The key, I learned, is that any activist campaign has three points of leverage: reputational, financial and political. For some institutions, one point of leverage is enough, but, for a powerful one such as Harvard, the "squeeze" must work across multiple angles.
Journalists "applied reputational pressure" with charges of plagiarism. Donors applied financial pressure, "withholding a billion dollars in contributions." And the political pressure came through Congress, "exposing Ms. Gay's equivocations on antisemitism and threatening consequences for inaction."
This wasn't a secret. Rufo proudly credits himself with "narrating the strategy in real time."
This was an "unorthodox approach," but, he says, it worked against "the progressive left's near-monopoly on prestige media": "After ignoring the story for more than a week, the center-left publications began to corroborate allegations of Ms. Gay's plagiarism and raise questions about her leadership."Gay herself characterized what happened to her as "a single skirmish in a broader war."
That's exactly what Rufo wants. He says "the symbolic fight over Harvard's presidency must evolve into a deeper institutional fight." He concludes:
The successful campaign to topple Harvard's president... is about the great conflict between truth and ideology, colorblindness and discrimination, good governance and failed leadership -- a conflict that, if we are to preserve America's core principles, conservatives must win.
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Obama lost. That's all that matters.
Rufo simply states the obvious People respond to incentives. Something I used a comment here to explain a day or two ago.
In My post, the ending question was. Is the Corporation board going to respond to the incentives, Rufo mentions, when seeking the successor? Are the going to replace one AA hire, for another AA hire? Do the hire a POC with the proper sexual fetishes? Or do they seek out an accomplished leader, to right the ship of Harvard?
Huh. It's almost like there are some people in this country you just don't dare cross, even with black privilege smeared all over you like chocolate sauce. Who could they be?
DEI MUST DIE
He presented his findings with citations hoe novel?
Mitigating the progress of Diversity, Equivocation, and Indoctrination (DEI) is in everyone's best interest, but will cause affirmative distress to special and peculiar interests that profit from celebrating racism, sexism, and other class-disordered ideologies. That said, diversity of individuals, minority of one. #HateLovesAbortion
Take your victory lap, Mr. Rufo, but how do we get rid of MIT President Sally Ann Kornbluth? She’s as bad as the other two, but her scholarship might even be real.
The 3 precedents of progressive sects with a left-wing religious (i.e. behavioral protocol or model) orientation.
YouTube : Gay Boomerang
What goes around, comes around.
The important lesson is to get beyond the Democrat media gatekeepers in order to get the truth out. Once it is out, even liberals have to embrace it. The far Left has "their own truth" (as Cory Booker would say). It dies nit matter what they think or say.
Truth won in the Harvard/Gay affair, but can it be done with so many other issues with false narratives?
support for DEI has cratered since more people have learned that it is just a racist scam.
"Marc Lamont Hill, an author and activist, who works as a professor of anthropology at the City University of New York, said Gay should be replaced by a black woman.
'The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman,' he tweeted to his 565,000 followers."
See. I told you. Once black, never back.
"a deeper institutional fight"
Are there enough people left to fight? Gay's whole career shows the hegemony of the prog establishment. Few "liberal" academics will dare oppose DEI, for fear of being declared racist.
Change can only come from the outside, as Rufo himself points out. Real change will come from reality, also known as the market--i.e., a shift in the demand for academic services and "research." For now, Harvard c.s. coast on their legacy and the status value they confer. How much longer?
Commentators are suddenly remarking that diversity hires are dumber than regular hires, but they always add that it's just a matter of the candidate pool size and doesn't have anything to do with anything else racial.
A tiny step towards racial equality.
It wasn't the political "right" that destroyed support for DEI. It was the SANE centrists and Democrats (e.g., Jordan Peterson, Matt Tiabbi, Bari Weiss, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, many Wall St. money lefties, and I dare say Elon Musk) who humiliated DEI practitioners with their own words (see Libs of TikTok).
DEI walked on ideological rainbows and clouds for too long. The Gay Harvard fiasco resembles the end of the first dotcom bubble, when Pets.com tried to send 50lbs of dog food by mail order and when tiny AOL bought huge Time Warner. The woke religion just received its first "wake up" call.
