What an interestingly middle of the road article.
It was kinda, like, the Republicans are terrible, bad faith racists. But also, despite not having good reasons, everything they’re railing against right now is actually bad and should be reworked.
Nice to see an article promoted on here that isn’t just circling the wagons on something just because the Republicans hate it.
It’s not “middle of the road”. He is a leftist, criticising liberal* identity reductionism and its inability to recall that class is part of the intersectional framework it has co-opted and abused beyond all meaning.
*in the true sense of the word, not the USian colloquial meaning
She got caught blatantly plagiarizing her small body of research. That she is still faculty at Harvard is a disgrace.
Not quite, and the specifics can matter a lot in cases like this. The way it was explained to me that made the most sense, was to imagine if there were two types of plagiarism: felony and misdemeanor. Felony plagiarism is taking someone else’s idea and claiming it as your own, or directly quoting an original idea without putting it in quotes, and pretending it was your idea all along. Misdemeanor plagiarism is not properly citing someone else’s idea, or simply misattributing a quote or well-established concept. Not that hard to do to be honest, and while the latter is careless and shouldn’t ever happen, Gay was accused of what would be a misdemeanor plagiarism. She didn’t steal anyone’s ideas, she just did a bad job at attribution. The distinction matters, though what she did still isn’t good, to be fair.
If Lawrence Bacow got caught plagiarizing and told congress genocide doesn’t violate Harvard’s code of conduct he would’ve been out in a week.
Kinda weird to see something like this + the war in Palestine where left and right haven’t really chosen a specific side.
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