A Harvard Jewish student reacts to the news that Claudine Gay will keep her job.
He nails it. Jews do not count.
“What if this was a different minority? What if Claudine Gay had said this about Black people, about Gay people, about Asian Americans?”
“When it comes to Jewish… pic.twitter.com/sHM7JS0wYx— Trisha Posner (@trishaposner) December 12, 2023
Previously: 570+ Harvard Professors Defend President Amid Calls to Resign Over Antisemitism on Campus
People are constantly talking about how “life is so short.” I’ve never understood it. I’m sitting here checking my watch every five minutes, waiting for this nightmare to be over.
It’s apparently a matter of perspective, but from my perspective, life is very long. Probably, it has to do with memory. Aside from my childhood, which I’ve more or less completely blocked out, I have a very clear memory of events. Older people seem to start saying “life is so short” around the time their memory starts to go, and they can only remember a few events in their life, so it seems like it was short. Moreover, the boomers spent most of their lives watching television, and no one ever remembers that shit as you’re effectively under hypnotism, so I think that’s part of their “short life” theory.
I will tell you this: I never would have expected that in my very long life, the highpoint of one of my days would be a career achievement of a black woman.
It’s a bit bittersweet, because she did apology over the infamous Congressional hearing where she refused to say you can’t call for the genocide of the Jews. Nonetheless, the Jews – and the Congress itself – were calling for her to be fired, and she’s not being fired, so it’s a big win for antisemitism, globally.
Harvard University announced Tuesday that under-fire President Claudine Gay will keep her job — even after reportedly losing more than $1 billion in donations since her disastrous congressional testimony about antisemitism.
The Harvard Corporation — the university’s highest governing body — made its announcement Tuesday following night-long talks between Gay and university leaders, a source familiar with the decision told the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson.
Can we get a solidarity fist going here?
Yeah. That’s what I’m talking about.
Yas, queen.
“As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University. Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing,” the group said in a statement.
It acknowledged that the university should have released an “immediate, direct and unequivocal condemnation” of Hamas’ terror attack on Oct. 7, noting “Calls for genocide are despicable and contrary to fundamental human values” — in apparent contrast to Gay’s testimony last week.
Please stop condemning Hamas.
If you keep doing it, they are not going to stop demanding that you keep doing it.
Have you heard that after Angel Face, they’re bringing out Moon Face?
“President Gay has apologized for how she handled her congressional testimony and has committed to redoubling the university’s fight against antisemitism,” the group wrote.
Regarding accusations that Gay plagiarized numerous portions of her 1997 Ph.D. thesis in direct violation of Harvard’s academic integrity policies, the Harvard Corporation said officials became aware of claims of plagiarism in late October and initiated an independent review.
Every single black person, including Black Saint MLK JR, engaged in academic plagiarism. It’s effectively a part of “Affirmative Action” policy that black people are allowed to do this.
Jews have defended it for decades, and it’s ridiculous that all of the sudden it’s a problem.
“On Dec. 9, the Fellows reviewed the results, which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation.
“While the analysis found no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications.”
Still, the fellows said, “In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay.”
Awesome.
This was the people’s choice.
Students confronted Harvard alumnus & sitting US Senator @sen_dansullivan for his support for genocide. A Palestinian student, a refugee from Gaza, approached Sullivan and told him that Israel had killed over 80 members of her family since October 7. pic.twitter.com/N18R7s6PIV
— Harvard for Palestine (@HarvardPSC) December 10, 2023
It’s of course not totally cut and dry. In fact, this is all a bunch of bullshit. Academic freedom has not existed at Harvard in a very long time, and there’s no way that she would have had trouble answering a question about whether or not you can call for the genocide of blacks (even though according to traditional university norms, you literally can do that).
On the other end, no one is actually calling for the genocide of the Jews, Jews just claim “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a call for genocide. It’s actually not. It’s at best a call for an end to the Israeli state, which doesn’t even imply removing the Jews, it just implies giving Palestinians citizenship in their own country (which was stripped from them with the establishment of a “Jewish state” inside of their country.
In terms of the whole narrative that you’re “embracing woke” if you support Gay and other brown liberation figures – I literally don’t care about that at all. It is technically sort of true in a way, because it is “woke” reasons that brown people have for opposing Jews. However, I have my own reasons for opposing Jews, and I’m not going to defend Jews against anyone, including against people who I would otherwise disagree with.
That’s basically what all of this is about, these Ben Shapiro type arguments that “Palestinian activists are woke” – it’s a demand that you defend the Jews. Well, I’m not defending the Jews. I support Hamas.
Further: “woke” is a Jewish concept. What is happening now is the Jews, once again, being hoisted on their own petard. If “woke” brown people destroy Jewish power, then they will also destroy their own political movement. There is no way that “woke” politics could be maintained without the Jews using all of these dirty tricks to enforce these politics, so as an objective matter, supporting “wokies” attacking Israel is the “anti-woke” position, as that is what will lead to an end of these politics.