
A Harvard University dean responsible for helping students with their academic and wellness goals is facing calls for his termination for social media posts recently unearthed that bashed President Donald Trump, mocked Rush Limbaugh’s death, called for hating the police, and denounced whiteness.
Gregory Davis, the Allston Burr Resident Dean of Dunster House, posted on social media in 2020 that he doesn’t blame people for wishing ill on Trump, and posted a famous meme from the movie Rocky IV stating: “If he dies, he dies.”
A screenshot of the post was published recently by Yard Report, a relatively new right-leaning blog about Harvard, which flagged this month a series of posts from David from 2016 through 2021.
Davis suggested Trump was the “worst of Nixon and Hitler” in a 2016 post. In 2021, Davis posted: “Rush Limbaugh is dead. Just as important: the Smucker’s Natural was on sale at the Safeway.”
In 2019, he posted: “Whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it.” In 2020, he defended looting and rioting as a part of democracy akin to “voting and marching.” He also posted that cops are “racist and evil.”
“These comments, and many others, made by Davis disqualify him from serving in his role at Harvard,” argued the non-bylined post on the Yard Report. “They reveal an ideology unbefitting of American society, let alone its most elite institution of higher education. The university must fire him immediately.”
The Harvard Salient, also a right-leaning outlet, found an Instagram post from 2024 from Davis that stated: “Wishing everyone a great Pride. Remember to love each other and hate the police.”
“The post appeared only one month before his official appointment to the Dunster House deanship,” the Salient reported. “…This timeline raises two possible explanations: either Harvard’s hiring committee failed to conduct a basic review of his public posts, or it did so and concluded that such views were not disqualifying.”
A Harvard spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon the university cannot comment on personnel matters, but referred to a message Davis sent to Dunster House about the posts: “These posts do not reflect my current thinking or beliefs. I regret if my statements have any negative impact on the Dunster community.”
Weighing in on the matter in an op-ed in The Hill, George Washington University law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote that “Davis personifies the unblinking hypocrisy of Harvard.”
“For several months, Harvard faculty have been portraying themselves as victims of political intolerance after the Trump administration sought to force the university to restore intellectual diversity in its departments. The same faculty that spent years purging conservatives and dissenters from their school hyperventilated at the notion that anyone else should object to ideological conformity,” Turley wrote.
In 2018, Davis debated scholar Heather Mac Donald on affirmative action, defending it as a necessity to battle systemic racism and bias.
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