Gay stepped down as president after a scandal-ridden month during which she faced mounting criticism and calls to resign over not only her handling of antisemitism on campus in the wake of Hamas' October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, but because of accusations of plagiarism as well.
Despite this, as Kirk stated, "she's still going to be paid $900,000 a year" as a member of Harvard faculty.
"They can't possibly fire her," he said. "She's a protected class. She's a black female. She's one of the high priestesses of ruling class woke society."
Gay was "caught committing about 40 different examples of plagiarism."
"She stole sentences without attribution," Kirk recounted. "She even plagiarized acknowledgment pages when she copied from papers that use British spellings she didn't fix. Her lawyers tried to claim the examples were invented by chat GPT which is a total lie."
Plagiarism was not, however, what made Gay deserving of departure from her role.
"She deserved to be fired because she never belonged as Harvard's president in the first place," Kirk stated. "If you look at Claudine Gaye's academic career, it's a joke. All she writes about is race. That's it. In fact, I spent about 30 minutes looking through what is her academic body of work."
Kirk listed off some of Gay's written pieces including The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation published in 2001 and The Impact of Gender and Race on the Politics of Black Women published in 1998.
"So basically, her entire academic career could be summarized as white man bad, give black people stuff," Kirk quipped. "She is an example that there is an entire industry of anti-white, black race pandering in higher education. There's an entire infrastructure there is a deep state of Harvard that exists where all they publish is this garbage. And you read it."
He added: "It's not profound. It's not deep. It's the same thing. It could be summarized as I believe racism is to blame for all of our problems."
"Now, you can pump out lame papers like this half plagiarized and rise to the top of the most famous university in the world. How is that possible?" Kirk asked.
"Because it's not about meritocracy," he continued, "it's not about research, it's not about brilliance, it's not about having a high IQ, it's not about working hard.
"It's 'do you fit a specific criteria that makes us feel good?'"
Kirk reported that the ex-president in total wrote just over 10 articles. Because of this, he said that "Claudine Gay would be in the bottom 10 percent in terms of qualifications" if her role was to have been filled fairly. However 'black women are the high priestesses of diversity, equity and inclusion."
"And it just so happens that her fumbled answer when it came to genocide of Jews at the congressional hearing was a cause set in motion for her resignation," he concluded. "But it's deeper than that."
