Those dastardly right-wingers made me go back in time and plagiarize all my work! And they're racist for telling on me!
So tired of the 'eternal victim' mindset of somebody who's cheated her way through life and is STILL going to be pulling down 900k/yr working for Harvard. I wish I were half as oppressed.
Imagine living your whole life in a world where every person you met was only allowed to praise and celebrate you for existing. She is incapable of seeing anything for what it is, in the same way a fish wouldn’t understand what we meant by water.
"[T]here is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their jobs."
Race hustling has been pervasive and profitable grift for quite some time, but now it has been supercharged by State subsidies of all sorts and it's propaganda organs, creating a toxic "industry" that, like the climate grift, always militates to increased State control over every aspect of our lives.
I hope gato is correct, and the insanity is finally beginning to wane, but one, or even several won battles do not necessarily win the war, especially against such a Machiavellian and debauched foe.
I love Bad Cat--like a brother, not in a Jeffrey Epstein way--but he is relentlessly optimistic about stuff like this. (I value that point-of-view too!) Race hucksterism is sort of like bathtub ring. You can clean it away, but the damned thing just keeps coming back, particularly in an ecosystem where the State is so all-encompassing. If Booker was lamenting race hustling, all those years ago, I might suggest that it has only gotten slicker, more virulent, and maybe even more profitable, since then. Dare I mention one of its shining examples, Kendi, as someone who is getting paid for the grift anew? We all hope "the insanity is finally beginning to wane," but let's just say I won't hold my breath, excellent start or no. #Shrugs
HAVE WE REACHED PEAK NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER YET?
I suspect not. At some point, i guess, if all these clowns do is gaslight the rest of the world, how long will it take for them to crash? I mean, just when i thought i saw it all, another ludicrous story is in the news, and i say WTF, has the whole world lost touch with reality.
This perfectly explains the entitlement. She exists as a black woman, therefore she should get everything and be responsible for nothing -- if you disagree, you're obviously sexist and racist.
Unfortunately, so are the indoctrinated 'students' she and those of her ilk have subverted. Black, white or purple, these wanna be adults also think they should get everything they wish and be responsible for nothing, including themselves. The me, me, me generation.
One of the key attributes of the victim-hood mindset and/or playbook is never, EVER, stop playing the victim card. Making almost a million dollars a year? You're a victim! Got caught cheating? You're a victim! I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that someone, someplace, is bringing up the "fact" that Gay is far from the first such person to plagiarize. Guess what? I am cool with taking them down too. #Shrugs
Well, as I said someplace in this thread, elites never, ever, eat their own. Once you are part of the "club" that fat cheddar is yours. There is a reason why people covet positions such as hers, and it ain't (only or primarily) because they want to "change the system for the benefit of the less fortunate" although that does sound a lot better than, "Hey, I gotta get paid too!"
Photo last week of this person in gray suit--my first thought was, "that's a man!" shoulder vs waist width, something about facial bones as well. just waiting to learn if I will have been correct. Because that would give M. Gay yet another box check: female, black, lesbian but wait, also a male masquerading as female
What red blooded man, Real man would be attracted to this. I don't know if is a it, thing or it hasn't decided yet what it is. This must be the most terrifying nightmare of Real men of all races.
But there's no reason for the opposition to Gay to stop now. "Why should a confirmed plagiarist be allowed to be a Harvard professor?" Keep the pressure on.
As a schlubby nobody to whom it never crossed my mind to cheat on my college essay work by plagarism (and still got decent grades, it's not hard if you actually have half a brain) I think its only fair the mighty are held to the same set of standards. Audit them all, let god sort them out.
Half a brain is now a rare commodity on college campus. In your day . . . well I'll just tell a joke. "What's the difference between Suzie the blond coed and a Rolls Royce? Everybody hasn't been inside a Rolls."
The currently acceptable level of scholarship expected of "academics" has sunk to a shameful low. Plagiarism is redefined as just forgetting to note any sort of attribution to quoted material. Stealing the ideas of others is OK now. The wonderful Carol Swain has accused Gay of stealing her ideas and research, not only her exact words!
It is a travesty that Harvard is employing a known fraud. Its as if they actually believe they won’t be able to find a qualified professor of color. They really are extremely racist.
There are some truly exceptional professors of color out there. Unfortunately, they are almost all conservative and therefore, could never be hired for that reason as they don't "fit in".
They will never entirely turn against such a torch bearer of affirmative action. She is a black, gay woman of meager scholarship, basically affirmative action personified. The corporation simply got on bended knee, disavowed there white privilege and handed her a cushy, well paid tenured position. She can now spew her racial nonsense to young minds in a multitude of absurd courses in the racial studies progtam. Creating Gay clones of underachieving, drone minded victims.
Every once in a while one reads about the arrest of a prosperous Haitian couple whose child slave was finally discovered by accident.
Of course it's far worse for the child slaves brought into Manhattan or Westchester under diplomatic passport because their enslavers have immunity. So many reasons to get rid of the UN, but then we still must deal with embassy and consulate staff too.
