Harvard's Gay faces 6 news plagiarism charges: not to worry; she's oppressed

Harvard's President Claudine Gay is fortunate that she isn't a student at the university she heads because if that were so, based on school policy, she would be kicked out in a heartbeat. The affirmative action hire is facing six more plagiarism charges to add to the list she already has, but the Harvard board is standing behind her and refuse to call for her resignation due to the melanin level in her epidermis.

The latest plagiarism charges were initially reported by The Washington Free Beacon and made the claim: "In a 2001 article, Gay lifts nearly half a page of material verbatim from another scholar, David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin." 

[H/T Fox News]

The Beacon reports that the total number of plagiarism allegations against Gay is now almost 50, or about "half of Gay's published works." 

Although Gay may not be gay, which would put her in a special protected class of the 'oppressed', she is, to say the least, an anti-Semite, and that's good enough for Harvard. 

Some students are calling for her resignation for that and the plagiarism allegations. Of course, the student newspaper, Harvard Crimson, had an editorial saying Gay should stay, because of some reason that only the opinion writer is aware of.

The editorial received a rebuttal by Brooks Anderson and Joshua Kaplan who wrote: "Harvard’s presidency is no mere empty honor; it is a deeply challenging managerial job with deeply challenging duties, not least of which is navigating national outcry. In each of these respects, Gay has failed. The Harvard Corporation must find a leader who can do better."

Fox News  reported that there were many possible examples of plagiarism that was shared by the Free Beacon. "At one point, Gay borrows four sentences from Canon’s 1999 book, Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts, without quotation marks and with only minor semantic tweaks," the outlet summarized. "[Gay] does not cite Canon anywhere in or near the passage, though he does appear in the bibliography."

Canon told the Free Beacon that he was not "concerned" about the controversial passages in question.

But is it Canon's business whether or not to be concerned, or the board whose concern should be focused on the qualifications and integrity of their school president? And let's remember, this is not the only example of possible plagiarism Gay is accused of, and then there's that good old anti-Semitism thing she's got going for herself.

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