A Columbia University professor who participated in pro-Hamas protests has been connected to more than $100 million in grants while she has promoted the idea that brain disease can be catalyzed by racism.
Columbia neuropsychologist Jennifer J. Manly “stood in a human blockade intending to prevent administrators from dismantling the unauthorized encampments last April,” City Journal’s Christopher Rufo and Hannah Grossman <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/columbia-professor-hamas-protest-grants-research">note</a>, adding, “According to the <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/zcvQRKaEW0WDLNxgjsBwVg/projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Institutes of Health</a> and other publicly <a href="https://grantome.com/search?q=@author%20%20Jennifer%20Manly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accessible</a> databases, she has been named in connection with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 years.”
Rufo and Grossman point out that in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kG8pK6XJqM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> last year, Manly declared that “we shouldn’t blame people for their lifestyle choices in terms of their brain health,” blaming “systems of oppression” and “discriminatory beliefs” to cause an inordinate percentage of dementia among black people. “Any biological differences are driven by &#8230; racism,” Manly stated, adding that racism is “the pathway through which race is ‘biologized.’”
“One paper Manly coauthored <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26412671" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed</a> ‘historical patterns of segregation’ for higher rates of dementia among blacks. Another <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39692214" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> blamed ‘structural sexism’ for declining memory, with the effect found to be stronger among black women,” Rufo and Grossman report.
The National Institutes of Health granted Manly and her colleagues roughly $700,000 to examine how racism and brain disease are connected, prompting a <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39616788/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> titled “The impact of historical lynchings on biological and cognitive health for older adults racialized as Black.”
The paper’s abstract stated, “This study examines the association between state-level exposure to historical lynchings (adverse childhood racism for modern older adults), with C-reactive protein (CRP, a marker of systemic inflammation), and global cognitive performance (modified TICS).”
Another <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38665381/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a>, titled “Impact of Structural Socioeconomic Racism and Resilience on Cognitive Change Over Time for Persons Racialized as Black,” stated in its abstract, “These findings reveal the impact of racist U.S. policies enacted in the past that influence cognitive health over time and dementia risk later in life.”
The medical director of Do No Harm, psychiatrist Kurt Miceli, called Manly&#8217;s linking lynchings with black dementia rates “political,” not scientific. “He goes on to explain that the marker Manly uses to track her hypothesis of racism-invoked stress—CRP—can rapidly change and is more influenced by health factors such as obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and high blood pressure,” Rufo and Grossman write, adding, “Manly continues to <a href="https://edshareproject.org/about/people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help lead</a> a <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/search?hash=f0004c4dc92174ad68fbe554a390b0eb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multimillion-dollar</a> government <a href="https://edshareproject.org/about/history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">project</a> funded by numerous agencies that tracks brain aging. She also currently maintains more than $20 million in active grants to support <a href="https://www.neurology.columbia.edu/profile/jennifer-j-manly-phd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her research</a> at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute at Columbia.”

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Journalist and activist Christopher Rufo will join Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro Friday to release exclusive footage documenting the left-wing ideological capture of the Department of Education.
Shapiro teased the interview on X, writing that Rufo will be joining his show tomorrow “to drop new exclusive bombshell clips and documents from the Department of Education,” adding, “You won’t see this anywhere else. Don’t miss it.”
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Tomorrow on <a href="https://twitter.com/BenShapiroShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BenShapiroShow</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realchrisrufo</a> is on to drop new exclusive bombshell clips and documents from the Department of Education. You won’t see this anywhere else. Don’t miss it. <a href="https://t.co/V5syQUllkV">https://t.co/V5syQUllkV</a>
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1890110242912104506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
“I’m sitting on a trove of insane videos, slides, and documents from the Department of Education. The whole department functions like a Ponzi scheme for left-wing ideologies,&#8221; Rufo <a href="https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1889802303244476595">remarked</a>, adding that he was waiting for the moment of “maximum impact.”
President Donald Trump is reportedly <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-preparing-executive-order-abolish-department-education-rcna190205">preparing</a> an executive order to shut down the Department of Education. Trump stated that he’d close the department during his campaign, saying in one <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojRde4zCYd0">video</a>, &#8220;One other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education work and needs back to the states.”
Rufo has begun releasing internal documents from the department, indicating that the executive agency has been captured by left-wing ideologues who’ve used the government to push gender ideology and critical race theory.
&#8220;The Education Department granted $8 million&#8221; of taxpayer funds to an organization behind a presentation on “Identifying and Disrupting Your Whiteness.” The organization advised over 7,000 school districts across the Midwest as it pushed far-left ideology and demonized the United States as a white supremacist society.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Education granted $8 million to this left-wing NGO, which promotes the idea that America is a white supremacist society and demands that you must &#8220;disrupt your whiteness.&#8221;
This NGO is responsible for advising 7,000 school districts in the Midwest. <a href="https://t.co/GFK7YeV967">pic.twitter.com/GFK7YeV967</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1890086950922776912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
“The term whiteness refers to race privilege, a way of seeing the world, and a set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and unnamed,” the presenter said. That same organization created a DOE-funded resource claiming that white people do not have “permission to accuse BIPOC of being racist” and arguing that black children must “decolonize the mind” from the effects of whiteness and capitalism.
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The Department of Education funded this resource for teachers, which argues that black children must start &#8220;decolonizing the mind&#8221; from whiteness, capitalism, and individualism. White people, especially &#8220;anti-woke&#8221; whites, do not have &#8220;permission to accuse BIPOC of being racist.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/eFV6zz3ERg">pic.twitter.com/eFV6zz3ERg</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1890118560372101120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
The executive agency also partnered with “Welcoming Schools,” a left-wing organization that taught elementary school students “there are many ways to be a girl, boy, both, or neither.”
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In 2023, the Department of Education partnered with &#8220;Welcoming Schools,&#8221; an NGO program that teaches elementary school children that they might be &#8220;pansexual,&#8221; use &#8220;they/them&#8221; pronouns, and imitate &#8220;non-binary animals.&#8221;
&#8220;There are many ways to be a girl, boy, both, or neither.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/LzlwI0B91M">pic.twitter.com/LzlwI0B91M</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1890097064543240702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
The organization also taught young children that they might be “pansexual” and can use “they/them” pronouns, all while discussing “non-binary” butterflies.

