'Locks up like Windows 95': Joe Rogan lays into Biden, underscoring that he's been a punch line for decades



Various liberal media outfits and Democratic donors have abandoned the pretense that President Joe Biden is mentally equipped to serve another full term. Amidst the growing acknowledgment of Biden's decrepitude, some supporters have leaned on the characterization of the 81-year-old Democrat as a truth-telling candidate of integrity.

Although happy to see the Biden competency narrative crumble, Joe Rogan and leftist YouTube personality Jimmy Dore are just as critical of the new Biden integrity narrative.

In the July 4 episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," the titular host quipped that during the debate, Biden "locks up like Windows 95, stammers for 15 seconds, and then says, 'We beat Medicare.'"

Rogan's remarks at Biden's expense prompted Dore to attack recent revisionism about the president's character.

"No one's ever f***ing loved Joe Biden. He's always been a joke and a punch line," said Dore. "And this idea that somehow it's Joe Biden's integrity and truth-telling against Donald Trump — 'He lied, lied.' The first time Joe Biden ran for president, he had to drop out because he got exposed for being a pathological liar."

"He said he graduated at the top of his class. He graduated at the bottom," continued Dore. "He said he had three majors. ... He said he was chosen as the most outstanding ... no. It was all lies. And then he got caught plagiarizing — not only just their speeches but like their life story."

Biden launched his 1988 presidential campaign in June 1987. He claimed that he graduated in the top half of his class in law school; that he had attended law school at Syracuse University on a full academic scholarship; that he had been named the outstanding student in the political science department as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware; and that he had graduated from Delaware with three undergraduate degrees.

Biden was later forced to admit that the claims were bogus.

The Washington Post reported at the time that Biden had confirmed in a statement, "As the complete record of my law school career indicates, which I released to the press last week, I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection on this was inaccurate."

Biden had in fact ranked 76th out of a law school class of 85.

At Delaware, he graduated 506th in a class of 688 with a "C" average.

As for this supposed triple degree, he receive a degree with a dual major in history and political science.

In terms of being named an outstanding student, Biden later admitted a professor of the name of David Ingersoll had nominated him — but nothing came of it.

'It was an open mockery that he was a known plagiarist.'

At a press conference in September 1987, Biden also confirmed that he had faced disciplinary action for plagiarism while a freshman in law school. In one instance, he reportedly used five pages from a law review article for a brief he claimed to have written in a legal methods class without crediting the source or using footnotes.

Biden also copped to freely stealing quotes from other politicians, including then-British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.

While Biden liberally stole speech elements and quotes from President John F. Kennedy and others, the New York Times noted that "he lifted Mr. Kinnock's closing speech with phrases, gestures and lyrical Welsh syntax intact for his own closing speech at a debate at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 23 — without crediting Mr. Kinnock."

"Who does that?" asked Dore. "He's been a joke, always was a joke."

"Did I ever tell you about 'Joe Biden night' that we used to have at Stitches?" Rogan later asked his guest. "Stitches Comedy Club in 1988, we had 'Joe Biden night.' ... That would mean I would go on stage and do your act and you would go on stage and do my act."

"Because he was a plagiarist," said Dore.

"Exactly," said Rogan. "So we would call it 'Joe Biden night,' and all the comics would go up and do each other's acts."

"It was an open mockery that he was a known plagiarist," added Rogan. "In '88."

"That's why this rehabilitation — it's all because of Trump derangement syndrome," responded Dore. "They have to pretend like Joe Biden's some kind of guy with integrity and dignity instead of, you know, the horrible criminal, anti-worker guy that he's been his whole life."

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UCLA School of Medicine's radical DEI czar clumsily plagiarized vast portions of her dissertation on DEI: Report



Harvard is not the only woke university whose top race obsessives are unrepentant plagiarists. The University of California's David Geffen School of Medicine apparently also has at least one identitarian hack on staff earning hundreds of thousands of dollars annually at taxpayers' expense thanks in part to stolen scholarship.

Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo and Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire have revealed in a damning new report that the medical school's DEI czar plagiarized a significant portion of her dissertation on DEI. What little of the publication Natalie Perry ostensibly wrote on her own was largely spoiled by error and incoherence.

UCLA Med School has been in the news recently for promoting ideology about "Indigenous womxn," "two-spirits," and "structural racism." A guest speaker praised and two residents championed "revolutionary suicide." \n\nThe DEI director, who advances "anti-racism," is Natalie Perry.
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Perry, formerly an associate dean for academic programs at the American International College's School of Education in Springfield, Massachusetts, presently serves as the DGSOM's so-called "Cultural North Star Lead." The Cultural North Star initiative is the product of a 2017 culture audit conducted by the Dean's Office, serving to advance the cause of DEI at the school.

Perry's biographic statement on the school's website references her 2014 doctoral dissertation, "Faculty Perceptions of Diversity at a Highly Selective Research-Intensive University," noting that her "wealth of experience in understanding and improving the culture of higher education, including at an academic health system, will be invaluable to our ongoing efforts to embed our aspirational Cultural North Stars [sic] value in our organizational DNA."

It turns out that others may instead deserve credit for the "wealth of experience in understanding" Perry has submitted as her own.

Rosiak noted on X that Perry, "the DEI czar at UCLA School of Medicine, which blamed opiates on 'whiteness,' had doctors praise 'revolutionary suicide,' taught about 'two-spirits,' and led a class in chanting 'Free Palestine,'" is responsible for the "most egregious case of plagiarism" he and Rufo have so far encountered.

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According to Rosiak, Perry's wealth of published knowledge, reducible to a single paper, "stole thousands of words from 10 other papers." In one instance, the DEI czar ostensibly directly copied five continuous pages of material from someone else's work.

Perry apparently wasn't even stealthy when stealing other people's ideas, having lifted the first pages of her dissertation from the first page of other published works, including more than 100 words from the first page of a paper by Angela Locks, Sylvia Hurtado, Nicholas Bowman, and Leticia Oseguera.

In addition to sometimes porting over the exact text formatting from the works she was plagiarizing, Perry apparently also copied the parenthetical citations from uncredited authors without even factoring their source material into her final list of references.

Perry was so lazy that the first pages of her paper stole from the first page of multiple other papers. Here's a passage taken from a paper by Adalberto Aguirre Jr. and Ruben Martinez, who were never mentioned anywhere in Perry's paper.
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The only significant alterations Perry appears to have made to the elements she lifted from other writers were errors.

Rosiak noted, for instance, that when plagiarizing a paper from John C. Smart, the DEI czar "changed a few words, and added errors almost every time (e.g. changing Smart's 'distinguishes between X and Y' to 'distinguish between X from Y')."

Perry seems virtually unable to write a single word without error. Here, she stole from John Smart, changed a few words, and added errors almost every time (e.g. changing Smart's "distinguishes between X and Y" to "distinguish between X from Y").
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The medical school's future Cultural North Star lead was afforded a chance to shine in a section in her dissertation devoted to original research. However, she instead cobbled together a few half-baked sentences containing spelling and grammatical errors.

"The positionality of the participants informed the perspective on the origins of the commission. /in response to the needs of the varios [sic] stakeholders within the university, the commission addressed issues of diversity on the faculty, undergraduate, graduate, and university level," she wrote in the ostensibly original section.

The Daily Wire indicated that neither the university nor Perry returned requests for comment.

Perry is the latest and perhaps the most brazen among the university professionals recently outed for passing off other people's work as their own.

Christina Ross, a race obsessive and assistant sociology professor at Harvard University, was accused last month of various form of plagiarism, including "verbatim plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, uncited paraphrasing, and uncited quotations from other sources."

Harvard Extension School administrator Shirley R. Greene was accused in February of 42 instances of plagiarism — just in her 2008 University of Michigan dissertation.

