{"id":139879,"date":"2024-01-06T11:32:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=139879"},"modified":"2024-01-06T11:32:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T16:32:32","slug":"three-takeaways-from-the-claudine-gay-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/three-takeaways-from-the-claudine-gay-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Three takeaways from the Claudine Gay resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take #1: The mainstream media is a bigger joke than ever.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Associated Press headlined<\/a> “Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.”<\/p>\n

Later that day it sort of backtracked<\/a>, changing the headline to “Plagiarism charges downed Harvard\u2019s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage.”<\/p>\n

It noted the original headline didn’t meet its “standards.”<\/p>\n

But that wasn’t all. Regarding Chris Rufo<\/a> posting “SCALPED” on X in response to Claudine Gay quitting, the AP described the comment as \u201cinvoking a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only is the AP not aware that term is used by journalists<\/a> “when their reporting leads to someone\u2019s resignation or firing,” it hilariously later edited this statement too, adding \u201calso used by some [Native American] tribes against their enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does the AP have high school freshmen writing its articles?<\/p>\n

Over at CNN, Matt Egan said this<\/a> about Gay’s resignation: “We should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone’s ideas in any of her writings. She has been accused of sort of more like copying other people’s writings without attribution. So it’s been more sloppy attribution than stealing anyone’s ideas.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0New York Times’<\/em> Mara Gay invoked Rufo’s “scalped” remark\u00a0(below)<\/em> to whine<\/a> that the Right is actively working to “slander” and “discredit” folks like the now-former Harvard president.<\/p>\n

“This is really an attack on academic freedom … This is an attack on diversity,” she said. “This is an attack on multiculturalism … I don\u2019t have to say that they\u2019re racist, because you can hear and see the racism in the attacks.”<\/p>\n

(Mara) Gay also said (with a straight face) that (Claudine) Gay and other progressive college heads “bring people from all over the world together … of diverse backgrounds … and that you actually have more scholarly rigor<\/em>” (emphasis added).<\/p>\n

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NYT's @MaraGay<\/a> on Claudine Gay resigning: "This is really an attack on academic freedom … This is an attack on diversity. This is an attack on multiculturalism, & … I don\u2019t have to say that they\u2019re racist, because you can hear and see the racism in the attacks" pic.twitter.com\/vLFQqtesqG<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n