'This crap again': Vivek Ramaswamy slammed for his 'racial' hiring dig by likening Claudine Gay to Kamala Harris

Vivek Ramaswamy said, 'When someone got the job based on race and gender, it becomes impossible to fire them'
PUBLISHED JAN 2, 2024
Vivek Ramaswamy found himself in hot water as he took a dig at Claudine Gay and compared her to Vice President Kamala Harris (Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Getty Images)
Vivek Ramaswamy found himself in hot water as he took a dig at Claudine Gay and compared her to Vice President Kamala Harris (Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Getty Images)

CINCINNATI, OHIO: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy found himself in hot water as he took a dig at embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay and compared her to Vice President Kamala Harris.

The 38-year-old Indian-American tech entrepreneur drew the bizarre comparison in response to a new report stating that Gay has been hit with six additional allegations of plagiarism in a complaint filed with the university.

“Claudine Gay raises the problem for Harvard that Kamala raises for the Democrats,” the founder of Roivant Sciences wrote on X, formerly Twitter.



 

“When someone got the job based on race & gender, it becomes impossible to fire them. The Supreme Court ended affirmative action in college admissions. Now it’s time to end it in university hiring,” he added.

Ramaswamy previously made similar remarks in December 2023, amid growing pressure on Harvard’s President to resign following dozens of plagiarism allegations.

Ramaswamy calls out companies for blacklisting Harvard students

Ramaswamy’s criticism of Gay came just a few weeks after he called out companies for refusing to hire the Harvard University students who signed a letter placing the blame for the Israel-Hamas war squarely on Israel.

He said that college students take wrong decisions and back “boneheadedly wrong ideas” but that is no reason to blacklist them.

“The Harvard student groups who co-signed the anti-Israel letter are simple fools. But it’s not productive for companies to blacklist kids for being members of student groups that make dumb political statements on campus,” Ramaswamy said in a tweet at that time.

“Colleges are spaces for students to experiment with ideas & sometimes kids join clubs that endorse boneheadedly wrong ideas,” the Republican added.

Ramaswamy, a Harvard- and Yale-educated entrepreneur, slammed the cancel culture and said companies refusing to hire the said Harvard students are equally wrong.

“Those calling for blacklisting students right now are responding from a place of understandable hurt, but I’m confident that in the fullness of time, they will agree with me on the wisdom of avoiding these cancel-culture tactics,” he said.

Internet reacts to Ramaswamy’s remarks

After Ramaswamy’s post surfaced on social media, many users slammed him for drawing a bizarre comparison between Gay and Harris.

“Vivek Ramsey has absolutely shown his true colors He believes that the black people that succeed, only do so because of “special treatment” He’s not even hiding his racism any longer,” one user blasted.

“Didn’t you plagiarize Obama during the first debate?” a second user trolled. “Did you come up with this one all on your own? Seems like it,” a third user mocked.

“This is racist. Countless white men have gotten their jobs based on race and gender,” a fourth user suggested while a fifth one wrote, “and that’s why a South Indian won’t be elected.”

“Why do we care what the president of a small private university is doing anyways?” another said. “This crap again. Kamala is a much more achieved person than Ramaswamy in my opinion. He's made some money and attacked "woke" culture. Anything else, folks?” one more stated.



 



 



 



 



 



 

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