In January, Claudine Gay resigned her post as Harvard's 30th president in disgrace after nearly 50 plagiarism complaints had been filed against her, implicating nearly half of her published works, including her doctoral thesis.

That same month, affirmative action expert Sherri Ann Charleston, the university's chief DEI officer, was slapped with a complaint identifying 40 examples of alleged plagiarism in two of her academic works.

Rufo and Rosiak reported earlier this month that Lisa D. Cook, a tenured professor at Michigan State University who was successfully nominated to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2022, was also guilty of academic dishonesty, having based her most celebrated article on flawed data and misled about the quality of one of her other publications.

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Leftist academics circle the wagons after another Harvard race obsessive is called out for plagiarism



Another race obsessive on the faculty at Harvard University was outed as a likely plagiarist last week.

Rather than acknowledge that assistant sociology professor Christina Cross may have wrongfully passed off the work of others as her own or that Harvard might be intellectually bankrupt, Cross' colleagues have cried racism and circled the wagons.

Quick background

Cross, an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, is the latest race obsessive at Harvard University exposed as a potential plagiarist.

Claudine Gay resigned her post in disgrace on Jan. 2 after nearly 50 plagiarism complaints were filed against her, implicating nearly half of her published works along with her doctoral thesis.

Later that same month, affirmative action expert Sherri Ann Charleston, the university's chief DEI officer, was slapped with a complaint identifying 40 examples of alleged plagiarism in two of her academic works.

In February, Harvard Extension School administrator Shirley R. Greene was accused of 42 instances of plagiarism in her 2008 University of Michigan dissertation.

Blaze News previously reported that a complaint was filed this month with Harvard's office of research integrity against Cross, claiming her work contains multiple instances of plagiarism, including "verbatim plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, uncited paraphrasing, and uncited quotations from other sources."

Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo detailed the complaint for City Journal, noting Cross has been accused of appropriating "an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Stacey Bosick and Paula Fomby — the latter of whom was her dissertation adviser — without citing the source or placing verbatim language in quotations" in her 2019 dissertation.

Cross also allegedly plagiarized another full paragraph from Bosick and Fomby elsewhere in the paper as well as the ideas of others without attribution.

'Professors for plagiarism!'

Fomby, who served on Cross' dissertation committee, along with dozens of sociologists from various academic institutions, released a statement Thursday, expressing deep concern "about this false allegation of research miscondudct [sic]."

"It's not simply that Dr. Cross's writings do not constitute plagiarism," continued the statement. "Rather, her description of a large public dataset in this standardized way is simply good research practice - helping to ensure replicability and transparency."

The Manhattan Institute fellow replied, "Professors for plagiarism!"

@pamela_herd Professors for plagiarism!
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On Monday, Harvard's Department of Sociology similarly released a statement defending Cross.

"We are deeply disturbed by the false allegations of plagiarism made against our colleague Christina Cross. The allegations are absurd," said the statement. "The claim that may sound most serious involves a description of a widely used dataset, in which Dr. Cross describes its features in the terms used by the people who assembled it – in the most accurate terms possible."

The sociology department suggested further that Cross' race may have been a motivating factor behind the complaint.

"We find these bogus claims to be particularly troubling in the context of a series of attacks on Black women in academia with the clear subtext that they have no place in our universities," continued the statement. "We are fortunate to have [Cross] on our faculty, and she has our full and unalloyed support."

The department appears to have embraced the desperate line of defense appealed to on exit by Claudine Gay and by other leftists since, namely that the effort to combat plagiarism is "fueled by racial animus."

Blaze News previously noted that Heba Gowayed, a leftist associate professor of sociology at CUNY Hunter College, similarly suggested that Cross' scholarship had been reviewed "solely because she's Black."

Gowayed added, "It's KKK level s**t."