That she will still be @ Harvard & pulling that salary is beyond the pale altho if she didn’t stay there, she’d land another cushy gig anyway because of her multi “intersectionality”
Never mind about just this blow-up issue of Claudine Gay and her plagiarism, the true overall scale of the problem with the Western world's universities is near impossible to overstate. The dismal truth is that whilst Western publics have been mesmerised by the MSM psychodrama of elections and party-political pluralism, a 5-decade long transformation has quietly been ongoing whereby the 'educated' middle-class (the future leaders, professionals and administators) have passed through a rite-of-passage Leftist sheep-dip. A highly seductive 'education' in how to think of yourself as virtuous just by the simple and cost-free adoption of 'correct' opinions. We have quietly got ourselves and our culture into a dreadful mess and the Claudine Gays et al are merely the tip of a very big iceberg. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
Damn, that was well said. I regret that I have but one "like" to bestow upon your brilliance.
True story. Wife works at a Fortune 100 insurer. They are seriously staffing up a department to figure out how to insure the transition to renewable energy. There is literally no adult in the room to say "Hey, there isn't enough concrete in the world to make enough windmills to power one large city, let alone the world. There isn't enough cobalt in the world for everyone to drive an electric car. This transition is fantasyland and we are not in the business of fantasy."
Going electric, at least with lithium battereis won't happen. It's not getting a lot of coverage but there have been several fires recently including this:
The others I'm aware of were a ship carrying batteries from Vietnam to San Diego that was diverted to Alaska due to fire and a ship carrying cars, 200 of which were EV's off the coast of Norway also on fire suspected cause is EV. These events happened between summer 2023 and Jan. 1, 2024.
Amen to this. If you don't subscribe to Robert Bryce, I highly suggest you do. This is his "iron law of energy density". Humans have never made a jump in history from a higher energy dense source to a lower one and maintained a growing economy and increased GDP. The market will prove it, no matter the amount of central planning and subsidies.
As I watch my brother and sister send their kids off to college, it makes me wonder why they would send their kids to college. Maybe they are too busy to know what is going on there. We see examples of it online all the time. I saw it in gaming culture, and I see it in the changing culture around me.
But the problems with "education" have existed a lot longer than just recently.
Yes, (as I said in my comment) for 50 years at least....if not longer than that. I was at university in the early 70's and the fashionable thing to be at my university was a Maoist. Indulging middle class spoilt brats in their phoney 'radicalism' is a problem that goes back to the 60's.
@Jimmy- I was an adult student (graduated with my BA in 2013) whose children were older than some of the teachers and professors. I saw it first hand. Most were gracious when I brought up the other side of the argument, something that never occurred to the kids in class- that there are always two sides- but one was not. He didn't like me, visa versa, BUT he was the chair of the department, my major, and I certainly couldn't go to him to complain. So I nodded my head, said what he wanted to hear (wrong, I know), and got through his classes. Because OF COURSE I'd have him more than once......
We've all had teachers, employers, and other authority figures in our lives like that.
Reminds me of that scene from the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back To School" where Rodney Dangerfield regurgitates Viet Nam talking points to Sam Kinneson and after the exhange Rodney says..."He's a great teacher..of what I have no idea."
I have a BSc from 1979. When I look back at my own education, certainly it was no where near as woke as today but even at the time an 18 year old freshman me realized things in school were different from my real life up to then.
People should check out engineering schools. The correct answers don't vary based on how black, white, male or female anyone is. The correct answers are the same for everyone.
Teachers don't want your opinion, they want the correct answer. No level of excuse-making is accepted.
Next time you drive over a high bridge, thank God that the people who engineered it didn't get social promotions, and didn't get extra credit based on DEI. At least, HOPE that didn't happen.
Not necessarily true. One of my sons went to an engineering school where students got an upper level computer engineering prof fired for flunking too many kids. Son said prof was hard but fair and brutally honest. Another son was a structural engineer and he would point out bridges to me that he “would never drive on”. The rot is deep.
You've burst my bubble. But I'm not entirely surprised. I went to engineering school in the 1960s. If anyone had tried to get a prof fired, they would have been laughed at. We live in a world where our power grid is being reengineered based on the 'science' of liberal arts majors. We are in deep trouble.
Hate to burst your bubble further but in Canada medical schools are being now encouraged to teach DEI, woke-ism and all that stuff over medical competence. It may be in the discussion stages, I sincerely hope brighter minds prevail.
My one hope is that this crap, like many bacterial infections, can't stand the light of day. Great medical reference, right?
Anyway, there have been decades for the disease of progressivism to develop and fester. Now that it's been exposed to most of the world, I hope it dies from the exposure.
The other day, Bret Weinstein was pointing out the dangers of coronal mass ejections like the Carrington Event - which we now think are more frequent than we supposed - and noted that we have still done nothing to harden our electric grid.
I think it’s Amazon or something similar that was being sued by a family. Their son-husband whatever was promoted to pilot of one of their planes based on DEI. Totally unqualified. Died in a plane crash due to pilot error.
It would be interesting to ask a DEI proponent if they would rather have brain surgery done by: 1) a purely DEI hire or 2) a surgeon who was top of the class and hired by his superior merit, even though white. What would the answer be, I'm wondering....
Yes the real rot has been mostly in the humanities and social sciences. A lot (but not all) of STEM education remains excellent and worthwhile. (I would have made this distinction but with comment threads like this, you have to keep it brief).
Very astutely stated! An alternative reality was planned and in the making many decades ago along with the "correct opinions" which were allowed as reinforcement for that "reality" which was really an ideological-based tyranny designed to control all of our thinking; universities, academia in general and most cultural, religious and political "leaders", etc. all failed to stand up for freedom and truth and abandoned not just academic values but basic human values; the history of mankind has many examples of the "existential failure" of our species(Fromme) along with the "collective stupidity" exhibited by the masses. (Bonhoeffer)
Expecting white people to be accountable for the actions of long-dead white people hundreds of years ago is social justice. Expecting black people to be accountable for their own actions today is racism.