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As President Trump’s <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/executive-orders/donald-trump/2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive orders</a> have mercifully begun dismantling discriminatory and illegal DEI and CRT programs throughout the government and our educational systems, we see a sharp increase in companies and organizations joining the already snowballing trend of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/01/30/war-on-dei-deutsche-bank-stands-firmly-behind-diversity-program-as-these-major-organizations-drop-them/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dumping DEI programs</a>. Perhaps more importantly, because these orders are merely following through with his successful campaign promises, they indicate that Americans themselves finally understand and reject the damage wrought by DEI.
If you needed further evidence that DEI is in its death throes, note how the DEI Industrial Complex defends DEI as they cover its rapid demise, feeling the need to proclaim anew the baseless tropes they used to help launch it originally. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-corporate-programs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS</a>,<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-missing-point-dei-meritocracy-experts/story?id=117975699" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> ABC</a>,<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-dei-practice-trump-is-trying-dismantle-2025-01-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Time</a>,<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-dei-practice-trump-is-trying-dismantle-2025-01-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Reuters</a>, and others have been including something like a “What is DEI?” section to their latest articles, reasserting that DEI is an extension of civil rights, that it is about helping disadvantaged groups, or telling us that <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-executive-order-puts-stem-diversity-efforts-hold" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STEM research</a> and underrepresented scientists will suffer if DEI is eradicated.
Reuters offered this typical definition of DEI, “DEI programs have been part of workplace diversity efforts to ensure fairer representation for groups seen as historically marginalized, such as African Americans, LGBTQ+ community members, women, disabled people and other ethnic minorities in the United States.” Fortunately, despite the propaganda push, the DEI fairness mask has come off — and it is hopefully being fitted for a death mask.
<a href="https://starrs.us/dei-how-to-have-the-conversation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The hypocrisy of DEI</a> begins with the very words represented by that acronym — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-dei-corrupts-americas-universities">Christopher Rufo</a> has observed that, in practice, the policies bearing these labels usually promote precisely the opposite of what the words would imply. Diversity almost always involves implicit and explicit racial discrimination excluding or limiting some groups by their skin color or identity. Equity involves disparate and often unfair treatment of various identity groups (typically based on race, color, gender, and sex) in an attempt to equalize not opportunities, but outcomes. And Inclusion usually restricts ideas and people who oppose the prevailing doctrine of oppressed and oppressors.
DEI defenders commonly offer similar excuses as those for other failed attempts at Marxism. You might think that a piece titled <a href="https://hbr.org/2022/12/the-failure-of-the-dei-industrial-complex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Failure of the DEI Industrial Complex</a> in Harvard Business Review offers a sweeping indictment of DEI in general. Not quite. While admitting its undeniable failures in desired outcomes, it blames its downfall on the “lack of standards, consistency, and accountability among DEI practitioners.” In other words, the argument seems to be that it was a good idea, poorly implemented. Sound familiar?
The litany of slaughters, famines, gulags, and world wars was created by supposedly good ideas poorly implemented. If you start with flawed premises, things like standards, consistency and accountability only enhance the flaws. Such defective thinking includes believing that unequal outcomes are de facto evidence of discrimination; that diversity, not unity of shared values or esprit de corps is our strength; and that privilege and guilt are a function of DNA/skin color. In brief, poor implementation is the wrong epitaph.
As we close the casket, it is important to set the record straight. DEI is being buried today because enough Americans have finally realized that it has little to do with treating people fairly, combatting racism and sexism, helping the underserved, being more tolerant, or leveraging our differences. They now see that it is first and foremost about pitting groups against each other, lowering standards and eliminating meritocracy, and finding and magnifying perpetual grievances to benefit favored identity groups — and their facilitators.
They see that it grew into a <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/dei-training-initiatives-consultants-companies-skepticism/674237/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multi-billion dollar self-serving industry</a> that was worse than ineffective; it was actually <a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/dei-has-failed-we-do-not-need-more-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">counterproductive</a> — damaging all of those areas it promised to improve — often involving active discrimination and racism.
They see that our military was most profoundly impacted by DEI because, unlike the civilian world, the command structure requires immediate implementation of the destructive policies, that in just a few short years the damage done there was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cigarettes-dei-and-our-military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nothing short of tragic</a> — lowering standards, morale and combat readiness, and creating the biggest recruiting crisis in half a century.
They see that even in academia, the cradle of DEI, the multi-year, largest and most expensive DEI effort to date ($250m) at the University of Michigan utterly backfired per the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/magazine/university-of-michigan-dei.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>.
They also see that in reality DEI is simple racism — institutionalizing the favoring and disfavoring of certain individuals and groups based solely on their race and/or skin color, gender, or identity group.
Scholar and author <a href="https://starrs.us/the-dei-ruse-is-imploding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Victor Davis Hanson</a> noted the beginning of DEI’s demise a year ago and rightly predicted, “In the end, DEI will implode because of its many contradictions: it is racist to the core; it is illegal and violates court decisions and the Constitution; it destroys meritocracy; and it is utterly incoherent in adjudicating who and who not deserve racial preferences.”
