Retired professor whose academic work was allegedly plagiarized calls for Harvard's Gay to be fired

Gay: "Ask not what your country can do for you . . ."

If you've ever had anything stolen from you, especially if it's something you made for yourself, you can understand what it must feel like when your academic research and writing was stolen via plagiarism. Well, retired Vanderbilt University professor Dr. Carol Swain certainly does.

Dr. Swain is allegedly one of several of Harvard President Claudine Gay's victims whose work has been stolen and she is calling for Gay to be fired. 

"Fire Claudine Gay posthaste," Dr. Carol Swain posted Thursday on X, as part of a social media post titled "some free unsolicited advice for Harvard University."

"She can be relieved of duties until the terms are negotiated."

Can anyone blame Swain? She is a senior fellow at the Institute for Faith and said that Harvard must hire the best man or woman for the job who can "steer the university back towards sanity."

"Appeasing the Marxist identity politics mob should not be a consideration. The person for the job might be a middle to older age white Jewish man who believes in classical liberalism," she said.

Swain called for Gay to step down last week after Harvard officials chose to accept her antisemitic stance on Jewish students being threatened with genocide and harassment, but the woke folk at the school stood behind her in spite of that and of a probe that found "instances of inadequate citation." That kind of finding had it been of a Harvard student would have caused serious disciplinary action, even expulsion from the university to take place, but in the case of an affirmative action leader, not so much.

On Thursday, Swain also recommended that leaders of Harvard have a "sit down conversation" with the academics who Gay plagiarized from and apologize to alumni, students, parents and donors who have "been harmed and embarrassed" by Gay's behavior. Swain said:

"Have a sit down conversation with the people who have been harmed by the plagiarism of Gay, and the system that protects her. Recognize that Harvard’s systematic racism and classism have far reaching effects. Apologize to alumni, students, parents, and donors who have been harmed and embarrassed."

Gay, you may recall, refused to directly respond to Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-NY) question at a congressional hearing on Dec. 12 as to whether the calling for genocide of Jews was  against Harvard policy. Gay's apparently coached reply was to say that it depended upon the context but Rep. Stefanik called her out on it and still she responded with the same garbage answer.

But back to the alleged plagiarism. The Washington Free Beacon reported that in four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation, Gay "paraphrased or quoted nearly 20 authors—including two of her colleagues in Harvard University’s department of government—without proper attribution," according to the news site's analysis.

Since the first reports of plagiarism were uncovered, the same news outlet said that Harvard "received a complaint outlining over 40 allegations of plagiarism" against Gay on Tuesday.

Not surprisingly, Dr. Swain, a former Democrat, has been supportive of many conservative issues in the past and even served on former President Trump's "1776 Commission," that showed how false the so called "1619 Project" was about slavery and American history.

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