If Claudine Gay being busted as a fraud is going to destroy academia, then academia needs to be destroyed. All their Emperors are naked as Lady Godiva.
Sad to say this sounds much more likely. I'd love to believe that the wokeness infrastructure is collapsing but we've seen some version of your scenario play out time and time again. It has been enlightening to see how easily fooled and manipulated the American masses are; time after time during Covid something would happen and I would think surely this is what will be the breaking point and yet most people just went along with whatever they were told. I've lost faith that our society has the capability to rise up against evil and stupidity.
When emails were hacked from University of East Anglia, and in one, UEA climate czar Kevin Trenberth asked NASA scientist James Hansen about what "tricks" Hansen had used to "hide the decline" in recent temperatures in order to come up with Hansen's ludicrous "hockey stick" historical climate model, I was naive enough to believe that black-and-white proof of fraud would end the climate grift.
That was 15 years ago. Spoiler alert. It didn't end the climate grift.
None of this ends until the dollar loses reserve currency status. That's the stone cold truth. Until that happens, the corporations and the government will fund whatever causes the most division so no one ever offers a healthy alternative to their game.
What happens when we can no longer afford welfare for illegals, housing and medical? That day is just around the corner. Who will defend the taxpayer who is now destitude?
I'm so glad you brought that up. I remember reading about that, but it's been memory holed. People think that the politicians pushing the climate alarmism are corrupt - and they are - but sadly, so are the scientists.
Same dynamic as during Covid. The people paying Hansen wanted to fuel the AGW agenda, so Hansen delivered a climate model that showed rising temperatures, regardless of what the raw data (so long Medieval Warming Period) said.
The people funding the studies during Covid wanted results to say ivermectin is ineffective for Covid, and boom, you get the (Bill Gates funded) Together study saying ivermectin is ineffective for Covid.
Now would be a good time to task an "artificial intelligence" to read everything.* All of liberal academic papers looking just for repetition. By picking on Ackermans wife they just opened the playbook for examining everybody and everything.
It wouldn't hurt to start a class action suit for all those people who were thrown out for plagiarism. The outrageous difference in the way the class was treated vs the university professors will get big awards from blue collar juries.
*It would have to be non-human. No person could survive that much bulls**t.
It's all gloriously funny except for Ms. Dr. Ex-President Gay still bringing home her $900,000 of annual bacon. We should all be humiliated so remuneratively.
I think it is a great idea to actually perform the due diligence after-the-fact on ALL academic leaders. It might uncover some conservative frauds but the number of Wokesters revealed as liars and plagiarists would be staggering.
One of the tweets was ‘fine then let’s go after everyone’. Do it. 99% are leftists. Leftism doesn’t really allow for original thinking. It’s toe the line thinking. The chances of there not being copy and paste throughout academia is negligible.
Gays mistake was not the plagiarism, it’s was rooting for the wrong team in the Middle East. Had she towed the line there she could have kept her job being a useful idiot. However, still being an idiot, she was no longer useful.
If it were not for her lack of concern and lawyer-scripted answer about the antisemitism going on at Harvard, I suspect no one would ever have looked at her pathetic academic record and she could have remained in that position for a very long time.
I don't see any way out for the university system. The only way to regain public trust at this point would be to loudly, proudly announce that they're embracing a merit based system (and then, you know, actually do it). I'm quite certain that even if the leadership of these universities were inclined to do that (and they aren't), the bureaucracy embedded in the heart of academia wouldn't let them. That said, they will continue to limp along until such time that a viable alternative exists. Meme them until they cry, as gato likes to say, but spare some energy for creating academia's replacement.
I don’t see a merit based system making any comeback. In BC the public education system has fully denounced the use of numeric based grades for evaluation until year 10. The teachers try to justify this as it will help to motivate students to do better, so far I’ve heard from students that it does just the opposite and takes away motivation to go above and beyond. It probably will make the teachers jobs easier when it comes to evaluating and reporting as they now will be able to fully use the drop down menu with Pat phrases and not have to provide any actual data to base their “opinions” on.
Agreed. I think that more than anything these developments are forcing people to ask the question, "what is education for?" I have my own opinions, but I suspect the most common answer people would give is along the lines of "to help my child become a successful adult." With it becoming clearer and clearer that schools (of all levels) are not performing this function, people will look for alternatives. The goal now is to build viable alternatives so when we finally reach a tipping point, families have somewhere to go.
Exactly. No way out. The only potential solution to cleaning up the bureaucracy I've come up with (at public universities, anyway) is to tie funding to maintaining a specified adminstrator-to-professor ratio. But that feels too little, too late to get the job done.
its going to be extremely difficult, but some positive steps would include eliminating all Federal funding to schools, including the subsidized loans to students. This would increase competition for revenue from students and require a tightening of the belt for the institutions.
Federal money and interference is a big problem. All of these institutions have Federal contracts that require something like DIE. Until that threat is removed the institutions can't change.
Woke will only go broke if good-hearted people everywhere keep scrutinizing every pathetic attempt of theirs to appear as our moral superiors. Obama, and first-class wokesters like him, know this too, and will keep peddling this special brand of righteousness as long as anyone will listen, sadly.
