Those Confederate cannon were know as LINCOLN´s LOGS, which then became a toy set back in the 1960´s, which then became a running joke with 3rd graders: "You wanna play with Lincoln´s log? Hahahaha!" We were idiots but we had fun.
If it looks like a man, but it presents as a woman, it's an installed Free Mason. What happened to installed tranny J. Ardern after she was removed from NZ? She went to Harvard.
In 2024, let's please stop calling "Ibram X Kendi" by that ridiculous stage name, and go back to calling him by his real name, Henry Rogers.
He is supposedly an academic, so he should have no need of a 'stage name' (unless we are admitting that his entire academic genre is in fact, a sort of lucrative performance art)...?
Anyway, I don't know why we keep pandering to these grifters by giving them our willing participation in their Wakanda-LARPing, and grievance-farming.
Let's just not. Henry Rogers from now on.
I am rescinding my participation in Henry's narcissist gambit!
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter have discussed Rogers several times since his mismanagement/theft of the $40M came to light. McWhorter makes the point that Rogers does not claim to be an “academic;” that he readily admits he’s an activist. Loury, OTOH, is properly brutal on “Kendi.” They wind up agreeing that the REAL villain is Boston Univ for hiring an activist for an academic position. (Apparently Loury was ACTUALLY doing racial statistical analysis 20 yrs ago (the work for which “Kendi” was hired by BU), but it never received acclamation b/c it’s dull & revealed constant racial progress. A bomb-thrower is MUCH more marketable by a univ.
Exactly. And why is his act even still around? Isn’t Boston University investigating their huge mistake in giving this person a huge amount of money to produce literally nothing? What happened to that story? Another fraud who should be boo-ed off the stage.
BU didn’t fund Rogers out of its own funds; it was directed external donations. Doesn’t change their oversight responsibility, but it certainly affected their “skin in the game” response.
Yup. Reminds me of our dear “Dr.” Karenga’s schtick. The day someone markets a Kwanzaa decorated soldering iron I’ll know that our country’s internal memory has been wiped.
"My answer is almost always the same, which is that all the crises are the same crisis"
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My answer is always the same, but yours is way more polite. :)
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“Trusted institutions of all types — from public health agencies to news organizations — will continue to fall victim to coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leaders’ credibility.”
I agree with this completely, but probably not in the way Gay hopes.
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"All the caterwauling and subject-changing and burden-shifting and deflection and media noise did nothing, full stop."
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And that's why I'm so optimistic about the future. It's like the world is discovering that actually, words can never hurt you......
Twitter/X community notes are awesome. Your posts are even better. Thanks for reminding me that I’m not insane for what I think, Chris! Keep up the fight.
There seems to be a developing trend of vacuous female descendants of rich black Caribbean families being chosen for leadership roles in America at which they fail spectacularly in the glare of the public eye…
Notably, Condoleezza Rice is not part of this trend if for no other reason than she has no Caribbean connection: 51% African, 40% European, and 9% Asian or Native American genetic descent, while her mtDNA is traced back to the Tikar people of Cameroon. (Since plagiarism is “in,” I WON’T give Wikipedia credit for those #’s…)
I was thinking of Kamala & Gay. But if we move away from the Caribbean criterion, there’s a horde of black female contenders for membership in the “Order of Vacuity.”
Marylin Mosby Brown, convicted felon, shortly going on trial on further felony charges.
Lori Lightfoot, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Maxine Waters, Stacey Abrams, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Patrisse Cullors, London Breed
If we relax the “black” criterion, we can add Sheng Thao and Michelle Wu, mayors of Oakland and Boston.
Juneteenth has been a holiday in Texas for many decades b/c it was truly then that the last slaves were freed. While I never cared for it during my 30 yrs in Houston b/c its theme was always “blackness” rather than “freedom from bondage,” I also recognized that my ancestors were never slaves. The adoption of it nationally has stuck me as nothing but pandering. I would be more amenable if the holiday jointly celebrated the sacrifice of the 360,000 Union soldiers who died to make them free.
From the 5th verse of the Battle Hymn of the Republic:
“As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free”
I think Juneteenth holiday is pretty decent. Here in Seattle it had a yearly celebration at our "Seattle Center" featuring great music, good food, etc.