I've noticed that even the outraged leftist commentators are realizing that this is a skirmish in a much broader fight. The issues, as I see them, is (1) to what extent the "back to basic accountability and uniform standards" crowd continue their attack beyond this obvious victory and (2) to what extent the leftist DEI warriors are able to retreat to a more intellectually defensible stance. The latter are clearly in political disarray although they are institutionally in a much stronger and better entrenched position. Thus, I doubt that Gay's resignation is going to change much in the Ivies, etc - although life will get uncomfortable there for a while...
Writes Christopher Rufo, in "How We Squeezed Harvard" (Wall Street Journal).
Dr. Pimple Popper is popular TV show for a reason.
People are curious about the oozing, fetid discharge that comes out.
Some people get things done--and proceed to talk about it. They are one shot warriors, and probably unable to repeat their single success.
Other people get things done--and go on to the next objective.
This looks like bragging on Rufo's part. OTOH "it ain't braggin' if you can do it". We'll see.
It's a long, rough road ahead. There are too many "important", "educated", and "serious" people who have ignored the fact that the emperor has no clothes. They will continue to fight tooth and nail to protect their reputations and sinecures.
Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too.
Really solved the cancel culture issue there, Mr Rufo.
a-professor-gave-a-woke-course-and-nobody-came
Encouraging. The dogs don't like the dog food.
"The Simon Wiesenthal Center posted on X that "@Harvard university has a long way to go to make Jewish students feel safe. President #ClaudineGay's failures are symptomatic of deeper problems including #Antisemitism in many of America’s elite universities. Let’s hope they all open a new chapter based on justice and equality for all."
Please, can we keep "conservatism" out of this? Had President Gay continued her DEI jihad against whites, she'd still be there. The Big Donors don't care about discrimination against white students or they approve. Its only when she failed a test of loyalty to Israel and supposedly inadquately addressed Jewish Concerns that she was bounced.
That's also why the Lady President of Penn was fired and replaced by an ADL aprroved Jewish woman. Who by the way, is completely in favor of DEI.
Rufo has made himself a target. Look out, buddy.
Ben Carson would make one helluva black president at Harvard.
It would not had happened if Musk didn't own X.
It would have been censored out of existence...
Chris Rufo is an important new conservative thinker and do-er.
The Left showed what victory looks like:
1. Institution/company renounces its position
2. Your enemies fired
3. Allies hired
4. Policies implemented to perpetuate your messaging
Anything less is nice, but not victory.
(Note that the above did NOT occur with Bud Light. The company has since secured a $100 million sponsorship of UFC. It will survive to serve left-wing messaging again.)
I've detected no backlash agaist DEI in the legal industry.
Seán Ono Lennon
@seanonolennon
Have you guys heard of DEI? It stands for ‘Dumb Evil Idiots.’
4:25 PM · Jan 3, 2024
Whereas, Mark Cuban has NO CLUE!!!
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/01/04/cuban-thread-dei-n2391375
I noticed that a prominent Jewish faculty member at MIT resigned with an announcement on X which was amplified by another Jewish faculty member. I wondered if they were starting to stage a series of such announcements.
Funny how they forget the catalyst to all of this was the unwillingness to agree that calling for the genocide of the Jews is considered harassment. It was the three female presidents' smarmy "intellectual" evasive answers that got them in trouble and all this started.
It's a perfect example of "stupid is as stupid does". But like typical liberals, they can't admit they made a huge mistake. More than likely it was simply because they considered a conservative woman like Rep. Elise Stefanik to be beneath them. Blinded by arrogance. Yoda warned us all about this in the Star Wars franchise.
What we all know, is when they are thinking about this alone, they are kicking themselves in the ass for not just saying, "Yes, calling for the genocide of the Jews on campus would be considered harassment".
Reminds me of a Babylon Bee headline, basically: "Woman goes to emergency room after learning about accountability".
Blogger Readering said...
I've detected no backlash agaist DEI in the legal industry.
Which is why so many of us have a low opinion of lawyers and the "legal industry."
Tactical retreat for DEI only, I am sorry to write. The far left is in complete control of the universities and colleges and the primary school systems. The war was lost at least 20 years ago.
Mark said...
“Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too. Really solved the cancel culture issue there, Mr Rufo.”
You hate that the people you’ve been punching start hitting back?
I've noticed that even the outraged leftist commentators are realizing that this is a skirmish in a much broader fight.
It must be a severe shock to their system that such a "qualified" person could be let go.
