Harvard President Claudine Gay says her
antisemitism comments were misunderstood
and insists school WILL take action against
students calling for the genocide of Jews
after ferocious backlash and donor boycott
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Jen Smith
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/6/2023 1:52:57 PM
Harvard President Claudine Gay is today walking back her shocking comments on antisemitism, insisting her words have been 'confused' and that the school will take action against anyone threatening Jewish students.
Gay and the presidents of UPenn and MIT have been eviscerated for telling congress yesterday that calls for the genocide of Jews do not violate their codes of conduct.
After ferocious backlash and a donor boycott, Gay released a statement today insisting she'd been misunderstood.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 12/6/2023 1:57:52 PM (No. 1611841)
She thought that she could get away with her Jew hatred .
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/6/2023 1:58:58 PM (No. 1611844)
SHE is confused....we didn't confuse what she said. She noted that the school was going to lose hundreds of millions....so suddenly is changing her rotten tune.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Buckrog 12/6/2023 2:07:27 PM (No. 1611855)
Yep, #2! Donor on line 1, donor on line 2, donor on line 3...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 12/6/2023 2:07:56 PM (No. 1611856)
Alert the Guinness folks that President Claudine Gay (?) is about to bring ever greater glory and honor to Harvard by setting a new land-speed record in pedaling backwards. Go Claudine, go! You're a credit to, uh, never mind.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nimby 12/6/2023 2:10:34 PM (No. 1611861)
They were clear as crystal. And we have the receipts. Just resign
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/6/2023 2:25:57 PM (No. 1611876)
On the contrary. It was clearly revealed and fully understood what the three ‘ladies’ were thinking and what their institutions’ policies and culture are.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/6/2023 2:27:46 PM (No. 1611878)
Ms Gay went on to say, "What I said yesterday makes perfect sense. You people are just too stupid to interpret it correctly."
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
singermom9 12/6/2023 2:29:21 PM (No. 1611879)
RIGHT. She had all day yesterday to make her 1 point clear and TODAY she says she was misunderstood? Totally believe her. / NOT
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ocho reales 12/6/2023 2:34:29 PM (No. 1611882)
So let's see here: A BA from Stanford and a PhD from Harvard in Political Science. Yet so inarticulate that "her words were confused." WOW!!! I'm gob smacked!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Luandir 12/6/2023 2:34:33 PM (No. 1611883)
Claudine, a direct "yes" or "no" will eliminate all possibility of being misunderstood. Instead, you chose to smirk and waffle. Enjoy the blowback.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jayjeti 12/6/2023 2:42:16 PM (No. 1611887)
It should be titled "2020 revisionist Corrects Antisemitism." Just lick a finger and see which way the wind blows.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 12/6/2023 2:42:34 PM (No. 1611888)
This is what happens when weak, confused, ill-prepared, unqualified affirmative action hires are put in charge. One sees it everywhere one looks these days. Suddenly all the "stunning and brave" wymmen thrust into leadership in order to satisfy some quota look foolish and weak--because THEY ARE! At some point either our society will recognize this or it will perish. Although it is abundantly clear that there are more than enough foolish and unqualified men to go around (looking at you, Joe Biden), the rush to push women and people with brown skin into leadership without attempting to sort for actual qualifications will bring down every institution that allows itself to be so co-opted, including our armed forces.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 12/6/2023 2:44:14 PM (No. 1611889)
Bottom line, it's about Trump, and Trump hatred . It's about his Jewish daughter and his grandchildren it's about moving me Embassy to Jerusalem it's about a serving the reality of Jews and denying the hatred of Hamas and their friends.
It's about Trump and it's about Jews all tied up.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/6/2023 3:11:58 PM (No. 1611904)
Too dumb to handle messaging. The hatred was too strong, I guess.
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"Misunderstood," you were "misunderstood"? That excuse has been used many time before, Sweetheart. Get real. You meant exactly what you said.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
formerNYer 12/6/2023 3:37:15 PM (No. 1611917)
Right, you want me to believe that the president of Harvard can't speak concise enough to explain their policy on free speech/hate speech? And the words were 'confused? ' By whom? You, the press, the listeners?
Well maybe you're too stupid to be president of Harvard.
How's this: Calling of the elimination of Jews will not be tolerated at Harvard.
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Feels like "Winning" We want more of this please!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/6/2023 3:42:36 PM (No. 1611923)
Misunderstood, misstated, misinformation, lies. A lot of that going around lately. If you can't trust a Harvard president to state something clearly, academia is a total failure.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/6/2023 3:44:13 PM (No. 1611924)
The donors obviously did not misunderstand her comments, and they should not tolerate her as the President of Harvard either.
Companies should have a hard time hiring any Ivy League graduate, particularly from the past 15-20 years.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/6/2023 3:55:34 PM (No. 1611931)
Sorry Marxist you CAN NOT UN-RING THAT BELL!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mifla 12/6/2023 3:55:50 PM (No. 1611932)
Another liberal getting beat up by public opinion when she misjudges the polling.