If it makes black people feel included that seems a good to me.
I understand “inclusion.” Anyone who’s started a new job remembers the 1st invitation to join a group for lunch.
What I don’t understand is why Juneteenth is celebrated in non-slave states: California, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana & Ohio, as well as the Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, Kansas Territories. No one was ever a slave in those places.
All the other states & territories, including ALL of the 13 colonies permitted slavery during their history. (Delaware REJECTED the 13th Amendment in 1865, and did not formally adopt it until 2001. Hey, Joe – seems like you’re on shaky ground to talk about “back in chains.”) Interestingly, slavery didn’t end on Juneteenth. It legally RESUMED on Juneteenth, insofar as the Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime measure that ended with the war – which was declared over on June 19, 1865 in Galveston. It was not until December 6, 1865 when Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment (satisfying the 3/4 requirement) that slaves were legally free. (Mississippi was the final state in 2013.) Seems to me 12/6/1865 would be the better holiday, IMHO, but again, not in places where slavery never existed.
Here Claudine, let me fix that for you. I know you have trouble formulating your own thoughts in your own words, so here’s my suggestion, which you are free to plagiarize:
“This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to expose the extensive rot and corruption metastasizing within fallen pillars of American society. Campaigns of this kind often start with attacks on institutions purporting to advance education and expertise, because these are the institutions best equipped to propagandize communities. But such campaigns don’t end there. Corrupt institutions of all types — from public health agencies to news organizations — will continue to fall victim to dogged efforts by independent journalists and experts to undermine their totalitarian propaganda and expose their leaders’ lies. For the truth-seekers and freedom fighters revealing the truth about our institutions, no single victory or toppled leader exhausts their zeal.
They will continue in this quest until the last fraudsters and totalitarians are purged, and until God, truth, liberty, and justice once again become the cornerstones of American society. May they emerge victorious!”
the reason gay's toothless attempt at a parting salvo sounds exactly like the bullshit we’ve been reading for years is because it was probably written by the same people who brought us the "pandemic." even as the door catches her on her way out, gay can't resist the urge to plagiarize. this is so scripted: public health agencies and news organizations are the two institutions most crucial to the cabal who want to bring us the great reset.
in november 2020 somebody left a copy of the sunday ny times in the vestibule of my old building. i hadn't read the times in a long time and i took it, curious to see what propaganda they were putting out.
what struck me as most odd is that every single article, from the sports section to the recipes, the business page and the wedding announcements, contained the word "pandemic."
Ms. Gay terminated professor Ron Sullivan because he signed on the Weinstein’s legal team and she “persecuted Roland Fryer, the brilliant black economist who inconveniently found the “wrong” results in the classic study of race and policing.” (Quotes intended - John H. Cochrane, “Argue Honesty in the Claudine Gay Affair”, 12/30/23, The Grumpy Economist.). Great analysis of why Gay needed to be fired with plagiarism the icing on the cake, as it were.
I sincerely hope that everyone involved in fucking over Roland Fryer rots in Hell. A liberal economist who unexpectedly discovered statistical proof that his thesis was wrong and who told the truth about his findings. Liberals can’t stand a turd in their punch bowl of lies.
This whole thing is baffling to me! When I was in college you got expelled for plagiarizing the way this twit did. If you wanted to continue with college, you couldn't go back to that one. They wouldn't take you back! There was the guy who had his dorm room inspected within an inch of its life. They found a few pot seeds. He was expelled. If he went to college again, it wasn't at that one. They would never have taken him back!
This woman makes $900,000/year and she cheats? No shame whatsoever, obviously. If she's embarrassed at all it's only because she got caught. She *was* caught and then tried to turn it into racism? That kind of crap drives people into being racists due to the double standard!! Special treatment for cheaters/liars? What's wrong with this picture. Of course they aren't exactly letting the actual smart kids into that school or into any that were once considered to be good schools. The mostly Asian kids with nearly perfect test scores on their SATs or ACTs were not allowed in because they were 1) too much smarter than the other people and 2) they were the wrong color! It would be interesting to know how her schooling was paid. I'll bet she got a full scholarship.
