It makes sense. The entire field of DEI and grievance studies is basically made up. Why bother to hold yourself to high academic standards when your entire discipline is based on lies?
We need an urgent return to objective standards, based on academic achievements, that apply to all. Right now, North American academia has devolved into a club of parrots of insanity.
A company I do contract work for has what I call a DEI High Priest. I was recently told by my contact at the company that the High Priest was supposed to produce some kind of report or something (don't recall details) for a client, and basically just never did it. He waffled and delayed and pretended he was doing the work for quite some time and just didn't deliver. It's always surprising to me (though it shouldn't be I guess) that the people who present themselves as the most righteous have the lowest standards of personal moral conduct.
I had the exact DEI problem with an engineering firm I was forced to hire for a half million. I eventually had to extirpate the contractual relationship and eat the losses, but took hell from the political domos for doing it. Was called a liar for claiming I was somehow to blame for the firm’s subpar (read “No”) work product. We lost $million+ with all the various DEI contracts. Oh well….it’s only money.
tbf, a lot of patronage position holders aren't really expected to do anything. It's like those mob jobs where no one has to show up as long as they get paid. That DEI grifter probably assumes it's more like that. I mean no one believes they produce anything valuable anyway, right.
I’ve seen the same kind of behavior which is only fitting when someone is hired because of how under-qualified they are and like a predictable pendulum, returns to prove what was already known…..
Justice Clarence Thomas was a DEI hire to replace Thurgood Marshall. Thomas, a shape-shifting black conservative grifter, has accumulated over four 4 million dollars in gifts since his appointment to SCOTUS. Thomas is bought and paid for by white ultra-right-wing conservative billionaire Harlan Crow.
Clarence Thomas was definitely NOT a DEI hire. In fact, Biden fought his appointment. You have an exact accounting of his supposed gifts? How about Sotomayer's gifts and bogus book sales? Just more liberal mindless blathering of talking points here
Send this article to Jennifer Hoshschild's and ask her for comment. You may have to send it by certified letter. See if the Harvard Press will publish this article and her response. Then go public with the Harvard press response or lack thereof. Keep pressing this story.
Must be very frustrating being an inspector looking feverishly for discrimination; one wonders if there are quotas for how many discrimination cases are found??
No surprise here....and to be dismayed by the (recent) behaviour of the Leftist media is to persist in a longstanding delusion. What delusion? The delusion that the political Left and Right are (or were until recently) both valid perspectives on reality. Conservatives have (out of a kind of politeness) indulged this delusion for way too long. Let's call a spade a spade. The Left has always been about manipulating or censoring hard facts in order to make themselves 'feel good'. It has been about this right from its beginnings in the French Revolution. Of course this self-deluding and turning-a-blind-eye is hugely seductive which is why the Leftist mentality has captured far more minds than the hard-nosed alternative.
I couldn't agree with you more and I will just add as a long time observer of leftist tactics going back to the McCarthy era one will note that the leftist must oppose any political comment whether true or false that doesn't comport with their slanted world view. This is de rigueur for them as the play book says no opinion opposed to us is allowed to survive. Heaven forbid that we give the boobs any opinion other than our leftist dogma!
Yes; it’s all about pitching promises that can never be delivered. But voters forget about the undelivered promises as the fingers are pointed back at the conservatives. But then, who can remember who promised first and I don’t know’s on third?
What we are witnessing is a tactic of communists. Tactics change from decade to decade and from nation to nation. The goal is to divide and maximize chaos, unrest towards the overthrow of current system.
Yes it is—and the Judeo Christian foundations of law, morality and order. The only way to get them back at this point is massive national scope revival. But to get that will require immense pain from
judgment since the nation is not willingly turning back to Jesus. The old testament prophets spoke to exactly to these times.
