{"id":86743,"date":"2024-01-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86743"},"modified":"2024-01-03T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T16:55:47","slug":"lets-not-forget-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86743","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Not Forget&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;who the <em>real <\/em>victim in the Claudine Gay flap at Harvard (according to the university&#8217;s governing &#8220;Corportation&#8221;) actually is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s Claudine Gay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Harvard governing board which tried to avoid resignation: &quot;We do so with sorrow. While President Gay has acknowledged missteps and has taken responsibility for them, it is also true that she has shown remarkable resilience in the face of deeply personal and sustained attacks.&quot;<\/p>&mdash; HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HowardKurtz\/status\/1742259929660969305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And she&#8217;d have gotten away with it, if it wasn&#8217;t for those darn meddling pouncing <em>conservativesI&#8221;!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while Gay is gone, let&#8217;s remember that it&#8217;s not for the reason she <em>should <\/em>have been tossed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Remember. President Gay lost her job because of the mounting evidence of plagiarism, and not because she couldn&#39;t answer a simple question in front of Congress about calls for Jewish genocide.<br><br>Antisemitism at Harvard is still less important than quotation marks and footnotes.<\/p>&mdash; Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joelmpetlin\/status\/1742252366215221479?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s the real atrocity, here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:   The &#8220;community&#8221; is speaking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Harvard president&#39;s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GiVkT3LgUo\">https:\/\/t.co\/GiVkT3LgUo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1742455903264129474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My question:  Is the AP proverbially &#8220;saying the quiet part out loud&#8221; &#8211; is plagiarism the new norm among &#8220;elite academics&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;who the real victim in the Claudine Gay flap at Harvard (according to the university&#8217;s governing &#8220;Corportation&#8221;) actually is. It&#8217;s Claudine Gay: &#8220;And she&#8217;d have gotten away with it, if it wasn&#8217;t for those darn meddling pouncing conservativesI&#8221;! And while Gay is gone, let&#8217;s remember that it&#8217;s not for the reason she should have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,10,458,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-education","category-gaza-2023","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86748,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86743\/revisions\/86748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}