The cheating just amazes me! Why would you want a grade you didn't earn? Easy in the short-term means difficult in the long-term. Like cheating for the quizzes and then knowing nothing when you take the final. This was back in the 60s and I was nine, but I knew Columbus did NOT discover America!! I refused to say that and it hurt my grade more than once. After cheating on a test the one time I realized I'd rather take the bad grade. I always told my mom sooner or later when I did something wrong so I didn't get away with much. Bad is bad. You shouldn't be rewarded for being bad by "running" an Ivy League university!
Serious question. Why are academics paid $900,000 a year? Her interim replacement makes a similar salary plus millions have been banked with pharma board appointments and consulting gigs. To answer my own question- these people are not really academics in the classical sense. It’s a hybridized corporate-academic- political gig. And that’s why it’s so lucrative. They advance political agendas. They teach whatever crap they teach, and they provide intellectual capital on a consulting basis for large corporations. This also explains why the relationships between government, academia, and corporate America are all so cozy. It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it, as were.
I have never figured out how they could be making that much money teaching! I thought that could only be possible in the University of CA because they were always so vastly overpaid. I figured that since they were overcharging so much for tuition, etc., that they could afford to overpay their stupid people. I never finished college. The idea of running up student loans when I couldn't stick with a major for more than two semesters was like a sign from the universe. Every once in a while I print out algebra worksheets to do for fun. I can learn a lot more about everything with the internet anyway. I tend to find out the most interesting stuff between 4-6 am. If I could get back the memory taken up with decades of song lyrics I would have TONS of space for...probably more song lyrics.
I grew up in a Catholic school for 12 years. If it rained, I thought it was my fault ! I did say an Our Father, and two Hail Marys...and never did it again! Lol!And I love God with all my soul, heart and mind.
Well, there is that one time I ditched a couple of class periods my senior year of high school. I kept that one under my hat. I never did it again. It wasn't even intentional! Our teacher was showing "The Grapes of Wrath" and my friend Ted and I forgot. We got there after the first hour, stayed briefly, then left. Guilt, oh the guilt. We went to Denny's and ate French fries then went back to school for Music Theory (which stinks). It's like the music version of coding. Yuck!
He is King of kings and Lord of lords! Yes! I'm not a very good Christian (I cuss too much) but I feel sorry for people who don't have Jesus! And Baptist Hymnals!! I used hymns to teach myself piano. 😊
A cuss or cussing is just using bad language. A curse is wishing harm on a human. I always distinguish between both. Sometimes using bad language is appropiate.
I don't know what it's like now, but back in the day Catholic schools were a sort of boot camp for little kids. Our first grade nun must have been over a hundred years old, but she maintained perfect order in a classroom of forty six-year-olds. And she taught real stuff, skills I'm still grateful for all these decades later. We kids were terrified of that nun, but we got a genuine education in return, an awfully good ROI.
Sister Loretta Madonna did not play basketball, or probably any other game for that matter. Ever. And yes, I'm of the generation that had fully habited nuns; none of this modern clothing thing for them.
She did teach us to do basic arithmetic in our heads, a far more useful skill in the long run I think.
don’t forget that Harvard didn’t want Asians because they were “boring” and “didn’t have much personality”. better that Ms. Lady in admissions get’s to feel like she helped one of the cool kids when she goes home at night.
“That kind of crap drives people into being racists due to the double standard!!”
You’re probably right, which is sad b/c the perpetrators are not workaday minorities. The perps are not even the minority beneficiaries of the double standard. The perps are the faceless legions of white liberals of wealth who populate “boards” of all types who promulgate these despicable policies as a vast virtue signal within the “legions.”
Seeing that in the St George Floyd riots was so disgusting. They stirred up the whole thing. We saw people looting, throwing bricks, etc. What I noticed is as everyone got more agitated, the white faces disappeared. Or seemed to. You can bet they paid for the pallets of bricks and had them delivered. I guess libs are professionals at making other people do their dirty work. The riots didn't benefit them in any way so why did they do it? I think Portland was mostly white people but not the other places.
