Harvard ex-Prez Claudine Gay obstinately (absurdly) defends herself

In a NY Times op ed. I posted about her resigning yesterday. Harvard President resigns – no regret or remorse – keeps her $800,000 salary.    She is ridiculous – a caricature of an intellectual.

Hit the link for the whole op ed.

On Tuesday, I made the wrenching but necessary decision to resign as Harvard’s president. For weeks, both I and the institution to which I’ve devoted my professional life have been under attack. My character and intelligence have been impugned. My commitment to fighting antisemitism has been questioned.

Yup she's right. Correctly impugned and questioned. I spoke to a Jewish liberal business owner two days ago whose daughter went to Harvard. Pretty unhappy with "DEI" and Claudine Gay.

As I depart, I must offer a few words of warning. The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader. This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society….

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Yes, I made mistakes. In my initial response to the atrocities of Oct. 7, I should have stated more forcefully what all people of good conscience know: Hamas is a terrorist organization that seeks to eradicate the Jewish state. And at a congressional hearing last month, I fell into a well-laid trap. I neglected to clearly articulate that calls for the genocide of Jewish people are abhorrent and unacceptable and that I would use every tool at my disposal to protect students from that kind of hate.

The Congresswoman who asked her the very simple yes or no answer on whether Harvard's code of conduct allowed for anti semitic hate speech is a Harvard graduate.

Most recently, the attacks have focused on my scholarship. My critics found instances in my academic writings where some material duplicated other scholars’ language, without proper attribution. I believe all scholars deserve full and appropriate credit for their work. When I learned of these errors, I promptly requested corrections from the journals in which the flagged articles were published, consistent with how I have seen similar faculty cases handled at Harvard.

As was pointed out by a Harvard student – which got the ball rolling on her plagiarism – a student with a similar history would be expelled (unless their last name was Kennedy). Hit the link above for the whole sad drivel.