The Stage 4 of Left Plagiarism

American Thinker ^ | January 13, 2024 | Gary Gindler

[WWII_Historian]

The timeline of what happened to the DEI-intoxicated Harvard president is well-known. However, the question of why it happened somehow eluded the commentariat. To answer the “why” question requires a deep dive into the fundamental issue of private property and its theft.

While conservatism and leftism do not touch the subject (it is considered a secondary, not a primary dispute), for the proletarianized strain of leftism – Marxism -- it is a fundamental, existential core belief. Since the Marxists’ takeover of the Ivy League institutions at the end of the last century, detailed analysis is impossible without an excursion into Marxist tenets.

Victorian Marxism postulated that private property would dissipate after the proletarian revolution. Along with that, the government would gradually wither away because it is no longer needed: there is no more private property to protect. Unfortunately, that simplistic thesis managed to brainwash millions.

While compulsory property reshuffle has been condemned since pre-Biblical times, orthodox Marxism offered one notable exception: the confiscation (expropriation, theft, robbery, embezzlement) of property from the “oppressor” and its allocation to the “oppressed.” Thus, Barack Obama’s “spread the wealth around” motto has a deeply-rooted tradition in left-wing circles. He was not acting alone: during the Cold War, intellectual property (IP) theft was, for all practical purposes, legalized and normalized by the International Left.

At the heart of Soviet intelligence activities lay a quest for strategic advantage; thus, IP poaching became a significant aspect of their efforts.

In Soviet hands, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress became a Tupolev Tu-4 bomber. The first Soviet atomic bomb, RDS-1, modeled after the third American nuclear device nicknamed “Fat Man,” was dropped from the Tu-4. (So, one replica launched another.) The German V-2 rocket evolved into the R-1 rocket, a precursor to Soviet ICBMs.

[DesertRhino]

Unqualified people were let into places like Stanford, Harvard and Princeton. Once there, they were celebrated and given undeserved good grades. And the very thinking that got them accepted, made it the third rail to fail them or criticize their work.

Once graduated, for the same reasons they are then hired for jobs they also do not deserve. At that point they are expected to do research, write original papers, build pedestrian bridges, design and build doors for 737s, etc.

At that point their incompetence can only be sustained by fraud and shoddy work.

[alternatives?]

Part of it has to be they are not interested in truth. It is much more difficult to manipulate and/or manufacture the data to produce the conclusion you want as opposed to letting the data determine the conclusions which most times produce the results they do not want. It has to be frustrating to spend all the time massaging the data multiple times when all you really want to do it write your conclusion and recieve praise for a job well done.

[vetvetdoug]

Much of this bitchin’ about plagiarism to me is sheer hypocrisy. When it was found that MLK,Jr., plagiarized much of his doctoral thesis and many parts of his most famous speeches, he was given a pass by liberal white apologists. Any other man that had been found to have done this would have had his laurels stripped and he’d been tossed into the dust bin of history. But noooo...we have to name the most dangerous streets in every town after him, have a National Holiday, make his home the ward of the state and the Department of the Interior and worship him in our textbooks.

[Honorary Serb]

Besides firing unqualified and/or corrupt university presidents and board members, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc. must fire their admissions staff, and return to merit-based admissions!

It doesn’t matter if there are “not enough” blacks, Hispanics, LGBTs, or Middle-Easterners. Admit the best of the best, with some leeway for geographic balance and balance between men and women. Then hire more conservative faculty members, please! And end DEI, and stop pushing LGBT ideology!

Then our universities might become great again!

[Stepan12]

This is quite right. This fellow tgraveler, plagiarist, and sadistic sexual sadist is treated as a diety.

Heaven help our society abd culture.

INcidentally, the interesting book Klandestine mentions that the FBI told the klandestine subject that they knew King was a sexual degenerate and an associate of the Communists, but they could not real it publicly.