Critical theory, of which CRT is an offshoot, was promulgated by a group of German academics (socialists), who immigrated to the US in 1946. They came to be known as the Frankfurt School. Critical theory holds that all of Western civilization is utterly decadent, and no improvement is possible. The only path forward is to tear down all aspects of existing Western civilization and rebuild from the ground up, under their tutelage, of course.
How American (and western European) students and young people generally have been brainwashed by this obvious bullshit is baffling. I do not understand how you can look at history from ancient Greece to today, and not see incomprehensibly huge improvement in the human condition through improvements in how societies function. English common law, respect for property rights, and capitalism have lifted BILLIONS out of abject poverty. (Forgive me for preaching to the choir.)
There was another asshole involved in this debacle – also a post-WWII German immigrant & academic – Herbert Marcuse, who is the source of the oppressor/oppressed paradigm. Our young people have been deluged with “All whites are racist oppressors and all others are their victims” plus the “tear society down” mantra for the better part of 60 years, and the Floyd riots (and Claudine Gay at Harvard) are the result.
I tried a couple of things but I wasn't good at getting into trouble. I would usually tell on myself sooner or later. I didn't want my mom to know that I'd failed geometry but the head of the math department at my high-school called my mother and told her. I'd tried to disguise the "5." I heard Mom say that I didn't fail the class. I knew who was on the phone so I admitted it. I would have anyway. Because I failed the class, Dad made me go to summer school instead of summer band. They won - I did a whole semester's worth of proofs in 2 1/2 weeks. I can be reasoned with but I don't make it easy! If I thought it was stupid, there was no reasoning with me. I haven't changed much...
Every human institution becomes a cesspool. The lesson to be learned is to not have faith in human institutions but it will not be learned by any liberals nor by most conservatives. Any stray liberal that does learn it merely becomes a conservative that will probably have to learn the lesson again.
I can think of few things more rich than to get busted for plagiarism and to then accuse those pointing it out of “Undermining education, expertise, legitimacy and credibility”...she is describing her own actions.
Gay was the token but Penny Pritzker is the massive $26Bn power family behind her. Gay is finally gone but the next battle is Pritzker. Can she continue as puppet master?
Gay is NOT “gone.” She’s just moved off the stage into an obscenely rich sinecure, which is the Harvard Corp proudly raising a middle finger to their critics.
David is correct. Those Pritzker trust-funded grotesques are behind all this shit that has been going on for the last 20+ years. They were bankrolling both Obama and Hilary in 2008. Congress should look into the preferential treatment Hyatt hotels get for traveling bureaucrats. Hopefully some of the red states’ congresses do the same.
See also:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/claudinian-cracks-and-the-moment
Those Confederate cannon were know as LINCOLN´s LOGS, which then became a toy set back in the 1960´s, which then became a running joke with 3rd graders: "You wanna play with Lincoln´s log? Hahahaha!" We were idiots but we had fun.
Had a set – I didn’t run with the right crowd – no log jokes. 😂
I did too -- me neither -- nope, no jokes. 😏
Lincoln logs were a crap xmas gift. They made nice little bonfires.
I loved my set. I still like to build things.
Yeah, cool gift was a pair of walkie-talkies:
"Where´ya at, over!"
"In the basement, over!"
"So am I, over!"
Fav grandma always got me a pop gun
IKR?! Always within sight of each other, but still using the Walkies.
Kids are nuts!
I only got a bag of broken glass.🫤
Insert Charlie Brown on Halloween:
"I got a rock."
I haven't read Bad Cat in a long time, and found a sliver of light and hope there. Truly, that we may claw back sanity and truth one crumb at a time.
We need a yuge preference cascade.
JD Vance, drawing all the connections:
https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1742925449465135262
"The balls on this woman."
Yeah. A lot of that going around these days.
The winners in 2024 will be the ones with the bigger set and are willing to use them.
Or the ones that pay for more votes.
🤣😂 That’s on par with Chappelle’s new opening joke about Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman. 👍👍
If it looks like a man, but it presents as a woman, it's an installed Free Mason. What happened to installed tranny J. Ardern after she was removed from NZ? She went to Harvard.
