I’ve so many reactions to the present plight of anti-Semitic uber-plagiarist Harvard president Claudine Gay.
My coronary heart seems like an alligator.
It would take a coronary heart of stone to not snort.
After all, it isn’t sufficient to succeed, others should fail.
Of course these above three feedback aren’t mine. In truth, they’re quotes, or paraphrases, from, respectively, Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Wilde and Gore Vidal.
You see, Dr. Gay, is it actually that onerous to credit score individuals who do the grunt work?
But for her, it apparently is. And now she is hoist along with her personal petard (Shakespeare), twisting slowly, slowly within the wind (John Ehrlichman).
Maybe she’ll nonetheless be capable of experience this out. Probably not, however you’ve heard of the previous phrase, “Too Big to Fail.”
Claudine Gay could also be Too Black to Fail.
To quote Gore Vidal once more, “No talent is not enough.” For Claudine Gay, although, it could certainly be greater than sufficient.
At first Harvard stated Gay’s analysis issues solely amounted to some instances of “inadequate citation.”
Now it’s turn out to be “duplicative language without appropriate attribution.”
Why don’t we simply name this breathtaking plagiarism what it truly is, as far Gay’s comrades and fellow box-checking members of the protected lessons suppose it’s?
It’s not plagiarism, it’s reparations. Academic reparations.
State-run media desperately tried to present this scandal a very good leaving alone (George V. Higgins). The drawback is, plagiarism is like different unhealthy habits. You very seldom get caught the primary time you do it (suppose, shoplifting, or drunk driving).
And so it turns into a behavior.
The solely factor the “embattled” Gay has going for her now’s that she’s performed so little, ahem, scholarly work over her dismal profession, similar to it’s. She didn’t should do a lot of something as a result of… variety.
The most crushing proof in opposition to her to this point has been compiled by one other educator who needs to stay nameless, for apparent causes. I’m going to guess that Professor X is somebody who has labored a helluva lot more durable, and has a helluva lot much less to indicate for it, than Claudine does.
It’s one factor to elevate any individual’s analysis, however Gay appears to have lifted her betters’ acknowledgements as effectively, which is uncommon even within the Poison Ivy League. She can’t even write “thank you” with out going all Mike Barnicle.
For instance, Professor X discovered a political scientist named Jennifer L. Hochschild. In 1996 she thanked a few of her colleagues, together with one who “showed me the importance of getting the data right and of following where they lead without fear or favor.”
The subsequent 12 months, Gay thanked some man named Gary who “reminded me of the importance of getting the data right and following where they lead without fear or favor.”
Hochschild additionally expressed appreciation that her colleague “drove me much harder than I sometimes wanted to be driven.”
You gained’t consider what Gay’s household did for her:
“(They) drove me harder than I sometimes wanted to be driven.”
Gay actually studied the work of two researchers named Matthew Friedman and Emily G. Owens.
First, Friedman and Owens: “We construct a county-level measure that captures the incentives developers have to build or rehabilitate affordable housing.”
Gay: “I construct a county-level measure that captures the financial incentives developers have to build or rehabilitate affordable housing.”
Is there an echo in right here?
Friedman and Owens proceed: “As QCT coverage increases, however, so does the ability of developers to take advantage of the larger tax credits.”
Or as Gay places it: “As QCT coverage increases, so does the ability of developers to take advantage of the larger tax credit.”
Of course the Harvard Corporation needs nothing to do with this disaster. They satisfied themselves that this lady was certified. Nobody, even when they’re linked to a kakistocracy like Harvard, likes to should admit they’re idiots, and that they’ve been scammed.
As Mark Twain as soon as stated, “How easy it is to make people believe a lie and how hard it is to undo that work again.”
Especially if the folks selling uber-entitled box-checker ahead are themselves uber-entitled field checkers. The head of the Harvard Corporation is Penny Pritzker, who inherited her billions from the Hyatt Hotel fortune.
Her brother is the overweight governor of Illinois J.B. (the Hut) Pritzker. Like everybody else on this sordid mess, he was born on third and thinks he hit a triple.
During the Panic in 2020, Pritzker completely shut down the state of Illinois. Then he put his household on his non-public jet and had them flown to the household horse farm in Wellington, Florida, a state that, in contrast to Illinois, was not beneath an insane lockdown.
There’s a principle that when an individual turns into an addict, his or her emotional growth ends. I’m wondering if the identical argument might be made about folks like Gay who understand early on that it doesn’t matter what they do, they’re at all times going to be pushed ahead, promoted, above those that really should work to get forward.
You don’t develop, since you don’t should. You don’t care what you do, as a result of you realize that every one you must do is verify the fitting bins. Leave the grunt work to the… little folks.
You know, like Professor X. This isn’t only a racial phenomenon both. You suppose the Pritzkers ever broke a sweat? And one of many students angriest about Gay is a black professor named Carol Swain whose work was lifted by Gay.
Swain didn’t go to Phillips Exeter, she needed to get a GED. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, she dismissed Gay as a minority “of high pedigree… in a world where the privilege of diversity is king.”
The Democrat celebration is filled with Claudine Gays of all colours – the faux Indian (and Harvard racial fraudster) Elizabeth Warren, serial plagiarist Joe Biden, Stolen Valor Sen. Danang Dick Blumenthal.
When the New York Post first started inquiring about Gay’s serial plagiarism, how did Harvard reply? They employed a defamation lawyer who despatched the newspaper a 15-page letter threatening to sue. Her solely credentials had been her pores and skin shade and her “victimhood,” as preposterous as that may be.
In his letter to Harvard, Professor X introduced up all this after which requested:
“I ask whether Dr. Gay’s case was dealt with equitably. This looks like a potentially serious abuse of power… Please keep me informed of the progress of your inquiries.”
Professor X, when the telephone don’t ring, you’ll understand it’s Harvard.
For the report, that’s a line from Jimmy Buffet. I don’t need to get referred to as on it. Unlike Claudine Gay, I can’t play the sufferer card.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”