Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days into the presidency — comes amid growing allegations of plagiarism and lasting doubts over her ability to respond to antisemitism on campus after her disastrous congressional testimony Dec. 5.

Gay weathered scandal after scandal over her brief tenure, facing national backlash for her administration’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly work.

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    Now I see that she’s black in an important locus of elite power and it suddenly makes a lot more sense.

    Not everything has to be a conspiracy about race. The white Penn administrator that screwed up their testimony in the exact same way in the exact same hearing was forced out in the exact same way.

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      No, but when you’re a PoC, it’s much more likely that people latch onto your story and watch you closely for mistakes instead of just letting things slide.

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        But that’s very clearly not what happened here and it’s detrimental to the discussion at hand to falsely label it as such. She in fact was able to let it slide for multiple months longer than her white counterpart and Penn.

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          I don’t actually know anything about what happened in this specific case, I made a general statement.

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        You say, after there was a prime example of it not being the case? What was let slide with the other, white president? Nothing, she was immediately ousted.