In 2024, let's please stop calling "Ibram X Kendi" by that ridiculous stage name, and go back to calling him by his real name, Henry Rogers.
He is supposedly an academic, so he should have no need of a 'stage name' (unless we are admitting that his entire academic genre is in fact, a sort of lucrative performance art)...?
Anyway, I don't know why we keep pandering to these grifters by giving them our willing participation in their Wakanda-LARPing, and grievance-farming.
Let's just not. Henry Rogers from now on.
I am rescinding my participation in Henry's narcissist gambit!
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter have discussed Rogers several times since his mismanagement/theft of the $40M came to light. McWhorter makes the point that Rogers does not claim to be an “academic;” that he readily admits he’s an activist. Loury, OTOH, is properly brutal on “Kendi.” They wind up agreeing that the REAL villain is Boston Univ for hiring an activist for an academic position. (Apparently Loury was ACTUALLY doing racial statistical analysis 20 yrs ago (the work for which “Kendi” was hired by BU), but it never received acclamation b/c it’s dull & revealed constant racial progress. A bomb-thrower is MUCH more marketable by a univ.
Example: https://youtu.be/-q5XxrQPPEI
Exactly. And why is his act even still around? Isn’t Boston University investigating their huge mistake in giving this person a huge amount of money to produce literally nothing? What happened to that story? Another fraud who should be boo-ed off the stage.
BU didn’t fund Rogers out of its own funds; it was directed external donations. Doesn’t change their oversight responsibility, but it certainly affected their “skin in the game” response.
Yup. Reminds me of our dear “Dr.” Karenga’s schtick. The day someone markets a Kwanzaa decorated soldering iron I’ll know that our country’s internal memory has been wiped.
"A Henry Rogers by any other name would smell... like a sewer."
"My answer is almost always the same, which is that all the crises are the same crisis"
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My answer is always the same, but yours is way more polite. :)
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“Trusted institutions of all types — from public health agencies to news organizations — will continue to fall victim to coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leaders’ credibility.”
I agree with this completely, but probably not in the way Gay hopes.
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"All the caterwauling and subject-changing and burden-shifting and deflection and media noise did nothing, full stop."
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And that's why I'm so optimistic about the future. It's like the world is discovering that actually, words can never hurt you......
"...but yours is way more polite."
Your answer is probably more effective.
Twitter/X community notes are awesome. Your posts are even better. Thanks for reminding me that I’m not insane for what I think, Chris! Keep up the fight.
Just like how fake everything is:
Fake scholarship
Fake oppression (she's still making 900K/yr and is a member of a prominent wealthy Haitian family)
Fake pandemic
Fake doctors (Fauxci is an MD but he's a bureaucrat who barely actually practiced medicine)
Fake barriers (masks)
Fake vaccines
Fake men/women
Fake pronouns
Fake climate crisis
Fake treason ("Russian collusion")
Fake insurrection
Fake elections
Fake president
Fake murder (George Floyd)
Fake racism (see top and bottom of list above)
Fake national borders
And potentially the most dangerous of all:
Fake money/economy
What did I forget?
Fake Pope
He’s 87 and in failing health, so with luck, his successor will arrive soon.
May he be more like the last one and much less like this one.
Fake media.
There seems to be a developing trend of vacuous female descendants of rich black Caribbean families being chosen for leadership roles in America at which they fail spectacularly in the glare of the public eye…
Notably, Condoleezza Rice is not part of this trend if for no other reason than she has no Caribbean connection: 51% African, 40% European, and 9% Asian or Native American genetic descent, while her mtDNA is traced back to the Tikar people of Cameroon. (Since plagiarism is “in,” I WON’T give Wikipedia credit for those #’s…)
Who are some of these other vacuous females?
Are you including Kamala who has a Jamaican father?
Which reminds me of one other fake: fake holidays (Kwanzaa, and more recently, Juneteenth)
I was thinking of Kamala & Gay. But if we move away from the Caribbean criterion, there’s a horde of black female contenders for membership in the “Order of Vacuity.”
Marylin Mosby Brown, convicted felon, shortly going on trial on further felony charges.