Georgetown University professor Don Moynihan claimed that the scrutinies of Cross and other academics by Rufo and others "are examples of backlash, of a post George Floyd Politics."

Marcy Carlson, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, defended Cross and amplified Moynihan's attempt at narrative curation, writing, "Describing a well-known national public data set in similar words to another paper is not plagiarism!"

Rufo responded, "They are openly defending the violation of their own written policies."

University of Wisconsin professor argues that lifting entire passages verbatim from another paper \u201cis not plagiarism.\u201d They are openly defending the violation of their own written policies.
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The Journal of Marriage and Family, an academic journal published by the National Council of Family Relations, also leaned into the racial framing of the plagiarism complaint against Cross, tweeting, "We condemn the contemptible attacks aimed at undermining and threatening scholars focused on race and racism, in particular Black women academics. We support and stand with our valued colleague Dr. Cross."

Cross happens to be a member of the journal's editorial board.

Rufo was ready with another pointed response: "Academic journal openly defends plagiarism, arguing that exposing academic misconduct by 'Black women' is equivalent to 'threatening scholars focused on race.' They have replaced integrity with intersectionality. The standards are gone."

Rufo also refuted the racism suggestion, tweeting, "For the record, I have asked my source to also search the academic work of white scholars in grievance departments at Harvard and, thus far, they have not turned up plagiarism."

"This is not a large-scale study, but it's certainly plausible that lower academic standards for 'diversity and inclusion' hires could be correlated with a disparity in plagiarism and other forms of academic incompetence. This is, in one way, definitional to DEI hiring," added Rufo.

While the DEI critic went scorched-earth on those so-called scholars bending over backward to defend possible plagiarism, Cross thanked them.

Cross tweeted Monday, "Thank you, Dear Ones, for your relentless support. Moments like this show you how deeply loved and cared for you are...I'm going to keep doing what I do & do the best work I can do for the families whose stories, all too often, go untold."

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Leftist professor 'shaking with rage' because her race-obsessive peer at Harvard was outed as possible plagiarist



Yet another race obsessive on faculty at Harvard University has been exposed for alleged plagiarism. While scholars might take satisfaction that grifters are being outed, this latest revelation concerning assistant sociology professor Christina Cross has left one leftist professor "actually shaking with rage."

Quick background

Harvard University has been rocked in recent months by plagiarism scandals.

Claudine Gay resigned her post as Harvard's 30th president on Jan. 2 after nearly 50 complaints had been filed against her, implicating seven of her 17 published works, including her 1997 doctoral thesis. Despite disgracing the institution, Gay was able to remain on faculty.

Later that month, affirmative action expert Sherri Ann Charleston, the university's chief diversity and inclusion officer, was slapped with a complaint identifying 40 examples of alleged plagiarism in two of her academic works, including her 2009 dissertation.

A complaint submitted to the chair of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' professional conduct committee in February accused Harvard Extension School administrator Shirley R. Greene of 42 instances of plagiarism — just in her 2008 University of Michigan dissertation.

Critically plagiarized race studies

The latest Harvard plagiarism scandal concerns Christina Cross, an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Cross — like Greene, a University of Michigan graduate — is apparently an up-and-comer in the field of critical race studies.

In addition to having an impactful article attributed to her in the New York Times, which downplayed the importance of the two-parent family, Cross has enjoyed support from the National Science Foundation.

Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo reported Tuesday that a new complaint has been filed with Harvard's office of research integrity, this time against Cross, claiming her work suffers multiple instances of plagiarism, including "verbatim plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, uncited paraphrasing, and uncited quotations from other sources."

Rufo indicated Cross did not respond to his request for comment.

According to Rufo, Cross is accused of lifting "an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Stacey Bosick and Paula Fomby — the latter of whom was her dissertation advisor — without citing the source or placing verbatim language in quotations" in her 2019 dissertation.

