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submitted 10 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/news@lemmy.world

Ackman has been a vocal critic of Harvard’s recently resigned president, Claudine Gay, over allegations of plagiarism and her handling of antisemitism on campus.

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[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

are we really pretending to care about plagarism this much? is it really worth our time to see if someone copy pasted something rather than pointlessly reword it and lose fidelity?

"...four paragraphs in my 330-page PhD dissertation: ‘Material-based Design Computation’......I omitted quotation marks for certain work that I used....For each of the four paragraphs in question, I properly credited the original source’s author(s) with references at the end of each of the subject paragraphs, and in the detailed bibliography end pages of the dissertation." The examples posted by Business Insider showed Oxman’s explanation as true in three examples of the alleged plagiarism.

However, it also showed an example in which she appeared to paraphrase an author without a parenthetical citation or quotes and another passage in which she allegedly inaccurately attributed a passage from the Royal Society of London paper to two different sources.

oh my god who the hell cares

[-] undercrust@lemmy.ca 74 points 10 months ago

The point is that Bill Ackman made a big public whiny piss and moan about Claudine Gay's plagiarism, which as it turns out is pretty much identical to the type of plagiarism his wife has now been found guilty of performing.

It's all very dumb, but now it's funny because he's made a valid case why his own wife should immediately be fired and her PhD dissertation put under review.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 39 points 10 months ago

Yup. He wants forgiveness for his wife 'cause she's human and makes mistakes, yet is still roasting Gay over the bonfire.

Fuck him and his wife.

While Ackman didn’t back down from his scrutiny of Gay — going so far as to say she should not remain as a faculty member due to her “serious plagiarism issues” — he defended his wife Thursday in a post on X, saying “part of what makes her human is that she makes mistakes.”

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

what makes her human

His wife gets to be human and make mistakes because she’s his wife and not Black. Gay fits neither of these criteria and thus…

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

Racists don't know any other way. 🙄

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Wow, it's almost as though his problem with Claudine Gay had nothing to do with plagiarism.

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