Serial Plagiarist Claudine Gay To Teach ‘Reading And Research’ Ethics Class At Harvard

Claudine Gay resigned as the president of Harvard University in January over charges of plagiarism.

The university assured her she would remain employed for a salary of around $900,000 a year as an administrator. This week, Harvard announced Gay would assume the role of teaching a graduate-level "Reading and Research" course at Harvard.

Yes, you read that correctly. 

A woman outed for serial plagiarism – or "inadequate citations," the phrase that the school used to euphemize her misdeeds – will preside over a "research" course that emphasizes proper attribution. 

How this is real-life and not a skit on "SNL" or a headline from the Babylon Bee is amusing. 

Harvard says the course does not provide letter grades. Letter grades uphold a grading system that disproportionately favors white students, several Harvard administrators argue. 

Grades are racist.  

The school adds that the course requires "written work of sufficient quantity and quality so that the course is equivalent to a lecture course or a seminar."

Got it.

Future employers can rest assured that students who pass the course will be well-equipped to publish adequately-cited work after learning from Dr. Gay… 

Claudine Gay. (Getty Images)

The watchdog website College Fix asked Harvard if Gay plans to address the plagiarism allegations in her course. The university did not provide a comment.

Of course, it didn't. 

In January, kooks like Al Sharpton and Jemele Hill portrayed Claudine Gay as a victim of a right-wing smear campaign to bring down an innocent black woman.

They called her a victim of "cancel culture."

"The anti-cancel culture folks are predictably quiet about what’s happened to Claudine Gay. Of course," tweeted Boston Globe columnist Renée Graham.

"We are likely going to see an uptick in cancel culture coming from the right," added Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. 

Those claims are dishonest. Willfully dishonest, that is.

Conservatives did not target Gay because she's a black woman. The Right reported on Gay's wrongdoings after learning she is a serial plagiarist and, unlike former Penn president Liz Magill, held on to her job after a cringe congressional testimony.

As we argued at the time, there's a stark contrast between cancel culture and accountability.

Cancel culture is when someone is fired, demoted, or suppressed over an opinion of which the outrage machine disapproves. Cancel culture convicts thought-crimes.

There's a difference between losing your job over your speech and losing your job over your decision to violate company policy. Claudine Gay lost a job for violating Harvard's ethics policy.

We say a job because Gay received another job in exchange for her resignation. Harvard didn't fire her. Society didn't ostracize her. In fact, she received a raise upon her much-deserved demotion.

Claudine Gay is not a victim of cancel culture. Claudine Gay is privileged.

So much so, she's about to preach to students about proper citation after decades of plagiarizing the works of more intellectual, qualified scholars.