Christopher Rufo sums it all up right here:
It's glorious: Academics defending plagiarism. Journalists opposing journalism. Newswires attributing scalping to "white colonists." Everyone focusing on the frame we set. That is how the game is won.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 3, 2024
We're especially amused by journalists opposing journalism. NBC News "journalist" Ben Collins sarcastically tweeted that we should put more reporters on the Claudine Gay plagiarism scandal: "It is the most important thing in the world," he said. It is important, and reporters should be able to cover more than one story at a time. He was so butthurt that the New York Times reported on it.
Former Vox writer David Roberts, who now runs his own newsletter/podcast, took the same approach, arguing that the plagiarism scandal was ginned up from nothing and was "blotting out all other news stories." Really.
After Gay's resignation, Roberts wrote a lengthy thread against journalists committing journalism. We won't post the whole thing here, but feel free to click on it.
All right, I really should be doing literally anything else with my time, but I have certain compulsions, so here's a short thread on the Harvard thing.
— David Roberts (@drvolts) January 2, 2024
Or actually, not about Harvard per se, because I, like most Americans, don't really give a shit what goes on at Harvard.
We care when student groups are calling for genocide on campus and no one does anything about it.
And so here we are, all of us, talking about what the right wants us to talk about, actively doing its bidding, actively helping it destroy higher education & smear black scholarship & distract from its institutional antisemitism. We are all Rufo's bitches.
— David Roberts (@drvolts) January 2, 2024
"Smear black scholarship." How about the scholarship of Dr. Carol M. Swain, the black scholar from whom Gay plagiarized? She wasn't too pleased with her scholarship being stolen. No one cares about her, though, as she advised Harvard to fire Gay and "hire the best man or woman who can steer the university back towards sanity." This is about protecting DEI.
They’re not taking this well. pic.twitter.com/2tW2iBkwIC
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 3, 2024
You broke them
— Harrison Krank (@HarrisonKrank) January 3, 2024
Speaking of “smearing black scholarship”, has anyone at Harvard, or academia as a whole, acknowledged the work of @carolmswain that was stolen and attributed to Gay? Has Claudine apologized to Dr Swain?
— Tabitha (@tabigibson) January 3, 2024
I love how they are all so angry they keep telling on themselves and exposing their real motivations.
— Dan Peters (@TheDanPeters) January 3, 2024
It's stripping their false veneer of integrity far better than any other tactic I have ever seen.
So using the exact same tactic that the left uses to steer the conversation on EVERY issue is now seen as a threat by leftists?
— Barry J Collins (@BJCollins131) January 3, 2024
They didn’t want to hold anyone accountable that went against their narrative, and they were forced to do that
— Jacob Christner (@JakeThePundit) January 3, 2024
If no one gives a s**t about what's going on at Harvard, why is Roberts even following this story? Just ignore it, like you wanted everyone else to.
"smear black scholarship"
— pearsonified (@pearsonified) January 3, 2024
I'm dying, fam 🤣
And there it is: black scholarship. based on Gay's output, it seems black scholarship is something different than scholarship. Is more understandable when clarified in this way.
— Kim Hendrix (@kimdhendrix) January 3, 2024
Plagiarism is OK in "black scholarship"?
Is there a difference in scholarship between black scholarship and white scholarship?
— Mark Lamprecht📈🏌🏼♂️ (@MarkALamprecht) January 3, 2024
It's sad he refers to plagiarism as "black scholarship".
— The Bloody Nerve (@TheBloodyNerve) January 3, 2024
Yesterday was a hard day for a certain demographic of elites, watching a bit of their grift being exposed.
— stacy keller (@nixtrix62) January 3, 2024
They really are taking it hard that the mainstream media that was supposed to protect Gay fell into Christopher Rufo's trap and made a big deal out of something no one cares about. So, the president of the most prestigious university in the nation is an academic fraud … so what?
"Journalists against journalism" is a sight to behold.
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