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If You Ignore Claudine Gay's Plagiarism, Shame on You
Reason Foundation ^ | 12.21.2023 | ROBBY SOAVE

Posted on 12/22/2023 5:48:12 AM PST by george76

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1 posted on 12/22/2023 5:48:12 AM PST by george76
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You can say that again without attribution.


2 posted on 12/22/2023 5:54:56 AM PST by healy61 (.)
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If we ignore it enough, she’ll be POTUS in 20 years.

The foreword in a college textbook my daughter had warned students about plagiarism and used Joe Biden’s plagiarized biography that ruined his Presidential ambitions as a cautionary tale.

Little did they know that a short 12 years later, a plagiarist liar scum ball would be POTUS.


3 posted on 12/22/2023 5:58:42 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: george76
She is living proof of Affirmative Action. Conservatives said it would lead to quotas, lowered standards, failure to reprimand or punish wrongdoers of color, and, now, after several generations, super-mediocre people like this threefer BELIEVING they merit whatever they have been installed in by NWO elitists and communists.

Believe me, she is going nowhere. She is staying put as Harvard's president.

And the common people of her race will descend into more outrageous entitlement. Grand theft and looting yesterday, carjacking today, mass murder tomorrow. All done with impunity and without publicity, provided the perps are colored and the victims white.

4 posted on 12/22/2023 5:59:15 AM PST by caddie
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The Black Affirmative Action lice cut woman reached her level of incompetence when she was accepted as a student at Harvard.

She is a common run of the mill racist who like Anita Hill was raised to a position that was far beyond her natural ability.

Her “scholarship” is bogus.

A revision does not remove the fact she falsely plagiarized her thesis


5 posted on 12/22/2023 6:01:21 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamascide is required in total)
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And this.

Disgraced “Harvard president,” Claudine Gay, built
a towering ghetto-nurtured DEI empire on campus.

Source-—12/21/23 FR thread

In one example, Gay commissioned a “Task Force on Visual Culture and Signage” after the death of George Floyd in 2020. This task force later released a series of recommendations for engaging in what it referred to as the “historical reckoning with racial injustice.”

Among its recommendations reportedly included a mandate to change “spaces whose visual culture is dominated by homogenous portraiture of white men.”

It also said administrators should “refresh” the walls of Annenberg Hall, which “prominently display a series of 23 portraits, none of [which] depict women, and all but three of [which] depict white men.”

The task force never explained who the white men were or why they were on the walls of Annenberg Hall in the first place. The only reasons for the removal of these paintings appeared to be due to their skin color and sex, according to white-biased Gay.

Last year, Gay launched an initiative within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for “de-naming” any “space, program, or other entity” deemed racist by the faculty and administration.

Moreover, deeming such entities “racist” would be “based on the perception that a namesake’s actions or beliefs were ‘abhorrent’ in the context of current values,” meaning that Harvard would use presentism in order to pass judgment on individuals who lived hundreds of years ago.

“Since then, the university has grappled with denaming multiple buildings, including Winthrop House, named after John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and his great grandson, also John Winthrop, a Harvard professor and president,” Rufo pointed out.

In another example, Gay, as president of Harvard, is leading a “sprawling DEI bureaucracy,” otherwise known as Diversity, equity, and inclusion, which “seeks to influence how students speak, think, and behave in relation to race.”

The CRT expert noted that....... Harvard has deleted nearly all DEI materials from its website....... following Gay’s disastrous congressional testimony, in which she declined to say whether advocating for the genocide of Jews is permissible on campus.

Recovered DEI documents through an Internet archive show that Harvard’s diversity administrators urge students to internalize the Critical Race Theory narrative, which is that America is systemically racist, riddled with white-baiting code words like “police brutality,” “white supremacist violence,” and the “weaponization of whiteness.”

Students have also been encouraged to “unpack” their so-called “white” and “male” privileges, and to consider their “white fragility,” which ghetto-nurtured Gay’s DEI documents say is derived from “the privilege that accrues to white people living in a society that protects and insulates them from race-based stress.”

As Breitbart News reported, Gay has been facing nationwide scrutiny since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel due to her failure to properly respond to the matter.

The Harvard leadership botched its statement after more than 30 of its student groups signed a pro-terror later blaming Israel for the terrorist attack against itself.

Gay later delivered a disastrous testimony during a congressional hearing regarding antisemitism alongside the presidents of University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Now, the Harvard president’s own Ph.D. dissertation is being called into question over allegations of plagiarism.

