Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The firing of Dr Gay from her administrative position at Harvard University, like that of Dr Magill from the University of Pennsylvania, was not a triumph of right-wing activity. Rather, from the mendacious questioning in Congress through the explicit marshaling of billionaire donors, the effort all along was to rule out of order any consideration of criticism of Israel by American universities.
The evidence for this is overwhelming: the questioning in Congress conflated any support for the rights of Palestinians as "support for genocide"; the billionaire movement condemning all three testifying university administrators for providing boiler-plate defense of First-Amendment-protected free speech was targeted, not only at the administrators, but even more on students who had signed a petition which the billionaires found offensive.
Looks exactly like something Dr. Gay was paid $900K per year to write.
Or copy.
BTW - isn’t she still collecting that same $900K per year?
You seem obsessed with that 900K. You keep bringing it up.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The firing of Dr Gay from her administrative position at Harvard University, like that of Dr Magill from the University of Pennsylvania, was not a triumph of right-wing activity. Rather, from the mendacious questioning in Congress through the explicit marshaling of billionaire donors, the effort all along was to rule out of order any consideration of criticism of Israel by American universities.
The evidence for this is overwhelming: the questioning in Congress conflated any support for the rights of Palestinians as "support for genocide"; the billionaire movement condemning all three testifying university administrators for providing boiler-plate defense of First-Amendment-protected free speech was targeted, not only at the administrators, but even more on students who had signed a petition which the billionaires found offensive.
Looks exactly like something Dr. Gay was paid $900K per year to write.
Or copy.
BTW - isn’t she still collecting that same $900K per year?
Anonymous wrote:The firing of Dr Gay from her administrative position at Harvard University, like that of Dr Magill from the University of Pennsylvania, was not a triumph of right-wing activity. Rather, from the mendacious questioning in Congress through the explicit marshaling of billionaire donors, the effort all along was to rule out of order any consideration of criticism of Israel by American universities.
The evidence for this is overwhelming: the questioning in Congress conflated any support for the rights of Palestinians as "support for genocide"; the billionaire movement condemning all three testifying university administrators for providing boiler-plate defense of First-Amendment-protected free speech was targeted, not only at the administrators, but even more on students who had signed a petition which the billionaires found offensive.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She got fired because she plagiarized a fkton of her writing. Read the NYtimes article showing her work side by side with the original sources.
The entire country has gone nuts. Everything is a “social justice” battle. And course curriculums now focus on “oppressors” and “oppressed”. So we have an entire generation digesting this stuff and the next 20 years will be interesting.
TLDR; Everyone is an idiot.
+1
Well, some don’t want to waste an opportunity for outrage and to blame Jews for yet another thing they don’t actually control.
Well every news story says she was forced to resign because of antisemitism.
This. She was clearly and quite openly forced to resign due to her position on the Palestinian protests and alleged anti-semitism. Stories along these lines, tweets on condemnation and calls for her ousting have been pretty public - all based explicitly on the Israel/Anti-semitism issue. Now that she has been fired - sorry, resigned - folks like Ackhman, Rufo, and far right (and pro-israel left) are insisting that it had nothing to do with the his daily rants re: Ivy League campus protests but some long ago cases of plagiarism. Ackman is now on an anti-DEI quest, which he is coding for no more POC on campus who don't toe the line. Gay has been replaced with a white, Jewish man who is very much in line with the the lobby's political views. Yet on the heels of all of this, and Magill's firing, we're supposed to believe that it had nothing to do with the Free Palestine protests on campus.
No one believes that. Absolutely no one. I doubt that the PPs posting about plagiarism even care. You know why you started the witch hunt, and the black president was an easy target.
Anonymous wrote:When will MIT remove Ackerman's Ph.D? Plagiarism on a dissertation is a much more serious offense.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She got fired because she plagiarized a fkton of her writing. Read the NYtimes article showing her work side by side with the original sources.
The entire country has gone nuts. Everything is a “social justice” battle. And course curriculums now focus on “oppressors” and “oppressed”. So we have an entire generation digesting this stuff and the next 20 years will be interesting.
TLDR; Everyone is an idiot.
