President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Just posting the range of today's available opinion, fellas. Including noted essayist and neutral thinker, Al Sharpton.

Mostly hoping to move the Claudine Gay arguments off the Israel / Gaza thread and over here where they belong.

 

I post from the Guardian because it's free.

Lots of posters here don't have subscriptions to the papers we quote most heavily, and I run out of gift links pretty fast.

I'm hoping a quick link to a free story in the Guardian gets people interested enough in a story or part of a story for them to pursue it on their own.

 

hmm

Christopher Rufo Claims a Degree from “Harvard.” Umm ... Not Quite

On paper, Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who recently was appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to sit on the board of a small Sarasota liberal arts college whose curriculum the governor dislikes, presents his credentials as impeccable: Georgetown University for undergrad and “a master’s from Harvard,” according to his biographical page on the Manhattan Institute’s website.

But that description, and similar ones on Wikipedia, in the press release DeSantis’s office sent out, and on Rufo’s personal website, are at the very least misleading. Rufo received a Master’s in Liberal Arts in Government from Harvard Extension School in 2022, the school confirmed in an email to The New Republic.* Harvard Extension School, in a nutshell, is part of the renowned institution, but it is not Harvard as most people know it (a Harvard student once joked that it’s the “back door” to Harvard). The school describes itself as an “open-enrollment institution prioritizing access, equity, and transparency.” Eligibility for the school is, according to its website, “largely based on your performance in up to three requisite Extension degree courses, depending on your field, that you must complete with distinction.” High school grades and SAT and ACT scores aren’t required at the institution.

 

Next you’ll be doubting his doctorate from Columbia (School of Broadcasting).

 

Someone needs to send this to SNL writers room.

 

Is his diaper full again?

 

Well, that changes everything ...

 

It's making the rounds on X / Twitter this morning.

Me? I went to Yale (College of Locksmithing)

 

Presenting the competition.

 

Most of the conservatives who went after Gay don't care about plagiarism. They don't care if she was qualified for her position or not. Many of them were doing it as part of an attack on diversity.

That said, she lost her job due to the plagiarism in her own scholarly work. It was clear Harvard was ready to stand by her despite her disastrous performance before Congress.

All of that can be true. That the attacks on her were unfair doesn't change the fact that she deserved to lose her position as Harvard President.

Edit to correct my brain fart at the end of the first paragraph.