Media plagiarism is nothing new. I vaguely remember a high school project that compared front page news stories and editorial page comments from several major market daily newspapers - over 60 years ago. (When many teachers were capable of teaching, and most were allowed to do so.)
We found many, many examples of identical wording, in newspapers owned by different entities, published in cities hundreds of miles from each other.
He gorged himself on Pop Rocks, shook a coke up and guzzled it. All his friends laughed. He felt sick. And then he did the wrong thing. He took two Alka Seltzer. And exploded. Big Seltzer paid big money to cover that up.
Star Wars was already bleeding from nearly-fatal wounds. If this new director asserts her feminist point-of-view, I'm pretty sure the next movie will rival "The Marvels" in cinematic quality. Ha!
What chaps my shorts about the Gay situation is that she got taken down not for her horrible stance on Antisemitism, but for the (apparently rather widespread) infraction of not being very creative in her writing. That's a horrible miscarriage of justice.
Not because she didn't plagiarize, but because that was FAR from the most FOS thing she did, in even the last few weeks! And to top it off, she'll make around $900K per year in her continuing role at Harvard. As a fellow elite-college-graduate buddy of mine said, "the elites never eat their own!"
Actually, I talked out of school. Apologies. The Marvels got a pretty respectable 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. Pretty clear that the audience did not feel it sucked as much as I had (inaccurately) heard!
I think that's part of the whole schtick here. She was supposed to be completely ridiculous. In every way, along every axis. They're just rubbing our noses in it. "Not just any unqualified, fart-smellin' moron. A weird-looking goober of ambiguous gender. Genuflect!!"
In much the same way that the News Announcer in Harrison Bergeron had a terrible stutter but was hired. Because Equity.
You're over the target. Think about that beagle-masked military officer, or the luggage-thieving dude-in-a-dress who was deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy.
These people are there to mock us. "We're in charge now, and f@ck your standards."
I asked ChatGPT who was the Biden Admin official caught stealing luggage at airports. I recalled the person was in charge of nuclear waste. ChatGPT said there was no Biden official caught doing that. I looked it up. I Read Sam Brinton. I went back on ChatGPT. Mentioned Sam Brinton. ChatGPT said he was a nuclear physicist and an LGBTQ activist and he had not ever been charged or accused of stealing suitcases at airports. It also admonished me to only read reputable sources. I now know why it is called ‘artificial’ intelligence.
Those dastardly right-wingers made me go back in time and plagiarize all my work! And they're racist for telling on me!
So tired of the 'eternal victim' mindset of somebody who's cheated her way through life and is STILL going to be pulling down 900k/yr working for Harvard. I wish I were half as oppressed.
Imagine living your whole life in a world where every person you met was only allowed to praise and celebrate you for existing. She is incapable of seeing anything for what it is, in the same way a fish wouldn’t understand what we meant by water.
"when all you have ever known is preferential treatment, equality seems like oppression."
"[T]here is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their jobs."
~ Booker T. Washington
...added to my ever-growing list of quotes to ponder and remember. Thanks.
My pleasure.
Race hustling has been pervasive and profitable grift for quite some time, but now it has been supercharged by State subsidies of all sorts and it's propaganda organs, creating a toxic "industry" that, like the climate grift, always militates to increased State control over every aspect of our lives.
I hope gato is correct, and the insanity is finally beginning to wane, but one, or even several won battles do not necessarily win the war, especially against such a Machiavellian and debauched foe.
But it is an excellent start.
I love Bad Cat--like a brother, not in a Jeffrey Epstein way--but he is relentlessly optimistic about stuff like this. (I value that point-of-view too!) Race hucksterism is sort of like bathtub ring. You can clean it away, but the damned thing just keeps coming back, particularly in an ecosystem where the State is so all-encompassing. If Booker was lamenting race hustling, all those years ago, I might suggest that it has only gotten slicker, more virulent, and maybe even more profitable, since then. Dare I mention one of its shining examples, Kendi, as someone who is getting paid for the grift anew? We all hope "the insanity is finally beginning to wane," but let's just say I won't hold my breath, excellent start or no. #Shrugs
Right. It’s literally the soft bigotry of low expectations, as the idiot Geo W Bush once surprisingly said.
His speechwriter wrote, in all likelihood
Gato and Simulation Commander:
HAVE WE REACHED PEAK NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER YET?
I suspect not. At some point, i guess, if all these clowns do is gaslight the rest of the world, how long will it take for them to crash? I mean, just when i thought i saw it all, another ludicrous story is in the news, and i say WTF, has the whole world lost touch with reality.
Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson as Exhibit A to life-long, profitable race baiting
Jesse turned threatening corporations like Tranheuser Busch into a distributorship.
🎯
Thomas Sowell. Now there's (underline please) a scholar.
My word, that's good. #ToBeStolen
This perfectly explains the entitlement. She exists as a black woman, therefore she should get everything and be responsible for nothing -- if you disagree, you're obviously sexist and racist.
Unfortunately, so are the indoctrinated 'students' she and those of her ilk have subverted. Black, white or purple, these wanna be adults also think they should get everything they wish and be responsible for nothing, including themselves. The me, me, me generation.
Mr. Obama suffers the same delusion.
Which one?
Oh dude. Classic!
The former president;-)
Ouch!
