If "Diversity" means hiring people based on their race does this mean we're NOT supposed to mention that they're hired based on their race?
So before the hiring/accepting commences the job/college acceptance must consider race as a crucial factor, but after the hiring is done it's gauche and racist to mention that the person was hired because of their race?
It's almost as if being treated as sacred cows by white liberals does black people a disservice by turning them into symbols instead of people, by turning their historical oppression into a credential and moral chit, and by not preparing them for life outside the victim-worshipping hothouse of upscale academia, where they may be asked to stand on their own two feet.
Astute as always, CP! The out come of the Congressional hearings was predictable:
It was predictable that those calling for Claudine Gays’s resignation would be branded as racists;
It was predictable that Harvard would not fire their beloved diversity hire for fear of being called racists;
The best prediction was for people like Chris Bray to expose Claudine Gay as the fraud she is by actually finding and linking the documentation that proves she’s a fraud.
The most successful product of the modern academy is the all-purpose Bigotry Accusation, it's what the New Left used to clear out all their competition ("That Chaucer scholar never centers the marginalized!"), it is their skeleton key and Swiss Army knife, the superweapon they use to win every battle (bc it works)—they will never relinquish it, no matter how much the rest of us see through it.
I am hoping (perhaps naively) that the obscene campus reaction to Oct 7 & the Israeli response will prove so unbearable to rational people of all stripes across the U.S. that it will affect Ivy League economics and their policies will start changing.
Sorry to be contrary, but expecting the Ivy League to renounce their faith in Social Justice is like expecting the Vatican to renounce Catholicism. A single scandal will not be enough to budge any of these people, esp not with so much wealth and social power.
The New Left did not march through all our institutions to seize the means of cultural and educational production just to back down over a media shitstorm—the ideological capture of America (and the entire West) has only just been locked in, it will take something much more cataclysmic to end it.
The Vatican better maintain round-the-clock double security on Francis’ corpse when he eventually dies. The faithful will make every conceivable effort to invert his corpse in his coffin, or if possible, dispose of it at a waste water treatment plant, the most fitting place for his repose.
Great observation CP. Believers of diversity programs think that once the door has been busted open, the undeserving applicant should get cleansed of the diversity stain and should no longer be identified as having benefitted from the aforementioned diversity program.
Interestingly, the term “White privilege” is used to describe a system that benefits European Whites that is used to delegitimize the accomplishments of said group yet a diversity program beneficiary gets unfair privileges yet we are NOT supposed to talk about their legitimacy.
In my opinion, it’s all narrative control designed to mask a groups distaste for a merit based society.
Yes, the possibilities are endless. Unfortunately you only get cyclotrons to work by knowing what you are doing. Kind of unfair, you should only have to have the right opinions.
Gay white male doesn’t cut it. Not even close. If you want to ascend the intersectional pyramid, the only way forward is to put on a dress. Fortunately, you can probably get away with just a tuck instead of full on genital mutilation. I hear Target has some apparel that does the trick. It’s located right below the giant mural of a morbidly obese black woman in lingerie.
Notwithstanding all the selection criteria you fail to meet, there is one overriding disqualification: Your entire professional being is focused on discerning what IS, rather than a malevolent hallucinogenic dream of what ought to be. I’m sorry, but you will not do at all. (🤣)
I would take her place, but I’m a woman, not really Elvis, and I refuse to shave my head and wear ridiculous glasses. And I certainly wouldn’t want to be surrounded by Harvard types. Yikes!
And yet the Harvard Corporation stands behind her and claims she is the best one to lead Harvard. What is her appeal? Gender and skin color. That tells you the most important information about Harvard. Harvard, where Asians can’t be admitted because they are too accomplished; Jewish students are threatened with call for genocide or even physical violence; lawyers who defend odious clients are fired from their teaching position; and where misgendering a transgender is an offense worthy of expulsion.
“African Americans score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. The gap appears before children enter kindergarten and it persists into adulthood. It has narrowed since 1970, but the typical American black still scores below 75 percent of American whites on almost every standardized test.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-white-test-score-gap-why-it-persists-and-what-can-be-done/
Indeed. Jeffrey Epstein taught psychology at Harvard...without ever having formally studied or practiced in the field. Unless you consider his use of applied manipulation and coercion techniques on his victims as the practice of psychology? Which he apparently was really good at.
