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Claudine Gay has fallen prey to her own ideology‚ one which values identity and supposed victimhood above the truth. A little over six months ago‚ Claudine Gay was appointed president of Harvard University‚ the first black president of that now embattled institution. She recently resigned her post‚ only to retain a $900‚000 salary as a professor. No doubt her appointment had more to do with the imperatives of an engulfing diversity‚ equity‚ and inclusion (DEI) agenda and less to do with the quality and volume of her scholarship‚ later found to be riddled with plagiarism. Gay’s academic credentials are certainly not commensurate with the position of president at what was once one of the most venerated institutions of higher education in the United States and the world. With only one monograph and nine peer-reviewed single-author academic articles on her curriculum vitae‚ it would be a wonder how the fifty-three-year-old Gay rose through the academic ranks so swiftly if not for her race and the intersectional demands of DEI. By comparison‚ I have authored four academic books and as many peer-reviewed‚ single-author academic articles as Gay and arguably contributed to more rigorous fields‚ including the history of science‚ philosophy‚ economics‚ etc. (sans plagiarism). Gay’s work focuses largely on the political representation of blacks‚ the voting patterns of blacks of different socioeconomic statuses‚ and affordable housing‚ among other related topics. After reading some of Gay’s papers‚ I concluded that she is not the total academic slouch that some critics have made her out to be. Yet her nova-like career has been fueled by affirmative action and turbo-charged by DEI. Her ultimate undoing‚ however‚ did not stem from her academic performance‚ or lack thereof. She was‚ after all‚ promoted to the presidency by the Harvard Corporation‚ the top governing board of the university‚ with the self-same credentials. The plagiarism in her academic writing came to light only after her ill-fated appearance at a congressional hearing on antisemitism‚ following the events of October 7‚ 2023‚ and beyond. Israel’s immediate response to the Hamas attack sparked pro-Palestinian protests at Harvard and other universities‚ protests which supposedly featured calls for the “genocide” of Jews‚ although there does not seem to be any evidence for such claims. It was not Gay’s plagiarism but her performance on Capitol Hill that triggered powerful opponents to scrutinize her presidency‚ although they should have done so much earlier. Her plagiarism served as a pretext for removing her from office. During that Congressional hearing‚ recapped by the Harvard Crimson‚ Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) repeatedly asked Gay whether calls for genocide on her campus violated Harvard’s code of conduct regarding bullying and harassment. Gay responded by saying that she found such speech “personally abhorrent‚” but continued with the refrain‚ “We embrace a commitment to free expression and give a wide berth to free expression even to views that are objectionable‚ outrageous‚ and offensive.” This claim is certainly untrue‚ as my own academic history and that of dozens of academics makes clear. And many speakers scheduled to give talks on college campuses can attest to the fact that academia has become utterly intolerant of views that differ from the prevalent “social justice” orthodoxy‚ as can a bevy of students who have dared to voice views at variance with the official creed. Harvard ranks last among American colleges and universities for free speech‚ according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! Stefanik’s relentless questioning continued: “At Harvard‚ does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment?” Gay answered‚ “It can be‚ depending on the context.” The badgering went on‚ and Gay’s answers were deemed scandalously insufficient by Stefanik and the rest of the committee‚ and‚ perhaps no less importantly‚ by prominent Harvard donors and alumni. Rather than allowing herself to be backed into a corner‚ Gay should have instead asked for evidence of calls for “genocide.” Stefanik ended the questioning by calling for Gay’s resignation. Meanwhile‚ had universities remained altogether neutral on political issues‚ as they should‚ Gay would not have been caught in the position in which she found herself. But the more she kept digging‚ the deeper the hole she occupied. Gay later apologized on social media‚ saying‚ “Substantively‚ I failed to convey what is my truth‚” referring to the subjectivist postmodernist notion that truth is a function of identity‚ a notion that Ludwig von Mises termed “polylogism.” Gay issued a series of statements about the Hamas attack and its aftermath. Soon after‚ William A. Ackman‚ a billionaire hedge fund manager and an alumnus and donor‚ began a personal investigation of his alma mater. In a statement that has been called Ackman’s “Anti-DEI Manifesto‚” published on X‚ Ackman stated‚ “I first