Harvard dean removed after posts trashing police, ‘whiteness,’ and Trump resurface
A resident dean at Harvard University was removed from his position after past social media posts attacking police, denouncing “whiteness,” and musing on the death of President Donald Trump resurfaced and went viral, The Harvard Crimson reported Monday.
Gregory Davis, who served as Harvard’s Dunster House Allston Burr Resident Dean until recently, had openly bashed conservatives on social media for years despite claiming to be “open and inclusive,” the Daily Caller News Foundation reported in October. Now, Davis no longer holds the position, according to a message obtained by the Crimson.
The posts Davis shared on X, dating from 2016 to 2021, included a reminder for people “to love each other and hate the police,” a meme saying “If he dies, he dies” after President Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 in 2020, and several messages comparing Trump to Hitler.
The former dean also ranted about “Whiteness” and “white supremacy.”
“It’s almost like Whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it. By design,” reads a 2019 post from Davis, an apparent response to a Time article titled, “Republicans Want a White Republic. They’ll Destroy America to Get It.”
“Black people do have a unique — and often authoritative — view on what is racist,” Davis said in a 2020 post. “But the way people disrespect and micro-aggress against non-English names is wrong and based in white supremacy.”
During the height of the violent 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations, Davis even claimed that “rioting and looting are parts of democracy just like voting and marching,” adding that “The People WILL be heard.”
Davis’s X account, which had been set to private by the time of the DCNF’s October article, now appears to be deleted. Harvard appears to have appointed an Interim Resident Dean for Dunster, Emilie Raymer.
Gregory Davis, who served as Harvard’s Dunster House Allston Burr Resident Dean until recently, had openly bashed conservatives on social media for years despite claiming to be “open and inclusive,” the Daily Caller News Foundation reported in October. Now, Davis no longer holds the position, according to a message obtained by the Crimson.
The posts Davis shared on X, dating from 2016 to 2021, included a reminder for people “to love each other and hate the police,” a meme saying “If he dies, he dies” after President Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 in 2020, and several messages comparing Trump to Hitler.
The former dean also ranted about “Whiteness” and “white supremacy.”
“It’s almost like Whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it. By design,” reads a 2019 post from Davis, an apparent response to a Time article titled, “Republicans Want a White Republic. They’ll Destroy America to Get It.”
“Black people do have a unique — and often authoritative — view on what is racist,” Davis said in a 2020 post. “But the way people disrespect and micro-aggress against non-English names is wrong and based in white supremacy.”
During the height of the violent 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations, Davis even claimed that “rioting and looting are parts of democracy just like voting and marching,” adding that “The People WILL be heard.”
Davis’s X account, which had been set to private by the time of the DCNF’s October article, now appears to be deleted. Harvard appears to have appointed an Interim Resident Dean for Dunster, Emilie Raymer.
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