The most serious allegation in the complaint is that Cross lifted an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Stacey Bosick and Paula Fomby\u2014the latter of whom was her dissertation advisor\u2014without citing the source or placing verbatim language in quotations.
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In addition to apparently appropriating this entire paragraph without attribution, Cross allegedly plagiarized another full paragraph from Bosick and Fomby later in the paper, making only slight alterations. The complaint indicates that again, Cross failed to place the copied content in quotation marks or properly cite the actual authors.

Elsewhere in the dissertation and another paper, Cross allegedly lifts work from a number of sources, with minor word substitutions, without placing the copied language in quotation marks or properly citing the authors.
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Rufo stressed that "Cross cannot plead unfamiliarity with the source: Fomby served on Cross's dissertation committee, making the offense even more egregious."

Throughout the paper, the prospective CRT star ostensibly passed off others' ideas and language as her own. In one instance, she allegedly lifted a passage from a paper coauthored by another academic who served on her dissertation committee, again without using direct quotations.

When allegedly adopting real scholars' language as her own, it appears Cross, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, did not even bother to change their unique use of parenthetical notes or italics.

Rufo noted that Cross' apparent trouble expressing herself without adopting the language of others is not limited to her dissertation. The complaint suggests that Cross also plagiarized in a 2018 paper published in the journal Population Studies.

The Manhattan Institute fellow highlighted that Cross' alleged improprieties constitute plagiarism according to Harvard's own definition. The "Harvard Guide to Using Sources" states that "it is considered plagiarism to draw any idea or any language from someone else without adequately crediting that source in your paper."

According the university's latest student handbook, "Students who, for whatever reason, submit work either not their own or without clear attribution to its sources will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College."

The fact that Gay, Greene, and Charleston have not been ousted bodes well for Cross, as it appears faculty and staff are not held to the same standard as students.

Literally shaking

Heba Gowayed, an associate professor of sociology at CUNY Hunter College, was devastated to hear about her peer's possible bout of plagiarism — not that Cross had allegedly engaged in it but that she had been caught.

Gowayed, a race-obsessive critic of Israel who has advocated for abolishing border policing and the U.S. citizenship exam, tweeted Thursday, "So today I sat down to work, to write a talk. I then got a text from a friend that a colleague is being attacked purely & solely because she's Black by the same assholes who attacked Claudine Gay. And now it's an hour and a half later. These months have seen so much stolen time."

While evidently more concerned about stolen time than stolen ideas, Gowayed exhausted more time persevering on Cross' forthcoming fall from grace.

"I am actually shaking with rage," continued Gowayed. "I cannot stop obsessing over it. It's KKK level s**t. And I don't know what to do about it. I've never been more worried about what the near future has in store."

@victorerikray I am actually shaking with rage. I cannot stop obsessing over it. It's KKK level shit. And I don't know what to do about it. I've never been more worried about what the near future has in store.
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Gowayed was not the only academic left trembling by Cross' outing as a likely plagiarist.

Karen Benjamin Guzzo, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote, "I'm just absolutely livid about this."

@kbguzzo @hebagowayed @victorerikray @donmoyn The name's Karen, huh?
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Guzzo added, "What a nightmare for her to have to go through."

Gowayed and Guzzo were both apparently fired up by Georgetown University professor Don Moynihan's Substack article alleging that exposés such as Rufo's "are examples of backlash, of a post George Floyd Politics" aimed at feeding "a culture of fear within research institutions."

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Damning complaint accuses Harvard's DEI czar Sherri Charleston of extensive plagiarism



Harvard's plagiarism problem shows no signs of going away — and that's not just because its disgraced former president Claudine Gay remains on the faculty. A new complaint filed Monday with the university suggests that affirmative action expert Sherri Ann Charleston, the university's chief diversity and inclusion officer, might be another resident plagiarist.

The complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon identifies 40 examples of alleged plagiarism in two of Charleston's academic works, beginning with her 2009 dissertation.

