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The university has already announced that Gay will not be fired, and Gay of course has said she refuses to resign.

The cancer is too deep now to save the patient. It isn't only the DIE bureaucracies. Essentially the entirety of the admin and professoriate, as well as the bulk of the student body, are infected with the mind virus. Removing all infected cells would be the same as killing the organism.

It wants to DIE, so we should let it.

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Thank you for your comment, John. When I woke up this morning, I thought, 'well, that's the quickest Harvard civil war ever, and my side lost.' But I just got off the phone with an alum who's as infuriated as I am, and I've decided that all we did was lose the first battle. Claudine Gay and her accomplices aren't going to steal the University from alums who know right from wrong without a fight. Bill Ackman's not backing down, and neither am I. The Harvard Governing Bodies are well advised to get ready for battle.

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I can easily believe alumni are largely furious, and I support your fight 100%. I'm simply skeptical the institution can be saved at this point. The rot goes deep.

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I really appreciate your support. Objectively, of course I'm skeptical. For them to double down on this absolute atrocity of a situation is grotesque. It's the faculty support + Penny Pritzker, IMO, though Ken Chenault is also rumored to be very much in her corner. In my personal life, I'm a deep believer in parallel institutions. I stopped donating to Harvard in 2020 and now give that money to people I think are doing good work to fight the thoroughly repugnant and deeply un-American DEI bureaucracy. But Harvard means too much to me to just walk away.

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Yes that's it.

As society heals, DEI will sort of gradually fade from relevance as the practical and pragmatic push it to the boring side.

Because inspiration, of a beautiful and true kind, is the only thing that makes a difference.

Yet I will celebrate the day I see a tour of "The Harvard Poopbody DEI Museum."

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If the UPenn president had been intersectionally like Gay, You think she would have been gone?

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Possibly, but Magill's situation is different, and Pennsylvania is different. Magill has done more stupid and IMO, antisemitic things than Gay. She supported a Palestinian book festival that hosted many Jew-hating authors, and rumor has it that she was posting photos of her family to Facebook rather than responding to the Hamas attack. (I don't think universities should respond to political events at all.) UPenn is PA's marquee school, and the governor told the press he found her testimony unacceptable. MA's governor, the insane lefty Maura Healy, has been silent. Magill was easier to dislodge.

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