Today, Claudine Gay resigned as President of Harvard.
Here are several key “points” in her resignation letter:
“This is not a decision I came to easily. Indeed, it has been difficult beyond words because I have looked forward to working with so many of you to advance the commitment to academic excellence that has propelled this great university across centuries.”
“But, after consultation with members of the Corporation, it has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual,”
“It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments 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.”
Translation: “OK, I’m resigning. You got me. But if I toss out the race card maybe it will make you forget that the reason for this resignation is that, when asked in a congressional hearing, whether calling for genocide of Jews was a violation of Harvard’s code of conduct, I played word games instead of giving a straight answer. And because it came out that I am a serial plagiarist with little in the way of academic contributions, who had no business being President of Harvard in the first place. And because, given that I am a lightweight and plagiarist, it is an excellent bet that my race, along with my gender, is the only reason I was selected as President in the first place.”
Bottom line? Claudine Gay may be gone, but the damage to Harvard is done. And it is irreparable.
I wonder if the lesson will be learned by other institutions of higher education that have become more interested in “wokeness” than the education they should be providing.
Frankly, I doubt it.