Lori Lightfoot, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Maxine Waters, Stacey Abrams, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Patrisse Cullors, London Breed
If we relax the “black” criterion, we can add Sheng Thao and Michelle Wu, mayors of Oakland and Boston.
Juneteenth has been a holiday in Texas for many decades b/c it was truly then that the last slaves were freed. While I never cared for it during my 30 yrs in Houston b/c its theme was always “blackness” rather than “freedom from bondage,” I also recognized that my ancestors were never slaves. The adoption of it nationally has stuck me as nothing but pandering. I would be more amenable if the holiday jointly celebrated the sacrifice of the 360,000 Union soldiers who died to make them free.
From the 5th verse of the Battle Hymn of the Republic:
“As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free”
I think Juneteenth holiday is pretty decent. Here in Seattle it had a yearly celebration at our "Seattle Center" featuring great music, good food, etc.
If it makes black people feel included that seems a good to me.
I understand “inclusion.” Anyone who’s started a new job remembers the 1st invitation to join a group for lunch.
What I don’t understand is why Juneteenth is celebrated in non-slave states: California, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana & Ohio, as well as the Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, Kansas Territories. No one was ever a slave in those places.
All the other states & territories, including ALL of the 13 colonies permitted slavery during their history. (Delaware REJECTED the 13th Amendment in 1865, and did not formally adopt it until 2001. Hey, Joe – seems like you’re on shaky ground to talk about “back in chains.”) Interestingly, slavery didn’t end on Juneteenth. It legally RESUMED on Juneteenth, insofar as the Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime measure that ended with the war – which was declared over on June 19, 1865 in Galveston. It was not until December 6, 1865 when Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment (satisfying the 3/4 requirement) that slaves were legally free. (Mississippi was the final state in 2013.) Seems to me 12/6/1865 would be the better holiday, IMHO, but again, not in places where slavery never existed.
All white people were slave owners. Says so in 1619.
Here Claudine, let me fix that for you. I know you have trouble formulating your own thoughts in your own words, so here’s my suggestion, which you are free to plagiarize:
“This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to expose the extensive rot and corruption metastasizing within fallen pillars of American society. Campaigns of this kind often start with attacks on institutions purporting to advance education and expertise, because these are the institutions best equipped to propagandize communities. But such campaigns don’t end there. Corrupt institutions of all types — from public health agencies to news organizations — will continue to fall victim to dogged efforts by independent journalists and experts to undermine their totalitarian propaganda and expose their leaders’ lies. For the truth-seekers and freedom fighters revealing the truth about our institutions, no single victory or toppled leader exhausts their zeal.
They will continue in this quest until the last fraudsters and totalitarians are purged, and until God, truth, liberty, and justice once again become the cornerstones of American society. May they emerge victorious!”
From your keystrokes to God’s inbox!
bsn
Sociopathically shameless. Exactly.
the reason gay's toothless attempt at a parting salvo sounds exactly like the bullshit we’ve been reading for years is because it was probably written by the same people who brought us the "pandemic." even as the door catches her on her way out, gay can't resist the urge to plagiarize. this is so scripted: public health agencies and news organizations are the two institutions most crucial to the cabal who want to bring us the great reset.
in november 2020 somebody left a copy of the sunday ny times in the vestibule of my old building. i hadn't read the times in a long time and i took it, curious to see what propaganda they were putting out.
what struck me as most odd is that every single article, from the sports section to the recipes, the business page and the wedding announcements, contained the word "pandemic."
Bingo
I assume she just copied Cornell West’s screed when he was booted from Harvard. Grifters boilerplate.
Ms. Gay terminated professor Ron Sullivan because he signed on the Weinstein’s legal team and she “persecuted Roland Fryer, the brilliant black economist who inconveniently found the “wrong” results in the classic study of race and policing.” (Quotes intended - John H. Cochrane, “Argue Honesty in the Claudine Gay Affair”, 12/30/23, The Grumpy Economist.). Great analysis of why Gay needed to be fired with plagiarism the icing on the cake, as it were.
I sincerely hope that everyone involved in fucking over Roland Fryer rots in Hell. A liberal economist who unexpectedly discovered statistical proof that his thesis was wrong and who told the truth about his findings. Liberals can’t stand a turd in their punch bowl of lies.
