Common Sense Prevails

When Harvard President Claudine Gay and other elite university presidents testified before Congress last month, their remarks were revealing and presented the nation with an unexpected teachable moment. We clearly saw the disgusting ideology that is so prevalent on our university campuses.

Now, with her resignation, we are experiencing another revealing and teachable moment.

Gay’s resignation was a victory for common sense. Her pathetic and unacceptable response to the rampant anti-Semitism on Harvard’s campus aside, her continued service as president made a total mockery of academic standards and excellence.

That so many progressives, including Barack Obama, defended her was just another sad example of the total collapse of moral standards of right and wrong in society today. (See next item.)

But here’s how the Associated Press (AP) reacted to Gay’s resignation: “Harvard President’s Resignation Highlights New Conservative Weapon Against Colleges: Plagiarism.”

That was the absurd headline on a report blasted out to hundreds of newspapers and media outlets around the country.

Christopher Rufo, who did much of the research to expose Gay’s plagiarism, was attacked in the Associated Press story. Why? Because he posted a story on social media announcing her resignation with this comment: “SCALPED: Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns.”

The Associated Press attacked Rufo for his use of the term “scalped,” claiming it was a reminder of “a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans.”

Evidently, the hacks at the AP don’t know much about history either! How many newspapers printed that nonsense? The Native Americans practiced scalping before any European colonists arrived.

But what does any of that have to do with an anti-Semitic plagiarist being forced out at Harvard?

So, the narrative is not that the president of an elite university engaged in rampant plagiarism. The narrative is that conservatives somehow exploited it to “attack” higher education.

No. The “attack,” which is merely exposing the truth, is against the people ruining higher education in America!