Dec 11, 2023·edited Dec 11, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo
Chris Brunet and Chris Rufo have achieved legendary status for exposing the fraud that is Harvard President Claudine Gay. I am in awe of your work, gentlemen. Now that you're taking off the head of the snake, it's time to take on the long tail of Demoralized DIEvy League commissars.
How come nobody thought to investigate her background or say this during the Great Reckoning after the death of Prophet Floyd and during the BLM riots? What would have happened if somebody did?
Interesting timing. Who gave the go ahead for this?
I’m sorry, he’s literally claiming that paraphrasing is plagiarism here, and you’re buying it.
Paraphrasing is allowed. Look at near any research paper and it starts with summarizing the area of study, oft through paraphrasing and quotations from a lot of different sources. Does that not seem, y’know, logical?
Researchers aren’t expected or even supposed to reinvent the wheel with each paper, things build on past knowledge, the work being demonstrated by a researcher is the *new* work, this one especially feels like a smart man duping people who never had to take a college writing course.
Agree totally. If every example of paraphrasing, copying of sentences, or even copying paragraphs in academia was taken to task, academia would be in turmoil. Christopher is attacking Dr Gay with a zeal that suggests an agenda beyond exposing fraud.
01/02/24: It is a violation of the rules of Harvard University and students there have been expelled BY CLAUDINE GAY HERSELF for engaging in it. Morally, it is theft, plain and simply. The opinions of people who condone it are worthless.
The way I feel right now, Claudine Gay can go to Hell. This highly successful plagiarist and DEI grifter let the Hamas-sucking, shit show parade continue on campus for weeks and never uttered a word to stop it.
During the congressional hearings, Gay spouted woke legalize like a trained seal. She never gave a rat's ass about how the Jewish students, faculty, and staff of Harvard might feel about their nonstop humiliation and threat. Then after the hearings, she issued a carefully constructed but completely unconvincing mea culpa. And that statement was released only because she knew her job was on the line.
It's time to turn up the heat on Gay. Give her a taste of her own medicine, and then send her packing. Let her immediate dismissal serve as a warning to all presidents of colleges and universities throughout the nation that their odious actions and words will not be tolerated.
pure none-sense! I see no evidence ! Sorry I should have put the past 4 words in quotation marks since somebody has used it already in the 13th century !!
It's the Gods' on Mount Olympus big joke on us: "OK so let's round up all the stupidest, most intellectually and morally corrupt people in America and put them.......in the UNIVERSITIES! That'll be fun".
Meanwhile, it's 12:11 a.m. Monday 12/11/23, and the word is spreading throughout Cambridge about The Rufo Substack story and the local power company is doubling its stock dividends as...
Phones ring in the dark and lights go on and poorly-secured toupees pop up in the air as if they'd been the livid lids on hot tea pots, and computer buttons are pushed and screens light up and faces get crimson (oddly enough, Harvard's chosen color) as the Rufo story is being read ---
And incidentally, probably scaring the hell out of 100 doctoral candidates who just handed in a Barnum and Bailey trainload of elephant dung plagiarized from President Gay's own doctoral thesis... no wonder that Zuckerberg (see reference to toupees, above) and Bill Gates, armed with their incorruptible moral ethics, both dropped out of wicked-smart Harvard...
Please don't stop here. Go after every woke educational administrator, starting with the the Ivy Leaguers, and don't stop there. The DEI community is likely full of such charlatans. Raise funds for the effort by asking us to "sponsor" or "adopt" a college president or DEI flunky to investigate. I'll be among the first to contribute.
Her CV indicates about 6-7 peer reviewed journal articles - fine for a grad student, insufficient to seek tenure in most universities - laughable for a full professor or dean, and incredible for the boss of the most prestigious university in the world....So not surprised her dissertation was weak and plagiarized. This is what you get with a diversity hire. It's a testament to what DEI does to academic integrity
Woke nonsense is smooth-brained drivel in the first place. You must be pretty stupid and lazy not to be able to churn out reams of incoherent nonsense like stringing unrelated words together in free-association. Even Slavoj Zizek manages to flatulate out three books a year!