One of the key attributes of the victim-hood mindset and/or playbook is never, EVER, stop playing the victim card. Making almost a million dollars a year? You're a victim! Got caught cheating? You're a victim! I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that someone, someplace, is bringing up the "fact" that Gay is far from the first such person to plagiarize. Guess what? I am cool with taking them down too. #Shrugs
And Gay probably knows all this and threatened to overturn the applecart if she didn't get a nice fat paycheck.
Well, as I said someplace in this thread, elites never, ever, eat their own. Once you are part of the "club" that fat cheddar is yours. There is a reason why people covet positions such as hers, and it ain't (only or primarily) because they want to "change the system for the benefit of the less fortunate" although that does sound a lot better than, "Hey, I gotta get paid too!"
Reminds me a little of "The Sopranos".......
So Gay is a Made Guy.
*rereads, frowns, decides to leave it as is*
Photo last week of this person in gray suit--my first thought was, "that's a man!" shoulder vs waist width, something about facial bones as well. just waiting to learn if I will have been correct. Because that would give M. Gay yet another box check: female, black, lesbian but wait, also a male masquerading as female
The ambiguous gender look together with the Malcolm X glasses keeps one guessing. Confusion & chaos are always part of the plan.
I think she thinks it looks professorial.
What red blooded man, Real man would be attracted to this. I don't know if is a it, thing or it hasn't decided yet what it is. This must be the most terrifying nightmare of Real men of all races.
But there's no reason for the opposition to Gay to stop now. "Why should a confirmed plagiarist be allowed to be a Harvard professor?" Keep the pressure on.
As a schlubby nobody to whom it never crossed my mind to cheat on my college essay work by plagarism (and still got decent grades, it's not hard if you actually have half a brain) I think its only fair the mighty are held to the same set of standards. Audit them all, let god sort them out.
Sure, half a brain helps, but I'm sure you'll agree it's also not hard if you - you know - actually do a little work.
Half a brain is now a rare commodity on college campus. In your day . . . well I'll just tell a joke. "What's the difference between Suzie the blond coed and a Rolls Royce? Everybody hasn't been inside a Rolls."
College used to be the Rolls, now it's Suzie.
Hmmm...Does Joe Biden ring another cracked bell and worn out horn?
Biden is an unusual case because he didn't just plagiarize a nobody, but copied a speech given by Neil Kinnock, a British Labor party leader.
The currently acceptable level of scholarship expected of "academics" has sunk to a shameful low. Plagiarism is redefined as just forgetting to note any sort of attribution to quoted material. Stealing the ideas of others is OK now. The wonderful Carol Swain has accused Gay of stealing her ideas and research, not only her exact words!
"Those dastardly right-wingers made me go back in time and plagiarize all my work!"
Ah. The Joy Reid Gambit. Winner.
Hmmm...Does Elisabeth Fauxcahantas Warren ring a bell? CLANKKK!
"Fauxcahantas" is beyond classic! #ToBeStolen
I kinda like Lie-a-watha.
It is a travesty that Harvard is employing a known fraud. Its as if they actually believe they won’t be able to find a qualified professor of color. They really are extremely racist.
There are some truly exceptional professors of color out there. Unfortunately, they are almost all conservative and therefore, could never be hired for that reason as they don't "fit in".
They will never entirely turn against such a torch bearer of affirmative action. She is a black, gay woman of meager scholarship, basically affirmative action personified. The corporation simply got on bended knee, disavowed there white privilege and handed her a cushy, well paid tenured position. She can now spew her racial nonsense to young minds in a multitude of absurd courses in the racial studies progtam. Creating Gay clones of underachieving, drone minded victims.
She looked the part much as they thought Kamala Harris looked the part. Both underwhelming intellects, but they checked the right boxes.
Your post reminds me of a line in Dr. Hooks "Cover of the Rolling Stone" song:
"We sing about beauty and sing about truth
For ten thousand dollars a show"
It's always someone else's fault. It would be so refreshing for someone to actually stand up and own their mistakes.
Mistakes? How about admit their deliberate fraud?
Both
Keep in mind she comes from the sorts of people whose mansions in Haiti were mostly staffed by enslaved children.
THE OPPRESSION IS INSUFFERABLE (hers, not the staff, obviously)
Every once in a while one reads about the arrest of a prosperous Haitian couple whose child slave was finally discovered by accident.
Of course it's far worse for the child slaves brought into Manhattan or Westchester under diplomatic passport because their enslavers have immunity. So many reasons to get rid of the UN, but then we still must deal with embassy and consulate staff too.
Yes, but now you’re Phi Beta Kappa Summa Cum Laude!! But.... grades don’t mean squat.
You and me both Sim Com, you and me both. 😟😭
That she will still be @ Harvard & pulling that salary is beyond the pale altho if she didn’t stay there, she’d land another cushy gig anyway because of her multi “intersectionality”
Here's a picture of their flag, it compliments the disfigured kitty Cat. Poor cat 😩
https://photos.app.goo.gl/N3UFicyzJm7EtEU5A
What if no one took her class...?
