Why DEI Regime Cries Victim in Harvard-Claudine Gay Scandal

It can't and won't defend the politicization, corruption, and incompetence that flows naturally from its leftism, so it can only resort to smearing its critics

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Regime Remains Unbowed

Harvard’s deflection, if not defiance, in the wake of disgraced-but-still-tenured professor Claudine Gay’s resignation from the school’s presidency suggests that the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) regime at the heart of the scandal remains unbowed.

By the same token, the efforts of Harvard and Ms. Gay, echoed by left-wing media mouthpieces, to make her demise a story of racism indicates weakness—that the regime cannot or will not defend itself on the merits, but rather must resort to smearing those exposing the rot endemic to that regime.

Sustained pressure could still cause the DEI House of Cards to topple—albeit not without a war with the left’s stranglehold over the elite academy, and, by extension, all the institutions it feeds, at stake.

I write about the laughably non-responsive responses of Harvard and Claudine Gay to her resignation, and their efforts to smear and toxify their critics in a new piece at the Epoch Times.

As I write in part:

Harvard wants to divert the public’s attention from the real scandal: that politicization, corruption, and incompetence have festered there, and that these pathologies flow naturally from the institution’s leftism. So, too, does not only Jew-hatred but also the hatred of Judeo-Christian Western civilization, which is fomented by the DEI regime Claudine Gay led.

Gay penned a New York Times op-ed, illustrating a stunning lack of self-awareness, in which she wrote that:

“My hope is that by stepping down I will deny demagogues the opportunity to further weaponize my presidency in their campaign to undermine the ideals animating Harvard since its founding: excellence, openness, independence, truth.”

But alas, DEI undermines those very ideals by subordinating merit and virtue to left-wing ideology cloaked in the moral garb of promoting the downtrodden based on their place in the identitarian victim hierarchy.

“Diversity” is code for left-wing ideological conformity among people of different colors and sexes.

“Equity” is a call for social engineering so that representation in every realm is proportional to America’s identity makeup—as opposed to letting individual achievement without regard to immutable characteristics drive the composition of our institutions.

“Inclusion” excludes everyone that DEI deems an oppressor—through no fault of their own, since DEI judges people on bases entirely out of their control, save for their politics.

Where DEI pervades, excellence wanes; illiberal ideological monocultures flourish; hatred and division take hold.

Further:

Claudine Gay is right when she says, in the New York Times, that the scandal she sits at the center of is one “skirmish in a broader war.”

But that “war” is not about “unravel[ing] public faith in pillars of American society.”

Rather, it’s about restoring those pillars hollowed out by our credentialed pseudo-elites to strength and splendor by ensuring that institutions once again prioritize merit—virtue and excellence—over politics—the racial Marxism of DEI.

Read the whole thing here.