In the Soviet Union the top administrators were selected based upon their Communist Party membership cards and how well they played the internal party politics and how loyal to the party, its agenda they were. And preferably not too intelligent that they might think for themselves.
Sames. We have arrived. One good thing, a system that's built on slack-jawed fealty to itself untethered from excellence, or even just competence inevitably falls in on itself. The only questions are when, not if, and how much collateral damage it causes. The 'when' question is directly tied to the amount of force it is capable of imposing on the people it governs and the will of those atop the system to use the full might they possess to do so; how sociopathic are they and what is their appetite for democide? If the past four years are any indication I'd say they have a voracious appetite.
My research paper, if necessary to keep my grossly overpaid position, would be titled: “Con Artists in Higher Education and the Dummies who support them.”
In a recent interview, Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater) noted that at the time of our nation’s founding the entrance exam for Harvard required candidates to translate the Book of John from Greek into Latin. Today, Claudine Gay is considered a “distinguished scholar” and is being defended by the people calling the shots at that same university. Yet another reminder that our institutions are rotten to the core. Is there any hope that our country pulls out of this?
Based on the Wikipedia timelines of her academic career and publication history, in 2000 she was hired by Stanford as a tenure-track Assistant Professor having published just a single [coauthored] journal article.
By 2006, she had been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor--again, at Stanford!--with a grand total of 5 articles to her name, all in low-tier journals. No book, of course.
In 2006 her 6th journal article was published, in the year that Harvard hired her as full Professor, capping her meteoric rise as an academic with a scholarship record so comically weak that it boggles the mind. Another 4 articles trickled out over the next 8 years, at which point she became an administrator with zero publications since then.
“Distinguished scholar”--what a joke. If that’s considered “distinguished” at Stanford and Harvard, I’d like to see what their merely average professors are like. They must have no publications at all!
Black women are the biggest pawns in the leftist world. I hope the white men who elevated bigot Oprah to prominence are burning in Hell. Like most black women in positions of power, they are extremely biased because they are at the bottom of hierarchy. They are irrational dopes who think they are gaining an upper hand on the white man and a step over white women but they are really just pathetic hacks, like Gay.
It has been noted some ethnic groups are indifferent to substance. Such is the lure of status. They are happy with the impressive title and give no thought to the ridicule it may bring. Deputy VP of Diversity at Organization X etc. Just saying. This has been observed for over 150 years now.
On a lower stratum of society this same group will blow all their money on bling for the admiration it brings and give no thought for tomorrow, another famous observation made by luminaries as far apart as Fidel Castro and 19th century British explorers.
And obviously I don't mean the Chinese, lol. Such is the arresting quality of political correctness that common observations from thirty years ago are now actively overlooked. Alas, reality still exists as Harvard's boss is now learning.
Also I read somewhere that only White people blush with embarrassment. I don’t know if that’s true but I would certainly be blushing if I was in her shoes
Some identifiable groups have consistent low empathy to such an extent it has to be genetic. This is a factor in the lack of shame. High trust societies use shame to keep everyone in check, and it requires a very high degree of connection to others to work. In European cultures it is women who do this. Even now when a woman loses the plot and shouts an insult at another woman the instinct is to call her a slut or a whore.
That is weaponized shame; it works, and some don't have it. That's why the low empathy types create chaotic cultures characterized by instability (among other things).
Yes, and high trust societies are sitting ducks for parasites as well. Guilt is also a control mechanism used bt TPTB whereby past events (whether true or not) are used to bludgeon whole groups of people.
Yes, but it is a crude weapon. Shame and guilt exist for a reason. They are useful. Anything useful that is intentionally abused is dangerous to the abusers. When the penny finally drops there will be much pushback, to put it mildly.
Once we get to the point no one is impressed about accusers constantly harping on about slavery, for example, the response will start with - OK, what have you accomplished? Nothing? Then why are you here if you are not earning your keep?
So the accusation is that Gay has been admitted to and hired by a bunch of elite educational institutions on her way to the top without having actually accomplished anything … and Keith Boykin’s defense of her is to list those institutions.