Never mind about just this blow-up issue of Claudine Gay and her plagiarism, the true overall scale of the problem with the Western world's universities is near impossible to overstate. The dismal truth is that whilst Western publics have been mesmerised by the MSM psychodrama of elections and party-political pluralism, a 5-decade long transformation has quietly been ongoing whereby the 'educated' middle-class (the future leaders, professionals and administators) have passed through a rite-of-passage Leftist sheep-dip. A highly seductive 'education' in how to think of yourself as virtuous just by the simple and cost-free adoption of 'correct' opinions. We have quietly got ourselves and our culture into a dreadful mess and the Claudine Gays et al are merely the tip of a very big iceberg. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
Damn, that was well said. I regret that I have but one "like" to bestow upon your brilliance.
True story. Wife works at a Fortune 100 insurer. They are seriously staffing up a department to figure out how to insure the transition to renewable energy. There is literally no adult in the room to say "Hey, there isn't enough concrete in the world to make enough windmills to power one large city, let alone the world. There isn't enough cobalt in the world for everyone to drive an electric car. This transition is fantasyland and we are not in the business of fantasy."
Going electric, at least with lithium battereis won't happen. It's not getting a lot of coverage but there have been several fires recently including this:
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-what-looked-like-a-bomb-blast-on-ttc-subway-was-actually-an-e-bike-battery
The others I'm aware of were a ship carrying batteries from Vietnam to San Diego that was diverted to Alaska due to fire and a ship carrying cars, 200 of which were EV's off the coast of Norway also on fire suspected cause is EV. These events happened between summer 2023 and Jan. 1, 2024.
Make sure you see the embedded video: an NYC ebike shop exploded due to lithium ion battery fire.
I read the largest cause of fires now in NYC is exploding electric bike batteries. Some buildings have burnt down as a result.
Like I said, not a lot of MSM coverage but the truth can't help but get out...especially when it's burning. Beware if your neighbour goes EV.
Amen to this. If you don't subscribe to Robert Bryce, I highly suggest you do. This is his "iron law of energy density". Humans have never made a jump in history from a higher energy dense source to a lower one and maintained a growing economy and increased GDP. The market will prove it, no matter the amount of central planning and subsidies.
Will do. Thanks for the tip!
As I watch my brother and sister send their kids off to college, it makes me wonder why they would send their kids to college. Maybe they are too busy to know what is going on there. We see examples of it online all the time. I saw it in gaming culture, and I see it in the changing culture around me.
But the problems with "education" have existed a lot longer than just recently.
Yes, (as I said in my comment) for 50 years at least....if not longer than that. I was at university in the early 70's and the fashionable thing to be at my university was a Maoist. Indulging middle class spoilt brats in their phoney 'radicalism' is a problem that goes back to the 60's.
@Jimmy- I was an adult student (graduated with my BA in 2013) whose children were older than some of the teachers and professors. I saw it first hand. Most were gracious when I brought up the other side of the argument, something that never occurred to the kids in class- that there are always two sides- but one was not. He didn't like me, visa versa, BUT he was the chair of the department, my major, and I certainly couldn't go to him to complain. So I nodded my head, said what he wanted to hear (wrong, I know), and got through his classes. Because OF COURSE I'd have him more than once......
We've all had teachers, employers, and other authority figures in our lives like that.
Reminds me of that scene from the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back To School" where Rodney Dangerfield regurgitates Viet Nam talking points to Sam Kinneson and after the exhange Rodney says..."He's a great teacher..of what I have no idea."
Wouldn’t it have been better to find another school?
@Debbie- to whom is your question directed?
The reply immediately above mine that called deliberate fraud a mistake.
I have a BSc from 1979. When I look back at my own education, certainly it was no where near as woke as today but even at the time an 18 year old freshman me realized things in school were different from my real life up to then.
People should check out engineering schools. The correct answers don't vary based on how black, white, male or female anyone is. The correct answers are the same for everyone.
Teachers don't want your opinion, they want the correct answer. No level of excuse-making is accepted.
Next time you drive over a high bridge, thank God that the people who engineered it didn't get social promotions, and didn't get extra credit based on DEI. At least, HOPE that didn't happen.
Not necessarily true. One of my sons went to an engineering school where students got an upper level computer engineering prof fired for flunking too many kids. Son said prof was hard but fair and brutally honest. Another son was a structural engineer and he would point out bridges to me that he “would never drive on”. The rot is deep.
You've burst my bubble. But I'm not entirely surprised. I went to engineering school in the 1960s. If anyone had tried to get a prof fired, they would have been laughed at. We live in a world where our power grid is being reengineered based on the 'science' of liberal arts majors. We are in deep trouble.
Hate to burst your bubble further but in Canada medical schools are being now encouraged to teach DEI, woke-ism and all that stuff over medical competence. It may be in the discussion stages, I sincerely hope brighter minds prevail.
My one hope is that this crap, like many bacterial infections, can't stand the light of day. Great medical reference, right?
Anyway, there have been decades for the disease of progressivism to develop and fester. Now that it's been exposed to most of the world, I hope it dies from the exposure.
The other day, Bret Weinstein was pointing out the dangers of coronal mass ejections like the Carrington Event - which we now think are more frequent than we supposed - and noted that we have still done nothing to harden our electric grid.
I think it’s Amazon or something similar that was being sued by a family. Their son-husband whatever was promoted to pilot of one of their planes based on DEI. Totally unqualified. Died in a plane crash due to pilot error.
How sad!!!
It would be interesting to ask a DEI proponent if they would rather have brain surgery done by: 1) a purely DEI hire or 2) a surgeon who was top of the class and hired by his superior merit, even though white. What would the answer be, I'm wondering....
