Harvard won’t condemn Claudine Gay because she’s a ‘high pedigree’ minority, professor says

One of the academics who has accused Harvard president Claudine Gay of ripping off her work claims the Ivy League school won’t condemn her because it holds “high pedigree” minorities to lower standards than others.

Carol Swain, a former political science professor at Vanderbilt University, blasted the school in a fiery Wall Street Journal op-ed published Monday — nearly a week after Harvard said it was standing by Gay following an investigation into the plagiarism claims leveled against her.

“Harvard can’t condemn Ms. Gay because she is the product of an elite system that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard,” Swain said.

“This harms academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races, who had to work for everything they earned.”

Gay was hit with accusations that she lifted scholars’ works in her 1997 doctoral thesis and wrote four papers published between 1993 and 2017 that didn’t have proper attribution.