Internet calls Harvard a ‘woke joke’ after Jesse Watters alleges Claudine Gay of ‘gravest sin in academia’

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Fox News host Jesse Watters recently took a brutal jab at Harvard President Claudine Gay, called her out for committing the “gravest sin in academia” following her resignation.

This came after Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday afternoon, January 2, and confirmed her stepping down as president of Harvard University.

In her letter, she wrote, “This is not a decision I came to easily. Indeed, it has been difficult beyond words because I have looked forward to working with so many of you to advance the commitment to academic excellence that has propelled this great university across centuries.”

“But, after consultation with members of the Corporation, it has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual.”

Following this news, Watters took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to celebrate Gay’s resignation and slam her.

Apparently, several X users came in Watters’ support as many called Harvard a ‘woke joke'.

Jesse Watters accuses Claudine Gay of ‘gravest sin in academia’

Fox News host Jesse Watters took to X and wrote, “Harvard can afford to lose its honor— they did that when they replaced scholars with radical activists. BUT what it can’t afford to lose, is its money… and it turns out Harvard is a hedge fund that happens to host a few classes. We're now learning that the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda is just a Trojan horse to hire more liberals. The DEI experiment is starting to blow up the lab that it was built in.”

In his tweet, he presented his take where he ripped Harvard University, claiming that the “university is falling on its sword".

He added, “Harvard University always held the title of the most elite Ivy League school. Sorry, Yale.”

“Harvard University was the first college ever established in the American colonies way back in 1636, when Joe Biden was just a young lad. Taking the name of an English clergyman, John Harvard, who donated his library and estate for the greater good of the country.”

Watters continued, “And Harvard always put America first. During the American Revolution, Harvard moved their students off campus and provided housing to the Continental Army, where thousands of soldiers used Cambridge as a fort during the siege of Boston.”

“And throughout its almost 400-year history, the best and the brightest Harvard minds educated America's most prominent leaders- men like John Adams, Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, who famously said "to be a Harvard man is an enviable distinction"."

He then went on to talk about Claudine Gay and slammed her brutally, “But in 2024, the legacy of the Harvard man is a little duller.”

“The university's falling on its sword. Today, Claudine Gay became the shortest serving Harvard president in four centuries, forced to resign in disgrace after she was caught plagiarizing half of her published academic scholarship, the gravest sin in academia.”

“Fifty instances of academic fraud and counting. Or, as CNN calls it, "sloppy attribution,” he recalled.

Watters then pointed his words gun at CNN saying, “CNN redefined shoplifting as shopping without money, and now plagiarism is "sloppy attribution." I'm going to ask CNN for a better way to describe me not helping out around the house – "Investing in non-household activities"?"

“Yeah. We never would have known the Harvard president was an intellectual phony if she hadn't drawn attention to herself at a congressional hearing where she said, ‘You're allowed to yell "kill the Jews" at Harvard’,” Watters referred to Gay’s remarks on antisemitism.

He further reflected on a news on Harvard’s student newspaper, “This weekend, Harvard's student newspaper 'The Crimson', wrote this: ‘Harvard's presidency is no mere empty honor. Gay has failed. The Harvard Corporation must find a leader who can do better.’ But Harvard today can afford to lose its honor.”

“They did that when they replaced scholars with radical activists. But what it can't afford to lose is its money. And Harvard lost $1,000,000,000 in donations during Gay's turmoil. Harvard's a hedge fund that happens to host a few classes. With a $50 billion endowment, losing $1,000,000,000 in a single month is how you get sacked fast.”

Watters continued, “But Gay says if she was White, she'd still have the job, ‘It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor- two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am. And frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus'," recalling Gay’s words to Harvard.

The Fox News host concluded, “Gay is saying you don't care about plagiarism, antisemitism, or losing a billion bucks, you're just a racist. Gay knows exactly how you feel, but has no idea how Jews feel walking through a campus while students call for their murder. Bull.”

Internet calls Harvard a ‘woke joke’

After Jesse Watters took a brutal jab at Claudine Gay and called out Harvard University for “falling on its sword”, many X users also slammed the university.

One person wrote, “It’s just a matter of time before they were exposed, obviously as a moneymaking liberal machine."

Another added, “Harvard is a woke joke.”

An X user simply called out Harvard saying, “It's already lost its honor, done deal!”

One more X user said, “I will run the other way whenever I see these diplomas!"

Another wrote, “Of course they are. You know a tactic of the evil system is to make loans to countries and individuals for things they "need" and then ask for a pint of blood when it cannot be repaid. IMF loans and student loans in the USA are prime examples.”

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