The Right Is Dancing on Claudine Gay’s Grave. But It Was the Center-Left That Did Her In.
Posted on AllSides January 5th, 2024
From The Left
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OPINION
At first blush, the fury over Claudine Gay’s departure from the Harvard presidency over complaints about serial plagiarism looks like a classic left-right fracas.
On one side, there were far-right culture-warriors braying about “wokeism” and targeting yet another university. On the other, there were progressives recoiling at the racist tone of the campaign against the school’s first Black president.