"Charleston's dissertation contains a lot of other scholars' language verbatim without quotation marks," says the complaint. "Parts of Charleston's dissertation were published previously, word for word, by her advisor, Rebecca Scott, and others. Charleston will lift whole sentences and paragraphs from other scholars' work without quotation marks, then add a correct reference somewhere in the footnote ending the long paragraph."

When Harvard's plagiarism scandal was coming to a head in December, Dr. Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, underscored the significance of a plagiarized dissertation to New College of Florida board member Christopher Rufo: "What does it mean if the Ph.D. dissertation is plagiarized? It means that the credential is based on falsehoods. It is, in effect, counterfeit currency."

"It has long been the practice of many universities to revoke the degrees of people later found to have plagiarized their dissertations or who committed research fraud on their way to the Ph.D.," added Wood.

Charleston said in a 2021 speech to Harvard students, "The dissertation is not your masterpiece. The dissertation is only and will always only be a demonstration of your ability to conduct original research. Period. Don't try to be great."

The complaint filed Monday against Charleston notes further that at least 20% of the DEI czar's only peer-reviewed article — which she supposedly helped her husband, LaVar Charleston, write — had been published two years prior in a 2012 Journal of Diversity in Higher Education paper.

The complaint notes that there is no acknowledgement in Charleston's 2014 paper "that it is substantially a reprint of the 2012 journal article by LaVar Charleston."

The overlap between the two papers is uncanny — so much so that the duplication may reportedly even violate copyright law. In addition to language, the DEI czar's 2014 paper recycled the methods, findings, and survey subject descriptions from her husband's previous paper.

"About 2/3 of the section entitled 'Findings' in the 2014 paper was previously published as the 'Conclusion' to the 2012 paper," said the complaint. "What the 2012 study described as its 'major findings' are practically identical to what the 2014 study described as its 'results.'"

Steve McGuire, former political theory professor at Villanova University, suggested that "Sherri Charleston appears to have used somebody else's research without proper attribution."

Monday's complaint, which was filed anonymously, comes as Harvard is facing questions about the integrity of its research affiliates and the ideology of its diversity bureaucrats, most of whom report to the sprawling office that Sherri Ann Charleston oversees.
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"The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit," Peter Wood told the Free Beacon. "This is research fraud, pure and simple."

Charleston received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan and her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

After first serving as the assistant vice provost for DEI and chief affirmative action officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she was named DEI czar at Harvard on June 22, 2020.

At the time of her appointment, former Harvard president Lawrence Bacow — Gay's immediate predecessor — touted Charleston as an "interdisciplinary scholar whose work at the intersection of history and law informs her efforts to translate theory into practice that improves higher education."

When celebrating Charleston's "scholarship," Bacow did not give partial credit to LaVar Charleston.

The Free Beacon indicated that an expert review of the allegations against the DEI czar turned up everything from minor plagiarism to possible data fraud.

It is unclear whether Charleston will take a page out of Claudine Gay's book and similarly resign in disgrace.

Gay stepped down on Jan. 2 after being hit with nearly 50 plagiarism allegations implicating seven of her 17 published works, including her 1997 doctoral thesis.

Gay painted herself as a victim, claiming in her resignation letter that she found it frightening "to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus."

Charleston, her husband, and the Journal of Negro Education reportedly did not respond to the Free Beacon's requests for comment.

Charleston and Gay are not the only so-called scholars at Harvard who have been accused of academic improprieties this month.

Blaze News recently reported that four research scientists with faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School were accused earlier this month of manipulating data in their published research.

The four academics accused were Laurie Glimcher, CEO of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of Harvard's teaching hospitals; William Hahn, the institute's COO; Irene Ghobrial, director of the Clinical Investigator Research Program; and Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center program director Dr. Kenneth Anderson.

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute indicated last week that there were retractions under way for six manuscripts and that another 31 were flagged as "warranting corrections."

