1. Abuso de poder y acoso sexual disfrazado de mentoría.
Las comunicaciones entre Summers y Epstein evidencian un intento deliberado de usar su posición académica y su red de contactos para presionar a una mujer —descrita como su “mentee”— a tener una relación romántica o sexual con él. Summers, casado en ese momento, buscaba consejo de un condenado por tráfico sexual para manipularla, describiendo su mejor estrategia como que “ella concluya que no puede tener su valor profesional sin romance/sexo”.
- Summers went on to describe what he saw as his best shot that the woman finds him invaluable and interesting and concludes she cant have it without romance sex.
- As summers sought clandestine relationship with woman he called a mentee, epstein was his wing man.
- He was using his position as mentor to force her into a romanticsexual relationship?
- Summers told epstein that the woman was hesitant to leave the relationship because she wants professional connection a lot.
2. Racismo explícito en la jerga entre Summers y Epstein.
En múltiples mensajes, Summers y Epstein se refirieron a la mujer —una economista china— con el código peril, una clara alusión al término histórico yellow peril (“peligro amarillo”), usado desde finales del siglo XIX para estigmatizar a personas asiáticas como una amenaza para la civilización occidental. Este lenguaje refuerza una doble opresión: racista y sexista.
- Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by the crimson, summers and epstein referred to the woman summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name peril but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship.
- Many things of note in summers emails with epstein. Most eye opening to me is that he referred to the woman he was pursuing - a chinese national - as peril. As in yellow peril. A racist slur.
- The code name summers used in exchanges with epstein for the mentee he was trying to have sex with was peril. Pure speculation the economist in question, according to the harvard crimson, was an asian woman. My guess is peril is short for yellow peril.
- In text messages to a convicted pedophile, larry summers referred to the chinese woman he was sexually pursuing as peril. Ill let yall connect the dots on that slur.
3. Reacción institucional y doble estándar en Harvard.
A pesar de la gravedad de las revelaciones, Summers sigue enseñando tres cursos en Harvard. Su caso contrasta agudamente con el despido de Claudine Gay, la primera mujer negra en presidir Harvard, por acusaciones menores de plagio. Esta disparidad ha generado indignación entre estudiantes y profesorado, quienes denuncian que el sistema protege a hombres blancos influyentes mientras castiga desproporcionadamente a mujeres racializadas.
- Imagine what it feels like to be a woman walking into this guys classroom after reading those epstein emails.
- This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class.
- Claudine gay was fired as president, why? the orange child molester didnt like her! a black woman, i wonder why? yet this fuck, wants to keep teaching!!
- Both summers and gay are still as of rn teaching at harvard. I write about gay in the overseer class because she was no friend of palestine activists or black students.
4. Consecuencias públicas y llamados a la rendición de cuentas.
Tras la publicación de los correos por The Harvard Crimson, Summers anunció que se apartaría de compromisos públicos, pero sin admitir responsabilidad ética ni disculparse con la mujer afectada. Varios sectores exigen su remoción inmediata del claustro, mientras que críticos denuncian la normalización del acoso en el ámbito académico. Muchos ven en este caso un síntoma de una cultura en la que el poder masculino y blanco opera impunemente.
- Larry summers steps back from public commitments, deeply ashamed by epstein revelations emails revealed that summers sought advice from epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
- He literally plans his sexually predatory behavior toward a much younger mentee in those emails. A chinese woman that he and epstein codenamed peril.
- No apology to her. No acknowledgement of her. He says hes sorry he was emailing epstein without saying hes sorry he was being a literal, actual sex pest to a young academic.
- The last place he should be is teaching. Like, no woman can possibly trust him as a professor or mentor. He needs to retire to the country to live out the rest of his life in obscurity and disgrace.