As a journalism student, many years ago, and then as a homeschooling mother 20 years ago, the rules for plagiarism were clear, concise, and unambiguous. Four words in a row from the original source did not require citation, but once you got to five words in a row, it was plagiarism unless you specifically cited the original author. Period, end of story...
There is absolutely no allowance for anyone, high school level or above, lifting entire sentences or paragraphs without citation and anyone who does so should automatically be given a failing grade in whatever class they are taking and should immediately be stripped of all credentials earned by the use of plagiarized material!
Stolen Words, The Classic Book on Plagiarism, Thomas Mallon [1951- ]; "A Harvest Book Harcourt, Inc."; "first published by Ticknor & Fields 1989"; "Published by Penguin Books 1991"; First Harvest edition 2001," with an "Afterword copyright... Thomas Mallon, 2001" (paperback).
When I first learned about King having plagiarized his academic thesis from "Stolen Words," it was 2015. My blood boiled. The entire thing had been hushed up by the mainstream media.
Mallon was part of the insider NYC media mafia (New Yorker magazine, etc.), so his doing this was no doubt an act of an apostate.
Fortunately for him, the book is so badly written (dull) that it is probable that little damage was done to Mallon's credentialed reputation because I doubt very few readers made it to the pages written about King (I'd provide them, but the book was pulped).
Would-be plagiarizers were also fortunate. Since Stolen Words was probably read by few due to its unreadability (its primary value is library "book furniture"), if material had been stolen from it, the odds of readers realizing it had been purloined were slim.
12/22/23: If you do find a copy (used, AbeBooks, paperback should be affordable for what it's worth), skip the first two chapters (death warmed-over writing) is my recommendation. And Merry Christmas!
P.S. Just got the NY Post. Front page, "40 instances of [Claudine Gay's] plagiarism."
It's only a matter of time. And in the meantime, who else at Harvard, Yale, Penn, Bard College et al turned in ("wink wink") other people's work as their own? No such thing as "one cockroach" in a kitchen.
Harvard hiring Gay tops the NY Jets signing Aaron Rodgers, who, it is said in his defense, actually threw his own touchdown passes. In gambling terms, that she topped the Rogers signing (not his fault) just before the year ended is known as a "back-door cover."
I think you misunderstand the problem. The problem is when you say "XY in her book Z says that bla bla bla". And the bla bla bla is copied from the book word for word. You are supposed to write it like this: XY says in herbook Z "bla bla bla" and give a reference to the book in a footnote. What you point to is simply copy pasting and writing "I think bla bla bla" where bla bla comes from someone else.
Thanks Chris. Yep, Gay is just another example of what happens when you subjugate meritocracy and equal opportunity to the mutually exclusive utopian desire for statistically equal outcomes -- despite the immorality and lack of integrity of it all. To bestow achievement without meritocracy is theft of achievement from those who merit it.
Worse, IMHO, when lies are accepted, they must grow more extreme to survive. That's where we are today in Universities, the UN, in too many corporate boardrooms, etc.
Although I believe truth will eventually prevail, Gay, and too many Harvard administrators, faculty, and students, are a bi-product of this lie. Although my hope is that Universities will reform, it will not happen without taking down its leaderships - via public ridicule and later, once the political will is sufficient, with top-down financial means that might utilize lessons from New College.
As such, thanks again Chris for shining a bright light on this. Awesome. Of course, the battle will take years. To quote Steve Adkins, a fellow participant, "We have the greatest positive potential of any nation on earth. I remain fundamentally an optimist but worry about a bumpy ride ahead for the next few years."
You really have to be an incorrigible optimist to say a few years and the problem would be solved . How in the world you ever turn the process back? The whole generation has been brain damaged. What makes you think they will raise their kids differently? If they ever have kids.
