2023-12-25 00:30:26
NARRATIVE – American conservatives see the protection it receives from Harvard as the symbol of the woke drift of American universities.
Harvard University and its president are at the center of a new battle in the great culture war that is dividing America. Claudine Gay, first black president of the prestigious institution and leading figure in the university’s diversity policy, is accused of repeated plagiarism in her work. American conservatives see in the protection she enjoys from Harvard the symbol of the woke drift of American universities, where the obsession with race replaces all other considerations, including academic excellence. They also denounce the hypocrisy of institutions which do not apply the same rules to everyone, brutally punishing the slightest mistake against their rules, while showing a strange leniency towards plagiarism of the president, or anti-Semitism when it presents itself as anti-Zionism.
Liberals consider that these attacks are fueled by racist prejudices, and directed against…
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