Wait… Harvard has policies on academic integrity? That’s probably the biggest surprise here as it’s now been revealed “allegedly” that Harvard President and flaming anti-Semite Claudine Gay plagiarized her Ph.D thesis from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam.
First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language.
This is a direct violation of Harvard's policy: "When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023
Gay repeats this violation of Harvard's policy throughout the document, again using work from Bobo and Gilliam, as well as passages from Richard Shingles, Susan Howell, and Deborah Fagan, which she reproduces nearly verbatim, without quotation marks. pic.twitter.com/K75YPeZwky
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023
Second, Gay appears to lift material from scholar Carol Swain. In one passage, summarizing the distinction between "descriptive representation" and "substantive representation," she copies the phrasing and language nearly verbatim from Swain’s book 'Black Faces, Black Interests,'… pic.twitter.com/68bJy1F9jo
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023