Yes the real rot has been mostly in the humanities and social sciences. A lot (but not all) of STEM education remains excellent and worthwhile. (I would have made this distinction but with comment threads like this, you have to keep it brief).
Very astutely stated! An alternative reality was planned and in the making many decades ago along with the "correct opinions" which were allowed as reinforcement for that "reality" which was really an ideological-based tyranny designed to control all of our thinking; universities, academia in general and most cultural, religious and political "leaders", etc. all failed to stand up for freedom and truth and abandoned not just academic values but basic human values; the history of mankind has many examples of the "existential failure" of our species(Fromme) along with the "collective stupidity" exhibited by the masses. (Bonhoeffer)
Accurately stated.
Expecting white people to be accountable for the actions of long-dead white people hundreds of years ago is social justice. Expecting black people to be accountable for their own actions today is racism.
If Claudine Gay being busted as a fraud is going to destroy academia, then academia needs to be destroyed. All their Emperors are naked as Lady Godiva.
No, they don't have Lady Godiva's hair.
I... I don't want to see her naked.
Her??? Hmmm...a real conundrum.
*shudder*
Yep. Looks like a cross between Steve Urkel and ET.
Ew. But yeah
See her naked what?
Dude - I'm trying sleep here!
Like the DC Swamp...burnt to the ground and plowed over.
How do we salt the fields where politicians grow?
With cobalt 60
Exactly right!
Right. Here's an alternative scenario:
Gay keeps her $900K salary and maintains a low profile at Harvard for a hot minute.
The press memory holes the plagiarism, blaming right wing hate for her ouster.
She becomes a cause celebre on the Left for having endured that hate.
They start giving her awards for her courage.
The faculty at Harvard applaud her riotously as she accepts her award.
Gavin Newsome appoints her Secretary of Education.
Gay makes DEI a requirement for receiving Federal funds.
Sad to say this sounds much more likely. I'd love to believe that the wokeness infrastructure is collapsing but we've seen some version of your scenario play out time and time again. It has been enlightening to see how easily fooled and manipulated the American masses are; time after time during Covid something would happen and I would think surely this is what will be the breaking point and yet most people just went along with whatever they were told. I've lost faith that our society has the capability to rise up against evil and stupidity.
When emails were hacked from University of East Anglia, and in one, UEA climate czar Kevin Trenberth asked NASA scientist James Hansen about what "tricks" Hansen had used to "hide the decline" in recent temperatures in order to come up with Hansen's ludicrous "hockey stick" historical climate model, I was naive enough to believe that black-and-white proof of fraud would end the climate grift.
That was 15 years ago. Spoiler alert. It didn't end the climate grift.
Fool me once...
None of this ends until the dollar loses reserve currency status. That's the stone cold truth. Until that happens, the corporations and the government will fund whatever causes the most division so no one ever offers a healthy alternative to their game.
What happens when we can no longer afford welfare for illegals, housing and medical? That day is just around the corner. Who will defend the taxpayer who is now destitude?
"Who will defend the taxpayer"
Still waiting for a hero to save you eh?
I'm so glad you brought that up. I remember reading about that, but it's been memory holed. People think that the politicians pushing the climate alarmism are corrupt - and they are - but sadly, so are the scientists.
Same dynamic as during Covid. The people paying Hansen wanted to fuel the AGW agenda, so Hansen delivered a climate model that showed rising temperatures, regardless of what the raw data (so long Medieval Warming Period) said.
The people funding the studies during Covid wanted results to say ivermectin is ineffective for Covid, and boom, you get the (Bill Gates funded) Together study saying ivermectin is ineffective for Covid.
The only thing she is qualified to do is be a secretary at Xerox.
Now would be a good time to task an "artificial intelligence" to read everything.* All of liberal academic papers looking just for repetition. By picking on Ackermans wife they just opened the playbook for examining everybody and everything.
It wouldn't hurt to start a class action suit for all those people who were thrown out for plagiarism. The outrageous difference in the way the class was treated vs the university professors will get big awards from blue collar juries.
*It would have to be non-human. No person could survive that much bulls**t.
You must be a seer....let's watch it unfold.
It's all gloriously funny except for Ms. Dr. Ex-President Gay still bringing home her $900,000 of annual bacon. We should all be humiliated so remuneratively.
I see we're on the same page today!
We always share at the very least a corner and/or a bit of the margins of almost everything, don't we?
And I always make sure to read all of both of your comments.
I appreciate your interest.
She dindu nuffin!
and nuffin is good enuff for me.
I got plenty o nuffin
Their attempts to spin this are hilarious. Equivalent to:
“Yeah, maybe I have been cheating on you...but you shouldn’t have looked at my phone!”
I think it is a great idea to actually perform the due diligence after-the-fact on ALL academic leaders. It might uncover some conservative frauds but the number of Wokesters revealed as liars and plagiarists would be staggering.
One of the tweets was ‘fine then let’s go after everyone’. Do it. 99% are leftists. Leftism doesn’t really allow for original thinking. It’s toe the line thinking. The chances of there not being copy and paste throughout academia is negligible.
Dead nuts right on!!! Go after them all.
Don't forget a great many Americans ignored Biden's past plagiarism episodes and voted for (sort of) the doofus for president.
Gays mistake was not the plagiarism, it’s was rooting for the wrong team in the Middle East. Had she towed the line there she could have kept her job being a useful idiot. However, still being an idiot, she was no longer useful.
