Claudine Gay isn’t the First, or Worst, Example of Black Plagiarism Privilege

American Thinker ^ | 20 Dec, 2023 | Selwyn Duke

[MtnClimber]

If there is a defense of Gay, it’s that she has countless co-conspirators: A woke (mostly) white world has for decades helped enable left-wing-favored black plagiarism.

“Why is Harvard giving Claudine Gay ‘plagiarism privilege’?” asked the New York Post editorial board Saturday.

It must be a rhetorical question. Professor Carol Swain, who was ripped off by Gay and complains “I feel like her whole research agenda, her whole career, was based on my work,” has some idea.

“A white male would probably already be gone,” Swain, a black woman herself, told journalist Christopher Rufo recently.

Instead, Gay, who assumed Harvard’s presidency just this July, is being retained and defended by her ivy league school. Never mind that investigation has thus far “left four of her 11 peer-reviewed papers flagged for possible plagiarism, plus her thesis,” relates the Post. Never mind that Swain isn’t the only academic upset about Gay’s appropriation of their writings. Never mind that Harvard has frequently expelled students for plagiarism. The accountability Gay must endure is that she’s being allowed to “correct” her work so she can continue enjoying a position obtained via academic fraud.

It’s a bit like robbing a bank, letting smarter people invest the money for you and parley it into a fortune and then, being caught 25 years later, being allowed to return the original sum (without interest) and continue enjoying the opulence your thievery has granted you. It’s what a different ivy league president might’ve said was “an example of ‘inverse racism’ by a bunch of white liberals ‘embarrassed by... [their institution’s] makeup.’” And that man, ex-Columbia head William McGill, did say that more than two decades ago about what may be the mother of all cases of black plagiarism privilege.

[MtnClimber]

That is funny...”inspired borrowings”.

[Bonemaker]

Is Claudine gay? She sure looks butch. Not too many men would tackle it.

[econjack]

I taught at a well-known university and was the College of Business Administration rep on the Search Committee for a new Dean, headed by the President of the University and the VP of Academic Affairs. One COBA faculty member threw his hat into the ring along with a list of other extremely-qualified applicants (including two from Ivy League schools). In researching the applicants, I discovered that the local prof had plagiarized a published paper from one of his students MA thesis and gave no credit to the student at all. I brought this up in a meeting of the committee and said that, if this got out, it would reflect badly on the university. The committee agreed and we were all told not to mention this outside of the room.

Subsequently, I learned that additional meeting were held, but I was not invited. Later I was replaced with a COBA faculty member who was a friend of the applicant, who eventually was picked as the Dean. I later learned that he was hired on the condition that he replace certain high-priced full professors with with new hires. Although full profs are usually tenured, Deans can do things that force them to leave, either through retirement or transfer to another school (e.g., given them an 8AM, 1PM, and 4PM classes, make then teach a Saturday class, etc.) Given what I saw, I found another job at a better university.

I just wonder what's going on with Gay that Harvard is afraid to fire her, other than the obvious reason.

[Da Coyote]

Considering the total lack of academic performance in the vast majority of work done by the woke collection of clowns, what should be the penalty of copying someone else’s unprovable lie? In the past, public shame usually worked, but these folks have no shame, no morals, and absolutely no intelligence. (Apologies to all the blacks that I have worked with who got doctorates. Real doctorates. In real STEM subjects. Without resorting to quotas, cheating, or reduced standards. Oh, they weren’t woke...just smart...which precludes being woke.)

[blackdog]

Hasn't anyone noticed that the ruling elite Beltway oligarchs prefer the dumbest, most compromised, least qualified, useful idiots as Executives of our institutions?

They are a much easier tug on the leash.

[Enterprise]

Quota hires and affirmative can’t work without fraud.

[Enterprise]

affirmative action

[Steely Tom]

The whole of academia is nothing but phonies.

For every sincere scholar, there are hundreds of poseurs.

[joshua c]

party loyalty

above all else

[Salman]

She is in fact entirely typical of African American academics. Yes that includes the Jew hatred.

[Organic Panic]

Noted black man Joe Biden was laughed out of the democrat party primaries for plagiarism.

[NWFree]

Corrupt libtards love their bigot she hates Jews too like they do

[minnesota_bound]

FTA: they think elevating gangsta’ rappers and plagiarists is a better look.

Liberals sure do.