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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two things can be true at the same time:

1. Gay was targeted by right-wing media because she is a black woman
2. Gay is a plagiarist and needed to resign

She plagiarized over and over again, many times beyond just boilerplate language. This shows an intent to deceive, which then calls into question her data and all her scholarship.

This makes me very sad, especially for all the women of color in academia who Claudine Gay was supposed to represent.

Read the story of Priyanga Amarasekare, who remains suspended at UCLA and no one will say exactly why.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-a-professor-disappears-and-no-one-will-tell-you-why
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00473-8[/quote]

So she’s being pushed to the brink of sanity and her students’s opportunities destroyed because of protocol in the wake of complaining about discrimination - literally nothing to do with her scholarship, her publications, her research, her cites, her mentorship. Some piece of shit chancellor is mad at her and wants her destroyed. May that chancellor get it back twentyfold in this lifetime.[/quote]

Why are you so defensive of Claudine Gay?

Three things are indisputable:

1. She plagiarized, heavily.

2. Her academic output is mediocre to bad, especially considering she received tenure at Stanford and Harvard. Her academic output is *worse* than what you'd expect of a community college professor. Just articles, no published books, and a data set she won't release even when peer reviewers said the data couldn't be verified and asked to see it, 20 years ago. It's blatantly obvious that Gay *only* got tenure and rose through the ranks because she was a black woman. A white version would still be a visiting adjunct professor at a local regional state university. She grifted her way to the top, and one can still respect her for playing her cards brilliantly, but a grift is still a grift.

3. As dean at Harvard, she badly handled several high profile investigations into certain faculty. Google Roland Fryer (black male, btw) out of what seemed like no more than ideological spite and visceral hatred of someone whose research disputed her beliefs.

Tell us, please, why Gay is so important to you? [/quote]

Read the goddamned post you’re quoting. [/quote]

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