Dylan Mulvaney is an amateur compared to Claudine Gay. The only real question now is just how far will Harvard’s reputation slide? Gay is to Harvard what Mulvaney is to Bud Light. They are both albatrosses that will continue to be a weight pulling down Harvard and Bud Light respectively.
Maureen Callahan over at the Daily Mail hammers Claudine Gay over her resignation letter.
Claudine Gay may have resigned, but that doesn’t mean she’s sorry.
The resignation letter she released Tuesday afternoon is a doozy. Truly, it’s one for the books, lengthy and self-pitying and utterly shameless, signed by Gay herself — sans irony — as the sole author!
Really: Are we to believe she wrote this on her own?
Then again, this sayonara is so unoriginal, so predictable in its grievances, it’s quite possible.
Let’s start with the subject line: ‘Personal News’.
Is it? Is it really ‘personal news’ when you have been making national headlines for months and dragging the world’s top university down with you, first for failing to condemn antisemitism before Congress, then over well-founded accusations of plagiarism, then for a cover-up orchestrated on your behalf by Harvard Corporation, and then for six more instances of plagiarism emerging the morning of your resignation?
Most would agree that this story is bigger than Claudine Gay.
Except, that is, for Claudine Gay.
‘When I became president’, she writes, ‘I considered myself particularly blessed by the opportunity to serve people from around the world who saw in my presidency a vision of Harvard that affirmed their sense of belonging’.
Really? Do the Jewish students who attend Harvard feel a sense of belonging because Gay was President? Or do they feel ostracized because Gay apparently cannot see evil when it is right in front of her?
Callahan goes on:
If this resignation letter proves anything, it’s that Claudine Gay is an unoriginal thinker, a terrible writer, and a supremely unserious person. She was never up to this job, because in her mind, her race and gender were reason enough to deserve it.
How did Gay get a job at Harvard in the first place? Is Gay an example of finding someone for a job who checks certain boxes? No need to determine if she is qualified for the job if the boxes are checked on race and gender, right?
Callahan notes:
There is not one iota of responsibility taken in this letter. Not one shred of remorse or sorrow for what she has put the institution through, for the board members who defended her, or for the $1 billion in endowments she lost during her short, disgraceful tenure.
Not one reference to the instances of plagiarism nor a heartfelt mea culpa to the scholars whose work she stole.
Not a single apology to Harvard’s Jewish students and faculty, who should never have had to abide a president telling Congress that on-campus calls for the genocide of Jews depended on ‘context’.
Gay is delusional. She is convinced that she is a genius and that she protects the oppressed. Much like the Lightbringer who attended Harvard Law years ago, she sees herself as a beacon of intellectualism and equality. In her eyes, because of this she has become a victim.
The real story is that she was less qualified for this job than Kamala Harris is to be Vice President of the United States.
For Harvard this disaster had its roots in the idea that race and gender are more important than merit. This is a problem that we see repeated over and over in different areas across the country.
It is time to face the fact that the ability to handle a job is more important than race or gender. Why are there no female players in the NBA or the NFL? Because they are not up to the demands of the job. The same should be true for any job.