Harvard can’t fireplace embattled President Claudine Homosexual as a result of it dangers undermining the “entire diversity enterprise,” the Wall Road Journal’s Jason Riley argued in his opinion column on Wednesday.
Harvard’s prime governing physique has stood by Homosexual following intense backlash to controversial feedback she made about antisemitism throughout a current congressional listening to and accusations she plagiarized a number of of her tutorial writings.
Riley, a Fox Information contributor, identified how each Homosexual and College of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill had been “guilty of indulging antisemitism on campus,” however confronted totally different fates. Magill resigned on December 9.
“You don’t need a Harvard degree to understand that Ms. Gay, the school’s first Black president, advances the diversity imperatives of her institution in ways that Ms. Magill, who is White, doesn’t,” he argued.
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Through the listening to on antisemitism, Magill, Homosexual, and Kornbluth all gave “evasive” solutions when requested by Rep. Elise Stefanik if requires the genocide of Jews would violate their establishments’ insurance policies on bullying and harassment. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photos)
“Anyone suggesting that Ms. Gay deserves the same treatment as Ms. Magill stands accused of racism by liberal elites who maintain that all Black people not named Clarence Thomas are off-limits to criticism,” the Black conservative columnist argued.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson and others have argued Homosexual is being singled out due to racism. Johnson claimed that “attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a White supremacist agenda.”
Riley panned Homosexual’s defenders for behaving as if her tutorial {qualifications} earned her the highest place on the elite faculty and it “had nothing to do with race.”
“That’s baloney and they know it,” he wrote.
He contrasted Homosexual’s achievements together with her two predecessors, Lawrence Bacow and Drew Gilpin Faust, in addition to Liz Magill’s, to argue Homosexual “wasn’t hired for her academic chops.”
“The truth is that Ms. Gay’s defenders don’t want to acknowledge that her administrative experience and scholarly credentials don’t begin to match those of other people in similar posts,” he claimed.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson just lately defended embattled Harvard President Claudine Homosexual, claiming “attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a white supremacist agenda.” (Getty)
The columnist referenced current feedback by billionaire Harvard donor Invoice Ackman, accusing the college of hiring primarily based on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion standards reasonably than benefit.
After talking with prime college on the college, Ackman wrote on X, “It is abundantly clear that straight White males are discriminated against in recruitment and advancement at Harvard.”
“That is also apparently true to a somewhat lesser extent for men who are Asians or of Indian origin,” he continued, blaming the college’s DEI workplace.
Riley referred to as this reliance on DEI standards the “worst-kept secret in academia.” He argued that Harvard was now reaping the results of those racial insurance policies.
“Harvard’s dilemma illustrates a broader practical problem with racial-preference policies. Once you lower standards for hiring administrators or admitting students, you are forced to lower standards for evaluating their conduct and performance. For purposes of window dressing, people who have no business running elite institutions such as Harvard have been put in charge of people who have no business teaching or matriculating there,” he wrote.
“What could go wrong?”
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Harvard didn’t return a request for remark.
Fox Information’ Brian Flood and David Rutz contributed to this report.
