In her resignation, she cannot but help herself and try to make it about race. Playing the DEI victim until the end.
The woman has 17 Academic works, and plagarized material, down to straight up lifting entire paragraphs, changing words and rhythm --poorly-- in order to hide their obvious cheating among others from different works was found in at least 8 of them. So far. That’s 48% of her total Academic output. Almost 50 separate instances.
The mere fact the Harvard Executive tried push it under the rug at first with a sham review process will surely hurt Harvard even more than even Gay. The fact that some Left leaning news media used the term “Duplicative Language,” to soften her cheating us incredulous to me.
In my Uni, 1 serious example of straight up cheating could be enough for an expulsion. But? 10? Or 20? But almost 50?
On top of that, she got replaced, in the interim, with an outspoken pro-zionist.
Fuck Israel and anybody that supports them. No Apartheid state has any right to exist.
What does that have to do with the article?
Can’t read the article as its pay walled, but it’s probably because of the accusations of Antisemitism. We all know what is really means these days. Any support for civilians in Gaza is often labelled as antisemitic.
It has to do with the reason she’s being fired, which is (predictably) not covered in the NYT article.
Within hours of the October 7th rebellion, 30 separate student groups issued a statement that was critical of Israel’s apartheid system. Gay did not immediately have the leaders of these groups expelled, and instead issued a bunch of moderate statements that could be summed up as “violence bad”, which outraged Zionists. She tried rewriting the statements several times but the Zionists could already taste blood, and they finally found an excuse good enough to print in the paper of record.
But, if she did the things she did, then it surely is her own fault, no? Or, as long as you are for the right cause, your past disgressions do not matter?
Sure it’s raining - it has nothing to do with all these people pissing on my leg!
This Nitter thread sums it up nicely i think. Shamelessly stolen from [email protected].
The plagiarism allegations were serious and, once entire paragraphs were found to be copied, it was always going to end like this. Everyone remembers how strict their university was about academic dishonesty. While the claims of antisemitism sped it up, it’s very likely someone would eventually discover it and when that happened, she would still have resigned.
How was an academic dishonesty board supposed to deal with students accused of plagiarizing if the President did it too? Terrible situation in academia. Unlike money, unethical behavior does trickle down, if just because it hinders the tools of enforcement (see America since 2017).
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Amidst all of this, it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor — two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am — and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus,” she wrote.
The daughter of Haitian immigrants and an expert on minority representation and political participation in government, she took office just as the Supreme Court rejected the use of race-conscious admissions at Harvard and other universities.
She also became a major target of some powerful graduates like the billionaire investor William A. Ackman, who was concerned about antisemitism and suggested on social media last month that Harvard had only considered candidates for the presidency who met the “the D.E.I.
Dr. Gay’s resignation came after the latest plagiarism accusations against her were circulated in an unsigned complaint published on Monday in The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative online journal that has led a campaign against Dr.
“There has been a hostile takeover of postsecondary education by political activists, woke faculty and partisan administrators,” Ms. Foxx said in a statement, adding, “The problems at Harvard are much larger than one leader.”
That evening, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo published an essay in his Substack newsletter highlighting what he described as “problematic patterns of usage and citation” in Dr. Gay’s 1997 doctoral dissertation.
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