This lib gets it:

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The true scandal of the Claudine Gay affair is not a Harvard president and her plagiarism. The true scandal is that so many journalists and academics were willing, are still willing, to redefine plagiarism to suit their politics. Gay's boosters have consistently resorted to Orwellian doublespeak"duplicative language" and academic "sloppiness" and "technical attribution issues"in a desperate effort to insist that lifting entire paragraphs of another scholar's work, nearly word for word, without quotation or citation, isn't plagiarism. Or that if it is plagiarism, it's merely a technicality. Or that we all do it. (Soon after Rufo and Brunet made their initial accusations last month, Gay issued a statement saying, "I stand by the integrity of my scholarship." She did not address those or subsequent plagiarism allegations in her resignation letter.)

Rufo won this round of the academic culture war because he exposed so many progressive scholars and journalists to be hypocrites and political actors who were willing to throw their ideals overboard. I suspect that, not the tenure of a Harvard president, was the prize he sought all along. The tragedy is that we didn't have to give it to him.

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My mother taught college English for a couple of decades. She spent time every semester lecturing about plagiarism and she always used Joe Biden as an example of an infamous plagiarist.

It is sickening that an institution such as Harvard has prostituted itself to the degree that it would hire a plagiarist as President and then defend that plagiarist once the truth came to light. Morals and ethics have completely disappeared from the American political left, which makes it easy for them to dismiss plagiarism (stealing) in the name of advancing their agenda.

Educational institutions have great tools available to them to discover plagiarism when they are interested in doing so. These tools have been available for at least 20 years, and can catch someone stringing together very short phrases that were originally written by someone else. I assume one of these programs or something similar is how Gay was caught.

America needs to return to God.

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I've been called the N-word more times than I care to count.

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Doesn't the meaning of this depend on the context?

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Personally, I think that Chris Rock was on the right track. There is a huge distinction between Black people and (censored)s.

Being Black is a harmless genetic trait correlated with skin melanin. There's nothing wrong with it. Millions of Black people stay out of trouble with the law, are part of stable nuclear families, got a decent education and a job, and in general are fine citizens.

And then there's...well, a certain subset of Black people. Who seem hell-bent on exemplifying every bad racial stereotype. Who believe that looting = reparations. Who, if they have a job, depend on affirmative action, because their toxic personality and lack of actual skills would prevent any rational employer from hiring them otherwise. Claudine Gay is definitely one of them.