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Claudine Gay may have resigned in disgrace as president of Harvard University, but she is in no way chastened by the experience, and in fact took to the pages of the New York Times to portray herself as (what else?) the victim.

The result illustrates the extraordinary lack of self-awareness that all our elites share, but which is especially striking coming from Claudine Gay.

For instance, if you can believe it, the former Harvard president writes, “College campuses in our country must remain places where students can learn, share and grow together, not spaces where proxy battles and political grandstanding take root. Universities must remain independent venues where courage and reason unite to advance truth, no matter what forces set against them.”

This from someone who presided over an institution whose intellectual life is one of stultifying intellectual conformity and who politicized hiring, admissions, and even which portraits were to hang inside campus buildings.

She says people who “relentlessly campaigned to oust me since the fall often trafficked in lies and ad hominem insults, not reasoned argument.”

Oh, really? So when your defenders said the campaign against you was based on “white supremacy,” you considered that a “reasoned argument”?

And then of course it’s time for the boo-hoo-I’m-a-black-woman-and-that-scares-people speech:

“It is not lost on me that I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes unfolding on American campuses: a Black woman selected to lead a storied institution.”

And it is not lost on the rest of us, Claudine, that had you belonged to a different race you wouldn’t have been president of Harvard in the first place. The reign of terror whereby people feared stating the obvious like this is rapidly coming to an end.

Then this whopper:

As you return to “scholarship,” Claudine? You mean the grand total of 11 articles over two decades, all of them about race and gender, topics by which so many mediocrities make their careers? How about the 50+ examples of plagiarism, which don’t even merit a mention in your apologia?

And who exactly is seeking to “undermine” the university? Could it be people who hire only those who are ideological clones of themselves, people who reject academically outstanding students so that far weaker ones can take their places, and people who consistently want to throw out objective tests?

The best part of all, though, is her “warning” that the campaign against her was part of a larger strategy to “unravel public faith in pillars of American society…. Trusted institutions of all types — from public health agencies to news organizations — will continue to fall victim to coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leaders’ credibility.”

You’re darn right, Claudine. The rightful citizens of this country fully intend to do just that, because they shouldn’t have trusted these institutions to begin with — especially “public health agencies,” which have been doing the work of undermining themselves for us since 2020.

It’s about time the peoples of the U.S. take back their country.