With her inept performance before Congress and her plagiarism issues, Claudine Gay loaded the pistol and handed it to her opponents. It was center-left former supporters who pulled the trigger. But it was the right that made her a target, because, as Christopher Rufo explained, she was the very personification of DEI. She was an affirmative action baby. She lacked “merit.” She had to go.
This is the very Christopher Rufo who, with his reactionary trustee friends at New College, decided to recruit male athletes with low test scores in order to create a more conservative, “balanced” student body.
I guess “merit” and DEI are kind of elastic concepts for the right.