When Cadets matriculated to VMI during the ‘60s, each new cadet was required to take 2 semesters of English. The English Department issued a booklet titled “Rules for Written Work.” Every Cadet was expected to follow the format for footnotes and bibliography. Any written work a Cadet submitted was “dinged” for spelling, grammar & formatting that did not conform to the booklet. Yes, uniformity. The booklet and the Honor Code both made certain that all of the document submitted had to be entirely the Cadet’s work, except for things quoted or set-off & footnoted. Maybe such a guide is issued by all higher institutions today. Maybe not.
Students need to clearly understand what is expected of them in all written work. All professors should be required to enforce the rules of writing as well as the integrity that all un-attributed work is presumed to be the student’s…or there are consequences.
The instructions in the VMI booklet are standard in every English department I have ever been a student in or taught for, despite occasional efforts by the Friere cohorts to sweep grammatical correctness, standard usage, and critical reading/writing under the figurative rug.
A college I taught in for 20 years emphasized critical reading and skill in argumentation, not relying on personal narrative as the main rhetorical approach. My usual classroom texts were "Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing" by Barnet and Bedau along with Corbett and Connors' "Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student." Personal narrative was, for us, the stuff of remedial or basic writing courses, in which we also provided instruction intended to improve reading comprehension and thoughtful responses to relatively short and simple written arguments. Nevertheless, the bottom line, the truth that many English teachers like to ignore, is that one gains real facility in writing by reading. A lot. It's like developing an ear for music.
Oddly enough, the more "elite" colleges are the ones which usually deviate from this approach to favor "lived experience" and the personal narrative writing that goes along with it, though a brief look at some of Harvard's composition/rhetoric courses tells me that they are doing the same thing as we're doing in our little nowhere state community college. As many have pointed out along with Mr. Rufo, Gay's work, for one example, would have earned a "D" or "F" if it was presented as undergraduate writing.
100%. That shit should be done away with by 8th grade.
Expectations of public school student performance have been going steadily downhill for something like 50 years and I don't think we've seen the bottom yet.
Many honor codes, that were uniform for more than 100 years, have increased in the quantity of “drumming-out” ceremonies and diverse students who refused to adapt to the code’s standards - but brought their “diverse” standards - then found themselves; gone. For due process, freshmen/ladies are usually addressed by members of the honor committee who explain the code and describe the consequences. In my experience, after receiving the description and consequences, we were given a choice of knowing acceptance or advised to depart; if we remained we were affirming a system that existed before we were born.
The issue remains-why did so many faculty and administrators in the DEI realm clearly engage in rampant and obvious plagiarism? Perhaps they could not write a thesis except by engaging in the intellectual theft of someone else's work
Why is anyone surprised by any of this? When you don't hire and promote based on merit, you're going to get unmeritorious results. I'm shocked, shocked to find that there is bullshit in this DEI business...
Plagiarism usually comes from lack of imagination (that panic when the person has no good ideas) and a need to keep up appearances. Maybe some of this is the Peter Principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
The Peter Principle states that people rise to their level of incompetence. They climb up org chart and are promoted for success in the job at the level for which they were hired, rather than for showing the ability to perform at the next level. I don’t think Gay deserves this honor. She’s just a cheater.
I'm just trying to imagine how she got there. Maybe she was promoted beyond her level of competence and panicked. I don't think she set out to scheme--or I see no reason to assume that. Her incompetence stuck out all over her during her testimony before congress. Was she thinking, "hee hee, I can get away with this" or just trying to keep her head above water and the right hand not knowing what the left was doing? No idea, but clearly she's not someone who can manage the ordinary expectations of academia, let alone lead Harvard. I'm just presenting a theory here--maybe a biographer or an historian will research the story some day.
The obvious solution to all this is for Harvard to incentivize white and Asian professors to practice more plagiarism, especially those in legitimate disciplines such as chemistry, math or medicine, in order to achieve equality. Orwell would love it.
Keep going Chris! When you hit a nerve you get a spasmodic reaction. I, for one, ignore the MSM other than to ask ‘What lies are they telling and who benefits from their lying?’.
