We remember, a few weeks ago, important American university leaders had relativized calls for genocide against the Jewsand this in a context of an outbreak of anti-Semitism on their campus.
The head of the University of Pennsylvania had to resign in this sequence.
This has led many to question the university nomenklatura more broadly. Particularly on Claudine Gay, who headed the prestigious Harvard University until January 2, and who had also put these hateful comments into perspective.
Some research revealed that Gay had been guilty of plagiarism on numerous occasions, notably in her doctoral thesis, but also in her other works. Which is a serious moral fault compromising the legitimacy of a university leader.
Harvard
On Tuesday, she had to resign.
But did she do it by recognizing her faults?
No way! On the contrary!
She did so by accusing her detractors… of racism! In other words, her critics would have hidden behind ethical concerns to lead a campaign against her because she has black skin.
It is a classic and particularly formidable victimization strategy, which has the effect of intimidating ordinary mortals who are made to understand that any criticism of a “non-White”, whatever the reason for this criticism, will end by being associated with racism. Unless behind this strategy there is a background of paranoia.
I would like to point out that this strategy of victimization of Claudine Gay is taken up by a large part of the media. Even though she had to resign for the reasons we know, they preferred to see it as a victory for white supremacy.
At this level of delirium, we are no longer talking about political disagreements, but about a deliberate lie to save American multiculturalism at all costs, which transforms individuals into simple identity categories.
We are falling into a complete relativism where truth and falsehood are erased by the demands of political correctness.
This crisis at Harvard forces us to finally think about the dangers of the wokization of the university.
Claudine Gay had also given herself the mission of completely converting Harvard to the equity, diversity and inclusion approach, the famous EDI approach, which represents a new intellectual obscurantism within institutions dedicated to knowledge. The EDI bureaucracy today represents a Western-style neo-Soviet bureaucracy, which colonizes all areas of existence, with absurd and discriminatory standards, based on militant anti-white racism.
Wokism
Plagiarism among academics is absolutely reprehensible, whatever the color of the person who is guilty of it. It touches on the very nature of the institution.
Merit, for its part, must be our only compass, and be indifferent to the color of each person’s skin.
That this evidence now amounts to transgression says a lot about the leaden screed that dominates the public debate.
