Zach Jewell – DailyWire.com Dec 18, 2023
Carol Swain (left) and Claudine Gay
Carol Swain, the author and legal scholar whose work was allegedly plagiarized by Harvard President Claudine Gay, blasted Harvard University in an op-ed published Sunday, saying the school is part of a system “that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard.”
In her opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, Swain addressed Gay’s alleged plagiarism that researchers Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet brought to light last week, writing that the Harvard president’s failure to cite her work harmed her and “academia as a whole.”
“Ms. Gay’s damage to me is aggravated because her early work was in the area where my research is considered seminal. Her scholarship on black congressional representation, electoral districting and descriptive representation builds on terrain where I plowed the ground,” Swain wrote.
“When scholars aren’t cited adequately or their work is ignored, it harms them because academic stature is determined by how often other researchers cite your work,” she added. “Ms. Gay had no problem riding on the coattails of people whose work she used without proper attribution.”
In her dissertation, Gay is accused of lifting passages from other scholars’ works at least three times. Along with allegedly pulling from Swain’s 1993 book, “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress” and an article she wrote in 1997, Gay also allegedly lifted “nearly verbatim” work from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam in their paper called “Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment.”
Harvard has stood by its president amid the scandal, saying it conducted an independent review of Gay’s work, which “revealed a few instances of inadequate citation.” The Ivy League school added that her failure to cite the works she pulled from didn’t violate the university’s standards.
Swain, who previously taught at Vanderbilt University and Princeton University, said the backlash to Gay’s alleged plagiarism should be much more severe but lamented that many of the others Gay is accused of plagiarizing “aren’t as incensed” as she is because “they are elites who have benefited from a system that protects its own.” Swain then slammed Harvard for standing by Gay as its president since Gay’s work provides no “ground-breaking originality.”
“In a world where the privilege of diversity is king, Ms. Gay was able to parlay mediocre research into tenure and administrative advancement at what was once considered a world-class university,” she wrote. “Harvard can’t condemn Ms. Gay because she is the product of an elite system that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard. This harms academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races, who had to work for everything they earned.”
Swain also addressed the plagiarism controversy at Harvard on a Saturday Extra edition of The Daily Wire’s “Morning Wire” over the weekend. Swain said Gay’s alleged plagiarism and her recent troubling comments before Congress on anti-Semitism have been a “low point for American higher education.” She then slammed Harvard for attempting to “redefine plagiarism so that it can retain its first ever black president – who was clearly promoted based on diversity, equity, and inclusion standards.”
I wonder if any of these black “scholars” will ever mention the blatant plagiarism of doctor MLK Jr. Just kidding, I don’t wonder at all.
https://www.amren.com/news/2018/01/martin-luther-king-jr-plagiarism/
Ironic that it needs a decadent White civilisation to provide the superstructure for Black liberation theology.
In what rational world do “Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment” plus the notion of “scholarship” appear in the same context?
The sabbatean cult would not there dare fire Ms Gay – she is of African descent. If they fired her, it could very well set all American blacks against the sabbatean cult ( eg Floyd’s case against whites). The cult is making sure the covert and sinister “divide and conquer” tool of division between blacks and whites continues on but not directed at the cult who are white but claim to be otherwise. Thus, the cult can achieve their criminal agenda to gain total power of all. The blacks are covertly being used as cannon fodder. Also, in many instances the sabbatean cult has had a hx of plagiarism and bought out scholarly degrees of all types. A visible example is bill gates who wears a pullover with a written word over it “Harvard” yet he is a drop out of university, a clear deception.
If you want to cripple an organization and you are ruthless but secretive, you will want to include dumb, untalented and perhaps dishonest people in its management so they can destroy it from within just by doing poorly at their jobs even when they want to do well. How to get them hired instead of competent people? Invent and implement DEI. Is Ms Gay bringing Harvard down fast? Maybe that’s why she was hired, although she herself may not know it.
Diversity = division, destruction.
Equity (not the same as equality under the law) = force everyone down to the level of the lowest common denominator
Inclusion = people who used to be excluded for good reason, such as the incompetent, hostile and criminal, can now fully participate if not take over
There should be another letter or two representing the exclusion of white people just because they’re white and of all people who believe in earning what they get.
Its all a scam, since nonwhites are intellectually unable to compete with whites in academia. Since the sociopolitical goal is Nonwhite Supremacy in all these ‘western nations’, these Jewish mongrels designed a biased anti-white system where nonwhites can be included in colleges/universities to advance their anti-white ideals of integration & miscegenation.
“The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.” — Aristotle
Simon, I know what world! I know what world!
My God…I know damn well that the university edjewcational system has been perverted, subverted, and gang raped into nothing but a factory to turn out imbeciles and pound dangerously destructive ideas of satanic inversion into their impressionable heads, all while charging the suckers exorbitant amounts of money for the pleasure and to make sure they start their adult lives in debt at interest, but Harvard has REALLY hit the skids looking at their dysgenic simian of a “President”. One look at that mangled mongrel monkey and you KNOW she is completely unfit to run a hot dog stand let alone a once-prestigious university.
Then we dig into the shenanigans of grotesque street simian Claudine Gay and find that she would have been laughed out of an adult continuing education class at a local homeless shelter and should never have been considered fit for anything but a firm punch to the face and certainly not any sort of job in “higher” edjewcation…unless it was perhaps in janitorial services to scrub toilets at a community college in Detroit after Taco Tuesdays in the cafeteria.
More dystopian satanic inversion on clear display…a completely unqualified lying sack of retarded pig shit who resembles a viciously inbred turtle named “President” of perhaps the most *cough cough* prestigious universities in the cuntry.
This situation validates the expression ‘monkey see monkey do’.
Silk purses for everyone!
`@hp
Sorry mate, that link didn’t return anything…
How did you embed a link with a name? Did you use html tags?
Simon, the link went bad. It was just a silly cartoon of a square (bizarro) earth.
<a href=insert http Link
Thanks HP 😉
test 1
Truthseeker plagiarism article
test 2
Truthseeker plagiarism article
test 3
Shakespeare Oxford fellowship
Simon, you have to, at the end of the link encase it in this. . .
I tried twice but A.I. wouldn’t let me. Here you go.