To quote Vizzini in The Princess Bride: “Inconceivable!”
Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too.
Nope she was not cancelled. She gave up a title but kept the huge salary and tenure. "Cancel culture" is what the Left did to Alex Jones and is doing to Giuliani. Ruining people and making them bankrupt and de-platformed is your sides MO. If Gay had been "canceled" then she wouldn't have had the huge NYT megaphone to whine about it.
Stop trying to twist terms to fit your petty complaints.
Rufo and a few other journalists had an interest in determining the truth. The rest of the media either ignored or excused the plagiarism and the lies.
Nice catch Lem!
"Yes, calling for the genocide of the Jews on campus would be considered harassment".
If they had done this, the following question would have been "What have you done about it?" The answer to that question is, of course, "Nothing", leading to the next question- "Why are you allowing harassment with no consequences for those involved when you say it's not permitted?" The answer to *that* question is the uncomfortable one to be forced to admit- "Because the people being harassed are not in a protected group according to our DEI policies."
These three top performers huddled with lawyers before giving their momentous answers to the question of Jewish Harassment. Top Dogs all around.
Mark said...
Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too.
Really solved the cancel culture issue there, Mr Rufo.
1/4/24, 11:10 AM
You were warned repeatedly that you wouldn't like living under the rules you were creating.
Lem at 10:50
wow!
nice link
Mark said...
Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too.
Really solved the cancel culture issue there, Mr Rufo.
We're following your rules, Mark. if you dont' like that, GFY.
You set teh precedent. We told you it was a bad idea, but you did it anyway. So not we're going to use your precedent against you.
See:
1: Filibustering judges
2: Going "nuclear" to end the filibustering of judges
You idiots on the Left keep on violating the old rules for a current victory, and then getting horribly butthurt when we return teh favor. Is that because you are all fundamentally stupid people?
DEI as practiced by these so-called educational institutions likely violates public policy and the 501c3 status of these institutions should be at risk under the Bob Jones University decision. Unlikely that the Treasury would enforce in this manner so it is up to Congress. This is what Congress should focus on instead of taxing the endowments etc. Donors are more concerned with charitable deduction, ability to grant from private foundations, etc. than tax on income.
Applying the 5% PF rule would be an added bonus.
"Stop trying to twist terms to fit your petty complaints."
Even if she had been cancelled, leftists made up that tactic. Only whiny little bitches would complain about being held to the standards they are holding others to.
"Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too.
Really solved the cancel culture issue there, Mr Rufo...."
Please explain to us how a $900,000 tenured position at Harvard is 'cancellation'. Please explain to us how accountability for a putative anti-Semite and serial plagiarist, who, when invited, refuses to acknowledge or explain these well-proven charges, could be called 'cancellation'. Please make your case as to why Gay should have remained as the head of Harvard, because she deserves it. Take your time and do your best.
I was reflecting this morning on how it seems we live in an age of policy idiocy. We have policies being made by people that are adept at making policy. They are adept at infiltrating and manipulating organizations, but know nothing about the information that supports their causes - nor do they feel it's necessary.
Hence, we have people declaring (for instance) that we will no longer use hydrocarbons in 'x' years, while not providing the viable, working replacement that we will transition to for energy. Instead, they listen to other policy idiots who proudly declare that windmills and batteries will do it, without showing any work that might substantiate it - while they shutter a functional nuclear plant and declare another successful milestone.
We also have people loudly declaring that a given important position must be filled by a person of a specified color/identity/sexual preference/political affiliation, without supplying a justification of any kind, unless it's a vague historical reference that predates any living person. 'Justice' they say, without reference to any system of law. 'Equity' they say, without reference to any tangible good or its ownership.
And I've concluded it's all because the defender of society, Free Speech, has been left a mostly-vacated position, with the abdication of professional journalism over to the Progressive cause. The light-bringers that challenge the status quo, that demand answers and proof, have gone dark. There is no longer an independent, always-present, socially-powerful function that will not shut up, that demands these things be resolved in the confrontational debating arena, where there is no place to hide.
Nowadays, our policy idiots get a free pass from these interrogations. They get to completely avoid any kind of embarrassing situation where they are challenged - except for the odd Congressional Hearing maybe. They just use the journals to repeat their mantras, as if the repetition of hopeful forecasts is the modern replacement to the idea of merit, proof, evidence, and hard facts.
