So just to be clear an African-American woman who is the President of one of the biggest Ivy League schools in the country. That means she is intelligent. By your logic she had to have known what was going on when she went before a Congressional hearing held by Republicans. As a an African-American woman, she had to have known that they were to trying to trap her into saying something stupid.

She also knew, considering how Congressional hearings work on either side that the easiest thing to do is to give a simple answer. All she had to do, therefore when asked to say if she condemned anti-semitism or hate speech, was to say yes. A lie in which she said yes would have been easy: this is, after all, Congress where the average politician lies as easily as breathing.

Instead, she gives the kind of answer that was pure and other nonsense. It was, to be clear, the kind of Congressional double talk that today's Republicans say whenever Trump says anything remotely facist or dicatorial and a reporter asks them if they will support them.

Now you don't have to say this because I know how this works. If AOC or Ilhan Ohmar had been chairing this exact kind of hearing against a white head of a university, and he or she had given this exact same answer, you would be immediately condemning him or whoever it was, and demanding that the board of directors fire them. But because Claudine Gay is an African-American woman and the chairs of the hearing were Republicans, it must have been a trap. It was the work of the anti-woke mob's war on education. (Not my words, MSNBC and a Newsweek's op-ed. This theory is actually more tangible than some I expected; I expect anyday for someone to say that the hearing didn't actually take place or Gay and the professors were drugged or this whole thing was actually an AI deep fake by QAnon to take down the academic insiutions.

Because this is how partisan and identity politics work. Gay is not the cause of her own miseries; she is the victim of institutional racism, sexism, elitism or some combination of the three. For the record, with a ready platform as an African-Ameircan woman, you would think its the easy thing in the world to condemn bigotry in any form. Gay decided to answer the easiest question question in the question in the world by not answering, Considering how much all groups love to accuse the right for being bigots when they give basically the same answer to the question Gay was asked, you'd think we could at least hold her to those standard. I'm not surpised you can't even be bothered to do that, and that your reaction to this will inevitably be to call me a bigot myself.