Well, it took generations to get here and will likely take a long time to reverse it. But it is being propped up by big gov and that can be reversed much faster. We are fighting a loud minority mostly funded by big gov -- so although many feel helpless, since most people are good people, it might collapse faster than anticipated. I hope I am not being delusional, of course. 🤷♂️
Can any of us imagine a white female academic rising to such success with a PhD thesis entitled:
Taking Charge: White Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies
And making good use of a previous thesis:
Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and White Empowerment
And generous quotes from this:
Using 1987 survey data, Bobo and Gilliam found that White-Americans in “high white-empowerment” areas—as indicated by control of the mayor’s office—are more active than either White-Americans in low empowerment areas or their black counterparts of comparable socioeconomic status. Empowerment, they conclude, influences white participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation towards politics and by greatly increasing white attentiveness to political affairs.
Another sanctioned bucket o racism: I attended a DEI "anti-racist" workshop led by a low IQ resentful "she/they" who said, verbatim: "Consider yourselves part of the white group that is detrimental to society."
Is there a "statute of limitations" on Plagiarism?
Harvard will, I wager, manipulate the situation to make anyone who is skeptical of this person's fitness for the job a racist misogynist. And they will redefine plagiarism.
Chris Brunet and Chris Rufo have achieved legendary status for exposing the fraud that is Harvard President Claudine Gay. I am in awe of your work, gentlemen. Now that you're taking off the head of the snake, it's time to take on the long tail of Demoralized DIEvy League commissars.
May I suggest Crystal Williams, President of RISD? https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-appoint-a-commissar
Chris Brunet is fearless which is why I support his Substack. Great work gentlemen!
She's obviously a diversity hire.
Gay.
Black.
Bald.
Not bright.
Will do what whyte people tell her to do.
Yup...the educated black female doormat has arrived or sonething.
She is black. Don't know if she is gay. Not bald. A lot brighter than you.
And has departed, claiming her obligatory "victim" status ("racism").
How come nobody thought to investigate her background or say this during the Great Reckoning after the death of Prophet Floyd and during the BLM riots? What would have happened if somebody did?
Interesting timing. Who gave the go ahead for this?
All you folks are so transparently racist. (And of course this is not sarcastic.)
We appreciate your polite sarcasm.
No. Find a white guy to haul in next. There are plenty of dumb ones. Like you, and Chris, for this bad look.
"Abstain from all appearance of evil." (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
One rather thinks you're afraid of fighting men.
(And why not take a comb to things yourself? Or aren't you able?)
You know Christopher is making an impact when the ad hominem insults start!
An impact from peddling bullshit doesn’t mean that it’s a good or accurate impact.
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3kh5ihd25is2a
I’m sorry, he’s literally claiming that paraphrasing is plagiarism here, and you’re buying it.
Paraphrasing is allowed. Look at near any research paper and it starts with summarizing the area of study, oft through paraphrasing and quotations from a lot of different sources. Does that not seem, y’know, logical?
Researchers aren’t expected or even supposed to reinvent the wheel with each paper, things build on past knowledge, the work being demonstrated by a researcher is the *new* work, this one especially feels like a smart man duping people who never had to take a college writing course.
Agree totally. If every example of paraphrasing, copying of sentences, or even copying paragraphs in academia was taken to task, academia would be in turmoil. Christopher is attacking Dr Gay with a zeal that suggests an agenda beyond exposing fraud.
You're a criminal defense lawyer, may I assume?
Plagiarism, if that's what happened here, is not illegal. So stand down Don.
01/02/24: It is a violation of the rules of Harvard University and students there have been expelled BY CLAUDINE GAY HERSELF for engaging in it. Morally, it is theft, plain and simply. The opinions of people who condone it are worthless.
"Looks" are more important, didn't you know? No soup for you!
This right here is called advice. If you'd like it given nicer, maybe don't support Trump thrice.
rufo is only making an impact on the kids he molests, because he's a pedophile
I'm sorry that you resent the competition.
FYI: The correct spelling is "Poughkeepsie".