As impressive as Summers' CV is, (cultivated by a lifetime of wealthy networking and powerful contacts), I would rather have Claudine Gay in the office, than him. He is a crook of massive proportions.
Come on, man, look at those glasses! They remind me of Alan Greenspan's glasses, so she has to be brilliant. Plus, I saw somewhere that the analysis in just one of her 11 published papers proved beyond doubt that blacks living in cities with black mayors have more interest in government than blacks in other cities. Game changer!
The sad thing is that such a paper *absolutely had to be written*. In academia, everything -- even the most basic claims -- has to have a citation. Otherwise, you're just repeating "anecdotes" and aren't "evidence based".
Especially the passage in his autobiography where he lovingly describes the character of Gay's distant cousins. They've expunged it from recent editions I note.
Chris, I love reading all your articles because of your unique writing voice and style, but I believe this is one of your best. I’ve re-read it many times and have forwarded it to several friends. Thank you for the deep dive into the credentials of this fraudster. Fine work, sir.
Chistopher Brunet of Karlstack had Claudine Gay's number way back in 2022 (https://www.karlstack.com/p/exclusive-leaked-document-proves?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fclaudine%2520gray&utm_medium=reader2), before she was the president of Harvard. But . . . nobody cared. So why do we care so much now? She's not changed. She is who she always was. What was her mortal sin that someone should notice her inadequacy I wonder? What thing did she do that she could not go just bumbling merrily along? In other words, whom was the mediocre Claudine Gay finally stupid enough to offend out of all the people she's probably offended in her life and got away with?
The thing that angers me more than the Claudine Gay's of the world is the reason why suddenly they're being noticed. They've done a lot of damage in their careers, gutted some of the most well-respected institutions in this country to bring them down to their own level of ineptitude, but they've just been allowed to scamper along. But now . . . now they're noticed. I wonder what changed?
No; it’s because she hit the third-rail of not bowing to Zionists. Same as McGill. You can be as racist as you want but don’t touch that third rail baby.
If "Diversity" means hiring people based on their race does this mean we're NOT supposed to mention that they're hired based on their race?
So before the hiring/accepting commences the job/college acceptance must consider race as a crucial factor, but after the hiring is done it's gauche and racist to mention that the person was hired because of their race?
It's almost as if being treated as sacred cows by white liberals does black people a disservice by turning them into symbols instead of people, by turning their historical oppression into a credential and moral chit, and by not preparing them for life outside the victim-worshipping hothouse of upscale academia, where they may be asked to stand on their own two feet.
Astute as always, CP! The out come of the Congressional hearings was predictable:
It was predictable that those calling for Claudine Gays’s resignation would be branded as racists;
It was predictable that Harvard would not fire their beloved diversity hire for fear of being called racists;
The best prediction was for people like Chris Bray to expose Claudine Gay as the fraud she is by actually finding and linking the documentation that proves she’s a fraud.
Well done.
Thanks!
The most successful product of the modern academy is the all-purpose Bigotry Accusation, it's what the New Left used to clear out all their competition ("That Chaucer scholar never centers the marginalized!"), it is their skeleton key and Swiss Army knife, the superweapon they use to win every battle (bc it works)—they will never relinquish it, no matter how much the rest of us see through it.
I am hoping (perhaps naively) that the obscene campus reaction to Oct 7 & the Israeli response will prove so unbearable to rational people of all stripes across the U.S. that it will affect Ivy League economics and their policies will start changing.
Sorry to be contrary, but expecting the Ivy League to renounce their faith in Social Justice is like expecting the Vatican to renounce Catholicism. A single scandal will not be enough to budge any of these people, esp not with so much wealth and social power.
The New Left did not march through all our institutions to seize the means of cultural and educational production just to back down over a media shitstorm—the ideological capture of America (and the entire West) has only just been locked in, it will take something much more cataclysmic to end it.
"... like expecting the Vatican to renounce Catholicism."
https://www.reuters.com/world/transsexuals-can-be-baptized-catholic-serve-godparents-vatican-says-2023-11-08/
So you're saying there's hope!
A Social Justice and Catholicism merger, like 2 cousins joined at the altar.
