The pity party has begun for Claudine Gay following her ouster as the president of Harvard. What began with a controversy over antisemitism led to a bevy of plagiarism charges, with the latest allegations being the last straw.
As RedState reported, it wasn’t long before left-wing DEI proponents and the mainstream press circled the wagons (but I repeat myself). The reasons given for Gay’s ouster ran the gamut from wild conspiracy theories to charges of racism. What wasn’t given credence was the fact that she was a serial plagiarist who had no business holding such a prestigious academic role.
Tribalism trumps reality on the left every single time, and that’s never more true than when the secular religion of intersectionality is in play. It wasn’t just Gay’s defenders who cried a river, though. She wrote a farewell op-ed in The New York Times that is absolutely pathetic.