I read once that "Poughkeepsie" is Iroquois for "Place of Overflowing Shitholes."
Jelousy does not become you. BUT maybe you were ugly to start with!
To be jealous, one must want.
The way I feel right now, Claudine Gay can go to Hell. This highly successful plagiarist and DEI grifter let the Hamas-sucking, shit show parade continue on campus for weeks and never uttered a word to stop it.
During the congressional hearings, Gay spouted woke legalize like a trained seal. She never gave a rat's ass about how the Jewish students, faculty, and staff of Harvard might feel about their nonstop humiliation and threat. Then after the hearings, she issued a carefully constructed but completely unconvincing mea culpa. And that statement was released only because she knew her job was on the line.
It's time to turn up the heat on Gay. Give her a taste of her own medicine, and then send her packing. Let her immediate dismissal serve as a warning to all presidents of colleges and universities throughout the nation that their odious actions and words will not be tolerated.
Where were you during the BLM riots? You people have emerged at an auspicious time!
"Harfraud" is what we call it.
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3kh5ihd25is2a
I’m sorry, did you actually read any of the citations or are you just going along with it?
This one *literally states who is being paraphrased*.
It’s hard not to look at this as yet another manufactured outrage engineered for folks who won’t actually read the shit.
January 2, 2024: Gay (Harvard) is gone.
(Her Elliot Spitzer "tough it out" strategy failed.)
"It has been less than half a year since Gay assumed" her job as H. president.
(She's blamed her "resignation" on "racism." What a surprise!)
She will be replaced by Liz Truss (UK PM, 45-day "tenure").
Or Billy Boggs (remember her?)
What a shame the Mets didn't keep their manager vacancy open...
pure none-sense! I see no evidence ! Sorry I should have put the past 4 words in quotation marks since somebody has used it already in the 13th century !!
Harvard’s leader is an antisemitic plagiarist. How far this institution has fallen!
Hope there's a truck going around Harvard advertising her plagiarism
It's the Gods' on Mount Olympus big joke on us: "OK so let's round up all the stupidest, most intellectually and morally corrupt people in America and put them.......in the UNIVERSITIES! That'll be fun".
Who likely could not define “ woman.”
Ahem, I think you meant a non-binary, lactatable human unit with a bonus hole who can chest feed.
ok, i'm using this:
NBHUWBHWCCF... uhhh, maybe not.
long form is easier, yep.
Now don't forget -- diversity makes us stronger!
She's simply another Communist.
A gay black female antiseme5ic plagiarist if you please. Checkboxes count.
It's been falling (and failing) for decades now. Today, in the words of Don McLean - "...high and falling faaaaast"
In what way? What did she say that made her antisemitic?
She vetted it all with Joe Biden and was told there was mostly no plagiarism .
Meanwhile, it's 12:11 a.m. Monday 12/11/23, and the word is spreading throughout Cambridge about The Rufo Substack story and the local power company is doubling its stock dividends as...
Phones ring in the dark and lights go on and poorly-secured toupees pop up in the air as if they'd been the livid lids on hot tea pots, and computer buttons are pushed and screens light up and faces get crimson (oddly enough, Harvard's chosen color) as the Rufo story is being read ---
And incidentally, probably scaring the hell out of 100 doctoral candidates who just handed in a Barnum and Bailey trainload of elephant dung plagiarized from President Gay's own doctoral thesis... no wonder that Zuckerberg (see reference to toupees, above) and Bill Gates, armed with their incorruptible moral ethics, both dropped out of wicked-smart Harvard...
Is that like “mostly peaceful protest?”
Mostly peaceful plagiarism...
Nuanced and in context.
The New Yorker magazine babblespeak.
Mostly original plagiarism.
Superb. Thank you.
By the way, was it too much to ask Harvard NOT to hire someone who looks like a human lizard (Gay)?
Mostly.
Good one.
