Harvard University’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, thinks it is fine to fire resident deans for representing criminal defendants, but not fine to remove them for hating the police or whiteness, because hating the police and whiteness is a perfectly respectable political point of view.
The College Fix reports that the Harvard Crimson’s
latest editorial defends Gregory Davis, the resident dean of Dunster House, whose past controversial social media remarks recently were unearthed.
Davis had said… “whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it” (2019), and claimed looting and rioting were part of a democracy akin to “voting and marching” (2020)…Davis also told anyone with “cop friends” to pressure them to quit as they’re “racist” and “evil.” His most recent social media post read “Wishing everyone a great Pride. Remember to love each other and hate the police.”
The Crimson editors note “…participation in past political discourse should not disqualify him from continuing to hold his position.”….“[I]t would be foolhardy to fire an employee on account of now-harmless past comments dug up by a politically prejudiced website,” the editors conclude in part.
This is the same paper which poo-poohed a blatantly antisemitic Instagram post by a pair of campus pro-Palestinian organizations (one of which was a faculty/staff group).
On the other hand, Harvard forced out a resident dean who was a renowned law professor and lawyer, for representing a man accused of a sex offense. And Harvard Crimson staffers approved of that.
Harvard recently appointed the drag queen LaWhore Vagistan to its faculty. The drag queen will teach “Queer Ethnography” this fall and “RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire” in the spring, according to an announcement from Harvard.
Last year, Harvard’s president was forced to resign after her pervasive plagiarism came to light. The Harvard Crimson labeled the plagiarism charges racist, even though they were true. Harvard University President Claudine Gay was forced to resign after most of her meager published work turned out to contain plagiarism. As Tech CEO Steve Mur notes, she was guilty of “50 pretty clear-to-the-eye examples of plagiarism which would have gotten students kicked out, including ones that at least two original authors feel was academic plagiarism.” The Washington Free Beacon reported that there were “dozens” of instances of plagiarism in Gay’s academic work, even before a January 1 report revealed additional examples of “duplicative language without proper attribution,” as Harvard’s governing body euphemistically referred to Gay’s misconduct.
Harvard’s progressive student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, defended Gay “until the end, writing on Dec. 31, ‘President Gay Plagiarized, but She Should Stay. For Now’“.
There is no meaningful right to counsel or right to due process unless accused people can find a lawyer. So it is a bad thing to blacklist lawyers and law professors for representing an accused person. Doing that undermines the constitutional right to counsel. Harvard was wrong to force out Ronald Sullivan, a respected liberal law professor, as a resident dean, after he agreed to represent a defendant in a high-profile rape case.