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Ibram Kendi and other identitarians claim Claudine Gay's short fall from grace was due to racism



Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University Tuesday following scores of plagiarism complaints and controversy over the costly perception the institution had become an incubator both for anti-Semitism and segregationist tendencies under her leadership.

In her resignation letter, Gay set the script for her would-be defenders: she was a victim "subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus."

Critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi and other race obsessives embraced the script and took the stage, suggesting Gay's short fall from grace was all about racism.

Kendi tweeted, "Racist mobs won't stop until they topple all Black people from positions of power and influence who are not reinforcing the structures of racism. What these racist mobs are doing should be obvious to any reporter who cares about truth or justice as opposed to conflicts and clicks."

Kendi's tweet was quickly met by a community note linking to a recent New York Times article detailing the latest of nearly 50 plagiarism complaints against Gay, who appears to have appropriated content from black and white scholars alike.

Seven of Gay's 17 published works, including her 1997 doctoral thesis, are implicated in the plagiarism complaints.

The latest complaint, filed Monday and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, alleges Gay lifted nearly a page of material verbatim from University of Wisconsin political science professor David Canon's 1999 book "Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts" without using quotations.

Despite this and other indications she may have reaped the fruit of others' labor, Gay said in a Dec. 11 statement, "I stand by the integrity of my scholarship."

Extra to the plagiarism scandal, Kendi recently raised eyebrows for suggesting during a congressional hearing early last month that calls for the genocide of Jews could be protected under the university's policies on bullying and harassment "depending on the context."

Kendi was put on blast Tuesday for claiming the controversy about Gay's perceived deficit of academic integrity and tolerance of anti-Semitism on campus was actually about her race.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wrote, "Kendi's cry of 'racism' in response to a termination of employment that had nothing to do with race—and appears to have been undertaken with great caution, perhaps based on considerations related to race—is itself a form of ugliness akin to racism."

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas) responded to Kendi, "'Yeah ok so I know I refused to condemn genocide or anti-semitism, and maybe I plagiarized my way to the top of academia....but really you're all just a bunch of racists.'"

Jeremy Redfern, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' press secretary, responded, "Did you expect anything less from Henry Rogers (his real name), here? Pointing out plagiarism is racist, obviously."

Megyn Kelly quipped, "Henry Rogers weighs in (spoiler: everyone's racist)."

Spectator columnist and author Douglas Murray tweeted, "Or.... you shouldn't be a plagiarist with a blind-spot on anti-Jewish racism."

The intellectual diversitarian group Free Black Thought wrote, "Can you imagine how much motivated reasoning it would take to convince yourself that Claudine Gay was toppled by racism?"

Kendi doubled down on his racism claim in a series of posts, which were again countered with facts.

"When a racist mob attacks a Black person, it finds a seemingly legitimate reason for the attack that allows for it to accrue popular support and credibility, and which allows the growing mob to deny they are attacking the person in this way because the person is black," wrote Kendi. "The seemingly legitimate reason, in this latest case at Harvard, is primarily academic misconduct or plagiarism."

"The question to assess whether this was a racist attack isn't whether Dr. Gay engaged in any misconduct," continued the identitarian academic. "The question is whether all these people would have investigated, surveilled, harassed, written about, and attacked her in the same way if the Harvard president in this case would have been White."

Respondents noted at least two instances just over the past several months that neatly provided an answer to Kendi's question, thereby killing his preferred narrative.

Liz Magill, a white woman who served as the 27th president of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned in disgrace in December. While ostensibly not another plagiarist, she similarly bungled her response to anti-Semitism on campus, failing to explicitly say during a recent congressional hearing whether demands for the genocide of Jews amounted to bullying and harassment on campus.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a white man who served as the president of Stanford University for seven years, resigned in July after the board of trustees discovered that multiple academic reports he had authored contained falsified information.

Dr. Anthony Bradley, distinguished research fellow at the Acton Institute, highlighted for Kendi another instance proving his understanding wanting: retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen resigned as president of the University of South Carolina in 2021 after being exposed for plagiarizing — not seven books or his doctoral thesis — part of a speech.

