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I haven’t talked about the college presidents resigning, most notably Harvard’s President last week over plagiarism charges.
The reason for that is not that I don’t think it’s a victory…it’s that I have mixed feelings about it.
On one hand, a scalp is a scalp, and we get so few of them that we should value all of them. Well done to Christopher Rufo and the journalists working with him; it’s a feather in his cap for sure.
But, after spending a decade working in higher education, including at and with several Ivy League schools, I can say one thing for sure: Nothing is going to change.
The role of the President is chief fundraiser. That’s what they do. That is their entire reason for being. Claudine Gay didn’t need to leave Harvard because of plagiarism - they don’t care about that. She had to leave because the coverage was so bad that it was going to be impossible for her to raise the money required of the person in that role.
They can just get someone else, without the baggage, and who likely shares the same inclination as Gay does with regard to leftist politics.
In fact, it could be argued that you can get every president of every college in the country to resign, and it still wouldn’t make a dent, because getting college presidents to resign doesn’t necessarily lead to changes in the faculty, and the faculty are the problem.
Has a single faculty member been fired from Harvard?
No.
In fact, Claudine Gay was given a faculty role with a $900,000 a year salary AFTER she resigned. So much for plagiarism, huh?
The beauty of the system that the left has designed is that everyone is expendable.
They are collectivists.
You serve at the will of the collective, and if they judge you as incapable, it doesn’t matter what your rank is or how much money you make, you will be removed and replaced with another cog in the machine.
Remember, the people are the means of production.
When people cite Social Reproduction Theory (the idea that the social system will reproduce itself until it is disrupted) as the reason to abolish the biological, nuclear family, they are telling us the means of production they wish to control the most are the people and the social structure produced by the people.
The only way to create and perpetuate Socialism is to control the people producing the system to make sure it produces what they want it to.
Marxism is not just an economic model, because economies are made up of people.
In order to transition from one economy to another economy, you can’t do that without transitioning the people.
When people are the means of production, they can be removed and replaced with a newer model, just like parts of any machine.
Claudine Gay will be replaced with a better model, one that can generate the funds that Harvard needs them to generate, and she will go back to teaching a far-left ideology in the classroom to students (the very thing we were supposed to be fighting).
So, no, while I think her resignation must be counted as a win, it’s a very, very small win, and it’s entirely possible that the unforeseen consequences of her going back to teaching students could have more practical consequences.
But it’s more than just her.
I gave some additional thoughts on stream about if I thought DEI was really dead:
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Actively Unwoke Podcast Ep 45: Did conservatives really kill off DEI when the President of Harvard resigned?