became concerned about @Harvard when 34 Harvard student organizations‚ early on the morning of October 8 before Israel had taken any military actions in Gaza‚ came out publicly in support of Hamas‚ a globally recognized terrorist organization‚ holding Israel ‘solely responsible’ for Hamas’ barbaric and heinous acts.” Ackman continued by stating that the student protests “began as pro-Palestine and then became anti-Israel” and further suggested that the anti-Israel sentiments expressed by students constituted “antisemitism.” Antisemitism‚ he averred‚ was rife on college campuses: “Sadly‚ antisemitism remains a simmering source of hate even at our best universities among a subset of students.” Ackman then quickly pivoted by suggesting that antisemitism was not the root of the problem after all but rather a symptom: “I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus‚ an oppressor/oppressed framework‚ that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests‚ helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment.” I have been writing about the oppressor/oppressed dyad for years. I’ve suggested that this configuration is what postmodernism has in common with Marxism. Postmodernism translates Marxist class categories into identity terms. Ackman’s point was that the oppressor/oppressed schemata ended up figuring Jews as oppressors‚ and thus‚ Palestinians (and Hamas) as oppressed. This ideology‚ he implied‚ explains the rationale for and the fervor of the protests and vilification of Israel‚ as well as Gay’s ineffectual responses. Antisemitism‚ Ackman went on to suggest‚ is merely an instance of a broader problem—DEI‚ which operates under this binary. The conflation of criticisms of the DEI paradigm and the politics of war in the Middle East is a tactic well suited to enlist critics of DEI into the ranks of pro-Israel supporters. This is‚ in fact‚ the same trick to which Jordan Peterson‚ Gad Saad‚ and other prominent critics of campus orthodoxy have also resorted. However‚ it is a sneaky maneuver that establishes a false equivalency. While student protesters may have been indoctrinated to see all issues through this oppressor/oppressed prism‚ it does not represent the sole rationale for opposing Israel’s execution of the war in the Gaza Strip. Claudine Gay has fallen prey to her own ideology‚ one which values identity and supposed victimhood above the truth. She has learned that some identities trump her own. The same ideology and identity politics are being wielded to justify Israel’s massacre in the Gaza Strip and to bully and harass its critics. BREAKING: UN Planning New Pandemic To Establish Planetary Dictatorship

It is not difficult to understand Big Tech’s venal motives for catering to customers’ psychology to increase their use of social media. As the New Year commences‚ I peeked into the rearview mirror and rediscovered an article that appeared in Lisa DePasquale’s diurnal newsletter‚ Bright. Published on January 3‚ 2023‚ by StudyFinds [one word]‚ the headline was a terse red flag for the future of our free republic: “The Social Disaster: Children Who Frequently Check Social Media Face Significant Brain Changes.” Based upon a then recent study from the University of North Carolina‚ the gist of the article is in equal parts instructive and alarming: ‘The findings suggest that children who grow up checking social media more often are becoming hypersensitive to feedback from their peers‚’ says Eva Telzer‚ a professor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s psychology and neuroscience department and a corresponding author‚ in a statement.‘Social media platforms provide adolescents with unprecedented opportunities for social interactions during a critical developmental period when the brain is especially sensitive to social feedback‚’ the study concludes. This longitudinal cohort study suggests that social media behaviors in early adolescence may be associated with changes in adolescents’ neural development‚ specifically neural sensitivity to potential social feedback. It is not difficult to understand Big Tech’s venal motives for catering to customers’ psychology to increase their use of social media: the corporations’ already humongous profits.URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! But the societal dimension of hardwiring youth to become hypersensitive to “social feedback”—i.e.