+1
Well, some don’t want to waste an opportunity for outrage and to blame Jews for yet another thing they don’t actually control.
Well every news story says she was forced to resign because of antisemitism.
This. She was clearly and quite openly forced to resign due to her position on the Palestinian protests and alleged anti-semitism. Stories along these lines, tweets on condemnation and calls for her ousting have been pretty public - all based explicitly on the Israel/Anti-semitism issue. Now that she has been fired - sorry, resigned - folks like Ackhman, Rufo, and far right (and pro-israel left) are insisting that it had nothing to do with the his daily rants re: Ivy League campus protests but some long ago cases of plagiarism. Ackman is now on an anti-DEI quest, which he is coding for no more POC on campus who don't toe the line. Gay has been replaced with a white, Jewish man who is very much in line with the the lobby's political views. Yet on the heels of all of this, and Magill's firing, we're supposed to believe that it had nothing to do with the Free Palestine protests on campus.
No one believes that. Absolutely no one. I doubt that the PPs posting about plagiarism even care. You know why you started the witch hunt, and the black president was an easy target.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She got fired because she plagiarized a fkton of her writing. Read the NYtimes article showing her work side by side with the original sources.
The entire country has gone nuts. Everything is a “social justice” battle. And course curriculums now focus on “oppressors” and “oppressed”. So we have an entire generation digesting this stuff and the next 20 years will be interesting.
TLDR; Everyone is an idiot.
+1
Well, some don’t want to waste an opportunity for outrage and to blame Jews for yet another thing they don’t actually control.
Well every news story says she was forced to resign because of antisemitism.
This. She was clearly and quite openly forced to resign due to her position on the Palestinian protests and alleged anti-semitism. Stories along these lines, tweets on condemnation and calls for her ousting have been pretty public - all based explicitly on the Israel/Anti-semitism issue. Now that she has been fired - sorry, resigned - folks like Ackhman, Rufo, and far right (and pro-israel left) are insisting that it had nothing to do with the his daily rants re: Ivy League campus protests but some long ago cases of plagiarism. Ackman is now on an anti-DEI quest, which he is coding for no more POC on campus who don't toe the line. Gay has been replaced with a white, Jewish man who is very much in line with the the lobby's political views. Yet on the heels of all of this, and Magill's firing, we're supposed to believe that it had nothing to do with the Free Palestine protests on campus.
No one believes that. Absolutely no one. I doubt that the PPs posting about plagiarism even care. You know why you started the witch hunt, and the black president was an easy target.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She got fired because she plagiarized a fkton of her writing. Read the NYtimes article showing her work side by side with the original sources.
The entire country has gone nuts. Everything is a “social justice” battle. And course curriculums now focus on “oppressors” and “oppressed”. So we have an entire generation digesting this stuff and the next 20 years will be interesting.
TLDR; Everyone is an idiot.
+1
Well, some don’t want to waste an opportunity for outrage and to blame Jews for yet another thing they don’t actually control.
Well every news story says she was forced to resign because of antisemitism.
This. She was clearly and quite openly forced to resign due to her position on the Palestinian protests and alleged anti-semitism. Stories along these lines, tweets on condemnation and calls for her ousting have been pretty public - all based explicitly on the Israel/Anti-semitism issue. Now that she has been fired - sorry, resigned - folks like Ackhman, Rufo, and far right (and pro-israel left) are insisting that it had nothing to do with the his daily rants re: Ivy League campus protests but some long ago cases of plagiarism. Ackman is now on an anti-DEI quest, which he is coding for no more POC on campus who don't toe the line. Gay has been replaced with a white, Jewish man who is very much in line with the the lobby's political views. Yet on the heels of all of this, and Magill's firing, we're supposed to believe that it had nothing to do with the Free Palestine protests on campus.
No one believes that. Absolutely no one. I doubt that the PPs posting about plagiarism even care. You know why you started the witch hunt, and the black president was an easy target.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She got fired because she plagiarized a fkton of her writing. Read the NYtimes article showing her work side by side with the original sources.
