AP: Republicans Pounce!...on: Claudine Gay

As the conservative adage goes:

When Republicans do something wrong, that's the story.

When Democrats do something wrong, Republican criticism of them is the story...

The left has taken over academia and is destroying it...but that's ok! The real threat is from conservatives who had POLITICAL MOTIVES for pressuring Harvard to apply the same standards to Gay that everyone else is subject to... 

This is all, of course, a threat to ACADEMIC FREEDOM(tm)...a roughly liberal concept like free speech that the illiberal progressive left only invokes when it's in their interest to do so. 

Then there's the THEY'RE RACISTLY ASSUMING GAY WAS A DEI HIRE angle. Counterpoint: irrelevant. Also counterpoint: Gay was obviously a DEI hire. This is how academia works now. I don't know anything about her hiring, and I'd be willing--in fact eager--to bet $1,000 that she was a DEI hire. In fact, I'd have eagerly taken that bet before I found out that she only has like 10 publications in about as many years. You don't get tenured at Harvard with a record like that. Much less hired as president.

DEI pervades academia now. Appeals to The Holy Trinity pervade academia. Almost every announcement of anything, every policy proposal, every everything invokes the Trinity. And, of course, the Trinity may not be questioned. DEI is an all-purpose justification for anything--a kind of justificatory wild card that authorizes faculty, administrators and students to push for and implement any left-friendly policy. Hire more nonwhite males? DEI! Hire yet another person doing CRT? DEI! Hire a woman who "does" feminism, gender, etc? Despite having hundreds of women already "doing" that? DEI! (The university will never be "diverse" until everyone "does" race and "gender"...) Want to hire more useless administrators of some kind? Just say "DEI"! It doesn't matter! It doesn't have to make sense! We were told that we had to hire a bazillion more shrinks because STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS...oh, and DEI! Wut? Shut up, I explained!

Er...well anyway, that story is laughable. 

As ("It's Good To Be") The King might say: it stinks on ice.