No, DEI is not dead yet, but it will likely be forced into academic hospice for a while — hopefully never to recover. The correct epitaph for DEI is that it is warmed over Marxism camouflaged as improved sensitivity and fairness. It is not on its death bed because of too much success too fast — too much fairness, too much racial harmony, too much improvement in outcomes of all forms. No, it is dying because, like all Marxism, it aims to foment distrust, chaos, resentment, guilt, hate, discrimination, and ultimately revolution; and most Americans have woken up to and reject that. Like every other attempt at implementation of Marxist principles, it may sound good in theory, but ultimately succumbs to reality.
Like all tyrants, DEI should not rest in peace because it should serve as yet another warning for what can happen even after the failings of countless other attempts at Marxism have been demonstrated. But regardless of how it leaves us, through burial or cremation, let’s get the eulogy right so that future generations may feel less inclined to resurrect its corpse.
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Dr. Greg Salsbury is former president of Western Colorado University, on the Board of Advisors for <a href="https://starrs.us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STARRS</a>, and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Retirementology-Rethinking-American-Dream-Economy/dp/0137056532" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Retirementology – Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy.”</a>
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Just hours after Christopher Rufo reported that Vice President Kamala Harris had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-plagiarized-sections-of-2009-book-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly plagiarized</a> multiple sections of her 2009 book, &#8220;Smart on Crime,&#8221; Rufo reported that the book&#8217;s publisher had accidentally sent him an email showing it was in &#8220;damage-control mode.&#8221;
&#8220;BREAKING: Kamala Harris&#8217;s publisher, Chronicle Books, is in damage control mode. The company accidentally sent my team an internal communication indicating that VP Lauren Hoffman is requiring that all inquiries about Harris&#8217;s plagiarism go through the higher ups,&#8221; Rufo posted on X.
He included a screenshot of an email — which he said was sent to him by accident — that instructed employees to funnel any questions about the alleged plagiarism through the top brass.
The missive, sent at 3:31 pm PDT Monday, came under the subject line &#8220;publicity.&#8221;
&#8220;Per Lauren Hoffman (VP, Executive Director of Marketing and Publicity) please do not respond or comment on any inquiries regarding SMART ON CRIME, and please continue to forward them directly to me. Really appreciate your help on this it is a sensitive topic.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Kamala Harris&#39;s publisher, Chronicle Books, is in damage control mode. The company accidentally sent my team an internal communication indicating that VP Lauren Hoffman is requiring that all inquiries about Harris&#39;s plagiarism go through the higher ups. <a href="https://t.co/seiF3bu0R2">pic.twitter.com/seiF3bu0R2</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1845960097287360657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Several mainstream media outlets picked up <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-plagiarized-sections-of-2009-book-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rufo&#8217;s story</a>, but only to criticize him.
&#8220;Conservative Activist Seizes on Passages From Harris Book,&#8221; the New York Times headline read. The article went on to explain that a &#8220;plagiarism expert&#8221; had determined that the obviously lifted passages were &#8220;not serious.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.amiracist.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amiracist.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1729017533282000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3gFMrYp1yVFd33mh7KOsm7">MATT WALSH&#8217;S &#8216;AM I RACIST?&#8217; COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28</a>
&#8220;Somebody hang this in the Louvre,&#8221; Rufo said of the NYT piece. &#8220;The New York Times claims that I &#8216;seize[d] on&#8217; Kamala Harris&#8217;s serial plagiarism. Admits later in the story that it is, in fact, plagiarism. And then calls noticing that fact &#8216;racist.'&#8221;
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Somebody hang this in the Louvre. The New York Times claims that I &quot;seize[d] on&quot; Kamala Harris&#39;s serial plagiarism. Admits later in the story that it is, in fact, plagiarism. And then calls noticing that fact &quot;racist.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/igfEpwP1h7">pic.twitter.com/igfEpwP1h7</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1845920017646546948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The spin is already on from Kamala’s media lapdogs at the New York Times. It was a fiery but mostly peaceful plagiarism!&#8221; the Trump War Room account commented.
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The spin is already on from Kamala’s media lapdogs at the New York Times.
It was a fiery but mostly peaceful plagiarism! <a href="https://t.co/fhqHtwpcWv">https://t.co/fhqHtwpcWv</a> <a href="https://t.co/DxtVFxLoYC">pic.twitter.com/DxtVFxLoYC</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1845913568668962832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Pay close attention: The New York Times consults a plagiarism expert who confirms Kamala Harris plagiarized but says it was harmless and &#8216;amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud.&#8217; Okay, that’s a value judgment that obscures fact: She plagiarized. And we get a &#8216;Conservatives Pounce&#8217;-style dismissal, too. This is called running cover for the home team,&#8221; Andrew Walker posted.
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Pay close attention: The New York Times consults a plagiarism expert who confirms Kamala Harris plagiarized but says it was harmless and “amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud.” Okay, that’s a value judgment that obscures fact: She plagiarized.
And we get a… <a href="https://t.co/CaDmj5cfcx">pic.twitter.com/CaDmj5cfcx</a>
&mdash; Andrew T. Walker (@andrewtwalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewtwalk/status/1845924095726440671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator JD Vance (R-OH) got a jab in as well.
&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia.&#8221;
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Hi, I&#39;m JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia. <a href="https://t.co/tkZvK8LrI3">https://t.co/tkZvK8LrI3</a>
&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1845856378805731790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Publisher In ‘Damage-Control Mode’ After Report Detailing Kamala’s Alleged Plagiarism