Chrislam. It's what on tap.
https://911nwo.com/2022/01/27/appendix-134-chrislam-one-world-religion-confirmed-led-by-pope-francis-leaders-of-the-worlds-religions-formally-adopt-human-fraternity-document-at-7th-congress/
"... like expecting the Vatican to renounce Catholicism."
https://www.reuters.com/world/transsexuals-can-be-baptized-catholic-serve-godparents-vatican-says-2023-11-08/
So you're saying there's hope!
The Vatican better maintain round-the-clock double security on Francis’ corpse when he eventually dies. The faithful will make every conceivable effort to invert his corpse in his coffin, or if possible, dispose of it at a waste water treatment plant, the most fitting place for his repose.
I read your post and felt like slipping into a warm bath with a razor blade. (But not today – I have to go feed the horses.)
Quoting Jeff Childers:
“Poison Ivy Leagues”
Agreed. Hopefully those are cracks I’m seeing in their Swiss Army knife...
One hopes it will finally blunt or break through overuse.
Great observation CP. Believers of diversity programs think that once the door has been busted open, the undeserving applicant should get cleansed of the diversity stain and should no longer be identified as having benefitted from the aforementioned diversity program.
Interestingly, the term “White privilege” is used to describe a system that benefits European Whites that is used to delegitimize the accomplishments of said group yet a diversity program beneficiary gets unfair privileges yet we are NOT supposed to talk about their legitimacy.
In my opinion, it’s all narrative control designed to mask a groups distaste for a merit based society.
And you can bet, most of those screaming about her being distinguished etc, are not where they are on merit.
"Merit" is a white cisheteropatriarchal imposition created to enforce systems of oppression lol
Like math and grammar ;)
Lol🤣
Why is it better to fail at Harvard than succeed at your state university?
One word: McKinsey
or one word plus: McKinsey and Wall Street
Harvard connections lead to jobs that start at 6 figures...
I would be happy to do her job for only $900,000 per year, but then I'm only a humble cyclotron physicist.
Do you have the awkward glasses that look like safety goggles? You'll need those to be a true intellectual in the world of academic administration.
For $1m a year I’ll buy two pair.
If you are really curious, see my picture on my site:
https://drp314.substack.com/archive?sort=new
I'm retired, but this is where I worked:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Superconducting_Cyclotron_Laboratory
Nice! I visited the synchrotron in Illinois a few times, MSU was one of the partners where we visited
Yes. But.....that entity....Gay.......
She has THE Glasses.
So.
Well, you could always be a GAY cyclotron physicist. If your wife objects, then non-binary...
Yes, the possibilities are endless. Unfortunately you only get cyclotrons to work by knowing what you are doing. Kind of unfair, you should only have to have the right opinions.
Gay white male doesn’t cut it. Not even close. If you want to ascend the intersectional pyramid, the only way forward is to put on a dress. Fortunately, you can probably get away with just a tuck instead of full on genital mutilation. I hear Target has some apparel that does the trick. It’s located right below the giant mural of a morbidly obese black woman in lingerie.
What a world we find ourselves in.
😂
Notwithstanding all the selection criteria you fail to meet, there is one overriding disqualification: Your entire professional being is focused on discerning what IS, rather than a malevolent hallucinogenic dream of what ought to be. I’m sorry, but you will not do at all. (🤣)
Correct. It's not so much what you are, it's what you identify as that matters most.
Sad, but true.
I would take her place, but I’m a woman, not really Elvis, and I refuse to shave my head and wear ridiculous glasses. And I certainly wouldn’t want to be surrounded by Harvard types. Yikes!
If you were really Elvis, though, I'd fight like hell to get you that job.
Thank you, thank you very much.
Yes, but are you able to check the key selection criteria boxes, race and gender?
Alas, I am woefully deficient in all such areas.😩
And yet the Harvard Corporation stands behind her and claims she is the best one to lead Harvard. What is her appeal? Gender and skin color. That tells you the most important information about Harvard. Harvard, where Asians can’t be admitted because they are too accomplished; Jewish students are threatened with call for genocide or even physical violence; lawyers who defend odious clients are fired from their teaching position; and where misgendering a transgender is an offense worthy of expulsion.