Bradley wrote, "Prof Kendi wrongly thinks Prof Gay’s resignation is about race. It's about plagiarism. And yes, @ibramxk a little bit of research would show that white presidents resign for plagiarism with great regularity. We can't hold students to higher standards than college presidents."

Kendi was not alone in suggesting Gay's resignation was about race or at least something beside her foibles.

The leftist blog Mother Jones suggested Gay was the "latest casualty in a growing conservative crusade against 'diversity in education'" and her resignation was further proof that a "larger trend of racial regression" is underway.

Don Moynihan, the chair of the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, claimed, "Gay was attacked because she is seen by the right as undeserving of the job. A diversity hire."

Daily Beast contributor Wajahat Ali's takeaway was that "[r]ight-wing actors are so obsessed with 'truth' that they will not target, bully & 'scalp' anyone/anything in academia who threatens them (people of color, women, liberals, books)."

Mara Gay of the New York Times' editorial board indicated the efforts to hold Gay accountable amounted to an "attack on diversity."

"The fact that she's a black woman and the first person, uh, who is a black American to lead Harvard only added to [critics'] thirst to dethrone her," Mara Gay told MSNBC. "Those attacks ... I don't have to say that they're racist because you can hear and see the racism in the attacks."

Al Sharpton said in a statement obtained by CNN Tuesday, "President Gay's resignation is about more than a person or a single incident. This is an attack on every Black woman in this country who's put a crack in the glass ceiling."

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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns in disgrace, paints herself as a victim of 'racial animus'



Claudine Gay threw in the towel Tuesday, resigning as president of Harvard University after getting hit with six new plagiarism complaints.

Gay said in a possibly original letter to the school community, "It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president. This is not a decision I came to easily."

"After consultation with members of the Corporation, it has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual," continued Gay.

Gay painted herself as a victim, suggesting she found it frightening "to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus."

The outgoing president indicated she would be returning to the faculty "and to the scholarship and teaching that are the lifeblood of what we do."

Gay became the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1 after evidently playing up her leftist bona fides as Edgerley Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where she brought new emphasis to climate alarmism and identity politics.

Ahead of her inauguration, Gay stated, "Today, we are in a moment of remarkable and accelerating change — socially, politically, economically, and technologically."

It appears that Gay was unable to keep up with the accelerated change.

Gay's presidency, the shortest-lived in Harvard's history, was dogged in recent months by multiple allegations of plagiarism and concerns over her response to growing anti-Semitism on campus.

The Washington Free Beacon obtained a complaint filed Monday with the university, bringing the plagiarism allegations against Gay to nearly 50, implicating seven of her 17 published works, including her 1997 doctoral thesis.

The latest complaint alleges that in a 2001 article, Gay plagiarized nearly a page of material straight from University of Wisconsin political science professor David Canon's 1999 book "Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts" without quotations or so much as a citation.

The university recently launched an investigation into the allegations against Gay.

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A unnamed undergraduate member of Harvard's Honor Council recently penned an op-ed for the Harvard Crimson calling on Gay "to resign for her numerous and serious violations of academic ethics."

"When my peers are found responsible for multiple instances of inadequate citation, they are often suspended for an academic year," wrote the student. "When the president of their university is found responsible for the same types of infractions, the fellows of the Corporation ‘unanimously stand in support of’ her."

Extra to allegedly trafficking in ideas and words not her own, Gay oversaw segregated graduation ceremonies and has drawn the ire of critics for lording over an apparent increase in anti-Semitic behavior on campus, costing the Ivy League institution over an estimated $1 billion in donations.

During a congressional hearing early last month, she suggested that calls for the genocide of Jews could be protected under the university's policies on bullying and harassment "depending on the context."

The Harvard Crimson indicated that university spokesman Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on Gay's resignation.

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