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The Associated Press, discussing the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay after she was accused of chronic plagiarism, not only accused conservatives of using charges of plagiarism as a “weapon” to target leftists in higher education, but also decided to vilify white Americans, by writing American history from a woke perspective, saying scalping was a gruesome practice &#8220;taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans&#8221; and ignoring that Native Americans were scalping long before the colonists arrived.
AP published an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/harvard-president-plagiarism-claudine-gay-3b048da1f2ee17b5edec3680b5828e8f?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter">article</a> titled, “Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism,”  reporting that conservative activist Christopher Rufo — who along with Christopher Brunet <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiarist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke the story</a> of Gay’s plagiarism with <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-president-claudine-gay-hit-with-six-new-charges-of-plagiarism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later help</a> from Aaron Sibarium— responded to the news of Gay’s resignation by <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742247527523713211" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeting</a>, “SCALPED.” “On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote &#8216;SCALPED,&#8217; as if Gay was a trophy of violence, invoking a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans,” AP wrote.
But as <a href="https://www.americanheritage.com/who-invented-scalping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Heritage</a> has pointed out, scalping was practiced by Native Americans long before colonists arrived in America:
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When Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence to what is now Quebec City in 1535, he met the Stadaconans, who showed him “the scalps of five Indians, stretched on hoops like parchment.” His host, Donnacona, told him they were from “Toudamans from the south, who waged war continually against his people.” Twenty-nine years later, another Frenchman, artist Jacques Ie Moyne, witnessed the Timucuans’ practice of scalping on the St. Johns River in Florida. &#8230;
The French were not alone in witnessing the Indian custom of scalping. When the English brazenly set themselves down amid the powerful Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia, the Indians used an old tactic to try to quash their audacity. In 1608 Powhatan launched a surprise attack on a village of “neare neighbours and subjects,” killing twenty-four men. When the victors retired from the scene of battle, they brought away “the long haire of the one side of their heades [the other being shaved] with the skinne cased off with shels or reeds.” The prisoners and scalps were then presented to the chief, who hung “the lockes of haire with their skinnes” on a line between two trees.
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AP acknowledged, “Gay didn’t directly address the plagiarism accusations in a campus letter announcing her resignation,” but cited her plagiarism as “shortcomings”: “Reviews by conservative activists and then by a Harvard committee did find multiple shortcomings in Gay’s academic citations.”
AP quoted President Irene Mulvey of the American Association of University Professors, saying she feared plagiarism investigations could be “weaponized.” She told AP, “There is a right-wing political attack on higher education right now, which feels like an existential threat to the academic freedom that has made American higher education the envy of the world.”
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Associated Progressives (AP) is trying to run the false narrative that &quot;white colonists&quot; invented scalping &quot;to eradicate Native Americans,&quot; without noting that, in fact, the Indians originated the practice in North America and, in modern times, it is a common journalistic phrase. <a href="https://t.co/LmiippwIu0">pic.twitter.com/LmiippwIu0</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742561283051020500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is the beginning of the end for DEI in America&#39;s institutions. We will expose you. We will outmaneuver you. And we will not stop fighting until we have restored colorblind equality in our great nation. 🇺🇸
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742253604222960000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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AP Laments Gay’s Resignation, Blames White Colonists For Scalping

