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.
She simply refused to make a blanket statement that would exclude all nuance.
She essentially refused to agree to zero tolerance policies. Which, you would think that people would be against.
But it was trap, and the media successfully branded it as condoning hate speech, when that’s not at all what her refusal to take the bait was about.
Damned if she did, damned if she didn’t.