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In reply to the discussion: HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY [View all]The Mouth
(3,359 posts)Everyone should be judged by the exact same standards as far as the law, as far as doing their jobs competently, and as far as not making such an ass out of themselves that they bring discredit to their institution. Always. Everyone. No matter ***HOW*** far left or right they are. Same Standards, to everyone, always. No more forgiveness for her being an anti-Semite and a plagiarist than anyone on DU would give her if she was a Trumper at Liberty University or some such institution.
Right and wrong actions are completely distinct from the personal and political views of the person, at least to everyone who is not a vile hypocrite.
She applied very different standards to the anti-Israel protestors calling for genocide ('from the river to the sea') than she would have to Nazis or Klansmen.
Good riddance, Harvard can do better, even my local JC could do better.
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