Posted on 01/04/2024 10:36:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In a striking paradox, pro-meritocracy conservatives and pro-DEI Democrats alike can revel in the schadenfreude of Claudine Gay’s fall from grace—because her antics are just that ridiculous. In a since-deleted post to X, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., a Harvard law professor, high-profile criminal defense attorney, and former college dean said Gay’s disgraced resignation was… “Karma.” You might recall the name from headlines a few years back—Sullivan once served as a faculty dean for Harvard’s Winthrop House, a position from which he was ousted after he agreed to represent Harvey Weinstein, in large part, due to Gay’s influence. Here’s this, from political pundit Wesley Yang:
As Dean of Faculty of Arts and Science, Gay refused to defend Sullivan’s right to provide legal counsel to an unpopular client and played a key role in the decision to remove him from his role as Harvard's first and only black faculty dean in response to student demands. In doing so, Gay shunted aside an appeal by 52 members of the Harvard Law School faculty, who in an open letter to the administration characterized the right to defend unpopular clients as foundational to their own academic freedom and to the rule of law itself.
Gay didn’t just come after Sullivan though, she came for his wife, Stephanie Robinson, too; from an announcement via Harvard’s Crimson:
Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana announced that he will not renew Winthrop Faculty Deans Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. and Stephanie R. Robinson after their term ends on June 30 in an email to House affiliates Saturday morning.
(As The New York Times noted, Sullivan and Robinson were “the first African-American faculty deans in Harvard’s history.”)
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Fryer was a top Black professor at Harvard. After having overcome all sorts of hardship and childhood deprivation, Professor Fryer joined the faculty at Harvard to become the second-youngest professor ever to be awarded tenure at Harvard, and went on to blaze a trail of distinction, including winning the MacArthur Fellowship and the John Bates Clark Medal.
Yet when Fryer undertook research into the killings of unarmed Black men in Houston, Fryer’s research found no racial disparities. He made the mistake of undercutting the racial narrative that the Left has adopted, and as a result, Gay did her best to remove all of his academic privileges, coordinating a witch hunt against him. Fryer survived Gay's crusade of discharge but Fryer’s lab was shut down, his reputation tarnished.
This is refreshing news.
The left, and all their bosom buddies, need to come to grips with the facts that outright
rejection of Western values (in the DEI hire 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.
>> Gay also went after
A cunning, vindictive you-know-what
Her name is already a joke.....when you want to deride a
situation. Kinda like saying she’s a “Comedy of Errors.”
Claudine Gay’s worship of DEI was bound to end in failure
since DEI exalts human frailties...... and not just anywhere.
Gay exploited human weaknesses in a place-—Harvard-—
which charges extraordinary costs to do just the opposite.
One educated at Harvard is expected to be among the best and brightest........
not resemble a needy dithering halfwit dependent on DEI to get ahead.
Bump!
Truth will out!
Today is a good day.
The fact that Harvard had not kicked this dumb**s out, but gave her a soft landing to a ridiculously high-paying position is blatant proof that Harvard has become a cesspool of evil.
I was just going to say the same thing. She didn’t leave Harvard, but just took a safe faculty position. We’ll probably hear more from her later, whining about how she was discriminated against.
Gay is still pocketing a $900k paycheck.
She wins.
I don’t believe in “Karma”.
But I do believe in justice!!
I believe our most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary who declares that “God puts down the mighty from their thrones and exalts the lowly and meek’!
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