You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and X/Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.


6 posted on 12/22/2023 6:04:22 AM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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Amen

The left has invested all it has in her and will not permit the fact she is actually worthless


7 posted on 12/22/2023 6:05:26 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamascide is required in total)
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Really bad optics -

Prominent professor whom Claudine Gay allegedly copied calls for her to be fired, says Harvard needs to get ‘back towards sanity’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/academic-whom-claudine-gay-copied-calls-for-her-to-be-fired-says-harvard-needs-to-get-back-towards-sanity/ar-AA1lRFgn


8 posted on 12/22/2023 6:06:30 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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But….but….she is a woman of color. How dare anyone question this historic figure!


9 posted on 12/22/2023 6:10:50 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Here’s how Harvard (and the local rag known as the Boston Globe) explain it away: https://ori.hhs.gov/definition-research-misconduct

Clear plagiarism by any academic measure, but someone who long before reaching the PhD stage would be well aware of definition thereof.

But somehow Harvard finds that it didn’t constitute “research misconduct”, despite plagiarism clearly being one form of research misconduct:

https://ori.hhs.gov/definition-research-misconduct

So they are simply allowing her to make “corrections:.

I’m old enough to remember when the standard at pretty much any undergraduate college in the country was mandatory expulsion for any plagiarized submission in any course.


10 posted on 12/22/2023 6:16:10 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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*by


11 posted on 12/22/2023 6:16:37 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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There's nothing inherently racist or white supremacist about applying Harvard's own standards for students and faculty to the president of the institution.

Liberals are very very rarely held accountable for their hypocrisy.
12 posted on 12/22/2023 6:18:47 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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"Harvard Law School professor Charles Fried told The New York Times that Gay was fending off an "extreme right-wing attack on elite institutions."

"If it came from some other quarter, I might be granting it some credence," he said, referring to the plagiarism accusations. "But not from these people.""

If it wasn't for "those people", I suspect the fraud would have been kept quiet. Since this is another Havard professor making this kind of statement, people might infer the Harvard has a bigger problem than Claudine Gay.

13 posted on 12/22/2023 6:20:44 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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Here, too, is the Globe’s article on the actual plagiarism. Note it was published just yesterday, but it makes no mention of the plagiarism from Carol Swain (a prominent AA academic) or her calls for Gay’s dismissal due to that.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/12/21/metro/a-look-at-passages-of-claudine-gays-scholarly-work-under-scrutiny/


14 posted on 12/22/2023 6:21:18 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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The left has no shame.


15 posted on 12/22/2023 6:46:57 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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As some of you may know, I have had a daily thread in the Religion Forum for 14 years.

It's set up as a Bible quote (with the proper copyright notice attached), an original prayer, and then, an original story. These are stories and parables that illustrate the text. They are all true reminiscences from my childhood.

When choosing illustrations, I try my best to use images that are in the Public Domain.

Sometimes I tell a story more than once, and sometimes I quote from an old thread.

At the sheer horror of somehow plagiarizing, even if I am only plagiarizing MYSELF, I always use a blockquote indent and state that this is a story I have told before. (As a musician I know that MANY Classical musicians reused themes from their previous works, so I'm sure it's OK to do this.)

I also have Native American Ancestry, but have never used that to “get ahead”.

I have an overdeveloped sense of honor and integrity, which makes me a freak in today's world, I guess.

I'll never get into Harvard.

16 posted on 12/22/2023 7:02:38 AM PST by left that other site (Romans 8:28)
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17 posted on 12/22/2023 7:04:24 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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Gay is a minority and absolutely NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO HER, NO MATTER HOW MUCH PLAGERISM SHE HAS DONE IN THE PAST TO GET WHAT SHE WANTED.


18 posted on 12/22/2023 8:16:11 AM PST by kagnew
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The lefties had better enjoy it while they can. Judgement Day won’t be so enjoyable for the lefties.


19 posted on 12/22/2023 8:26:33 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Gay received her PhD from...Harvard. Who were the doctoral advisor(s), dissertation readers, oral examiners,and academic committee members who accepted the dissertation and approved her for a doctorate, without noticing significant plagiarism? Their work should be reviewed for similar rot; perhaps standards in her whole field, and/or of Harvard in general have been shelled out from within.


20 posted on 12/22/2023 12:40:29 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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