A Harvard dean has lost his job as Dunster House resident because of old social media posts about crime, rioting, Trump, and more. Gregory K. Davis wrote the offending posts on Twitter/X which were resurfaced this fall and were apparently serious enough to grab the attention of the administration.
A student-run publication called Yardreport exposed the tweets.
The Harvard Crimson has more:
Dunster House Resident Dean Gregory Davis Removed After Resurfaced Social Media PostsGregory K. Davis was removed from his post as Dunster House resident dean effective immediately, according to a message circulated to House affiliates Monday morning.In the message — which was relayed to the Dunster community by a resident tutor — Davis wrote that he has been removed from the role and that, to his knowledge, no interim resident had been appointed…Davis was appointed to the role in 2024 and came under intense scrutiny in October 2025 after Yardreport — a right-wing aggregator that launched publicly in September — resurfaced years-old social media posts in which he appeared to condone violence and looting at protests and sharply criticized law enforcement and President Donald Trump.In a 2020 thread on X, Davis wrote that he would not fault individuals who wished harm upon Trump and attached a meme that stated, “If he dies, he dies.” The article also included posts from the same year in which Davis characterized “rioting and looting” as part of a democratic process and called police officers “racist and evil.”Yardreport blasted Davis’ comments, accusing him of harboring hostile feelings toward “White people, police, Republicans, and President Trump” and calling on Harvard to fire him immediately.
FOX News describes some of the more questionable posts:
“It’s almost like Whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it. By design,” he said on X in 2019.During 2020, when tensions between police and left-wing rioters reached a fever pitch after George Floyd was killed, Davis slammed police.”You should ask your cop friends to resign since they’re racist and evil,” he said on X at the time.As rioters and looters wreaked havoc in major metropolitan areas nationwide, Davis defended the chaos.”Something to keep in mind: rioting and looting are parts of democracy just like voting and marching,” he said on X. “The people WILL be heard.”In the same year, around the time President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19, Davis said on X that he didn’t blame people who wished Trump ill. He followed that post with a second, captioned “But also, f— that guy,” attaching a meme that said “If he dies, he dies.”Just before Davis accepted his role as dean of the Dunster House in 2024, he made a post about Pride Month on Instagram.”Wishing everyone a great Pride. Remember to love each other and hate the police,” the post said.
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