This is just a set of lawsuits waiting to happen to Harvard.
If she fails anyone they can fall back on her being a plagiarist and incapable of doing her job. If she passes people unable to fulfil the requirements others can fall back on her being inept and reducing the value of their achievements within the course.
There is no win for Claudine Gay in this one. Why not go all in and do research for a while and keep away from having any authority over those who have firstly earned their spot at Harvard properly and secondly wish to achieve a noble pursuit while there.
The school has shown it will burn itself down to keep giving her a six figure job, and that’s assuming people keep on the pressure to actually make the burn-down happen. Assuming she’s completely shameless—and she is a black, female academic—I think there are a lot of scenarios that are wins for her here.
It's striking to me how the left has ridden the prestige of academia so hard that academia has become something of a joke even among many academics. There's so much trash that's been output by activist departments that are basically just glorified think tanks, and the only people who still treat academic credentials like they mean something are either activist hacks themselves who shove their credentials in your face at every opportunity, or midwit cheerleaders who don't even know what they're defending.
So it's quite something to see these people continuing to burn down the institution that gave them so much clout in the first place. Even the hard sciences have been tainted by fraud, overproduction of bad research, and activist meddling that blatantly places political sensitivities before accuracy. Nevermind all the "science journalist" scum who outright lie about what academics even believe, such as that biologists are at a consensus that race is just an arbitrary social construct, or that neuroscientists are at a consensus that there are no differences between male and female brains, etc.
Or more recently the way that the MSM treated the lab leak hypothesis as something that The Experts™ roundly reject, when several experts were speaking up about it at the time and being attacked by other experts who were terrified of the world finding out that their field was responsible for a biological Chernobyl. And even a lot of mainstream normielib hacks like Jon Stewart couldn't pretend not to see how absurd the whole thing was.
Once people stop taking academic credentials seriously, especially from liberal arts and social "science" majors, the left is gonna have a way more difficult time bamboozling normies into thinking that leftist ideology is simply what all the smart and educated people believe. They marched through the institutions and did a remarkable job of conning the intelligentsia into conflating their activist "research" with scholarship, and conflating "right-wing" ideas with ignorance and crackpottery, but they rode that shit so hard that they broke it.
Yeah, but do you think she cares about any of that? I suspect that any sting she’s feeling is in the blow to her ego and the reduction in salary and personal prestige. On an individual level for her, staying employed at Harvard is a win.
This isn’t the kind of class that anyone will ever fail. This is some “check-the-box” requirement for all grad students regardless of major. It’s the sort of thing you can’t fail unless you no-show every class, and even then, you’ll probably get a gentleman’s C.
This is just a set of lawsuits waiting to happen to Harvard.
If she fails anyone they can fall back on her being a plagiarist and incapable of doing her job. If she passes people unable to fulfil the requirements others can fall back on her being inept and reducing the value of their achievements within the course.
There is no win for Claudine Gay in this one. Why not go all in and do research for a while and keep away from having any authority over those who have firstly earned their spot at Harvard properly and secondly wish to achieve a noble pursuit while there.
The school has shown it will burn itself down to keep giving her a six figure job, and that’s assuming people keep on the pressure to actually make the burn-down happen. Assuming she’s completely shameless—and she is a black, female academic—I think there are a lot of scenarios that are wins for her here.
It's striking to me how the left has ridden the prestige of academia so hard that academia has become something of a joke even among many academics. There's so much trash that's been output by activist departments that are basically just glorified think tanks, and the only people who still treat academic credentials like they mean something are either activist hacks themselves who shove their credentials in your face at every opportunity, or midwit cheerleaders who don't even know what they're defending.
So it's quite something to see these people continuing to burn down the institution that gave them so much clout in the first place. Even the hard sciences have been tainted by fraud, overproduction of bad research, and activist meddling that blatantly places political sensitivities before accuracy. Nevermind all the "science journalist" scum who outright lie about what academics even believe, such as that biologists are at a consensus that race is just an arbitrary social construct, or that neuroscientists are at a consensus that there are no differences between male and female brains, etc.
Or more recently the way that the MSM treated the lab leak hypothesis as something that The Experts™ roundly reject, when several experts were speaking up about it at the time and being attacked by other experts who were terrified of the world finding out that their field was responsible for a biological Chernobyl. And even a lot of mainstream normielib hacks like Jon Stewart couldn't pretend not to see how absurd the whole thing was.
Once people stop taking academic credentials seriously, especially from liberal arts and social "science" majors, the left is gonna have a way more difficult time bamboozling normies into thinking that leftist ideology is simply what all the smart and educated people believe. They marched through the institutions and did a remarkable job of conning the intelligentsia into conflating their activist "research" with scholarship, and conflating "right-wing" ideas with ignorance and crackpottery, but they rode that shit so hard that they broke it.
An immediate win for her with the current circumstances is certainly something I short-sighted person would accept.
In the long game she's knocked the whole concept of DEI into a disarray of not being trustworthy.
Academically she'll be a footnote on what the worst of this push has provided.
Yeah, but do you think she cares about any of that? I suspect that any sting she’s feeling is in the blow to her ego and the reduction in salary and personal prestige. On an individual level for her, staying employed at Harvard is a win.
Apparently her salary hasn’t been reduced; she still makes the $900,000 a year she made as president.
She will one day when she's heard her being the punchline of jokes her entire professional life.
As long as she accepts that's because she's a cheat and not because of any other factor she'll have her character arc somewhere deep down inside.
The rest of us will just continue to laugh at her and the damage she caused to everything she touched.
This isn’t the kind of class that anyone will ever fail. This is some “check-the-box” requirement for all grad students regardless of major. It’s the sort of thing you can’t fail unless you no-show every class, and even then, you’ll probably get a gentleman’s C.
Then that's where we should shine the spotlight.