Gregory Davis is truly sorry for the “interruption.” As for Dean, a Harvard resident, one would think he was referring not to the years of racist, hateful messages, but to the faulty fire alarm.
This is similar to Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger (D) referring to the “poor choice of words” of Jay Jones, her endorsed candidate for Attorney General, when he said he wanted to kill his political opponents and their children.
These figures reflect the skeptical calculation that apologies are just background music in an age of anger – heard but not really registered.
Davis represents Harvard’s unwavering hypocrisy. Harvard faculty have been portraying themselves as victims of political intolerance for months after the Trump administration tried to force the university to restore intellectual diversity to its departments. The same faculty who spent years expelling conservatives and dissidents from their school were hyperbolic at the notion that anyone else should object to ideological conformity.
For the record, I opposed the measures directed at Harvard because it was harmful to free speech and academic freedom. Harvard has been around for a long time an example of The destruction of higher education in America and lowering of academic standards to achieve far leftist policies. Although Harvard is hardly worthy of sympathy, it is not worth sacrificing the core principles of free speech to go after it.
Years ago, Harvard faculty and students met with Harvard Law professor, House Dean Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. was canceled because he dared to represent someone they disliked.Sullivan was firedWhen he offered legal advice to disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana bowed to the crowd and announced that Sullivan had to go because “the situation is untenable.”
So far, there is Nothing “unstable” about House Dean Davis, One that has promoted hatred of police, spewed racist attitudes, and ignored potential deaths of conservatives.
After President Trump became infected with COVID-19 in 2020, Davis reportedly wrote, “F— that guy” and added, “I don’t blame people at all for wishing Trump ill.” He later reposted the gif from Rocky IV where Ivan Drago says, “If he dies, he dies.”
Critics have identified a long series of vulgar, violent and hateful postings by Davis. He has responded with an effective shrug, insisting that his comments “were made on social media prior to my initiation into the role of Resident Dean.” Some people have challenged that claim as false, emphasis His call for people to “hate the police” came while he was interim resident dean of Dunster House.
Even if these statements were made solely by Harvard before his selection, they would still be harmful. This was not a case where a faculty member or house dean revealed himself as an extremist after tenure or appointment. Davis never hid his radicalism. In fact, this may have been part of its attraction to Harvard.
Shortly before his appointment, Davis had suggested that “Whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that destroys everyone around it. By design.” As a professor of Critical Race Theory at UCLA and of “Gender Identity Law” at Southwestern Law School, Davis has helped fuel race-based anger against conservatives and the police. He wrote that everyone should “tell your police friends to step down because they are racist and evil.” In another post he explained how “like voting and marches, rioting and looting are also part of democracy.”
Davis encouraged students to reach out to her for advice who are “Black or other people of color, queer, neurodivergent (ADHD), first-generation, public high school graduates, from low-income backgrounds, or from urban areas.”
Like many bigots exposed for hateful comments, Davis deleted his posting and unreservedly apologized. This is the type of “check-the-box” apology that is so common now. Liberals like Zohran Mamdani spent years condemning law enforcement and seeking to defund the police, but he made the same apologies when he ran for mayor. None of his fundamentalist supporters believe in forgiveness more than his critics. The main thing is that it has been created, and the media can now move forward without causing real damage.
Davisdescribes himselfAs “a black, queer, neurodivergent (ADHD), first generation, public school graduate from Detroit” on the school’s website. Therefore, he encourages students to “feel comfortable showing up.” [their] with complete self [him]If you’re one of those “rogue” people who wants to go into law enforcement or one of those people who has no qualms about dying, this hardly seems an attractive prospect.
Still, Davis has no need to fear. He hates right groups. His anger is not dangerous but righteous.
After all, he did not offer representation to any unpopular defendants. At Harvard, this would be “untenable.”
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University. He is the author of the best-selling book “”.Inalienable Rights: Free Speech in the Age of Anger,