This whole thing is baffling to me! When I was in college you got expelled for plagiarizing the way this twit did. If you wanted to continue with college, you couldn't go back to that one. They wouldn't take you back! There was the guy who had his dorm room inspected within an inch of its life. They found a few pot seeds. He was expelled. If he went to college again, it wasn't at that one. They would never have taken him back!
This woman makes $900,000/year and she cheats? No shame whatsoever, obviously. If she's embarrassed at all it's only because she got caught. She *was* caught and then tried to turn it into racism? That kind of crap drives people into being racists due to the double standard!! Special treatment for cheaters/liars? What's wrong with this picture. Of course they aren't exactly letting the actual smart kids into that school or into any that were once considered to be good schools. The mostly Asian kids with nearly perfect test scores on their SATs or ACTs were not allowed in because they were 1) too much smarter than the other people and 2) they were the wrong color! It would be interesting to know how her schooling was paid. I'll bet she got a full scholarship.
The cheating just amazes me! Why would you want a grade you didn't earn? Easy in the short-term means difficult in the long-term. Like cheating for the quizzes and then knowing nothing when you take the final. This was back in the 60s and I was nine, but I knew Columbus did NOT discover America!! I refused to say that and it hurt my grade more than once. After cheating on a test the one time I realized I'd rather take the bad grade. I always told my mom sooner or later when I did something wrong so I didn't get away with much. Bad is bad. You shouldn't be rewarded for being bad by "running" an Ivy League university!
Serious question. Why are academics paid $900,000 a year? Her interim replacement makes a similar salary plus millions have been banked with pharma board appointments and consulting gigs. To answer my own question- these people are not really academics in the classical sense. It’s a hybridized corporate-academic- political gig. And that’s why it’s so lucrative. They advance political agendas. They teach whatever crap they teach, and they provide intellectual capital on a consulting basis for large corporations. This also explains why the relationships between government, academia, and corporate America are all so cozy. It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it, as were.
I have never figured out how they could be making that much money teaching! I thought that could only be possible in the University of CA because they were always so vastly overpaid. I figured that since they were overcharging so much for tuition, etc., that they could afford to overpay their stupid people. I never finished college. The idea of running up student loans when I couldn't stick with a major for more than two semesters was like a sign from the universe. Every once in a while I print out algebra worksheets to do for fun. I can learn a lot more about everything with the internet anyway. I tend to find out the most interesting stuff between 4-6 am. If I could get back the memory taken up with decades of song lyrics I would have TONS of space for...probably more song lyrics.
I love you Yuma!
I grew up in a Catholic school for 12 years. If it rained, I thought it was my fault ! I did say an Our Father, and two Hail Marys...and never did it again! Lol!And I love God with all my soul, heart and mind.
Well, there is that one time I ditched a couple of class periods my senior year of high school. I kept that one under my hat. I never did it again. It wasn't even intentional! Our teacher was showing "The Grapes of Wrath" and my friend Ted and I forgot. We got there after the first hour, stayed briefly, then left. Guilt, oh the guilt. We went to Denny's and ate French fries then went back to school for Music Theory (which stinks). It's like the music version of coding. Yuck!
He is King of kings and Lord of lords! Yes! I'm not a very good Christian (I cuss too much) but I feel sorry for people who don't have Jesus! And Baptist Hymnals!! I used hymns to teach myself piano. 😊
A cuss or cussing is just using bad language. A curse is wishing harm on a human. I always distinguish between both. Sometimes using bad language is appropiate.
I cuss; I never curse. It does relieve one's feelings! Especially if stupid people are driving me bonkers!
But gave you been to Yuma?
Lived there for many years. Family member still lives there.
I don't know what it's like now, but back in the day Catholic schools were a sort of boot camp for little kids. Our first grade nun must have been over a hundred years old, but she maintained perfect order in a classroom of forty six-year-olds. And she taught real stuff, skills I'm still grateful for all these decades later. We kids were terrified of that nun, but we got a genuine education in return, an awfully good ROI.
That would be Sister Mary Carmella for me! She’d play basketball with the boys in her habit…STRICT!
