It can’t get more obvious than this that Harvard’s notional commitment to free speech is nothing but an excuse.
Claudine Gay–you know, the plagiarist, antisemitic President of Harvard University–managed to keep her job despite costing Harvard hundreds of millions in alumni donations and an incalculable amount of goodwill due to her embarrassing performance in front of Congress.
Gay couldn’t manage to condemn her students’ calls for the genocide of Jews and couldn’t manage to write an academic paper without violating Harvard’s standards, but she could still clamp down on speech she disapproved of. She did so only days after asserting that Harvard was committed to protecting speech of even the most vile nature.
Two days after Claudine Gay claimed that genocidal rhetoric might be protected speech at Harvard because that’s how committed she is to free speech, her…