The entire country has gone nuts. Everything is a “social justice” battle. And course curriculums now focus on “oppressors” and “oppressed”. So we have an entire generation digesting this stuff and the next 20 years will be interesting.
TLDR; Everyone is an idiot.
+1
Well, some don’t want to waste an opportunity for outrage and to blame Jews for yet another thing they don’t actually control.
Well every news story says she was forced to resign because of antisemitism.
This. She was clearly and quite openly forced to resign due to her position on the Palestinian protests and alleged anti-semitism. Stories along these lines, tweets on condemnation and calls for her ousting have been pretty public - all based explicitly on the Israel/Anti-semitism issue. Now that she has been fired - sorry, resigned - folks like Ackhman, Rufo, and far right (and pro-israel left) are insisting that it had nothing to do with the his daily rants re: Ivy League campus protests but some long ago cases of plagiarism. Ackman is now on an anti-DEI quest, which he is coding for no more POC on campus who don't toe the line. Gay has been replaced with a white, Jewish man who is very much in line with the the lobby's political views. Yet on the heels of all of this, and Magill's firing, we're supposed to believe that it had nothing to do with the Free Palestine protests on campus.
No one believes that. Absolutely no one. I doubt that the PPs posting about plagiarism even care. You know why you started the witch hunt, and the black president was an easy target.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She got fired because she plagiarized a fkton of her writing. Read the NYtimes article showing her work side by side with the original sources.
The entire country has gone nuts. Everything is a “social justice” battle. And course curriculums now focus on “oppressors” and “oppressed”. So we have an entire generation digesting this stuff and the next 20 years will be interesting.
TLDR; Everyone is an idiot.
+1
Well, some don’t want to waste an opportunity for outrage and to blame Jews for yet another thing they don’t actually control.
Well every news story says she was forced to resign because of antisemitism.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The firing of Dr Gay from her administrative position at Harvard University, like that of Dr Magill from the University of Pennsylvania, was not a triumph of right-wing activity. Rather, from the mendacious questioning in Congress through the explicit marshaling of billionaire donors, the effort all along was to rule out of order any consideration of criticism of Israel by American universities.
The evidence for this is overwhelming: the questioning in Congress conflated any support for the rights of Palestinians as "support for genocide"; the billionaire movement condemning all three testifying university administrators for providing boiler-plate defense of First-Amendment-protected free speech was targeted, not only at the administrators, but even more on students who had signed a petition which the billionaires found offensive.
I don't know what components of this word salad I like best. It's a tie between "mendacious questioning" and "billionaire movement", I think.
And all the gerunds, oh my.
Anonymous wrote:The firing of Dr Gay from her administrative position at Harvard University, like that of Dr Magill from the University of Pennsylvania, was not a triumph of right-wing activity. Rather, from the mendacious questioning in Congress through the explicit marshaling of billionaire donors, the effort all along was to rule out of order any consideration of criticism of Israel by American universities.
The evidence for this is overwhelming: the questioning in Congress conflated any support for the rights of Palestinians as "support for genocide"; the billionaire movement condemning all three testifying university administrators for providing boiler-plate defense of First-Amendment-protected free speech was targeted, not only at the administrators, but even more on students who had signed a petition which the billionaires found offensive.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She got fired because she plagiarized a fkton of her writing. Read the NYtimes article showing her work side by side with the original sources.
The entire country has gone nuts. Everything is a “social justice” battle. And course curriculums now focus on “oppressors” and “oppressed”. So we have an entire generation digesting this stuff and the next 20 years will be interesting.
TLDR; Everyone is an idiot.
As one writer put it, is Claudine Gay the hill that progressives really want to die on? She's not worth it.
I think you'd have to be terminally online to believe that Claudine Gay is anything like a household word among progressives.
Among rank and file progressive voters? No, I agree.
But look who jumped to her defense?
- Al Sharpton
- President Obama
Among progressive leaders, she was and is well-known and respected.
DP, btw.
Can you provide a link to President Obama’s defense of Claudine Gay? I googled and did not find one.
It was reported he lobbied several Board members on her behalf, not that he wrote some oped sonewhere.
Since when was oped spelled d e f e n s e?
Stop d r i n k i n g