NARRATIVE – American conservatives view the protection Harvard receives as a symbol of the “woke drift” of American universities.
Harvard University and its president are at the center of a new battle in the great culture war that is dividing America. Claudine Gay, the first black female president of the renowned institution and a leading figure in the university's diversity policy, has repeatedly been accused of plagiarism in her work. American conservatives see the protection she enjoys from Harvard as a symbol of the “woke drift” of American universities, where racial obsession supersedes all other considerations, including academic excellence. They also denounce the hypocrisy of institutions that do not apply the same rules to everyone, brutally punishing the slightest violation of their rules, while at the same time showing a strange leniency towards presidential plagiarism or even anti-Semitism when it presents itself as anti-Zionism.
Liberals assume that these attacks are fueled by racial prejudice and are directed against…
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