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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suggest Dr. Gay is being held to a “standard” of scholarship that disregards her lived experience and historical trauma.  These heteronormative outdated standards based on Judie-Christian dogma, reinforce whiteness, serve to promote capitalism, and strengthen the patriarchy.
What is needed is a inclusive set of standards that better reflect where we should be as a global community.[/quote]They're working on it.

I agree, and moreover, even if the plagiarism allegations are true, it makes Gay even more of a heroine because she refused to submit to an inherently racist system.  The mere idea that plagiarism can even exist strongly suggests that the "marketplace of ideas" is corrupted by capitalism, since all property ownership is theft. Why should this not extend to *intellectual property* as well? Gay was merely redistributing ideas in an equitable fashion to promote a more racially just society. [/quote]
Excellent point.  Capitalism itself is a western construct that relies on outdated concepts of “individualism” whereas other, more organic, more pure societies embrace a communal existence.  Property and ideas that serve the good of the community cannot be simply owned but rather are held in trust by the group as a whole.[/quote]

Exactly. It costs those other scholars *nothing* but their unearned privilege to share their work with Dr Gay.  But rather than amplifying and lifting up a BIPOC, her critics are choosing to perpetuate a colonial oppressor mentality by spreading the falsehood of "intellectual property" and accusing Dr Gay of violating it.

So much work to be done. We have so far to go before people really learn that even the concept of "merit" is based on our cultural values, which cannot be trusted since they were incubated in a hellish cauldron of white supremacy. [/quote]

Forget the concept of merit. It seems that honesty and integrity are values to be questioned. [/quote]

Who are we to say what her truth is? [/quote]

Fair point.

What I don't get is, why doesn't she simply launch and run her own My Truth University as run it like say Liberty U? Why try to hijack Harvard instead?[/quote]

Because in order to achieve a racially just society, we need to tear down the systems and structures that uphold white supremacy and the patriarchy. It's not sufficient to create new institutions. Existing institutions must be taken over, dismantled, and replaced. This is revolutionary 101 stuff, keep up.  [/quote]

OK, now I get it.

But if that's the goal, why bother with Harvard? Why not simply take over the White House, Congress, the military and the border and to dismantle it all?[/quote][/quote]

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