Posted on 01/03/2024 8:52:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Put them to work hauling night soil (human excrement).
Since our present intellectuals seem to favor Chairman Mao, maybe they would like to participate in a re-inaction.
I never heard anyone say it’s a victory.
Mao murdered millions of intellectuals.
I rather not adopt this tactic of the left, and instead exile them (migrate them) to a current socialist paradise.
She is absolutely unrepentant...like a psychopath.
True. Gay was forced out because of her anti-Semitism. Her anti-white racism was no problem.
The big question: Will Jewish billionaires resume funding the Ivy League and DEI, provided that Jews and Israel are classified among the victims of white supremacy.
My guess is, yes.
It’s a tactical victory, not strategic. The war will continue for many more battles.
or if one wants to go Churchillian:
It not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning.
I wasn't suggesting we use the tactic.
I was thinking, in the spirit of communism, Marxism, etc., the intellectuals re-enact it on their own.
Sort of like we have Revolutionary War and other re-enactments.
We've said the resignation was past due, but none of us are stupid enough to believe this solves the problem that has been festering for 30 or 40 years in these institutions.
The left, and all their bosom buddies, need to come to grips with the facts that outright
rejection of Western values (in the person of Claudine Gay) has enormous consequences.
Harvard’s Brave New World failed spectacularly.
Harvard has lost its honor, its academic preeminence and faces problems yet to
surface when it chose to burden itself with the cumbersome baggage of Claudine Gay.
To blame this on conservatism is preposterous.
Conservatism did not make Claudine say and do the things that contributed to her fall from grace.
Rather Claudine Gay was taking her cues from liberalism. She disdained and demeaned
cultural norms, and appeared to have not even a modicum of limits on her behavior.
IOW, a perfect liberal.
Fixed it.
We have to stop calling it a resignation. It was a demotion that protected her employment at Harvard.
-PJ
If it was the "Harvard Corporate Board" that protected Gay and defended her plagiarism, then it's time to tax Harvard at the corporate tax rate.
-PJ
I don’t think it’s a victory.
They are rewarding her and this is just virtue signaling.
I’m not disappointed that she’s out of that position, but unless she was stripped of her pay and credentials and the degree she got under false pretenses, it means nothing.
I knew a woman once who admitted when she was in college, that she went into her profs office once and changed her grades to passing so she could get credit for the course and graduate. She didn’t do it enough to send up red flags, but just bumped them up enough to get herself passed.
The prof was also foolish for both leaving the book laying around, and for using pencil for recording the grades.
I’d prefer exiling them to their comrades.
You are right.
Being a professor receiving (not “earning”) almost $900,000 a year (plus benefits such as matching contributions to retirement) is not so bad for her. She’ll have to make do. Plus what about her probable tell all self pitying bestselling book in a few months? And speaking engagements in the 6 figure a year range.
Also some professors like the celebrity ones (ex cabinet member, ex presidents like the late Gerald Ford) can teach one opening day of the semester class and then step back and let the teaching assistants do all the work after that day each semester.
I was very pleased to see that the comments on this thread echoed my immediate response to the headline.
How in the world is a sad end for a in-over-her-head woman a “victory” for somebody?
She shouldn’t have gotten the job. She didn’t do it well enough. She crashed and burned. The board and board committees that hired her should be ashamed of themselves, but the probably aren’t.
It is worse for liberals than they want anyone to think.
Nothing changed as she just changed her title and still gets her $900,000 salary. She has made millions by lying and stealing.
Exactly right.
What about the board that advocated gays leadership? What about all the professors who signed a petition supporting her positions? What about all of the appointed and hired positions within this place from the DEI Administrator down to the Janitors are all corrupted.
I’m not impressed with this radical leftist stepping aside as president to enjoy her million dollar salary in peace.
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