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Democrats 'weaponizing' weaponizing against Republicans
American Thinker ^ | 7 Jan, 2024 | Eric Utter

Posted on 01/07/2024 5:19:35 AM PST by MtnClimber

So, Democrats are claiming that Republicans somehow “weaponized” plagiarism charges against Harvard’s Claudine Gay, who was recently removed as president of the formerly elite institution?

After an improbable -- O.K., nearly interminable -- amount of time, (former) Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned her post last week after an almost overwhelming amount of scholarly misconduct came to light.

In recent days, Gay has been credibly accused of turning a blind eye to antisemitism … and of multiple accounts of plagiarism.

This prompted the always-unbiased Associated Press to run an article titled, "Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.”

The same headline graced a corresponding post in ‘X.’

So, Democrats, at least the ones working for the Associated Press, are claiming that Republicans somehow “weaponized” plagiarism charges against Harvard’s Claudine Gay, who was recently removed as president of the formerly elite institution? (Though she is reportedly still a professor at the Ivy League’s most infamous famous Indoctrination Center, and an extremely well paid one at that.)

Later in the day, after being subject to some well-earned mockery, the AP changed the title to "Plagiarism charges downed Harvard's president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage."

A conservative “attack?”

Democrats now claim Republicans are “weaponizing” virtually everything against them. Quite the opposite is the case. Democrats have succeeded in “weaponizing” the (open) border, illegal immigrants-- and indeed the entire federal government-- against Republicans, conservatives, MAGA types, and the bulk of American citizens.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: claudinegay; communism; demonicrats; harvard
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1 posted on 01/07/2024 5:19:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
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The EPA is stockpiling weapons and ammunition. That is part of the REAL weaponization.
2 posted on 01/07/2024 5:19:46 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Prodding their surrogates to get weapons.


3 posted on 01/07/2024 5:24:57 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

so arguing with intellectual criminality is a “conservative attack”?

Got it. Some of us are having a “little too much to think” out in flyover country


4 posted on 01/07/2024 5:30:38 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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Biden is an odd duck——he cant win on his own merits since he has none.

But he has famously succeeded in “weaponizing” our sacrosanct justice system, our
17 intel agencies, numerous federal agencies, in sum, the entire tax-financed federal govt.

Biden is using tax dollars to target Trump, Republicans,
conservatives, MAGA adherents, and US citizens he despises.

Protecting the safety and security of American families
(his actual tax-paid job) is of little or no concern to him.


5 posted on 01/07/2024 5:35:32 AM PST by Liz (Actor/Sen Fred Thompson:"After being in DC, I often long for Hollywood's realism and sincerity.")
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To: mo

6 posted on 01/07/2024 5:36:12 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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So, since if was Jewish groups that brought this to light, the Left will now lump all Jews as RW FASCIST, when in fact today FASCISM is the tool that the Left is using to destroy their opposition. How fast the Left has turned against the Jews, just as fast as the German public turned against them in the 1930’s. Makes ones head spin with astonishment. Like a spiritual darkness has come upon the Left and blinded their brains.


7 posted on 01/07/2024 5:37:30 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Liz

Yep. That pretty much sums up the situation.


8 posted on 01/07/2024 5:37:42 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

In high school, had you gotten caught plagiarizing, you would have been expelled. When you practice racism, you make things worse for everyone. Gay was rewarded, and will be rewarded $900,000 for race reasons, and not for teaching a damn thing. She has made it harder for legitimate black scholars.


9 posted on 01/07/2024 5:40:24 AM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: MtnClimber

So, it’s “weaponizing” to call an ignorant s**t an ignorant s**t?


10 posted on 01/07/2024 5:45:48 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Liz

Obama weaponized all the federal agencies. Joe was just along for the ride.


11 posted on 01/07/2024 5:48:22 AM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: Da Coyote

Yes. And if you say that the CIA, DOJ and FBI are weaponized against Trump and conservatives then that is weaponizing weaponizing.