I don't think Rufo is after glory; he already has an impressive track record of dogged success. Rufo is just trying to get the word out: It can be done, with persistence, without the media watchdog. There are still only a few, smaller journals that are willing to report on it. The bigger media only gets involved to report the facts when the story gets too big to ignore, like this one did.
Gay herself characterized what happened to her as "a single skirmish in a broader war."
That's exactly what Rufo wants. He says "the symbolic fight over Harvard's presidency must evolve into a deeper institutional fight."
The fascists are attacking.
Rufo understands that it is, indeed, a war. The lefties have been waging the war for a very long time.
Rush Limbaugh understood that (how I miss that man!).
Rufo isn't bragging. (OK maybe a little). He's telling us how it is and what needs to be done.
We need a lot more Rufos.
DEI is about recognizing races based on skin color and then, in the name of fairness and assuming only a zero-sum game, holding a certain few as deserving supremacy over others based on some notion that others were previously held superior. In short, it is designed to promote racism.
Yancey Ward said...
"Tactical retreat for DEI only, I am sorry to write. The far left is in complete control of the universities and colleges and the primary school systems. The war was lost at least 20 years ago."
You left out HR departments.
Mark: Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too.
I don't think you understand the concept.
Gay should have been fired for cause, given she could not do her job properly. Among other problems:
1. She was the president of supposedly the most prestigious institution of higher learning in the country. In her meager and generally unimpressive academic output, he was found to engage in plagiarism dozens of times. Any Harvard student caught like that would be expelled. Given she is in charge of Harvard and therefore is responsible for that enforcement, she could not remain.
2. She let antisemitism run rampant at her school to a degree that obviously violates Harvard policy, not to mention her supposed dedication to DEI, and did nothing.
3. When representing her school in front of Harvard, she came across as incapable and a general embarrassment.
Any of those would be perfectly valid reasons to fire her. And they didn't even fire her. They let her resign and keep her paycheck.
Let's face facts. She was unqualified for this job on multiple levels. She was only hired because (a) the institution is all on board with DEI and she was the DEI candidate and (b) she checked off useful diversity boxes, including being one of those manufactured firsts that the DEI believers love so much.
She should have been fired. Everyone involved in hiring her should also be fired. This is gross negligence.
There's a difference for getting rid of someone because they are a white male or they have a different religion than you or they don't vote the way you like, and getting rid of someone because they just lost half the company's clients and burned down the warehouse.
“RideSpaceMountain said...
Obama lost. That's all that matters.“
Rufo alinsky’d Obama. I love it!
and that was the poor advice of wilmermchale, bob muellers firm, which had plenty of dodgy clients over there years
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.” --Ronald Reagan
"Let's talk about Me" --Christopher Rufo, channeling Tom Wolfe
see the progs are more clever
the gop used the nuclear option and didn't pull the trigger, the dems branded it the constitutional options, from the brennan center, and it was totes good
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1742981190800589296
AP via XTwitter: “Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism”
The AP tweet triggered this note :
“Plagiarism is a breach of rules for Harvard University:
https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/harvard-plagiarism-policy
Claudine Gay was ultimately forced to resign for a series of breaches of this policy:
https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-president-claudine-gay-hit-with-six-new-charges-of-plagiarism/
Plagiarism - or application of the rules around plagiarism - therefore cannot be considered a "weapon".”
Do’h!
The right is doing the left a favor by killing DEI
ROTFLMMFAO at Mark.
Pointing out the left's lies and the left's manufactured Marxist narratives that help them manufacture and create victims - AKA - The Oppression Racket.
The hack-D CIA press hardest hit.
People who are forced into DEI training at work - they all say it's awful. because it is.
waste of time.
Marc Lamont Hill tweeted ...
"The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman,' he tweeted to his 565,000 followers."
Rachel Dolezal is available. How about the first black President? He's not a woman, but did have a painting in a dress: Bill Clinton.
I'm afraid that Gay's well-deserved defenestration is likely to be a one-off. Probably a plurality of the academic administrative class who are under 50 years old are just less-successful versions of her, but they won't have the specific combination of vulnerabilities.
What took Gay out was that in her testimony she appeared not only evil, but stupid; then the low quality and quantity of her academic output supported that impression; and the blatant plagiarism was the final nail.
