One of the first people to highlight widespread plagiarism by the now ousted Harvard president, Claudine Gay has outright accused him of “lying” by claiming he “immediately requested corrections” to his published work.
Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank, joined those condemning Gay’s op-ed Wednesday in the New York Times in which he complained of being the victim of a “well-crafted trap” of racism.
“Claudine Gay lied to the New York Times,” Rufo wrote on X Wednesday in a blunt response refusing to accept Gay’s view of his scandal.
“He didn’t ‘immediately [request] correction,'” he said, noting how Gay and Harvard for months thwarted The Post’s initial investigation into his plagiarism in October, which was later dismissed as “absolutely bogus.”
“He denied the allegations, intimidated the New York Post into silence, and then corrected them only under duress,” he wrote.
“There are still dozens of uncorrected examples of plagiarism,” he claims of the dozens of allegations against his current work.
The ousted Harvard president, Claudine Gay, 53, is accused of lying about having her plagiarized work corrected. Harvard University/AFP via Getty Images
Gay, 53, claimed in his op-ed that he was a victim, rather than someone his Ivy League school admitted failed to meet its scholarly standards and one who admitted failing to handle antisemitic threats on campus.
US Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has also slammed Gay’s op-ed, saying, “This is not a ‘well-organized trap’ (to correctly quote former @Harvard president Claudine Gay’s disgrace).”
“Contrary to their attempts to deflect attention and assign responsibility elsewhere, everyone knows this is not a ‘well-orchestrated trap’ as the disgraced former university president claims,” Stefanik wrote on X.
Gay claimed in a recent op-ed that he was forced to resign as a result of a “well-organized trap” of racism. New York Times
“It’s not a trap. It is a colossal failure of university presidents on the global stage to answer simple moral questions.
“Goodbye.”
Harvard declined to comment Thursday on Rufo’s tweet.
However, the Ivy League school noted that the Harvard Crimson had reported that two journals that published Gay’s work had received requests for corrections.
Journalist Chris Rufo pointed out that Harvard called Gay’s allegations of plagiarism “absolutely false” and threatened legal action against The Post when it raised concerns in October. FOX News
Urban Affairs Review associate managing editor Emily Holloway told the school newspaper that it “accepted the correction,” and an editor at the American Political Science Review confirmed that Gay reached out to correct the 2001 paper, the Crimson reports.
The editors said the Review “will publish an appropriate corrigendum.”
Demands for Gay’s resignation began in the fall, when he would not condemn a group of more than 30 Harvard students who published a letter claiming Israel was “solely responsible” for the October 7 Hamas terror attack.
He posted on X that Gay “lied in the New York Times” and didn’t “immediately [request] correction.” @realchrisrufo / X
The call escalated after he refused to say that anyone calling for the genocide of Jews at Harvard would be punished when Stefanik asked him if calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the university’s code of conduct on bullying or harassment.
“It depends on the context,” replied the academic.
Afterward, reporters Rufo and Chris Brunet uncovered dozens of instances where Gay appeared to have almost replicated citations from other people’s work in his 1997 thesis — which has since received three corrections for “insufficient citation occurrences.”
Just hours before he announced his resignation Tuesday, the Harvard professor was hit with six new plagiarism charges — bringing the total number of allegations against him to more than two dozen.
But in his essay on Wednesday, Gay said he simply “neglected to state clearly that calls for the genocide of Jews are abhorrent and unacceptable, and that I will use every tool at my disposal to protect students from this type of hatred.” while he congressional testimony last month.
Gay announced his resignation on Tuesday amid ongoing antisemitism and plagiarism scandals.
“I never imagined having to defend decades-old and widely respected research, but the past few weeks have wasted the truth. Those who have relentlessly campaigned to oust me since the fall have often traded lies and ad hominem insults, not arguments. which is reasonable,” wrote Gay.
“They recycle tired racial stereotypes about Black talent and temperament. They reject false narratives of indifference and incompetence.
“It’s not lost on me that I’m creating an ideal canvas on which to project every concern about the generational and demographic changes taking place on American campuses: a black woman elected to lead a storied institution,” she continued.
The former Harvard leader also issued a warning about a “selfish agenda.”
Calls for Gay’s removal accelerated after he failed to say that anyone who called for the genocide of Jews at Harvard would be punished. Reuters
“In these tense moments, each of us must be more skeptical than ever about the loudest and most extreme voices in our culture, however organized or well-connected. Too often they pursue a selfish agenda that should be filled with more questions and less trust,” he wrote.
“Our nation’s college campuses must remain places where students can learn, share and grow together, not spaces where proxy battles and political positions take root. The university must remain a free place where courage and reason unite to advance the truth, no matter what forces oppose them.”
Gay’s resignation marks the shortest tenure for a Harvard president, just six months to the day.
He was the first black leader of the nation’s most prestigious university.
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