😂
Please don't stop here. Go after every woke educational administrator, starting with the the Ivy Leaguers, and don't stop there. The DEI community is likely full of such charlatans. Raise funds for the effort by asking us to "sponsor" or "adopt" a college president or DEI flunky to investigate. I'll be among the first to contribute.
And they ALL write about race and nothing else. It’s the biggest grift in town. Stop enabling this ani-intellectual race obsession!
Her CV indicates about 6-7 peer reviewed journal articles - fine for a grad student, insufficient to seek tenure in most universities - laughable for a full professor or dean, and incredible for the boss of the most prestigious university in the world....So not surprised her dissertation was weak and plagiarized. This is what you get with a diversity hire. It's a testament to what DEI does to academic integrity
Woke nonsense is smooth-brained drivel in the first place. You must be pretty stupid and lazy not to be able to churn out reams of incoherent nonsense like stringing unrelated words together in free-association. Even Slavoj Zizek manages to flatulate out three books a year!
As a journalism student, many years ago, and then as a homeschooling mother 20 years ago, the rules for plagiarism were clear, concise, and unambiguous. Four words in a row from the original source did not require citation, but once you got to five words in a row, it was plagiarism unless you specifically cited the original author. Period, end of story...
There is absolutely no allowance for anyone, high school level or above, lifting entire sentences or paragraphs without citation and anyone who does so should automatically be given a failing grade in whatever class they are taking and should immediately be stripped of all credentials earned by the use of plagiarized material!
The rules prohibited plagiarism melted away, unenforced. And now we see how far up the rot spread.
How very true! We now have one acting as the President of the USA.
No. See the difference above.
"The rules prohibited plagiarism melted away"
when we named a national holiday after a serial plagiarizer.
Stolen Words, The Classic Book on Plagiarism, Thomas Mallon [1951- ]; "A Harvest Book Harcourt, Inc."; "first published by Ticknor & Fields 1989"; "Published by Penguin Books 1991"; First Harvest edition 2001," with an "Afterword copyright... Thomas Mallon, 2001" (paperback).
When I first learned about King having plagiarized his academic thesis from "Stolen Words," it was 2015. My blood boiled. The entire thing had been hushed up by the mainstream media.
Mallon was part of the insider NYC media mafia (New Yorker magazine, etc.), so his doing this was no doubt an act of an apostate.
Fortunately for him, the book is so badly written (dull) that it is probable that little damage was done to Mallon's credentialed reputation because I doubt very few readers made it to the pages written about King (I'd provide them, but the book was pulped).
Would-be plagiarizers were also fortunate. Since Stolen Words was probably read by few due to its unreadability (its primary value is library "book furniture"), if material had been stolen from it, the odds of readers realizing it had been purloined were slim.
I heard of this book but could never find one. Thanks for touching the third rail with me. We're fine.
12/22/23: If you do find a copy (used, AbeBooks, paperback should be affordable for what it's worth), skip the first two chapters (death warmed-over writing) is my recommendation. And Merry Christmas!
P.S. Just got the NY Post. Front page, "40 instances of [Claudine Gay's] plagiarism."
It's only a matter of time. And in the meantime, who else at Harvard, Yale, Penn, Bard College et al turned in ("wink wink") other people's work as their own? No such thing as "one cockroach" in a kitchen.
Harvard hiring Gay tops the NY Jets signing Aaron Rodgers, who, it is said in his defense, actually threw his own touchdown passes. In gambling terms, that she topped the Rogers signing (not his fault) just before the year ended is known as a "back-door cover."
The ability to paraphrase well and accurately requires strong verbal skill. I wonder how she did on the GRE.
I think you misunderstand the problem. The problem is when you say "XY in her book Z says that bla bla bla". And the bla bla bla is copied from the book word for word. You are supposed to write it like this: XY says in herbook Z "bla bla bla" and give a reference to the book in a footnote. What you point to is simply copy pasting and writing "I think bla bla bla" where bla bla comes from someone else.
Chris Brunet is a fearless investigator of plagiarism posing as scholarship and the DIE complex
He's great.
