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Harvard’s plagiarism “freedom”: Discrimination threat turns plagiarism into a de facto legal act.
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 12/22/2023 6:32:03 AM PST by davikkm

Fire Claudine Gay:

I see Gay as getting her post at Harvard because she was a diversity, equity and inclusion candidate, not on the basis of strong academic qualifications. There are plenty of accomplished blacks who need no such ‘help.’ Harvard is reaping the negative consequences. I am not much concerned about Gay’s success in exercising her power as I don’t think she has much. She is a discredit to Harvard, and that is being revealed. See: www.wsj.com/articles/why-harvard-cant-fire-claudine-gay-dei-hiring-lack-of-merit-b1d480ec.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: harvard; plagiarism

1 posted on 12/22/2023 6:32:03 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

This Gay person is an obvious cheater.


2 posted on 12/22/2023 6:35:29 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: All

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.

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3 posted on 12/22/2023 6:38:44 AM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: davikkm

I think a Mel Brooks movie, “Haitians at Harvard” would be a real hoot.


4 posted on 12/22/2023 6:47:54 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The American Taxpayers don't owe anybody an instant "I want it now" version of the American dream.)
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To: davikkm

By supporting the plagiarist as University President, the Harvard governing board and supporting faculty members provide more than sufficient reason to have Harvard University’s accademic accreditation suspended, if not revoked.


5 posted on 12/22/2023 6:55:01 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse
in a way

this out of the commie closet event is a good thing

now we know what trash needs to be taken to the curb of culture and society.

6 posted on 12/22/2023 7:00:15 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: davikkm

If I were a Harvard alum, I would be mad as hell. The Harvard Legacy is being destroyed.


7 posted on 12/22/2023 7:01:01 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Carl Vehse
That is the bigger story. There was an article further down where a Havard professor was dismissing the accusations because of "who" they came from (conveniently ignoring Carol Swain, from whom Gay plagarized).
8 posted on 12/22/2023 7:04:51 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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To: FlingWingFlyer

I remember Rodney Dangerfield’s movie BACK TO SCHOOL was hilarious.


9 posted on 12/22/2023 7:11:15 AM PST by George J. Jetso
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To: George J. Jetso

This Harvard fiasco reminds me of the Three Stooges short where they sing that song, “Swingin’ the Alphabet”. BI Bicky Bi BO Bo.


10 posted on 12/22/2023 7:16:10 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The American Taxpayers don't owe anybody an instant "I want it now" version of the American dream.)
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To: davikkm

Harvard is not going to fire her. And, even if they asked her to resign, she would not without a very ugly fight (which Harvard does not want). The best case is that she leaves with a very, very big golden parachute.


11 posted on 12/22/2023 7:19:42 AM PST by rbg81
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To: davikkm

Her argument appears to be that if you expect a person of color to be able to come up with an original idea or argument, you must be a racist.


12 posted on 12/22/2023 7:24:45 AM PST by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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To: davikkm

Firing Gay would give western civilization a chance to heal and recover its health; just a chance.

If not expect death, a lagging indicator.


13 posted on 12/22/2023 7:29:35 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: davikkm
I see Gay as getting her post at Harvard because she was a diversity, equity and inclusion candidate, not on the basis of strong academic qualifications.

AND the color of Ms Gay's skin is black AND she's a bully who has intimidated professors and administrators at the ghetto values hellhole school called 'Harvard'...

AND because guilty white liberals gain power by demonizing the black community - representing them all as thugs like Ms Gay...or as common criminals.

14 posted on 12/22/2023 8:22:34 AM PST by GOPJ (Surgery doesn't make a man a woman anymore than wearing a Gorilla costume turns a man into an ape.)
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