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I'm not a fan of Gay or Harvard, but the slow hunt and take down by a pack of wolves on tangential issues just made things worse. Her replacement is likely to be a less accurate reflection of Harvard's current culture, and the difference amounts to stealth.

So much of the conservative coordination and amplification for this happened on X. There's a good argument that if Musk didn't buy Twitter, this didn't happen. Elon may never make a profit on the investment but he gets extraordinary leverage on the national conversation.

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Alternatively, if Gay hadn't done all that plagiarism, she'd still be there.

if Gay hadn't done all that plagiarism, she'd never have gotten there.

Or maybe you know she shouldn't have said that calls to "gas the Jews" requires context to determine if it constituted hate speech.

Or if she hadn't plagarized massive amounts of her work continually without accreditation and then threaten retaliation against those that brought up the issue, like in this letter: https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Complaint2...

That might've had something to do with it. But no I think you're right that evil Elon Musk and the ultra-MAGA twitter overlords are the ones who caused her to be kicked out. Not to mention the racism as she said "threats fueled by racial animus." it wasn't her fault she plagiarized it was the evil white patriarchial system that forced her to.

I find it funny that conservatives want to play the hate isn’t free speech but something that gets you thrown out of school game, because it’ll be the end of conservatives on campus. Funny how a couple years ago shouts of “Jews will not replace us” were defended by the same people who now pretend to give a shit about Jews.

I think it is about forcing people to live by their own rules. If you believe hate speech is not free speech then according to your own rules you should be punished if you say or protect hate speech.

> Funny how a couple years ago shouts of “Jews will not replace us” were defended by the same people who now pretend to give a shit about Jews.

Of course they weren’t. You’re deliberately confusing the hard right with the mainstream right. It’s just a terrible and transparent tactic as when the right confuses the hard left with the mainstream left.

It's not - or it should not be - a uniquely conservative position that calling for genocide against Jewish people should be considered a violation of the Harvard code of conduct.

The biggest disappointment here was the racist administrator was not fired and not fired for racism.

alternative opinion: if the board had done what it was should have done in the first place it wouldn't have been left up to social media to do the work for them.

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