By "not just evil, but stupid," I mean that she was not only unwilling to condemn the rape and murder of Jewish women and children, but that she seemingly could not see why it was such a big issue in the context of the regime she represented.
You can--if you have moral leprosy--make a case that excusing the rape and murder of Jewish women and children is an important free-speech issue (N@zis parading in Skokie and all that), and probably win your argument, as there is well-established discourse around not punishing morally loathsome speech ("I reject what you say but would defend to the death your right to say it," etc., etc.). But you cannot possibly make that argument at the same time that you a running a regime in which students are given a list of what freaking Halloween costumes are forbidden and which commands people not to wear a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo (presumably if you're not of Mexican heritage). I mean, come on! saying "all lives matter" instead of repeating the current shibboleth was disallowed, but when it came to "Kill the Jews!" she had to know the specific 'context'.
Any normal person would squirm on the cognitively dissonant hook of that contradiction, but the three university presidents just blew right past it and so gave the impression that they were both evil and stupid, and although the former doesn't hurt their universities among its core of self-satisfied and self-righteous worshippers (or didn't, until now), the latter is a direct blow to what matters most: the position in the prestige hierarchy.
That's why she's gone, but she was only CAUGHT because it turned out that not only were she and her dissertation director fundamentally lazy (though in slightly different ways: she didn't bother to write the words on her own; he didn't bother to check her work), but that she kept running the same scam on her way up the academic ladder until she jumped fully onto the administrative track. If she'd been smarter about her lame 'scholarship,' she would instead have partnered with talented junior researchers who would do all the work for her and let her take half the credit. With Harvard and Stanford on her CV and the race and gender angle, she could easily have found people willing to be exploited in this way. That she didn't or wasn't able to suggests to me that she's probably either arrogant or personally unpleasant (or both) as well as being dishonest.
And even then, she would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling Jews and Jew-lovers! Bastards!
Sadly, it's unlikely that all these pieces will fall into place for all the miniature versions of Gay burrowed throughout massively bloated university administrations. But a win for morality and truth is a win for morality and truth, so we should be reasonably happy about that.
Lem at 10:50
wow!
nice link
Indeed. That's what happens to people... persons who confront all manner of diversity, including: racism, sexism, political congruence ("="), and other class-disordered ideologies of progressive sects that exercise liberal license for profit and leverage. Take a knee, beg, share responsibility... No?
Canceled, selectively aborted, too.
Blogger Howard said...
The right is doing the left a favor by killing DEI
Next we'll try to teach you economics. That will be an even harder slog.
There's a difference for getting rid of someone because they are a white male or they have a different religion than you or they don't vote the way you like.
Maybe some should talk to Roland Fryer, whose suspension she engineered because his research did not agree with the "systemic racism" rule book. He's a black male. So is the Law School professor named Ronald Sullivan, another of her victims.
Mark said:
"Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too.
Really solved the cancel culture issue there, Mr Rufo."
This is a very moronic statement -even from resident leftist concern troll Mark.
Gay was not canceled. She was caught.
Accountability does not equal cancel culture.
I thought you peole on left learned that with Mike Nifong.
Oh that's right-you didnt...
Howard said...
The right is doing the left a favor by killing DEI
The right is doing America a favor by killing DEI. The left, kicking and screaming, is along for the ride since, technically, they are Americans too.
I wondered why Stefanik had not pivoted to ask if students marching shouting "All Lives Matter" would be contextually evaluated. In any case, none of that matters to the Left.
But the plagiarism charges, and that they just kept coming in Andrew Breitbart fashion after "support" was announced, that hit at the heart of what the Left values the delulu of the college credential. They value the paper over anything learned on campus. And the plagiarism hit at the heart of higher ed integrity.
Not to mention, that Harvard was losing its main value as a status symbol. Obviously, they don't educated, but they do create ring knockers, but the Hamas support moved the Harvard diploma, at least from 2024 on, to a symbol of someone not to hire unless they prove to be something more than a Harvard grad.
The Crack Emcee said...
The fascists are attacking.
