WHO IN THE ridiculously optimistic early 1970s would have predicted that a half century hence the American establishment would be so obsessed with making Harvard lily white again? From the big media to the Republican-fascist media, from Congress to hate talk radio, from them to the august organs of the media the pursuit of Claudine Gay, the Black Woman who is the president of Harvard, is definitive proof that John Roberts' excuse for destroying the Voting Rights Act, that American's traditional form of fascism, white supremacy was over is certainly a big fat whopping lie from one of the major vehicles of promoting that traditional form of fascism. I can't help but wonder how, in his tiny little heart of hearts, he feels about having a Black Woman as president of the institution which gave him his credentials. I'd like to see someone look hard at his academic or professional writings to see how pure his use of citation and quoting was.
I have little to no use for much of anything about Harvard and I am entirely skeptical of her areas of academic credentialing as a policy. That there would be many problems found if anyone looked into any academic paper in the areas of economics and political "science" wouldn't surprise me. I'd think there's a rich opportunity to test that in the same way that led to the replicability crisis in the real sciences and other pseudo-social sciences. I think they'd find lots of corners cut. That anyone may have innocently had a slight lapse in citation in that area of academic scibbleage would not surprise me in the least. I would bet that if there was the kind of in depth investigation of dissertations by a randomly chosen sample of those who were credentialed in the social sciences, such practices would be found to be widespread if not virtually universal. AND I WOULD INCLUDE THE WRITINGS OF THE ECONOMIST LARRY SUMMERS WHO SEEMS TO HAVE PUSHED THE ISSUE. Larry Summers has a history of issues with both Women and Black People, especially those on the Ivy League level, him having a problem with her is no surprise.
I'd like to live in a world where there are not elite universities and other universities, I would like to live in a world where there is leveling to the condition of real equality, I would like to see Harvard and Princeton and the rest of the Ivys have their endowments taxed to provide funds for educational institutions that serve the least among us and the working class and the working middle-class, I would like to see them and the elite preps taxed to provide money for the public schools, I'd like to see all kinds of things happen that won't in my lifetime.
I wonder if anyone went over Larry Summers or the rest of the white supremacy gang who are ganging up on what they could find, or pretend to find.
Considering the fact that almost all of those going after Claudine Gay are huge promoters of the real crime of lying in the mass media, a crime that academics are so OK with, I think the large majority of real People in the real world should see this for what it is, racists calling out the dogs on a Woman who has committed the offense against white supremacy of gaining the presidency of one of the elite institutions that so recently belonged exclusively to rich white men. They want it to be again and, in the meantime, the Republican-fascist, white supremacist press will use this to target Black professionals and everyone else who isn't lily white and Republican-fascist.
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