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Claudine Gay

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Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay reportedly put together a task force after the death of George Floyd, with its stated goal being to diminish the number of white men who were visible in campus spaces.
Chris Rufo reported on the task force, sharing his article with a post on X: &#8220;Harvard&#8217;s Claudine Gay led a task force to reduce the visual presence of &#8216;white men&#8217; in campus spaces—simply for being white men. They committed no crimes; they were not deemed &#8216;racist.&#8217; Their ancestry and anatomy were enough to justify their banishment.&#8221;
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Harvard&#39;s Claudine Gay led a task force to reduce the visual presence of &quot;white men&quot; in campus spaces—simply for being white men. They committed no crimes; they were not deemed &quot;racist.&quot; Their ancestry and anatomy were enough to justify their banishment. <a href="https://t.co/lo0g8jPbH1">https://t.co/lo0g8jPbH1</a> <a href="https://t.co/ott5qmJft8">pic.twitter.com/ott5qmJft8</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1736976904597692807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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As Rufo stated in the article, Gay responded to the death of George Floyd and the cultural reaction to it by commissioning a task force in order to tackle the &#8220;historical reckoning with racial injustice.&#8221;
Among the recommendations passed down by the task force was a call to change the decor in some university spaces, primarily in &#8220;spaces whose visual culture is dominated by homogenous portraiture of white men.&#8221;
That call was directed specifically toward Annenberg Hall, where apparently all but three of the 23 portraits hung featured white men — and none were women. The task force reportedly did not mention whose portraits were on display there, making it clear that what mattered was &#8220;their race and sex alone&#8221; rather than who they were or anything they had accomplished or done for the university.
Gay has found herself — and particularly her tenure at Harvard — under the microscope in recent weeks following her testimony before Congress, where she struggled to condemn the anti-semitic protests and calls for Jewish genocide that had taken place on her own campus.
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Despite numerous calls for her ouster — based on both her testimony and reports that she had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-highest-governing-body-unanimously-reaffirms-support-for-president-after-troubling-congressional-testimony-plagiarism-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plagiarized</a> sections of her dissertation, &#8220;Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies&#8221; — Harvard&#8217;s highest governing body has opted to stand by Gay.
&#8220;As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University,&#8221; eleven of the board&#8217;s twelve members (Gay is the twelfth) said in a statement. &#8220;Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.&#8221;

Embattled Harvard Prez Created A Task Force To Decrease Visibility Of White Men On Campus

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a> nixed a webpage that boasted a number of &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221; for graduates of a variety of identities.
Journalist Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, reported the delegation on Thursday at a time when Harvard and other universities face intense scrutiny over acts of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitism</a> reported on campuses around the country as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
&#8220;Harvard provided racially segregated &#8216;affinity group&#8217; celebrations at its commencement event earlier this year,&#8221; Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1735372866118664616" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X, along with screenshots, adding later, &#8220;The university has now deleted this page from its website.&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: Harvard provided racially segregated &quot;affinity group&quot; celebrations at its commencement event earlier this year. Whites and Jews were the only groups not provided with celebrations.
The university has now deleted this page from its website. <a href="https://t.co/ZFLF2exvhL">pic.twitter.com/ZFLF2exvhL</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1735372866118664616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Items that made up the list for May included &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221; for &#8220;LGBTQ+ Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Arab Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Indigenous Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Graduates with Disabilities,&#8221; &#8220;Latinx Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Black Graduates,&#8221; and &#8220;Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Desi-American Graduates.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvards-affinity-graduation-page-that-excluded-jews-has-been-deleted/24514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported by Campus Reform</a>, the URL for the deleted page now redirects to a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/about/diversity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Diversity and Inclusion”</a> page on the Harvard website, but an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023641/https://edib.harvard.edu/affinity-graduations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archived version</a> shows what it looked like before the change. It&#8217;s unclear when the page was removed, but the outlet noted that it appears to have been an &#8220;evergreen&#8221; page for &#8220;affinity&#8221; events in each graduation cycle.
The Internet Archive&#8217;s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230323182400/https://edib.harvard.edu/affinity-graduations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayback Machine</a> shows the page was visible at least as far back as 2022, and a &#8220;Frequently Asked Questions&#8221; section indicated that the celebrations <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023641/https://edib.harvard.edu/affinity-graduations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have been going on</a> for several years.
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Although Rufo claimed in his X post that &#8220;Whites and Jews were the only groups not provided with celebrations,&#8221; Harvard University <a href="https://gsas.harvard.edu/commencement/affinity-graduation-celebrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221;</a> as &#8220;student-led, staff-supported events that recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of graduates from marginalized and underrepresented communities.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to Harvard seeking comment on the deleted webpage.
Harvard University&#8217;s president, Claudine Gay, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-resolution-condemning-testimony-of-university-presidents-on-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced blowback</a> after she said during a recent congressional hearing that <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/gay-apology-congressional-remarks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;context&#8221;</a> dictated whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses violated her school&#8217;s policies on bullying and harassment.
But <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-highest-governing-body-unanimously-reaffirms-support-for-president-after-troubling-congressional-testimony-plagiarism-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard</a> has stuck behind its president, and Gay released a statement, posted to X by the university, that <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1732447178491109411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students. Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.&#8221;

