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I bet Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson could benefit from a plagiarism audit.

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Mar 20Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

I once had to take an "on the spot", no-warning oral exam to disprove an accusation of cheating.

The basis of the accusation? I would wear my dirty mechanic's uniform to class, and my professor didn't think I was intellectually capable of the papers I was turning in.

I could have been expelled if I'd shown up hungry or hungover.

These DEI people at HARVARD are getting the pass after actually cheating and plagiarizing their way through school and into their jobs! There's incontrovertible evidence, and they're still there. Crazy.

Leftist demagogues value ideology over anything else. This is the Left, in a nutshell. And they must be taken down.

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Copy pasta word salad all the way down. AI would write better recursive NPC code. Our first ever National youth poet laureate who spoke at Biden’s inauguration went to Harvard. Leftist patronage networks are grooming her to become the next Claudine Gay or Barack Obama, as she plans to run for President in 2036: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/youth-poet-laureate-commissar-amanda-gorman

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DEI people never become DIE people. They just keep moseying along.

I was cited in September of my freshman year of college( 1964) for not citing things properly. Learned my lesson early.

No one ever challenges these affirmative action babies. That's the problem

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And why are those four still employed at Harvard, while Martin Kulldorff is fired? Because Harvard rewards plagiarists and punishes original thinkers.

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Well yeah, when you get a PhD in a fraudulent field of study, expect fraud.

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Mar 20Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

She changed "almost" to "nearly" and called it a paragraph. If they ignore, this is setting precedents that will have to hold in the future or face lawsuits. Students will have a hayday in courts.

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We’re racing to the bottom

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Mar 20Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

I remember getting on F in a paper I wrote in Jr. College simply because I used MLA instead of APA or vice versa. I was supposed to use a certain format and I got it mixed up.

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We now go from what communication scholars like me would call an “episodic” to a “thematic” frame. Which means there is a pattern of plagiarism here, not isolated incidents. And frankly it’s not surprising in the area of critical studies, because critical theory is based on “reason” and assumption and assertion, not empiricism. So there is nothing new, just a tautological, circular reasoning. A repetition of previous baseless claims. The “evidence” is to cite false claims. And to appear to be doing original scholarship on a subject that has run its course they almost can’t help copying the “critical scholarship” of others. Keep exposing it—your work ads empirical evidence to the questioning assumptions of critical theory.

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Professors can be unbelievably lazy (not all of them). Two points:

1) My nephew went through Harvard and never had a class actually taught, directly, by a professor- every one of his 32 courses were taught by graduate students.

2) in 1982, I had a classmate at the Yale School of Art & Architecture who designed a graceful, deft solution to a class assignment for an “insertion” in a large room that would be used to split the space into four functional spaces. Our critic, Giuseppe Z (who has passed away), swooned over the design - it really was graceful.

About 8 months later, Giuseppe was featured in the NYT for his elegant solution to a loft design featuring my friend’s design, lock, stock, and barrel.

We pointed this out to our dean, who shrugged and essentially told us that it happened all the time and that our classmate should be flattered.

I don’t know if universities have outlived their usefulness and have become hopelessly sclerotic, but lack of accountability in academia has now spread into society and has just ruined things.

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These plagiarism cases should cause us to ponder even bigger questions. What value are these people adding to our lives? None. Who is paying these people? You. Your hard-earned tax dollars pay for these useless things to be written. Compare what you do with what they do. They read stuff, change the wording and put their name on it. And they don’t even do that well. You, on the other hand, add value to our lives. Don’t let these people waste your money. Thank you for bringing this to our attention Christopher.

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Fuck Harvard. Learn a trade

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Mar 20Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

“Fomby served on Cross’s dissertation committee”! So, Fomby either didn’t read the dissertation with all the plagiarism or condoned it.

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Mar 20Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Lazy, lazy, lazy!!!! Originality is too difficult when you can just Copy/Paste.

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Mar 20Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Be relentless in calling them out. Her work and the work she used has helped usher in ruination and despair for millions of Americans. Slay the social justice warriors with your mighty pen sir!! Great job.

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