"As I depart, I must offer a few words of warning. The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader. This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society. Campaigns of this kind often start with attacks on education and expertise, because these are the tools that best equip communities to see through propaganda. But such campaigns don’t end there. 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. For the opportunists driving cynicism about our institutions, no single victory or toppled leader exhausts their zeal..." -- Claudine Gay, in the New York Times, writing about the (successful) right- wing campaign to have her removed from the presidency of Harvard University. To Gay's point that the right- wing campaign to have her ousted was about more than her:
-- Dave Roberts on the complicity of the corporate media (and the passivity of Democrats in letting the right set the agenda and framing for what's "news"), and an interview with "MAGA Goebbels" Chris Rufo laying out the fascists' strategies (both here);
-- The same fascists who got Gay's scalp are now after Democrat Penny Pritzker, head of the Harvard Corporation;
-- Scott Lemieux on the plagiarism scandal the corporate media (and Democrats) are letting slide; and
-- Charles Blow on the generations- long Christofascist Republican campaign to excise diversity from academic institutions:
It’s as simple as this.🤷🏾♂️ pic.twitter.com/wBPJXayKB9
— It’s Me Ya’ll (@Datelinefam) January 4, 2024