It makes sense. The entire field of DEI and grievance studies is basically made up. Why bother to hold yourself to high academic standards when your entire discipline is based on lies?
DEI: "Didn't Earn It".
We need an urgent return to objective standards, based on academic achievements, that apply to all. Right now, North American academia has devolved into a club of parrots of insanity.
https://open.substack.com/pub/wildhorsewisdom/p/making-the-grade?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
nailed it. Why should a grifter be held to standards of honesty.
A company I do contract work for has what I call a DEI High Priest. I was recently told by my contact at the company that the High Priest was supposed to produce some kind of report or something (don't recall details) for a client, and basically just never did it. He waffled and delayed and pretended he was doing the work for quite some time and just didn't deliver. It's always surprising to me (though it shouldn't be I guess) that the people who present themselves as the most righteous have the lowest standards of personal moral conduct.
So, in reality, this person was the “low” priest, eh?
I had the exact DEI problem with an engineering firm I was forced to hire for a half million. I eventually had to extirpate the contractual relationship and eat the losses, but took hell from the political domos for doing it. Was called a liar for claiming I was somehow to blame for the firm’s subpar (read “No”) work product. We lost $million+ with all the various DEI contracts. Oh well….it’s only money.
Wow. Very revealing. As Jesus said, by their fruits you will know them....bad results (fruit) shows bad ideology (tree).
tbf, a lot of patronage position holders aren't really expected to do anything. It's like those mob jobs where no one has to show up as long as they get paid. That DEI grifter probably assumes it's more like that. I mean no one believes they produce anything valuable anyway, right.
🤷 he apparently does have some other functions, but it doesn't seem he faces any consequences for not performing them.
Consequences are one of the pillars of White Supremacy. It's right there between spelling and punctuality.
😆
it seems like lack of accountability is one of the cornerstones of our new epoch
I’ve seen the same kind of behavior which is only fitting when someone is hired because of how under-qualified they are and like a predictable pendulum, returns to prove what was already known…..
Justice Clarence Thomas was a DEI hire to replace Thurgood Marshall. Thomas, a shape-shifting black conservative grifter, has accumulated over four 4 million dollars in gifts since his appointment to SCOTUS. Thomas is bought and paid for by white ultra-right-wing conservative billionaire Harlan Crow.
Clarence Thomas was definitely NOT a DEI hire. In fact, Biden fought his appointment. You have an exact accounting of his supposed gifts? How about Sotomayer's gifts and bogus book sales? Just more liberal mindless blathering of talking points here
The cost of white inclusion
•Repudiation of blackness
•Repudiation of self
•Repudiation of culture
•Promote white supremacy
•Marry a white spouse
Rewards of white inclusion
•White privilege
•Personal financial rewards
•Family financial rewards for children and •grandchildren.
•Lucrative opportunities
•Fast track careers (i.e., Clarence Thomas)
The Black illusion
•White society views black members as a repudiated race. Blacks who, therefore, seek white inclusion are suffering from an illusion.
•Hence, white society will never fully accept Black people. At best, white society will bestow honorary Whiteness.
•Black people must, at a minimum, thoroughly repudiate their Blackness, undermine efforts to gain equality, and passionately promote White supremacy.
Send this article to Jennifer Hoshschild's and ask her for comment. You may have to send it by certified letter. See if the Harvard Press will publish this article and her response. Then go public with the Harvard press response or lack thereof. Keep pressing this story.
So the ex Pres of Harvard was disadvantaged? She went to Philips ExeterAcademy, Stanford?
Obama’s daughter is disadvantaged as a third generation Harvard student. And her SATs were?
Before Obama , we were on the cusp of ending the racial division. Now ?
Yes; Barry BJ did his best to spin-up the racism charge as the sine qua non of every possible disparate outcome. There are simply no others allowed.