“African Americans score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. The gap appears before children enter kindergarten and it persists into adulthood. It has narrowed since 1970, but the typical American black still scores below 75 percent of American whites on almost every standardized test.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-white-test-score-gap-why-it-persists-and-what-can-be-done/
Chris,
Lori Lightfoot and Jacinda Arden both work at Harvard now. The bar is high my friend.
https://youtu.be/4F4qzPbcFiA
The well of wisdom just keeps getting deeper.
Indeed. Jeffrey Epstein taught psychology at Harvard...without ever having formally studied or practiced in the field. Unless you consider his use of applied manipulation and coercion techniques on his victims as the practice of psychology? Which he apparently was really good at.
Don't forget Comrade Bill de Blasio!
https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/bill-de-blasio
The Party always rewards its most loyal apparatchiks, no matter how stupid or incompetent they may be.
As well as Brian Stelter...
Both dudes.
In the Soviet Union the top administrators were selected based upon their Communist Party membership cards and how well they played the internal party politics and how loyal to the party, its agenda they were. And preferably not too intelligent that they might think for themselves.
Sames. We have arrived. One good thing, a system that's built on slack-jawed fealty to itself untethered from excellence, or even just competence inevitably falls in on itself. The only questions are when, not if, and how much collateral damage it causes. The 'when' question is directly tied to the amount of force it is capable of imposing on the people it governs and the will of those atop the system to use the full might they possess to do so; how sociopathic are they and what is their appetite for democide? If the past four years are any indication I'd say they have a voracious appetite.
Sounds like it's time for an updated version of Avalon Hill's old "Kremlin" boardgame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin_(board_game)
Precisely! Thanks for sharing that!
My research paper, if necessary to keep my grossly overpaid position, would be titled: “Con Artists in Higher Education and the Dummies who support them.”
In a recent interview, Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater) noted that at the time of our nation’s founding the entrance exam for Harvard required candidates to translate the Book of John from Greek into Latin. Today, Claudine Gay is considered a “distinguished scholar” and is being defended by the people calling the shots at that same university. Yet another reminder that our institutions are rotten to the core. Is there any hope that our country pulls out of this?
The country will do fine. It may just not be bringing its "great" institutions along with it.
Based on the Wikipedia timelines of her academic career and publication history, in 2000 she was hired by Stanford as a tenure-track Assistant Professor having published just a single [coauthored] journal article.
By 2006, she had been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor--again, at Stanford!--with a grand total of 5 articles to her name, all in low-tier journals. No book, of course.
In 2006 her 6th journal article was published, in the year that Harvard hired her as full Professor, capping her meteoric rise as an academic with a scholarship record so comically weak that it boggles the mind. Another 4 articles trickled out over the next 8 years, at which point she became an administrator with zero publications since then.
“Distinguished scholar”--what a joke. If that’s considered “distinguished” at Stanford and Harvard, I’d like to see what their merely average professors are like. They must have no publications at all!
Yes! Recruited by Harvard with six journal articles. Laugh-out-loud funny.
Black women are the biggest pawns in the leftist world. I hope the white men who elevated bigot Oprah to prominence are burning in Hell. Like most black women in positions of power, they are extremely biased because they are at the bottom of hierarchy. They are irrational dopes who think they are gaining an upper hand on the white man and a step over white women but they are really just pathetic hacks, like Gay.
And like the pornogropher who lives in the mansion next to that of the orthopedic surgeon, they don't care one bit. They made it...big time, baby!
It's gonna be a helluva ride from here on out.
I wonder if she believes she is a “distinguished scholar”. Or if she is just happy to grift away
It has been noted some ethnic groups are indifferent to substance. Such is the lure of status. They are happy with the impressive title and give no thought to the ridicule it may bring. Deputy VP of Diversity at Organization X etc. Just saying. This has been observed for over 150 years now.
On a lower stratum of society this same group will blow all their money on bling for the admiration it brings and give no thought for tomorrow, another famous observation made by luminaries as far apart as Fidel Castro and 19th century British explorers.
And obviously I don't mean the Chinese, lol. Such is the arresting quality of political correctness that common observations from thirty years ago are now actively overlooked. Alas, reality still exists as Harvard's boss is now learning.
Indeed!