Harvard Scrubs Webpage For Identity Group Celebrations

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Embattled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University President Claudine Gay</a> responded Monday to mounting allegations of plagiarism, saying she stands by her work.
Journalist Christopher F. Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, published a report on Sunday outlining what he indicated to be three instances of Gay plagiarizing, per Harvard standards, in the dissertation, “<a href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/304343028?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;fromopenview=true&amp;sourcetype=Dissertations%20&amp;%20Theses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies</a>.”
Notably, Gay is already facing mounting pressure to be removed since her shocking testimony during a Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism in colleges and universities.
“I stand by the integrity of my scholarship,&#8221; Gay <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/12/11/metro/harvard-president-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Boston Globe, regarding the plagiarism allegations. &#8220;Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.”
In addition to other questionable instances, Gay is accused of lifting “nearly verbatim” work from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam in their paper called “Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment.”
Rufo cited Harvard’s own policy on paraphrasing and plagiarism to underscore his point: “When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas in your own words,” the guidelines <a href="https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state</a>. “It’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest; instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words. If your own language is too close to the original, then you are plagiarizing, even if you do provide a citation.”
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First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language. 
This is a direct violation of Harvard&#39;s policy: &quot;When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… <a href="https://t.co/t6enHp3dN9">pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733977126020481266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Billionaire Bill Ackman, a Harvard alum, said a university faculty member called Rufo&#8217;s allegations &#8220;credible.&#8221;
&#8220;I asked a senior member of the [Harvard] faculty to examine the below allegations of plagiarism against President Gay,&#8221; Ackman posted to X. &#8220;The faculty member found them to be credible.&#8221;
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I asked a senior member of the <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a> faculty to examine the below allegations of plagiarism against President Gay. 
The faculty member found them to be credible. <a href="https://t.co/Y7LdeuxODR">https://t.co/Y7LdeuxODR</a>
&mdash; Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1734028287112892589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Since the report, The National Association of Scholars has come out calling for Gay&#8217;s removal as president. &#8220;The esteemed group notes Gay&#8217;s &#8216;shoddy professional work,&#8217; &#8216;record of plagiarism,&#8217; and &#8216;promotion of racist policies,'&#8221; Rufo posted. &#8220;Momentum is building.&#8221;
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Further, reports of Gay&#8217;s alleged plagiarism have only compounded:
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BREAKING: The Free Beacon&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@aaronsibarium</a> has revealed that Harvard president Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of at least three additional publications between 1993 and 2017, according to Harvard&#39;s own standard on academic integrity.<a href="https://t.co/GRBRvWYWcn">https://t.co/GRBRvWYWcn</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1734343041715191858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks against Israel, Gay has been under fire for her response to Harvard students&#8217; pro-Hamas protesting, which has at times included calls for genocide of Jews in Israel.
During a Congressional hearing last week, Gay was directly asked about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s codes of conduct, and the president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> that it depends “on the context.” She added that calling for genocide is “at odds with the values of Harvard” and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘A New Low’: SNL Wrecked For Skit Mocking Elise Stefanik In College Anti-Semitism Hearing</a>

University Presidents Testify In House Hearing On Campus Antisemitism

Harvard President Claudine Gay Responds To Mounting Plagiarism Allegations As Calls For Ouster Intensify

Academia

Embattled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University President Claudine Gay</a> is under fire for allegedly plagiarizing portions of her Ph.D. dissertation, which concerns racial themes, for her doctorate in political science from Harvard back in 1997.
Journalist Christopher F. Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, published a report on Sunday outlining what he indicated to be three instances of Gay plagiarizing, per Harvard standards, in the dissertation, “<a href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/304343028?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;fromopenview=true&amp;sourcetype=Dissertations%20&amp;%20Theses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;[Chris Brunet] and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard&#8217;s policies on academic integrity,&#8221; Rufo said on X. &#8220;This is a bombshell.&#8221; 
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EXCLUSIVE: <a href="https://twitter.com/realChrisBrunet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealChrisBrunet</a> and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard&#39;s policies on academic integrity.
This is a bombshell. 🧵
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733976372450853222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In one instance, Gay is accused of lifting &#8220;nearly verbatim&#8221; work from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam in their paper called “Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment.&#8221;
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Rufo then cites Harvard&#8217;s own policy on paraphrasing and plagiarism to underscore his point: “When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas in your own words,&#8221; the guidelines <a href="https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state</a>. &#8220;It’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest; instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words. If your own language is too close to the original, then you are plagiarizing, even if you do provide a citation.”
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First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language. 
This is a direct violation of Harvard&#39;s policy: &quot;When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… <a href="https://t.co/t6enHp3dN9">pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733977126020481266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Gay is further accused of lifting material from legal scholar Carol Swain without giving a citation. Rufo again cites Harvard guidelines, which state that students &#8220;must give credit to the author of the source material, either by placing the source material in quotation marks and providing a clear citation, or by paraphrasing the source material and providing a clear citation.&#8221;
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Second, Gay appears to lift material from scholar Carol Swain. In one passage, summarizing the distinction between &quot;descriptive representation&quot; and &quot;substantive representation,&quot; she copies the phrasing and language nearly verbatim from Swain’s book &#39;Black Faces, Black Interests,&#39;… <a href="https://t.co/68bJy1F9jo">pic.twitter.com/68bJy1F9jo</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733978272504131737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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And lastly, Gay is accused of swiping an entire appendix. &#8220;Gay composes an entire appendix in the dissertation directly taken from Gary King&#8217;s book, &#8216;A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem,'&#8221; Rufo posted. &#8220;While she cites King’s book later in the appendix—in fact, King was her dissertation advisor—Gay does not explicitly acknowledge that Appendix B is entirely grounded in King’s concepts and language, instead passing it off as her own original work.&#8221;
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Third, Gay composes an entire appendix in the dissertation directly taken from Gary King&#39;s book, &#39;A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem.&#39; While she cites King’s book later in the appendix—in fact, King was her dissertation advisor—Gay does not explicitly acknowledge that… <a href="https://t.co/WGZAzc6gUn">pic.twitter.com/WGZAzc6gUn</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733994762989105392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The plagiarism accusations come as Gay is already under fire for her recent testimony during a Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism in colleges and universities.
When Gay was questioned about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s codes of conduct, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> that it depends &#8220;on the context.&#8221; She added that calling for genocide is “at odds with the values of Harvard” and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Their Statements Were Abhorrent’: Backlash To Harvard, Penn, MIT Presidents On Anti-Semitism Continues Even After They Backtrack</a>

Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay Now Under Fire For Alleged Plagiarism

A whistleblower doctor is revealing gender ideology&#8217;s pervasive and disastrous effects on the medical field.
The cultural shift toward gender ideology happened in 2020 when the pandemic removed guardrails around medicine, the doctor <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/transgender-ideology-and-the-corruption-of-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> City Journal&#8217;s Christopher Rufo, who interviewed the physician on the condition of anonymity.
Normally, doctors operate under the authority of the professional societies that govern their specific practices, the doctor said, but during COVID, medical decrees started coming down without peer review or evidence, such as masks, social distancing, and emergency-use authorizations.
&#8220;Everyone within the medical community knew that if he questioned transgender ideology, he would suffer the same type of repercussions that had happened during Covid,&#8221; the doctor said.
The doctor also threw cold water on the idea that a child must be affirmed in his or her new gender identity to avoid the risk of suicide. In fact, affirmation is harmful, the physician said.
&#8220;You have these children who are going through confusing times, difficult times; when you affirm this belief system, what you’re really doing is telling them: &#8216;You hate yourself at this moment, and I will affirm that,'&#8221; the physician said. &#8220;We have to ask ourselves, why do these people have such high rates of suicide? Because we’re affirming that they should hate themselves and that they should try to destroy themselves.&#8221;
The physician recalled a story about a teenage boy with a severe case of Crohn&#8217;s disease at the children&#8217;s hospital who had received multiple surgeries. One day, the teen was being wheeled into the operating room yet again, and at the same time, another child was headed to another operating room to have an implant put into his arm so his hormones could be suppressed, the doctor remembered.
&#8220;The first kid had no choice. He had no control over his condition of Crohn’s,&#8221; the physician said. &#8220;But the second kid was put into that situation because of the psychiatrists, the psychologists, the doctors, the politicians, and those in the media who convinced him that this was the correct thing to do to cure his mental anguish.&#8221;
The whistleblower doctor sounded the alarm in particular on puberty blockers.
Puberty blockers shut down the activity of the hypothalamus, which &#8220;controls all the other hormonal structures in your body—your sexual development, your emotions, your fight-or-flight response, everything.&#8221;
The hypothalamus is &#8220;not just a hormone factory&#8221; though, the doctor explained.
&#8220;It’s this system that allows you to stand in awe of the beauty of a sunset, or to hear the sounds of orchestral music and to stop whatever you’re doing and want to listen. And I always think that if someone were to ask me, &#8216;Where is it that you would look for the divine spark in each individual?&#8217; I would say that it would be somewhere &#8216;beneath the inner chamber,&#8217; which is the Greek derivation of the term hypothalamus. To shut down that system is to shut down what makes us human,&#8221; the doctor said.
The physician said doctors feel the need to &#8220;express their faith&#8221; to other believers in the &#8220;ideology&#8221; of transgenderism.
&#8220;If these rituals are not derived from a cultural heritage with a moral tradition, they become susceptible to unbound human depravity,&#8221; the doctor said. &#8220;When you look at the Judeo-Christian tradition, you have the outlawing of child sacrifice and other ways that standards were codified. But in the transgender ideology, none of these guardrails exist. So, what becomes the greatest expression of faith to other believers? To sacrifice the most pure and innocent.&#8221;
Asked by Rufo what the future of transgender medicine looks like, the physician responded, &#8220;I don’t know. I pray that there is a change.&#8221;
Many medical professionals have lent their full-throated support to minors receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and in some cases, surgical transitions, which can mean double mastectomies and genital surgery.
Meanwhile, critics have sounded the alarm about the permanent effects of these treatments and procedures.
Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.

