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Claudine Gay: Not An AA Case

I was listening to Radio Derb over the weekend where he said that Harvard president Gay was clearly an Affirmative Action case because she's not the best and brightest. This is similar to many of the online comments I've seen.

it's incorrect and I'm going to tell you why.

First, let's get the plagiarism out of the way. That is an entirely different subject and to be entirely honest, much of lefty "academia" is nonsense to begin with. Much of it is not reproducible and much of the assumptions underlying them are unfalsifiable. That one of them would plagiarize on top of all that doesn't surprise me in the least bit. But even IF that is the case, she would STILL not be an AA case.

The best and brightest are rarely the best able to manage large organizations. The best and brightest are usually very, VERY skilled in a particular field and are poor managers.

What does a president of a university really have to do? 

Are they actually scholars?

No.

Are they rocket scientists or those finding cures for cancer?

No.

Therefore, being the "best and brightest" is NOT the qualification for president of a university. A university president is the big picture person. 

When Trump ran for office, my support of him was not because I thought he was the best and brightest or most experienced. Clearly if that was the criteria, I would have supported Clinton. No, Trump had the right ideas and I thought he was bright enough to surround himself with the people with the expertise (best and brightest) to advise him and execute the vision. He failed on that front on many issues except SCOTUS.

Similarly Gay's job was to provide or execute the Harvard Vision. What is the current Harvard Mission?

WOKE nonsense.

Gay was and is supremely qualified to direct that vision. As a matter of fact, as far as I have read she has executed on that front quite well. When the challenge came, Gay was supported by the board AND faculty 100%. As someone who has been in education for over 2 decades, I can tell you that you rarely get faculty on board to that extent on "controversial" issues.

This means that the problem is not Gay. The focus on Gay is a distraction from the cesspool that Harvard and other institutions of higher propagandizing have become. Gay would not have her job if Harvard had an actual academic vision.

So no, Gay is not an Affirmative Action case. She is supremely qualified for the job that Harvard advertised. So are the other presidents similarly situated. It is a mistake to concentrate on her just so a "scalp" can be had. The entire organization is the problem. Until then, even if Gay is removed, the real issue will persist.

This Bad...

 Ran across this today:

If this continues long term NY is in trouble. I don't know how much of the exodus is from upstate NY, which is already in trouble, but still.  Expect to see more money grabs (congestion pricing increases soon after it starts as some people stop driving into NY. See speed traps across the state, in the name of safety of course. Don't you know the ticket you get days after endangering a highway worker saved his life?

More pushes for the end of work from home as the need for commuting revenue for the MTA and costs ancillary to commuting can "fill the coffers".

Eric Adams already said he's open to increasing city taxes. 

Keep it up, NY. Keep it up.

Garvey's Ghost TV 12-11-2023: The Maskholes are At It Again

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Two topics today
The Obvious Double Standard of Campus Speech
23:00: COVID JN1: The Maskholes Are Big Mad Again.

Make 'Em Unwelcome

 

He did it. Governor DeSantis actually convinced one of the libs to move to Canada. A mark of distinction. pic.twitter.com/Gg3zoV7P9Y

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 4, 2023

In one of my Garvey's Ghost TV episodes recently, I can't remember which, I mentioned that what sane people need to do, particularly with the child groomers in the schools is to make them feel *very* unwelcome.

They should be denied any and every service they can be legally denied. They should be subject to dirty looks and the like. I'm actually for far more "aggressive" things but I wouldn't want to be liable for incitement.

That said, I think what Chris Rufo posted is proof that making them unwelcome is a winning strategy. Thankfully it is the state doing it, one of the things they *should* be doing, rather than the locals having to do it.

Once these pedophiles, groomers and their enablers understand that their behavior is not going to be tolerated and their careers dead ended in YOUR town, they will pick up and leave. Just like any other evil person, when they meet real resistance they move along to easier targets.

I worked in higher ed for 20+ years and the bad thing is that there are a LOT of these types in the pipeline. Schools with sane policies and sane students will need to push out more students to fill the gap. And remember that these folks will leave Florida and come to YOUR state and your town. You check the internet for these folks so they don't end up messing with your children's heads and doing irreparable damage.

No. Not The Government's Job

 

One thing that has become very clear since The Covid Happening is the extent to which the US state is essentially a form of soft socialism. Government agents declared they had rights to tell you where you could go, and when. They could tell you what to put on your face and then what they could put into your body. So called "emergencies" were the ever present loopholes by which the state could just up and decide what the market does.

Climate emergency, No more gasoline powered cars. Who gave the government such power?

Bloomberg decided that you shouldn't be able to get a soda.

Murphy and Cuomo decided you couldn't get a plastic or paper bag when you go buy your food.

Now come the 15 min cities, congestion pricing being the gateway drug for that.

But that's not the topic. No, the topic is that some genius thinks it is the job of NYC to end diabetes.

The report calls for the opening more diabetes treatment centers in hospitals in poor neighborhoods, overhauling Medicaid reimbursement to cover more diabetes monitoring and prevention programs, expanding healthier food options in underserved communities and sponsoring public health campaigns

As is usual with Democrats, everybody has an angle on how to get paid off the taxpayer dime.

Here's the deal, Type II diabetes is almost 100% the cause of lifestyle choices of the person so afflicted. They literally ate and sat their way into the disease. It was their choice. Neither the city nor the state of NY (or the feds) need to do anything for persons so situated.

There is plenty of advice out there on how to eat (and live) to prevent Type II diabetes.  If you have a smartphone with Rumble or YouTube, you can find this stuff out easily. 

Your health is YOUR job. Too many people want to hand that responsibility to daddy state and then have daddy state expropriate money from the rest of us to enforce dumb and intrusive programs in order for the "do gooders" to feel like they are "doing something".

Also, this is a sneaky means of getting the state to promote vegan and vegetarianism. I'm glad Mayor "Bull Connor" Adams found his results in a plant based diet but that is not the only means of dealing with Type II diabetes.  The reason it worked for him (and other diets for others) is because these diets severely limit the amount of added sugar and carbs a person intakes. That is the no. 1 key.

See. Solid advice with nary a taxpayer dime spent.