‚ “peer pressure”—within their network will have an immense and deleterious impact upon a free society. Certainly‚ it is not lost upon the administrative state‚ who is hellbent upon controlling (often in conjunction with legacy/regime media) both the means and messages of citizens’ interactions on social media‚ be it censorship‚ pushing bogus‚ statist narratives‚ etc. Per the paper published in JAMA Pediatrics‚ “students who look at social media at least 15 times daily were the most sensitive to social feedback.” While these students are the most at risk‚ their peers are not far behind them: “Previous research shows that 78 percent of 13- to 17-year-olds report checking their devices at least hourly each day and 35 percent look at the top five networks ‘almost constantly.’” Understandably‚ the researchers assert that “further research examining long-term prospective associations between social media use‚ adolescent neural development‚ and psychological adjustment is needed to understand the effects of a ubiquitous influence on development for today’s adolescents.” Let’s give them an admittedly non-expert head start on this research by gazing back even further in our rearview mirror to March 20‚ 2018‚ where StudyFinds previously published another alarming article‚ “It’s Not Your Smartphone You’re Addicted to‚ It’s the Social Interaction.” It’s author‚ Ben Renner‚ succinctly lays out the findings by the researchers at McGill University: “[people’s] urge to socialize is actually an ingrained human need resulting from eons of evolution. For those who argue spending too much time on a smartphone makes a person anti-social‚ the authors say overuse is actually the product of being hyper-social.” McGill psychiatry professor Samuel Veissière admitted‚ “There is a lot of panic surrounding this topic. We’re trying to offer some good news and show that it is our desire for human interaction that is addictive – and there are fairly simple solutions to deal with this.” What‚ one may ask‚ is “this?” “Many of the most addictive smartphone apps such as Facebook or Snapchat tap into this constant search for meaning and the ingrained desire to see others and be seen by them… Veissière insists the need for social interaction is a positive instinct‚ but in the age of constant connectivity to the internet and the variety of social platforms it provides‚ that instinct can be kicked into ‘overdrive‚’ leading to unhealthy addictions.” Okay‚ but what are the proposed “simple solutions?” “Veissière and his team recommend turning off push notifications on your phone if possible and purposefully setting aside time to check your phone to help battle these addictive impulses.” Yet‚ for a hypersocial citizenry addicted to social media and “high on likes‚” these simple solutions are the hardest‚ as anyone experienced in treating substance abuse addictions can attest. And it is almost impossible when the institutions subverted by the elitist Left are colluding to use social media “approval” to compel the citizenry into compliance with the state’s directives. Adjusting the rearview mirror to 2020‚ the COVID pandemic provided the paradigm by which we can view the damaging effects of the administrative state’s coordinating with Big Tech‚ Big Pharma‚ the legacy/regime media‚ academia‚ and their shock troops of left-wing trolls (paid and otherwise) to enforce its arbitrary and capricious effects upon the populace. “Wear the mask” and “get the vaccination” meant you are a good citizen; if not‚ you are a homicidal cretin “killing people” and worthy of any punishment society wishes to inflict upon you. So‚ too‚ 2020 also showed how the administrative state and Big Tech could collude on election interference by denying and censoring stories about the Hunter Biden laptop. Anyone trying to bring the truth to light was censored and “deplatformed” from their social network and its feedback—a cyberspace shunning. Now‚ in 2024‚ through the deliberate‚ debilitating din of the Communications Revolution‚ we can glean the insidious aim of the administrative state‚ Big Tech‚ and a host of leftist institutions and minions: the erosion of individual liberty and the perverse inversion of subordinating sovereign citizens into subjects of the government. Doesn’t history instruct how‚ in attempted revolutions/coups‚ the cabal urgently prioritizes capturing and controlling society’s means of communication? Using social media to cajole‚ coerce‚ and inure citizens into conforming within the “collective” and its “hyper-socialism‚” the Left’s first punishment for exercising non-state-sanctioned‚ independent thought and dissent is and will continue to be the ostracization from one’s social interactions. Other punishments‚ such as job loss‚ harassment lawsuits‚ etc.‚ will follow. Frankly‚ what is being “cancelled” but being locked in a virtual gulag? Thus‚ while the solutions may be simple‚ such as dismantling the administrative state‚ reforming their colluding leftist infested institutions‚ and offering hope to those addicted to “likes‚” etc. – they will be decidedly difficult. But the future of our free republic requires an intervention. Inaction is not an option‚ especially given the speed AI is metastasizing within an already social media addled populace. For those whose decisions are driven in whole or in part by social media‚ they may well refuse to admit the problem as they wheel and whistle past the graveyard of individuality and liberty. For those of us not driving under the influence of social media‚ as we peer out the windshield to the crossroad of freedom and serfdom ahead‚ one has the sensation of time slowing down as a collision unfolds. 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