12 posted on 01/07/2024 5:52:59 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep, except you left out the CIA, FBI and the DOJ are VERY MUCH willing participants!


13 posted on 01/07/2024 5:55:32 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: silent majority rising

I think she got Harvard’s “Ted Kennedy Chair of Academic Ethics”

Though she could still transfer to the ‘Biden Center for Duplicative Language”

Or the Obama Editorial Chair at Harvard Law Review where you avoid plagiarism by simply never publishing anything


14 posted on 01/07/2024 5:56:53 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: MtnClimber

WIKI

Claudine Gay (born 1970) is an American political scientist and academic administrator who was the 30th president of Harvard University, and is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard. Gay’s research addresses American political behavior, including voter turnout and politics of race and identity.

In December 2023, Gay and two other university presidents faced pressure from the public and from a Congressional committee to resign, over responses to antisemitism on their campuses. Gay also faced accusations of plagiarism, including a probe by the same committee. The following month she resigned from the presidency.

Gay grew up the child of Haitian immigrants who came to the United States and met in New York City as students. Her mother studied nursing and her father studied engineering. Gay spent much of her childhood first in New York, and then in Saudi Arabia, where her father worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, while her mother was a registered nurse. She is a cousin of writer Roxane Gay and her family in Haiti owns and runs the largest concrete plant in that country.

Gay attended Phillips Exeter Academy, a private boarding school in Exeter, New Hampshire, graduating in 1988. She attended Princeton University for one year before transferring to Stanford University, where she studied economics, graduating in 1992. She received the Anna Laura Myers Prize for the best undergraduate thesis in economics. Gay earned her Ph.D. in 1998 from Harvard, where she won the university’s Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science.

In 2019, Harvard Law School professor and Winthrop House faculty dean Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. faced student protests after joining the legal defense team for Harvey Weinstein, who was on trial for rape. Gay called Sullivan’s response to the controversy “insufficient,” citing his “special responsibility” for the well-being of Winthrop residents. Administrators including Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana and Gay ultimately decided not to renew Sullivan’s contract as Winthrop dean. This decision was criticized by Sullivan and the American Civil Liberties Union.

In an op-ed published in The New York Times the following day, Gay said that she “made mistakes”, but her invitation to testify before Congress about antisemitism was a “well-laid trap”, and the campaign to oust her was “[a] skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society”.

After the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, Gay faced criticism, including from former Harvard President Lawrence Summers, for failing to adequately condemn the attacks. In a December 2023 Congressional committee hearing, Gay and the presidents of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania were asked about institutional response to antisemitism on their campuses. When asked if a hypothetical call for the genocide of Jewish people would qualify as a violation of Harvard’s code of conduct, Gay responded, “It can be, depending on the context.”

On December 12, the board of the Harvard Corporation said they “unanimously” supported Gay’s leadership, adding: “President Gay has apologized for how she handled her congressional testimony and has committed to redoubling the University’s fight against antisemitism.”

Hartocollis, Anemona (January 2, 2024). “What to know about the latest plagiarism accusations against Claudine Gay”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/us/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudine_Gay


15 posted on 01/07/2024 6:24:29 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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This prompted the always-unbiased Associated Press to run an article titled, "Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.”

well boys why stop with plagiarism, let’s go after copy rights and just use the AP articles and post them anywhere for people to read for free!

Free Words For All!

Release those chains on Words!

16 posted on 01/07/2024 6:30:32 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Texas resident

No question.


17 posted on 01/07/2024 6:38:05 AM PST by Liz (Actor/Sen Fred Thompson:"After being in DC, I often long for Hollywood's realism and sincerity.")
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To: Da Coyote

not “ignorant”, blinded by racial hatred IMO


18 posted on 01/07/2024 6:39:31 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

IMO plagiarism charges are merely whitewash to cover up something far, far worse: racial hatred that not even $900,000/year could ameliorate.


19 posted on 01/07/2024 6:55:12 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

Just a variation of “Republicans pounce.”


20 posted on 01/07/2024 8:59:27 AM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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