Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned from her position as head of America’s most well-known university on Tuesday, one day after a complaint was filed with Harvard accusing her of six additional instances of plagiarism. So far, there are nearly 50 accusations of plagiarism against the former university president.
Gay’s plagiarism scandal is a damning indictment of the deceptively-titled dogma of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). DEI is the cultural Marxist doctrine responsible for the unfair promotion and protection of people based on qualities like race, sex, and sexual orientation rather than merit.
Indeed, Gay’s career is a testament to the fact that affirmative action is present in all aspects of academia, not just in the admissions process. Following a thoroughly unremarkable academic career, Gay was promoted to university president. As evidence of Gay’s plagiarism piled up in recent weeks, Harvard refused to fire her.
Instead of subjecting Gay to an embarrassing and deserved public termination, the university opted to let Gay resign on her own terms and will allow her to return to campus as a tenured professor. Meanwhile, a chorus of left-wing journalists, academics, and even former President Barack Obama have all come to her defense. Gay further declared herself a victim of “racial animus” in her resignation letter, cries which her defenders amplified. Notably, nowhere in her letter does she express contrition toward the scholars whose work she plagiarized.
Gay’s career is typical for identity politics, but it’s also typical for the growing administrator class that pollutes all American universities.
