and we all know they will) the problem with be exasperated. I mean, for this reason alone Gay should leave because she will be blamed for everything bad or not in the future. Why would she further risk her legacy (or what’s left of it)?
They let her edit her plagiarized works. Works from years ago that helped get her where she is today. If they’ll let her do that, she would have to do something absolutely vile to be pushed out…such as, I dunno, eat Chick-fil-A while listening to a Ted Nugent album or something.
That made me laugh out loud.
Haha. I’m not really talking about what she would have to do but more of what other people would see. Like I said I think they deserve each other.
I agree with John Paul. For those of us not infected with the woke virus, Gay is the perfect face of Harvard. The gift that keeps on giving. Disposing of her will not change anything anyway because wokism is a systemic infection within Harvard. Duh.
Darling Claudine as it turns out, was/is a well sponsored and dare I say coddled DEI creation. More politician than scholar, who performed as expected during the hearings but this time speaking legalize to protect the Mother Ship backfired in unexpected ways. Schadenfreude demands that the Harvard honchos retain this karmic disaster for the sheer entertainment value alone, but how can they?
I am saving this quote