university presidents, including claudine gay, was headed by some odd bedfellows. chris ruffo, crt, most people, he doesn t know what crt is released he knows but he rep misrepresents it, blackmon of harvard alum and rich guy, jonathan greenblatt from the anti-defamation league. elise stefanik who has not articulated a particular apprehension about antisemites some of the time and this was her charge. what happened here? how did this all come together to end up ousting claudine gay? it s hard to fully understand. i think it will take some time to actually pull apart all of the elements. what is remarkable, i think, is how transparent the interest was in getting rid of her. and what s alarming is that it seems to be the case that these political forces can dismantle
university professor of women gender and sexuality an african american studies. professor, good to see. you normally again to talk to you about fun things like literature and books. this feels to me to be very dark. what has happened here. it is a confluence of a whole bunch of nefarious interests that got together to oust claudine gay. ostensibly it was first about antisemitism and then it became about inflated allegations of plagiarism in which chris ruffo took . it s a demoralizing moment. i think one of the things that has been lost in the conversation is how challenging the position was to be the leader of the any university at this moment so that we have all these constituencies, the board, the students, faculty, alums, and donors and all with varying investments in this moment of intense political conflict, a historic moment in many ways of devastating proportions. so it was difficult, i think,
it is a confluence of a whole bunch of nefarious interests that got together to oust claudine gay. ostensibly it was first about antisemitism and then it became about inflated allegations of plagiarism in which chris ruffo took . it s a demoralizing moment. i think one of the things that has been lost in the conversation is how challenging the position was to be the leader of the any university at this moment so that we have all these constituencies, the board, the students, faculty, alums, and donors and all with varying investments in this moment of intense political conflict, a historic moment in many ways of devastating proportions. so it was difficult, i think, to be a leader and then to have
we certainly haven t read their theses. claudine gay came under remarkable when scrutiny. it was a project really to oust university presidents, including claudine gay, was headed by some odd bedfellows. chris ruffo, crt, most people, he doesn t know what crt is released he knows but he rep misrepresents it, blackmon of harvard alum and rich guy, jonathan greenblatt from the anti-defamation league. elise stefanik who has not articulated a particular apprehension about antisemites some of the time and this was her charge. what happened here? how did this all come together to end up ousting claudine gay? it s hard to fully understand. i think it will take some time to actually pull apart all of the elements. what is remarkable, i think, is how transparent the interest was in getting rid of her. and what s alarming is that it seems to be the case that these
he is the reason that fox news became obsessed with it, and the recent a trump camp with the process with it, because it s a buzz term for pretty much anything to do with race. we know thanks to a reporter for the washington post that one made as requests, trump was watching. within a month, trump issued an executive order, demanding that no federal money be used for critical race theory. chris ruffo got what he asked for. after that, ruffo s anti-crt campaign agenda pulled up enough concerted pressure against nicole hannah jones, the cofounder of the 1619 project, at the university of north carolina denied her tenure. jones had a pulitzer prize of mcarthur genius grant and support from the schools chancellor and faculty, but conservative pressure worked. ruffothen set his sights on florida. he hoped for that governor ron desantis craft legislation on the stop woke act that restricted discussions of race and gender in schools, universities, and workplaces.