Intellectual dishonesty equates with inability to recognize truth in any form?
Intellectual dishonesty is like the proverbial turd in the punch-bowl. It taints everything.
Perfect assessment, and thank you for the chuckles!
This gives the Board of Governors the excuse they need to dump her. They are likely breathing a sigh of relief.
It is two weeks since I responded. And ding dong she is gone. Still a prof though. And still a victim of racism.
Thanks Chris. Yep, Gay is just another example of what happens when you subjugate meritocracy and equal opportunity to the mutually exclusive utopian desire for statistically equal outcomes -- despite the immorality and lack of integrity of it all. To bestow achievement without meritocracy is theft of achievement from those who merit it.
Worse, IMHO, when lies are accepted, they must grow more extreme to survive. That's where we are today in Universities, the UN, in too many corporate boardrooms, etc.
Although I believe truth will eventually prevail, Gay, and too many Harvard administrators, faculty, and students, are a bi-product of this lie. Although my hope is that Universities will reform, it will not happen without taking down its leaderships - via public ridicule and later, once the political will is sufficient, with top-down financial means that might utilize lessons from New College.
As such, thanks again Chris for shining a bright light on this. Awesome. Of course, the battle will take years. To quote Steve Adkins, a fellow participant, "We have the greatest positive potential of any nation on earth. I remain fundamentally an optimist but worry about a bumpy ride ahead for the next few years."
You really have to be an incorrigible optimist to say a few years and the problem would be solved . How in the world you ever turn the process back? The whole generation has been brain damaged. What makes you think they will raise their kids differently? If they ever have kids.
Well, it took generations to get here and will likely take a long time to reverse it. But it is being propped up by big gov and that can be reversed much faster. We are fighting a loud minority mostly funded by big gov -- so although many feel helpless, since most people are good people, it might collapse faster than anticipated. I hope I am not being delusional, of course. 🤷♂️
What barrage of over loaded horse manure.
Yes, your shit is indeed a much smaller pile
Does plagiarism violate the Harvard code of conduct? Depends on context.
In this case it was mostly peaceful plagiarism.
Can any of us imagine a white female academic rising to such success with a PhD thesis entitled:
Taking Charge: White Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies
And making good use of a previous thesis:
Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and White Empowerment
And generous quotes from this:
Using 1987 survey data, Bobo and Gilliam found that White-Americans in “high white-empowerment” areas—as indicated by control of the mayor’s office—are more active than either White-Americans in low empowerment areas or their black counterparts of comparable socioeconomic status. Empowerment, they conclude, influences white participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation towards politics and by greatly increasing white attentiveness to political affairs.
Why are we allowing this?
Multiple choice (you may pick more than one):
White guilt.
White "compassion" by race (as a way to show supremacy)
Utopian irrationality.
Woke virus.
Peer pressure.
Money. Money. Money.
Need for self-importance.
Need to virtue signal.
Ambition over common sense.
Hatred of mom.
Hatred of dad.
Hatred of men.
Hatred of women.
Hatred of whites.
Hatred of blacks.
Hatred of Christians.
Hatred for hatred's sake.
All of the above, lol.
Another sanctioned bucket o racism: I attended a DEI "anti-racist" workshop led by a low IQ resentful "she/they" who said, verbatim: "Consider yourselves part of the white group that is detrimental to society."
Talk about narcissistic projection.
Black female gets a different standard
Especially when their last name is "Gay."
I wonder whether she's related to the equally reprehensible, if not more reprehensible Roxanne.
Here's the answer to your question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr8nJfD7sKE
Is there a "statute of limitations" on Plagiarism?
Harvard will, I wager, manipulate the situation to make anyone who is skeptical of this person's fitness for the job a racist misogynist. And they will redefine plagiarism.
And hire Hamas terrorists captured this week as Harvard's new police force.
The time has clearly come for Claudine Gay to "spend more time with her family."
You guys are rock stars. Stellar reporting.