And the only explanation for female docs earning less than male docs is sexism?
Meanwhile the feds cannot find a single case of wage discrimination to prosecute
Those Fed employees are going to have to find something to do, but what????
Must be very frustrating being an inspector looking feverishly for discrimination; one wonders if there are quotas for how many discrimination cases are found??
It must be difficult being a
Yup --ALL the "thanks" go to Obama
Only whites are not allowed to plagiarize and blacks are immune from criticism. Woke progressivism is nothing more than reverse racism.
“Reverse racism” is a concession to the Left. It’s simply racism.
It's a concession to reality.
No surprise here....and to be dismayed by the (recent) behaviour of the Leftist media is to persist in a longstanding delusion. What delusion? The delusion that the political Left and Right are (or were until recently) both valid perspectives on reality. Conservatives have (out of a kind of politeness) indulged this delusion for way too long. Let's call a spade a spade. The Left has always been about manipulating or censoring hard facts in order to make themselves 'feel good'. It has been about this right from its beginnings in the French Revolution. Of course this self-deluding and turning-a-blind-eye is hugely seductive which is why the Leftist mentality has captured far more minds than the hard-nosed alternative.
I couldn't agree with you more and I will just add as a long time observer of leftist tactics going back to the McCarthy era one will note that the leftist must oppose any political comment whether true or false that doesn't comport with their slanted world view. This is de rigueur for them as the play book says no opinion opposed to us is allowed to survive. Heaven forbid that we give the boobs any opinion other than our leftist dogma!
Yes; it’s all about pitching promises that can never be delivered. But voters forget about the undelivered promises as the fingers are pointed back at the conservatives. But then, who can remember who promised first and I don’t know’s on third?
Yes; I think it would at least have to find its inspiration in the Jacobians, although probably the nastiness would have to return to Cain and Abel.
Great article. Keep shining your light into the dark shadows.
Indeed; for every bright light of truth, there are six-times that number of beady eyes shining back as so many rats…..
What we are witnessing is a tactic of communists. Tactics change from decade to decade and from nation to nation. The goal is to divide and maximize chaos, unrest towards the overthrow of current system.
Yes, all of this is being done to destroy white western civilization.
Yes it is—and the Judeo Christian foundations of law, morality and order. The only way to get them back at this point is massive national scope revival. But to get that will require immense pain from
judgment since the nation is not willingly turning back to Jesus. The old testament prophets spoke to exactly to these times.
When Cadets matriculated to VMI during the ‘60s, each new cadet was required to take 2 semesters of English. The English Department issued a booklet titled “Rules for Written Work.” Every Cadet was expected to follow the format for footnotes and bibliography. Any written work a Cadet submitted was “dinged” for spelling, grammar & formatting that did not conform to the booklet. Yes, uniformity. The booklet and the Honor Code both made certain that all of the document submitted had to be entirely the Cadet’s work, except for things quoted or set-off & footnoted. Maybe such a guide is issued by all higher institutions today. Maybe not.
Students need to clearly understand what is expected of them in all written work. All professors should be required to enforce the rules of writing as well as the integrity that all un-attributed work is presumed to be the student’s…or there are consequences.
The instructions in the VMI booklet are standard in every English department I have ever been a student in or taught for, despite occasional efforts by the Friere cohorts to sweep grammatical correctness, standard usage, and critical reading/writing under the figurative rug.
A college I taught in for 20 years emphasized critical reading and skill in argumentation, not relying on personal narrative as the main rhetorical approach. My usual classroom texts were "Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing" by Barnet and Bedau along with Corbett and Connors' "Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student." Personal narrative was, for us, the stuff of remedial or basic writing courses, in which we also provided instruction intended to improve reading comprehension and thoughtful responses to relatively short and simple written arguments. Nevertheless, the bottom line, the truth that many English teachers like to ignore, is that one gains real facility in writing by reading. A lot. It's like developing an ear for music.