100% true. The toadies on the Harvard board swarmed to her defense initially. Ackman's interest in the situation turned the tide.
If it were not for her lack of concern and lawyer-scripted answer about the antisemitism going on at Harvard, I suspect no one would ever have looked at her pathetic academic record and she could have remained in that position for a very long time.
I don't see any way out for the university system. The only way to regain public trust at this point would be to loudly, proudly announce that they're embracing a merit based system (and then, you know, actually do it). I'm quite certain that even if the leadership of these universities were inclined to do that (and they aren't), the bureaucracy embedded in the heart of academia wouldn't let them. That said, they will continue to limp along until such time that a viable alternative exists. Meme them until they cry, as gato likes to say, but spare some energy for creating academia's replacement.
I don’t see a merit based system making any comeback. In BC the public education system has fully denounced the use of numeric based grades for evaluation until year 10. The teachers try to justify this as it will help to motivate students to do better, so far I’ve heard from students that it does just the opposite and takes away motivation to go above and beyond. It probably will make the teachers jobs easier when it comes to evaluating and reporting as they now will be able to fully use the drop down menu with Pat phrases and not have to provide any actual data to base their “opinions” on.
Agreed. I think that more than anything these developments are forcing people to ask the question, "what is education for?" I have my own opinions, but I suspect the most common answer people would give is along the lines of "to help my child become a successful adult." With it becoming clearer and clearer that schools (of all levels) are not performing this function, people will look for alternatives. The goal now is to build viable alternatives so when we finally reach a tipping point, families have somewhere to go.
how could the bureacracy possibly embrace it when their jobs are dependent on rejecting it?
Exactly. No way out. The only potential solution to cleaning up the bureaucracy I've come up with (at public universities, anyway) is to tie funding to maintaining a specified adminstrator-to-professor ratio. But that feels too little, too late to get the job done.
its going to be extremely difficult, but some positive steps would include eliminating all Federal funding to schools, including the subsidized loans to students. This would increase competition for revenue from students and require a tightening of the belt for the institutions.
Federal money and interference is a big problem. All of these institutions have Federal contracts that require something like DIE. Until that threat is removed the institutions can't change.
Woke will only go broke if good-hearted people everywhere keep scrutinizing every pathetic attempt of theirs to appear as our moral superiors. Obama, and first-class wokesters like him, know this too, and will keep peddling this special brand of righteousness as long as anyone will listen, sadly.
Belligerent, self-righteous attitude of entitlement.
NEWS OUTLETS ALL IMPLODE WHEN IT IS DISCOVERED THEY ALL PLAGIARIZE FROM A COMMON SOURCE.
Media plagiarism is nothing new. I vaguely remember a high school project that compared front page news stories and editorial page comments from several major market daily newspapers - over 60 years ago. (When many teachers were capable of teaching, and most were allowed to do so.)
We found many, many examples of identical wording, in newspapers owned by different entities, published in cities hundreds of miles from each other.
Anything about how Mikey died from eating pop rocks and drinking Coke...this might explain these urban legends.
He gorged himself on Pop Rocks, shook a coke up and guzzled it. All his friends laughed. He felt sick. And then he did the wrong thing. He took two Alka Seltzer. And exploded. Big Seltzer paid big money to cover that up.
Big Seltzer of Big Salsa?
Star Wars was already bleeding from nearly-fatal wounds. If this new director asserts her feminist point-of-view, I'm pretty sure the next movie will rival "The Marvels" in cinematic quality. Ha!
What chaps my shorts about the Gay situation is that she got taken down not for her horrible stance on Antisemitism, but for the (apparently rather widespread) infraction of not being very creative in her writing. That's a horrible miscarriage of justice.
Not because she didn't plagiarize, but because that was FAR from the most FOS thing she did, in even the last few weeks! And to top it off, she'll make around $900K per year in her continuing role at Harvard. As a fellow elite-college-graduate buddy of mine said, "the elites never eat their own!"
Actually, I talked out of school. Apologies. The Marvels got a pretty respectable 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. Pretty clear that the audience did not feel it sucked as much as I had (inaccurately) heard!
Even her surname scored points on the DEI scale!
I still can't get past those huge silly glasses.
she might have procured them from a clown prop shop
I think that's part of the whole schtick here. She was supposed to be completely ridiculous. In every way, along every axis. They're just rubbing our noses in it. "Not just any unqualified, fart-smellin' moron. A weird-looking goober of ambiguous gender. Genuflect!!"
In much the same way that the News Announcer in Harrison Bergeron had a terrible stutter but was hired. Because Equity.
You're over the target. Think about that beagle-masked military officer, or the luggage-thieving dude-in-a-dress who was deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy.
These people are there to mock us. "We're in charge now, and f@ck your standards."
I asked ChatGPT who was the Biden Admin official caught stealing luggage at airports. I recalled the person was in charge of nuclear waste. ChatGPT said there was no Biden official caught doing that. I looked it up. I Read Sam Brinton. I went back on ChatGPT. Mentioned Sam Brinton. ChatGPT said he was a nuclear physicist and an LGBTQ activist and he had not ever been charged or accused of stealing suitcases at airports. It also admonished me to only read reputable sources. I now know why it is called ‘artificial’ intelligence.
Ridiculous. Garbage in, garbage out.
Competence in anything is becoming a lost art.
The trans spokesperson for the Ukrainian armed forces also comes to mind
Where else would you expect her to shop?