[HN Gopher] Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president
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       Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president
        
       Author : mauvehaus
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-01-02 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | atticora wrote:
       | I'm not a fan of Gay or Harvard, but the slow hunt and take down
       | by a pack of wolves on tangential issues just made things worse.
       | Her replacement is likely to be a less accurate reflection of
       | Harvard's current culture, and the difference amounts to stealth.
       | 
       | So much of the conservative coordination and amplification for
       | this happened on X. There's a good argument that if Musk didn't
       | buy Twitter, this didn't happen. Elon may never make a profit on
       | the investment but he gets extraordinary leverage on the national
       | conversation.
        
         | nailer wrote:
         | It's not - or it should not be - a uniquely conservative
         | position that calling for genocide against Jewish people should
         | be considered a violation of the Harvard code of conduct.
         | 
         | The biggest disappointment here was the racist administrator
         | was not fired and not fired for racism.
        
         | ProjectArcturis wrote:
         | Alternatively, if Gay hadn't done all that plagiarism, she'd
         | still be there.
        
         | gustavus wrote:
         | Or maybe you know she shouldn't have said that calls to "gas
         | the Jews" requires context to determine if it constituted hate
         | speech.
         | 
         | Or if she hadn't plagarized massive amounts of her work
         | continually without accreditation and then threaten retaliation
         | against those that brought up the issue, like in this letter:
         | https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Complaint2...
         | 
         | That might've had something to do with it. But no I think
         | you're right that evil Elon Musk and the ultra-MAGA twitter
         | overlords are the ones who caused her to be kicked out. Not to
         | mention the racism as she said "threats fueled by racial
         | animus." it wasn't her fault she plagiarized it was the evil
         | white patriarchial system that forced her to.
        
       | quantum_state wrote:
       | Should not the same standard be applied to high positions such as
       | the US president? If it is only based on inconvenience, it begs a
       | deeper question.
        
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