{"id":278396,"date":"2023-12-20T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T08:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=278396"},"modified":"2023-12-21T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:51:16","slug":"scholar-allegedly-plagiarized-by-harvard-president-scorches-university-elite-system-holding-minorities-to-a-lower-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=278396","title":{"rendered":"Scholar Allegedly Plagiarized By Harvard President Scorches University: \u2018Elite System\u2019 Holding Minorities To \u2018A Lower Standard\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zach Jewell \u2013 DailyWire.com Dec 18, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Carol Swain (left) and Claudine Gay<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Carol Swain<\/a>, the author and legal scholar whose work was allegedly plagiarized by Harvard President Claudine Gay<\/a>, blasted Harvard University in an op-ed published Sunday, saying the school is part of a system \u201cthat holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her opinion piece<\/a> for The Wall Street Journal, Swain addressed Gay\u2019s alleged plagiarism that researchers Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet brought to light last week, writing that the Harvard president\u2019s failure to cite her work harmed her and \u201cacademia as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMs. Gay\u2019s 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,\u201d Swain wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen scholars aren\u2019t cited adequately or their work is ignored, it harms them because academic stature is determined by how often other researchers cite your work,\u201d she added. \u201cMs. Gay had no problem riding on the coattails of people whose work she used without proper attribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her dissertation, Gay is accused of lifting passages from other scholars\u2019 works at least three times. Along with allegedly pulling from Swain\u2019s 1993 book, \u201cBlack Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress\u201d and an article she wrote in 1997, Gay also allegedly lifted<\/a> \u201cnearly verbatim\u201d work from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam in their paper called \u201cRace, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvard has stood by its president amid the scandal, saying it conducted an independent review of Gay\u2019s work, which \u201crevealed a few instances of inadequate citation.\u201d The Ivy League school added that her failure to cite the works she pulled from didn\u2019t violate the university\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n

Swain, who previously taught at Vanderbilt University and Princeton University, said the backlash to Gay\u2019s alleged plagiarism should be much more severe but lamented that many of the others Gay is accused of plagiarizing \u201caren\u2019t as incensed\u201d as she is because \u201cthey are elites who have benefited from a system that protects its own.\u201d Swain then slammed Harvard for standing by Gay as its president since Gay\u2019s work provides no \u201cground-breaking originality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 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,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHarvard can\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swain also addressed the plagiarism controversy at Harvard on a Saturday Extra edition of The Daily Wire\u2019s \u201cMorning Wire\u201d<\/a> over the weekend.\u00a0 Swain said<\/a> Gay\u2019s alleged plagiarism and her recent troubling comments before Congress on anti-Semitism have been a \u201clow point for American higher education.\u201d She then slammed Harvard for attempting to \u201credefine plagiarism so that it can retain its first ever black president \u2013 who was clearly promoted based on diversity, equity, and inclusion standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prominent legal scholar slams Harvard for attempting to \u201credefine plagiarism so that it can retain its first ever black president \u2013 who was clearly promoted based on diversity, equity, and inclusion standards.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278403,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278396\/revisions\/278403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}