Ousted Harvard President Claudine Gay says she faced death threats and was called the N-word during a weeks-long attack on her character designed to end her presidency.
In an op-ed published Wednesday evening by The New York Times, Gay described her decision to resign this week, after plagiarism allegations and criticisms she didn’t do enough to combat antisemitism on campus, as “wrenching but necessary” and expressed a desire to “deny demagogues the opportunity to further weaponize my presidency.”
“My inbox has been flooded with invective, including death threats. I’ve been called the N-word more times than I care to count,” Gay said.
The former Harvard president punched back at her critics, arguing that they have “often trafficked in lies and ad hominem insults, not reasoned argument.”
I indeed saw plenty of that in various comment sections and social media.
Does anyone seriously want to make the asinine claim that this sort of response is because of claimed plagiarism?
It’s not, and anyone that says it is deeply unserious.
The right wing just straight up admits to it now and gets WSJ space to instruct more people on how to hijack legitimate concerns to form a mob to chase anyone left of Strom Thurmond out of public institutions.