1/4/24, 12:50 PM
They're the ones who funded mobs of rioters that burned, looted and murdered all summer of 2020, then bailed them out of jail when they got pinched, right? They're the one who control the federal government that protects corrupt and criminal democrat party members like the Clintons, the Bidens, and Menendez among many others, right? They're the ones who ran psy ops smear campaign against a presidential candidate, accusing and indicting him for all the things that they themselves actually did, right? They're the ones who declared themselves "The Resistance" to the duly elected president of the United States, then spent his entire term in office running defying his lawful commands, right? They're the ones using the IRS to attack and intimidate political opponents, right?
I could go on, but why bother, right?
Working in academia and also being a conservative, I've been aware of what Harvard did to Prof Roland Fryer for some time. It appeared that Gay could not stand to have any obviously intelligent and successful black people around her. The contrast between her word salads and buzzword-filled statements and the research and fact-filled statements of Fryer could not be allowed to be seen. So, he had to go. Gay was just the one to make sure it happened. The old tried and true method of sexual harassment was the method used. It is truly a travesty and so many young people have lost out on excellent scholarship assistance because of her actions.
Mark said...
“Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too. Really solved the cancel culture issue there, Mr Rufo.”
And here I thought she was fired for cause. Since I am not an academic I don't know how to judge this, but shouldn't large amounts of plagiarism be grounds for revocation of tenure? It would seem understandable if there were a couple of instances (sloppiness, honest mistakes under time pressure) but it sounds like Ms Gay went beyond that.
Pity this coalition of the aggrieved and willing cannot be maintained to do more than get a prominent college spokesperson dismissed. There are real issues, from immigration to corruption in government to world-spanning disputes that could use a bit of attention.
I confidently assert that pubic support for DEI was never there to begin with. How do you do DEI without quotas? Yet quotas have been (technically) illegal for years. DEI goes farther than Affirmative Action, but the public has been pushing to get rid of Affirmative Action for decades now.
I’m talking about the public, not the effete assholes of academia, not the shadowy billionaires who own the Democrat Party (and apparently more than a few GOPe pols), not the mainstream press — the people. The folks who get up in the morning and go to work for a living, and without whom society falls apart. The plumbers. The electricians, The trash collectors. The long haul truck drivers. The cops on their beats. The EMTs who have to suck it up and do their jobs when drunk-driving daddy with his kids in the car turned himself and the children into bloody heaps no longer recognizable as humans. Given a choice brteeen law professors and trash collectors, I known that we can live without the former, but not without the latter.
Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too.
We said you wouldn't like the new rules, but you didn't listen.
Own it.
"technically, they are Americans too."
They're just not happy about it. They'd prefer something more authoritarian.
"It would seem understandable if there were a couple of instances (sloppiness, honest mistakes under time pressure) but it sounds like Ms Gay went beyond that."
She did, but she wasn't fired. Black privilege.
For the uninitiated: DEI is just the credentialed, bureaucratic version of Al Sharpton's old shakedown routine. They are both rotten and should be resisted.
-Rufo
The left assume everyone is a white supremacist.
that's why leftists are a-holes.
Point and laugh at the pro-Hamas terrorist losers.
narciso said...
see the progs are more clever
the gop used the nuclear option and didn't pull the trigger, the dems branded it the constitutional options, from the brennan center, and it was totes good
And then the GOP used the "constitutional option" to get Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and ACB all on SCOTUS.
So the Dems used it to back the DC Court of Appeals, and then the GOP used it to pack SCOTUS
We win
The problem is DEI and the relentless focus on race and the obsession with "intersectionality." DEI-ism has fully aided and abetted the choice of a woefully underachieving academic, who would not even have been given tenure at most universities, to head one of the nation's leading universities. Further DEI-ism is an insult to all minorities who want to achieve excellence through their own diligence and hard work rather than coast on the ever-so generous waves of paternalism and tokenism.
Is it true that people believe that rape and murder is OK if you are genetically related to people that were cheated of land 75 years ago? Do current day Hatfields get to rape the descendants of the McCoys over coal lands, or vice versa?
My parents had 20 acres fenced off by some crooks who "claimed" it with imputed violence. A court found in my parents favor, does that mean that the plaintiffs get to rape my daughter because they were robbed of land?
I am sure the answer is yes. Because the Palestinians can rape Israelis because their grandads don't own the Levant.
It may be that the Palestinians as a group are suffering PTSD from their life experience, so they can't be held responsible, ok, lets get them some help! Get them away from their enablers, Iran.
This has been a glorious week. The president of Harvard! What a scalp to collect and hang on the wall as a trophy. (Yes, I use the metaphor proudly.)