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A member of the Sarasota-Charlotte Progressive Caucus expressed concern over a new mascot that was recently adopted by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-college-overhauled-by-desantis-will-accept-standardized-exam-based-on-classical-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New College of Florida&#8217;s</a> Board of Trustees — a cartoonish banyan tree that she claimed was racist.
The complaint came from Robin Williams, whom New College Board of Trustees member <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christopher-rufo-god-bless-all-of-the-parents-and-activists-in-virginia-who-made-this-happen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo</a> described as an &#8220;affluent white female liberal,&#8221; and alleged that the banyan tree in question had been &#8220;anthropomorphized to resemble an angry brown individual.&#8221;
&#8220;Local affluent white female liberal claims that the New College mascot, a banyan tree, &#8216;closely resemble[s] an angry, threatening brown individual.&#8217; Advice for white libs: if you see a tree and immediately think &#8216;looks like a scary minority to me,&#8217; you might be the racist,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-rufo-new-book-lays-out-road-map-for-returning-to-sanity-in-our-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rufo</a> tweeted.
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Local affluent white female liberal claims that the New College mascot, a banyan tree, &quot;closely resemble[s] an angry, threatening brown individual.&quot;
Advice for white libs: if you see a tree and immediately think &quot;looks like a scary minority to me,&quot; you might be the racist. <a href="https://t.co/mi2SuIXPc3">pic.twitter.com/mi2SuIXPc3</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1670840671320809472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I love the new mascot, which was designed by a New College student and inspired by the massive banyan trees on campus,&#8221; Rufo added.
Christina Pushaw, rapid response director for Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; 2024 presidential campaign, agreed that the mascot was a good one — and someone else responded to her, comparing the &#8220;parasitic&#8221; banyan tree to the professors at the New College.
&#8220;Banyan trees are technically parasitic, much like liberal professors at New College,&#8221; he said.
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Banyan trees are technically parasitic, much like liberal professors at New College.
&mdash; Cryptid Politics (pro-DeSantis) 🇺🇸🐊 (@CryptidPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/CryptidPolitics/status/1670868410572341267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Educated people know what a banyan tree looks like, + that mascot looks like a banyan tree. Kids today, however, are indoctrinated experts in pronouns + social justice only, so they don’t know about banyan trees. They are consumed with race, racism, and hate. That’s all they see,&#8221; one tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/SexHarassed/status/1670868505174867968" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Others quickly made comparisons to the anthropomorphic tree-like characters — Ents – from J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;Lord of the Rings.&#8221;
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Looks like a Chad Ent from LOTR <a href="https://t.co/dkg5baDyEW">pic.twitter.com/dkg5baDyEW</a>
&mdash; Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) <a href="https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1670880102983569408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I hope they don’t watch LOTR &#8216;The Two Towers&#8217; … Treebeard will be mega triggering,&#8221; another account <a href="https://twitter.com/DunedainRanger9/status/1670842130166693901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> in response.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party">Republican</a> lawmakers across seven states signaled in a Wednesday letter reviewed by the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/05/state-freedom-caucus-fbi-ama-aap-transgender-children/">Daily Caller News Foundation</a> that they would inflict repercussions on medical facilities that perform so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; on children.
Lawmakers from the State Freedom Caucus Network, a group composed of conservative members aiming to decentralize government power in federal agencies, penned the letter rebuking the American Medical Association (A.M.A.) and American Academy of Pediatrics (A.A.P.) for urging Biden Administration officials and federal agents to investigate journalists exposing radical gender surgeries that medical facilities are allegedly offering and performing on minors nationwide.
Signatures from the group&#8217;s lawmakers represent Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Nevada, South Dakota, Illinois, and Arizona.
&#8220;With your advocacy of childhood genital mutilation, your call to investigate those who disagree with you, and your request for Big Tech to suppress constitutionally protected free speech that challenges your leftist ideology, you have lost whatever credibility you had left,&#8221; the letter read.
The American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children&#8217;s Hospital Association all signed the letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging the administration to &#8220;investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities&#8221; that it claimed were &#8220;coordinating&#8221; and &#8220;provoking&#8221; outrage online directed at those providing the controversial services.
According to the letter, lawmakers condemned the medical institutions for pushing and making decisions for young children to take action, resulting in &#8220;irrevocable and irreparable harm.&#8221;
&#8220;This so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; is both morally and ethically repugnant,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;We will fulfill our duty to stand in the gap and stop harm to any child by unnatural and irreversible procedures.&#8221;
State legislators wrote they would ensure such taxpayer-funded institutions should take &#8220;no part in furthering ethically and morally repugnant agendas&#8221; contrary to their state&#8217;s values.
&#8220;Collectively, and across the country, we will be pursuing a path to ensure no minors can receive these barbaric procedures,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote. &#8220;This includes calling on our governors to denounce this practice and using all available tools to end it.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hospitals-clinics-are-promoting-services-to-gender-nonconforming-kids-here-are-47-of-them">reported</a> at least 47 pediatric gender clinics, many at prominent children&#8217;s hospitals, have broadened the scope of their patient criteria to include not only transgender-identified children but those they describe as &#8220;gender creative,&#8221; &#8220;gender diverse,&#8221; or &#8220;gender nonconforming.&#8221;
Some of these programs see patients as young as two and three years old. However, while most clinics will not offer medical interventions until a child has reached puberty, many will help facilitate a &#8220;social transition.&#8221;
Such social transitions have forced the State Freedom Caucus Network to push back on the facilities that could face repercussions if the programs are proven non-compliant.
&#8220;This mutilation cannot and will not be tolerated in any form,&#8221; the letter reads.
Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo, who originally obtained the letter signed by the three major American medical institutions, said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029634042253313">tweet</a> that the &#8220;American Medical Association is attempting to censor, de-platform, investigate, and prosecute journalists questioning the orthodoxy of radical gender surgeries for minors, arguing that public criticism is &#8216;disinformation.'&#8221;
&#8220;This is now the Left&#8217;s playbook: last year, the National School Board Association, Department of Justice, and F.B.I. worked together to label parents who opposed critical race theory ‘domestic terrorists,'&#8221; Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029635380228096">said</a>. &#8220;They want to stifle dissent, suppress speech, and criminalize opposition. If ‘gender-affirming care’ is so good, the activists and doctors who promote it—and profit from it—should defend their practices in the realm of public opinion.”
&#8220;In a democracy, everyone gets to weigh in on important issues, not just regime-approved apparatchiks,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577032889308708865">added</a>.
Ryan Saavedra and Christina Buttons contributed to this report.

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