Oddly enough, the more "elite" colleges are the ones which usually deviate from this approach to favor "lived experience" and the personal narrative writing that goes along with it, though a brief look at some of Harvard's composition/rhetoric courses tells me that they are doing the same thing as we're doing in our little nowhere state community college. As many have pointed out along with Mr. Rufo, Gay's work, for one example, would have earned a "D" or "F" if it was presented as undergraduate writing.
Reminds me of the standard “new school” assignment, “Please write a five page essay about your Summer. Please use as many examples as possible…..
100%. That shit should be done away with by 8th grade.
Expectations of public school student performance have been going steadily downhill for something like 50 years and I don't think we've seen the bottom yet.
Maybe Mr. Rufo can indicate whether the new University in Florida:
1. Has an honor code that addresses a student’s own product as distinguished from anyone else’s product?
2. Has its sown Rules for written work?
Thanks for your response.
Oh, come on! If it’s uniformity, it’s not diversity and DEI fails. So having multiple standards is a good thing!
Many honor codes, that were uniform for more than 100 years, have increased in the quantity of “drumming-out” ceremonies and diverse students who refused to adapt to the code’s standards - but brought their “diverse” standards - then found themselves; gone. For due process, freshmen/ladies are usually addressed by members of the honor committee who explain the code and describe the consequences. In my experience, after receiving the description and consequences, we were given a choice of knowing acceptance or advised to depart; if we remained we were affirming a system that existed before we were born.
The issue remains-why did so many faculty and administrators in the DEI realm clearly engage in rampant and obvious plagiarism? Perhaps they could not write a thesis except by engaging in the intellectual theft of someone else's work
Sounds about right!
Why is anyone surprised by any of this? When you don't hire and promote based on merit, you're going to get unmeritorious results. I'm shocked, shocked to find that there is bullshit in this DEI business...
I doubt you’re any more shocked than I am, which is to say, you aren’t….
Plagiarism usually comes from lack of imagination (that panic when the person has no good ideas) and a need to keep up appearances. Maybe some of this is the Peter Principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Nailed it🥂
I don’t believe it even ascends to Peter’s level.
The Peter Principle states that people rise to their level of incompetence. They climb up org chart and are promoted for success in the job at the level for which they were hired, rather than for showing the ability to perform at the next level. I don’t think Gay deserves this honor. She’s just a cheater.
I'm just trying to imagine how she got there. Maybe she was promoted beyond her level of competence and panicked. I don't think she set out to scheme--or I see no reason to assume that. Her incompetence stuck out all over her during her testimony before congress. Was she thinking, "hee hee, I can get away with this" or just trying to keep her head above water and the right hand not knowing what the left was doing? No idea, but clearly she's not someone who can manage the ordinary expectations of academia, let alone lead Harvard. I'm just presenting a theory here--maybe a biographer or an historian will research the story some day.
You’re being too kind. People reveal themselves under stress. She revealed herself to be a self-centered, lying, mediocre-minded toad.
But you have to admit that Gay’s explanation for allowing the perverse Hamas, anti-Israel protests on Campus were most forceful……Not!
The reason they don’t turn over rocks as they are lying douche bags.
The obvious solution to all this is for Harvard to incentivize white and Asian professors to practice more plagiarism, especially those in legitimate disciplines such as chemistry, math or medicine, in order to achieve equality. Orwell would love it.
What a novel idea, Akamai!
Keep going Chris! When you hit a nerve you get a spasmodic reaction. I, for one, ignore the MSM other than to ask ‘What lies are they telling and who benefits from their lying?’.
The swamp is deep and wide, it has covered much more than just government. Thanks Chris for pulling another plug on the drain.
Elite academic jobs are a golden ticket. They provide prestige, a public pulpit, and economic security.
The only requirement? That your work is your own and that it meets a minimum academic standard
in your field of study.
Not too much to ask?
Now that's called racism.
De minimus academic standards are racist