the pages of conservative publications to mainstream publications like the new york times. now, harvard itself, as investigated the allegations and found that they are, at worse, instances of inadequate citation. they are not with the word plagiarism makes you think of. gay was not stealing anybody s ideas, nor was she presenting other people s ideas at ours her own. nevertheless, today, claudine gay resigned immediately. the story of claudine gays resignation is about a lot of things. was it easier for conservatives to push her out because she s a woman? was it easier because she is black? probably all of the above. but this is also a story of bad actors, like chris, rufo trying to bend academia to their own ideological missions. we ll talk to and sd card professor about all of this and the other major bad faith argument used to chase president day out, and what it means for this course in the country, after this. country, after this.
can actually push back against this. you and i have spent a lot of time talking about banning books. we believe in free speech. you also have written about some of the things that make people uncomfortable in this time, this challenging time. chris ruffo, who a lot of people may not know about him. alex wagner has done a lot of work on chris ruffo, threat that he poses. he tweeted recently saying nine contributing an initial $10,000 to plagiarism hunting fund. we will expose the rot in the ivy league and restore truth rather than racialized ideology, as the highest principle in academic life. i would argue that you in your writings, your books, your teaching, you are pursuing truth. you would like to three known. oh, absolutely. things you people may not have heard before. but someone put people like you or claudine gay or anybody into racist ideology. it s the very formulation is predicated on a fallacy that
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, rufus crt campaign agenda pulled up enough concerted pressure against nicole hannah jones, the cofounder of the 16 19 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. ruffault then 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. early last year, desantis pointed to ruffle as one of the members of the board of trustees for florida s public university new college. they re, again, ruffault