Also I read somewhere that only White people blush with embarrassment. I don’t know if that’s true but I would certainly be blushing if I was in her shoes
Some identifiable groups have consistent low empathy to such an extent it has to be genetic. This is a factor in the lack of shame. High trust societies use shame to keep everyone in check, and it requires a very high degree of connection to others to work. In European cultures it is women who do this. Even now when a woman loses the plot and shouts an insult at another woman the instinct is to call her a slut or a whore.
That is weaponized shame; it works, and some don't have it. That's why the low empathy types create chaotic cultures characterized by instability (among other things).
Yes, and high trust societies are sitting ducks for parasites as well. Guilt is also a control mechanism used bt TPTB whereby past events (whether true or not) are used to bludgeon whole groups of people.
Yes, but it is a crude weapon. Shame and guilt exist for a reason. They are useful. Anything useful that is intentionally abused is dangerous to the abusers. When the penny finally drops there will be much pushback, to put it mildly.
Once we get to the point no one is impressed about accusers constantly harping on about slavery, for example, the response will start with - OK, what have you accomplished? Nothing? Then why are you here if you are not earning your keep?
So the accusation is that Gay has been admitted to and hired by a bunch of elite educational institutions on her way to the top without having actually accomplished anything … and Keith Boykin’s defense of her is to list those institutions.
Now that, that’s a smart guy.
I thought about saying exactly that to him, but I saw that he wouldn't get the point.
Someone on the selection committee noticed her last name and said, "Hey. That's worth some points, right?"
As impressive as Summers' CV is, (cultivated by a lifetime of wealthy networking and powerful contacts), I would rather have Claudine Gay in the office, than him. He is a crook of massive proportions.
Come on, man, look at those glasses! They remind me of Alan Greenspan's glasses, so she has to be brilliant. Plus, I saw somewhere that the analysis in just one of her 11 published papers proved beyond doubt that blacks living in cities with black mayors have more interest in government than blacks in other cities. Game changer!
It's the paper I linked to. Black voters trust government more with black mayors. Gasp!
The sad thing is that such a paper *absolutely had to be written*. In academia, everything -- even the most basic claims -- has to have a citation. Otherwise, you're just repeating "anecdotes" and aren't "evidence based".
If Harvard fires her she can always be a contestant on RuPaul's drag race
I’m laughing so hard right now
Replace her with Dr. Carol Swain.
I don’t think Dr. Swain has the stomach to walk Harvard’s halls with a chainsaw. You don’t send Albert Schweitzer to do John Wick’s work.
Especially the passage in his autobiography where he lovingly describes the character of Gay's distant cousins. They've expunged it from recent editions I note.
Chris, I love reading all your articles because of your unique writing voice and style, but I believe this is one of your best. I’ve re-read it many times and have forwarded it to several friends. Thank you for the deep dive into the credentials of this fraudster. Fine work, sir.
Thanks!
Chistopher Brunet of Karlstack had Claudine Gay's number way back in 2022 (https://www.karlstack.com/p/exclusive-leaked-document-proves?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fclaudine%2520gray&utm_medium=reader2), before she was the president of Harvard. But . . . nobody cared. So why do we care so much now? She's not changed. She is who she always was. What was her mortal sin that someone should notice her inadequacy I wonder? What thing did she do that she could not go just bumbling merrily along? In other words, whom was the mediocre Claudine Gay finally stupid enough to offend out of all the people she's probably offended in her life and got away with?
The thing that angers me more than the Claudine Gay's of the world is the reason why suddenly they're being noticed. They've done a lot of damage in their careers, gutted some of the most well-respected institutions in this country to bring them down to their own level of ineptitude, but they've just been allowed to scamper along. But now . . . now they're noticed. I wonder what changed?
They eventually have a high-profile moment that reveals them, is the thing. The mask slips.
No; it’s because she hit the third-rail of not bowing to Zionists. Same as McGill. You can be as racist as you want but don’t touch that third rail baby.
She forgot who manages Harvard's money. You can sabotage and slander anyone you want, but you better not offend them!
💯
Let them fall, thier own game and hypocrisy brings them down.
It’s cuz she pissed off the Zionists. And she can be fired because as WSJ wrote today, it would expose she was never qualified in the first place.