Sister Loretta Madonna did not play basketball, or probably any other game for that matter. Ever. And yes, I'm of the generation that had fully habited nuns; none of this modern clothing thing for them.
She did teach us to do basic arithmetic in our heads, a far more useful skill in the long run I think.
don’t forget that Harvard didn’t want Asians because they were “boring” and “didn’t have much personality”. better that Ms. Lady in admissions get’s to feel like she helped one of the cool kids when she goes home at night.
“That kind of crap drives people into being racists due to the double standard!!”
You’re probably right, which is sad b/c the perpetrators are not workaday minorities. The perps are not even the minority beneficiaries of the double standard. The perps are the faceless legions of white liberals of wealth who populate “boards” of all types who promulgate these despicable policies as a vast virtue signal within the “legions.”
Seeing that in the St George Floyd riots was so disgusting. They stirred up the whole thing. We saw people looting, throwing bricks, etc. What I noticed is as everyone got more agitated, the white faces disappeared. Or seemed to. You can bet they paid for the pallets of bricks and had them delivered. I guess libs are professionals at making other people do their dirty work. The riots didn't benefit them in any way so why did they do it? I think Portland was mostly white people but not the other places.
I probably went off on the wrong tangent there...
Critical theory, of which CRT is an offshoot, was promulgated by a group of German academics (socialists), who immigrated to the US in 1946. They came to be known as the Frankfurt School. Critical theory holds that all of Western civilization is utterly decadent, and no improvement is possible. The only path forward is to tear down all aspects of existing Western civilization and rebuild from the ground up, under their tutelage, of course.
How American (and western European) students and young people generally have been brainwashed by this obvious bullshit is baffling. I do not understand how you can look at history from ancient Greece to today, and not see incomprehensibly huge improvement in the human condition through improvements in how societies function. English common law, respect for property rights, and capitalism have lifted BILLIONS out of abject poverty. (Forgive me for preaching to the choir.)
There was another asshole involved in this debacle – also a post-WWII German immigrant & academic – Herbert Marcuse, who is the source of the oppressor/oppressed paradigm. Our young people have been deluged with “All whites are racist oppressors and all others are their victims” plus the “tear society down” mantra for the better part of 60 years, and the Floyd riots (and Claudine Gay at Harvard) are the result.
You sound like me! 😉👍
I tried a couple of things but I wasn't good at getting into trouble. I would usually tell on myself sooner or later. I didn't want my mom to know that I'd failed geometry but the head of the math department at my high-school called my mother and told her. I'd tried to disguise the "5." I heard Mom say that I didn't fail the class. I knew who was on the phone so I admitted it. I would have anyway. Because I failed the class, Dad made me go to summer school instead of summer band. They won - I did a whole semester's worth of proofs in 2 1/2 weeks. I can be reasoned with but I don't make it easy! If I thought it was stupid, there was no reasoning with me. I haven't changed much...
Every institution in our society is currently a cesspool.
Every human institution becomes a cesspool. The lesson to be learned is to not have faith in human institutions but it will not be learned by any liberals nor by most conservatives. Any stray liberal that does learn it merely becomes a conservative that will probably have to learn the lesson again.
Overall, our society is currently a cesspool. 🙁
Empire of lies. Everything is a con job.
Unfortunately Garber is also Fauci. He led Harvard’s insane Covid response. A symbolic victory has been won, but the machine remains fully intact.
I can think of few things more rich than to get busted for plagiarism and to then accuse those pointing it out of “Undermining education, expertise, legitimacy and credibility”...she is describing her own actions.
Gay was the token but Penny Pritzker is the massive $26Bn power family behind her. Gay is finally gone but the next battle is Pritzker. Can she continue as puppet master?
Gay is NOT “gone.” She’s just moved off the stage into an obscenely rich sinecure, which is the Harvard Corp proudly raising a middle finger to their critics.
David is correct. Those Pritzker trust-funded grotesques are behind all this shit that has been going on for the last 20+ years. They were bankrolling both Obama and Hilary in 2008. Congress should look into the preferential treatment Hyatt hotels get for traveling bureaucrats. Hopefully some of the red states’ congresses do the same.