Leading Critical Race Theory critic Christopher Rufo is a conservative who makes things happen and who is very good at exposing the woke left/media for who they really are. In response, they’ve decided that he must be discredited and canceled even if in the end they ultimately end up proving his points about them.
The latest example comes in the aftermath of the resignation of Harvard’s now-former president, Claudine Gay. Her stepping down from her position as president is being credited in part to Rufo, who along with two other journalists was the first to publish documentation of Gay’s alleged plagiarism.
Because of that, and also because he’s taken a few victory laps on the Twitter machine in the aftermath of news of Gay’s resignation, his critics have once again grabbed the pitchforks and taken off after him with fangs fully visible.
This time around, the attacks revolve around Rufo’s Harvard education. This New Republic article, written in February 2023, is being brought up again by leftist writers and Harvard elitists alike as supposed proof that Rufo is trying to inflate his credentials by stating he graduated from Harvard.
He did in fact graduate from Harvard with a master’s degree, but because it was from Harvard Extension School (HES), it was treated to sneering and snobbery from folks who claim he isn’t “real” Harvard:
Incredibly, a Harvard professor – and one who actually teaches at HES – stuck her foot in her mouth by insulting every student at HES including the ones she teaches by essentially agreeing with the opinion that between the two, the “normal” Harvard had the better, smarter students:
Rufo fired back, pointing to tweets he’s posted before where he’s talked about going to HES and not the more “prestigious” graduate version of Harvard that Hochschild and others are talking about:
Further, HES degrees are in fact Harvard degrees, as it states on the Harvard Extension School website:
Others pointed to the self-owns being committed by the “real” Harvard types:
And the “hit the nail on the head” award goes to this guy:
‘Nuff said.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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