A resident dean at Harvard University has been removed from his post following a wave of backlash over resurfaced social media comments that attacked law enforcement, disparaged “whiteness,” and appeared to celebrate the potential death of President Donald Trump.
Gregory Davis, who served as the Allston Burr Resident Dean for Harvard’s Dunster House, vacated the position this week, according to a report Monday by The Harvard Crimson.
The controversy centers on a series of posts Davis made on X (formerly Twitter) between 2016 and 2021. While Davis had previously emphasized a commitment to being “open and inclusive,” his social media history painted a different picture, featuring sharp invective directed at conservatives and police.
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In one viral post, Davis urged followers to “love each other and hate the police.” During the height of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020, he offered a defense of violent civil unrest, stating that “rioting and looting are parts of democracy just like voting and marching,” and asserting, “The People WILL be heard.”
The former dean’s commentary also targeted Donald Trump frequently. When the then-President was diagnosed with COVID-19 in October 2020, Davis posted a meme featuring the line, “If he dies, he dies.” Other posts reportedly compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.
Davis also frequently engaged with topics regarding race and “whiteness.” In a 2019 post, responding to a Time magazine article about the Republican party, he wrote, “It’s almost like Whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it. By design.”
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In another 2020 post, he discussed racial dynamics regarding names: “Black people do have a unique — and often authoritative — view on what is racist. But the way people disrespect and micro-aggress against non-English names is wrong and based in white supremacy.”
According to internal messages obtained by the Crimson, Davis no longer holds the deanship. The university appears to have moved quickly to fill the vacancy, appointing Emilie Raymer as the Interim Resident Dean for Dunster House.
Davis’s X account, which had been set to private following the initial exposure of the tweets in October, now appears to have been deleted entirely. Harvard officials have not publicly elaborated on the specific terms of his departure.
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