Liberal college professors rally around Claudine Gay after her resignation: ‘Did not deserve this’

Several liberal college professors seized on the information of Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation by leaping on social media and defending Gay regardless of her feedback on antisemitism and nearly 50 accusations of plagiarism.

After dealing with dozens of allegations of plagiarism, Gay launched a letter to members of the Harvard neighborhood Tuesday saying she was stepping down as president however will return to the Harvard college, the place she may doubtless maintain her $900K wage.

“It is a singular honor to be a member of this university, which has been my home and my inspiration for most of my professional career,” Gay wrote. “My deep sense of connection to Harvard and its people has made it all the more painful to witness the tensions and divisions that have riven our community in recent months, weakening the bonds of trust and reciprocity that should be our sources of strength and support in times of crisis.”

“Amidst all of this, 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,” she continued.

SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS AS HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS: ‘SHOULD’VE BEEN FIRED WEEKS AGO’

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

After ther introduced resignation, a number of college professors took to X, previously referred to as Twitter, to defend Gay and accused her critics of being “racist mobs” and “fascist mouth-breathers.”

“Racist mobs won’t stop until they topple all Black people from positions of power and influence who are not reinforcing the structure of racism,” Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi posted on X. “What these racist mobs are doing should be obvious to any reporter who cares about truth or justice as opposed to conflicts and clicks.”

In a neighborhood observe on the publish, X wrote, “Claudine Gay was accused among other things of lifting nearly half a page of material verbatim from David Cannon’s 1999 book ‘Race Redistricting and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts.’”

Ibram X. Kendi speaks onstage throughout Netflix’s “Stamped From The Beginning” world premiere on the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2023. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Netflix)

Kendi wrote in one other publish, “The question is whether all these people would have investigated, surveilled, harassed, written about, and attacked her in the same way if the Harvard president in this case would have been White. I. Think. Not.”

“Everyone gets a take on this: Harvard is a ‘public’ institution in that sense,” Princeton professor Arthur Spirling wrote on X. “The tragedy here is how extraordinarily easy this all was for the cultural warriors. Unforced error in Congress, then social media + plagiarism detection software did the rest. Disaster.”

“Harvard has a $50 billion endowment – more than the GDP of Latvia – and they still let a bunch of fascist mouth-breathers bully their president into resigning,” Tulane professor Stan Oklobdzija posted on X. “Congratulations to American universities on winning the 2024 Neville Chamberlain Award for Excellence in Capitulation.”

“She definitely did not deserve this,” Georgetown assistant professor Amanda Sahar d’Urso wrote on X. “I hope she can live her life in peace, for the sake of her mental and emotional well-being.”

“For the rest of us, this is a load of crap garbage and we should be really concerned.”

FIRING HARVARD’S CLAUDINE GAY WON’T CURE THE CANCER AT THIS ELITE UNIVERSITY

Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University on Tuesday, Jan. 2, within the wake of controversies that sullied the fame of America’s oldest college.

Dartmouth assistant professor Roopika Risam wrote on X, “Oh Harvard. FFS. I am just absolutely livid that President Gay is resigning. They were always going to come for the leader who’s a brilliant Black woman.”

“The intimidation is the point,” Duke University adjunct professor Eric Deggans posted on X. “Will the next president at Harvard stand for diversity? Will that person be female? Will that person be Black? If not, they have forced several steps back. And everyone across the school gets the message.”

GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Gay’s resignation sparked a social media firestorm on Tuesday when she stepped down as president, making her tenure the shortest in college historical past.

Gay testified earlier than Congress following the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel and struggled to reply a direct query from New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Harvard alum, condemning genocide in opposition to Jewish folks as one thing that violated Harvard’s code of conduct. 

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Calls for her resignation grew within the following weeks after dozens of plagiarism allegations, first reported on by The Washington Free Beacon, have been unearthed, together with this declare: “In a 2001 article, Gay lifts nearly half a page of material verbatim from another scholar, David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.” 

The whole variety of plagiarism allegations in opposition to Gay is close to 50, or “half of Gay’s published works,” in line with the Free Beacon.