Claudine Gay breaks her silence: Ousted Harvard president publishes NY Times op-ed revealing she’s received DEATH THREATS and been called n-word countless times, as she plays down plagiarism allegations
Ousted Harvard President Claudine Gay is speaking out for the first time since her resignation in a New York Times essay, downplaying allegations of plagiarism and revealing she has been bombarded with racist threats.
Gay, 53, resigned Tuesday is now which shows that she has been threatened and attacked with hate speech.
Gay wrote, “On Tuesday, I made the heartbreaking but necessary decision to resign as president of Harvard. For weeks, both I and the institution to which I have dedicated my professional life have been under fire.'
'My character and intelligence have been questioned. My commitment to combating anti-Semitism has been questioned. My inbox is flooded with swear words, including death threats. I've been called the N-word more times than I care to count.”
She added: “My hope is that by resigning I will deprive demagogues of the opportunity to further weaponize my presidency in their campaign to undermine the ideals that have animated Harvard since its founding: excellence, openness, independence, truth .'
Her resignation came 28 days after her shocking congressional testimony about anti-Semitism on campus, where she refused to categorize calls for the genocide of Jews as harassment or to concede that Jewish students had a right not to feel safe at Ivy League campuses. schools.
In her resignation, Gay refused to acknowledge where she had gone wrong – without mentioning the December 5 testimonies or the mounting accusations of plagiarism against her – but said she had been the victim of racist threats.
Gay said in her New York Times piece: “The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader. This was just a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in the pillars of American society.”
She then admits to misrepresenting quotes in her work, but avoids using the word plagiarism.