Claudine Gay and America’s new class system

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Ibram X. Kendi’s “anti-racist” pronouncements are pure grift, but his woke prestige makes them a good place to start in examining Claudine Gay’s belated exit as Harvard’s first black president. In her long-overdue resignation letter Tuesday, Gay played the race card — of course she did — decrying “racial animus” rather than acknowledging her hypocrisy and academic malfeasance. Kendi echoed this on X, formerly known as Twitter, describing her ouster as an “anti-black racist attack” to which a white president would not have been subjected.

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