Time for someone like Elon Musk to fund a project using AI and heavy computer iron to do a thorough plagiarism and data-falsification audit of all the dissertations and other publications by every professor on every faculty in every university in America. Especially in the social sciences, political science, law, the humanities, and most of all in the programs dedicated to racial scab-picking and other grievance-mongering, the Frankfurt School termites have been working for a century to subvert this country and deliver us into collectivist totalitarianism and moral degeneracy. They are our most determined and most dangerous and most evil enemies.
It's time we responded in kind, and attacked them head on. The academy is one of the greatest fortresses of left-wing power, and it's long past time it was smashed to bits. I want to see thousands of these scum stripped of their jobs and unearned prestige, and the rest of them left in no doubt that we hate their guts and will keep them under the microscope for their entire careers.
Great, the right now has a machine that can cancel people too. Really solved the cancel culture issue there, Mr Rufo.
I'm long past the point of caring about appearances, and civility, and compromise, and even-handedness. I just want to see the Left destroyed by any means necessary. Complete and total war on the forces of collectivism. We'll use a blunt weapon like Donald Trump or we'll use sophisticated tools like computerized plagiarism audits of every professor in America, it makes no difference, all that matters is victory over the leftist lice who infest our country. Better this way than picking up guns and running them across the Canadian border, which is the only alternative they seem to want to leave to normal Americans.
Tactical retreat for DEI only, I am sorry to write. The far left is in complete control of the universities and colleges and the primary school systems. The war was lost at least 20 years ago.
Think big. The modern higher educational establishment is no longer providing more benefit than harm to this country. Let's destroy it, replace it with something better, and leave the Frankfurt School termites as lords of a smoldering ash heap.
GLENN GREENWALD: Is Claudine Gay’s Ouster Really a Victory for the Right?
I continue to be concerned by the relentless focus on Gay’s plagiarism and not on the evidence that she (in theory) relied upon does not truly exist. The Journal of Irreproducible Results was satirical, not a place for the woke to publish.
Yeah, where was Rufo for the last 30 years as real academic reformers fought the fight he now takes credit for. We put our jobs on the line: he profited from our work.
That's my fucking work he's stealing. Me and hundreds of others. So maybe brag less about deposing a Harvard President stealing other people's work, capice? You don't build a movement on one loudmouth. And he bollocked up in such an amateur ways, meeting notices, at New College, that he screwed that pooch unnecessarily and weakened the movement. He's actually not good at what he does. He's careless. Lazy.
A little humility from the toy boy. And his peers, whom I know. The first time I complained about New College to the Florida House was 1985. When I was a student there. And I kept complaining.
Boatbuilder: there are thousands of people who have done the same work as Rufo, only better, and at great personal cost.
But conservatives are really sucky organizers. They'd rather rent mansions and use their nonprofit status to give each other posh holiday and expensive meals.
In the end, that will be what destroys us: ego, blindsightedness, self-congratulation, elitism, and no real work ethic.
I would argue that her resignation marks a significant turning point in student appreciation that nobody is above the rules on academic dishonesty.
Unfortunately, Rufo and the people on his side don’t actually care about hypocrisy, Trump voters don’t actually care about hypocrisy, and even the NYT doesn’t actually care about hypocrisy, so you can out a thousand conservative plagiarists and it’s going to do jack….
Rich said...
"I would argue that her resignation marks a significant turning point in student appreciation that nobody is above the rules on academic dishonesty."
The message sent is that you can no longer be president at Harvard if you commit plagerism. But you can be on faculty for $900k a year.
Oh Rich, you are so full of shit
1: There aren't a thousand conservative plagiarists to "out"
2: If "nobody is above the rules on academic dishonesty" then Gay would have been fired from Harvard. instead she's returning to a $900k+ / year "job" that she had before she became President.
Because the Left are all scumbags
Why the citation issues in Bill Ackman’s wife’s dissertation don’t rise to the level of plagiarism. ~ Christopher Rufo (/s)
I consider Ackman’s lame defense of his wife to be nauseating hypocrisy. When I heard that Steve Scalise had multiple myeloma—which my father died of—I wondered if he'd get stem cell treatment despite having voted and campaigned against stem cell therapy. My father was too old for this option. Lucky for Scalise, hypocrisy is no barrier.
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