Claudine Gay & the Victim Blame Game
WHAT you fear is what you avoid, and leftists avoid accountability because it scares them the most. It can shatter their persona as the infallible enlightened ones who are singularly equipped to save society from itself. So when exposed as frauds, they don’t take responsibility — they play the victim.
Reading the resignation letter from Harvard’s former president, Claudine Gay, I noticed more about what she didn’t comment on than what she diligently wrote for public consumption.
“It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president. This is not a decision I came to easily,” announced the put-upon Gay. “Amidst all of this, it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitket ments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor — two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am — and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.”
Gay ended her letter with a rallying cry: “I trust we will all find ways, in this time of intense challenge and controversy, to recommit ourselves to the excellence, the openness, and the independence that are crucial to what our university stands for — and to our capacity to serve the world.”
Gay advocating for a commitment to excellence amid being exposed for committing dozens of instances of plagiarism is like Freddy
Krueger advocating for children to sleep well at night.
Harvard would not need to recommit to something if it were already doing that thing — so Gay’s words are an admission of her university’s failure to uphold the standards it claims to have.
Gay avoids accountability in her resignation by never actually addressing her shortcomings directly, whether her failure to commit to ridding Harvard of threats against Jewish students or her inability to cite a source.
Although she finally notes her lack of clarity before Congress in her feelings about Hamas and its Oct. 7 massacre in a Wednesday New York Times column, she upholds her victim status by calling tough congressional questioning “a well-laid trap.”
She insists her downfall wasn’t her fault: “Trusted institutions of all types,” she says, are falling “victim to coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leaders’ credibility.”
Gay is only a symptom of the greater problem that is the institution of Harvard. Despite her plagiarism, she will not only stay as part of the faculty, but she will also keep her near-$900,000 salary: a handsome reward for failure.
Gay resigned to protect Harvard’s brand from lowering in social marvalue any further and to give the illusion of change by moving her administrative role around like a public-relations chess piece. But if she hadn’t resigned, she would have stayed in power indefinitely because the upper class refuses to bend to the complaints of commoners who dare chastise those at the top of the economic ladder — as validated by the more than 700 faculty-member signatures showing support for the embattled leader.
The façade of an illustrious institution with impeccable standards has cracked as the establishment continues to uplift an individual who overtly and repeatedly violated those supposed standards. These people would rather hold the feet of journalists who uncovered her lack of ethics to the fire than harm the soles of a member of the elite class, Claudine Gay.
Gay is surrounded by ideological enablers who see more value in her pigmentation than her ethical consistency, and they’re willing to insist all criticisms are an attack on her racial identity instead of her competence.
Academic and pundit Marc Lamont Hill demands, “The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman.” Gay’s downfall is “a glimpse of the future to come,” steams New York Times 1619 Project leader Nikole Hannah-Jones. “Black women will be made to pay.” Gay was their symbol of black achievement among the elite class.
The hedge fund that is Harvard University only cares about three things: status, money and leftist ideology. It’s willing to weaponize any of them to protect its own.
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