SSDD.
No one believes your lies. But don't worry, you still be invited to the liberal cocktail parties
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Rama41 12/6/2023 4:00:01 PM (No. 1611935)
"It would only be actionable, she said, if the hate speech crossed into 'conduct'." Sure, calling for genocide against Jews is just like threatening blacks with lynching. It depends on the context. /s
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
3XALADY 12/6/2023 4:21:07 PM (No. 1611946)
We need qualified men in charge of these institutions. I'm tired of seeing female mayors, governors, AGs - anywhere where a qualified man used to serve and have now disappeared. Especially when they are of the democrat persuasion. They are incompetent.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
dbdiva 12/6/2023 4:37:20 PM (No. 1611956)
Harvard is bleeding donors and there are calls for Claudine to lose her job. Therefore, Claudine is using any tack necessary to preserve both, saying whatever is most expedient at the moment however insincere her words might be. She'll remain an antisemite and nothing will change at Harvard if she keeps her job.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
leonardo 12/6/2023 5:35:52 PM (No. 1611989)
DEMOCRATS will happily "walk bacK" utterances which turn out to be politically untenable, especially when they think that you won't notice.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/6/2023 6:25:08 PM (No. 1612008)
This is what happens when one is hired based on melanin levels and what one has between the legs. She looks like a black Rachel Madcow.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/6/2023 6:31:15 PM (No. 1612010)
I'm sure I don't have the 'smarts' of a Harvard President, but when I express an opinion about Hamas and Israel, NO ONE mistakes what I say.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 12/6/2023 6:49:20 PM (No. 1612019)
Harvard is mostly operated by its deans. The president is a figurehead and mainly fundraises. She better wise up. As for President Gay persoanally, she is a leftist of the first order, and and affirmative action hire, and really very likely the least qualified president Harvard has had in its 350+ year history.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
danu 12/6/2023 7:13:12 PM (No. 1612029)
they must go to their rooms directly, no dessert.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/6/2023 7:15:46 PM (No. 1612031)
Out of a job, Claudine. Did you shoot your skiier boyfriend?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Sully 12/6/2023 7:37:30 PM (No. 1612046)
She couldnt condemn the call to genocide, only the carrying out. Thinks she can nuance her support for the next holocaust. Nice try Goebbels.
Thank mercy folks still have the sense to call her out.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Ragman73 12/6/2023 8:34:57 PM (No. 1612064)
She wasn't hired because she was brilliant and could think on her feet. She is just a modern set of drapes for the President's Office. Hating, or showing little or no support or respect for Jews, is what is in vogue or style. She probably doesn't even realize that during the Civil Rights movements in the 1960's Jewish liberals marched with blacks to support them. Simply a token. Nothing more. Harvard doesn't have the guts to ask for her resignation.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
rochow 12/6/2023 10:33:47 PM (No. 1612101)
Just fire this piece of trash! Any normal company would have shown her the door yesterday!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Johann 12/6/2023 10:42:53 PM (No. 1612102)
I'm shell-shocked that an idiot can become the President of Harvard.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
jimincalif 12/7/2023 12:13:17 AM (No. 1612116)
The answer is so simple that only an academic type with a Ph.D. could possibly overlook it. One word is all that’s needed to address these threats - expulsion. Send some of these antisemite snowflakes packing, that’s accountability.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/7/2023 12:53:18 AM (No. 1612121)
Jooooo hater! I heard her! She is anti demotic and should be fired! No pension! Nothing! Go away in shame! 🐖
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/7/2023 12:56:03 AM (No. 1612123)
Antisemetic!!! Pro Demonic!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/7/2023 12:56:31 AM (No. 1612124)
A person did not need to be an Ivy League College graduate to understand exactly what Pres. Claudine Gay and the rest of the others testifying yesterday were saying. They were all perfectly clear in their non condemnation of antisemitism on campus.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
tootall 12/7/2023 10:17:00 AM (No. 1612408)
I say BULLS**T Tax the endowment unless unbiased History is taught
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
broken01 12/7/2023 10:37:13 AM (No. 1612433)
Poor Claudine Gay. She stepped on that anti-Semitic cow pie and just can't seem to get it off of her shoe. Too late for this obvious AA hire Jew hater to do any backpedaling as her comments were fully understood for the message that they sent. That it was ok for the leftist indoctrinated young thick heads full of mush to protest in favor of Hamas and against Israel. So much so that Jewish students at her university and at other have been threaten with death. That is a disgrace just like the reason why that dolt Gay is trying to take her foot out of her mouth. Those big alumni checks aren't coming in and her job is one the line. If she has any honor for our oldest university, she'd resign but as we know people of her ilk have none. So, expect her to still be there with that same racist anti-Semitic attitude.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
paral04 12/7/2023 10:53:43 AM (No. 1612447)
She wasn't misunderstood. Her actions, and her words, proved it.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 12/7/2023 11:19:18 AM (No. 1612478)
She looks arrogant
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