"Its only plagiarism if its a Black woman doing the writing, otherwise its just sparkling not-so-serious oopsies"
Bill Ackman, 2024.
Is he the President of a university? Was this a dissertation or published research? Hegseth is awful in myriad ways, but the Bluesky crowd that pooh-poohed academic plagiarism should sit this out.
Did you bring this level of energy for Nexi Oxman's PhD thesis and argue for her also to quit/be fired, or do you only believe it matters when its Claudine Gay?
Do you have any principles at all, or just race-bait? Oxman's only "job" in recent years is being Mrs. Ackman. If she were still a professor when her plagiarism was discovered, get rid of her too.
May 11, 2025 01:38If you're trying to claim that the standard is consistent, I think you're being disingenuous. He's a cabinet-level appointee. Based on this alone, he should be gone.
He should be gone because of Signalgate, because he has no serious qualifications, because he drove a non-profit into the ground, because he had to settle a sexual assault case and because he's been drunk at work, even at Fox. No one who ignores all this is going to care about a senior thesis.
That’s the point. A Black woman is hounded from her job for doing so much less, but a white guy can be incompetent *and* cheat, and no one’s calling for his head. What Black government official—male or female—could get away with that? If you don’t see race playing into it, there’s nothing I can add.
She kept her job as a Harvard professor, just lost the admin position. She got off easy, given professional failings. Since when does anyone care about the undergrad writings of politicians of any race or sex? Not comparable. Hegseth would not be in his job under any other president.
Is he the President of a university? Was this a dissertation or published research? Hegseth is awful in myriad ways, but the Bluesky crowd that pooh-poohed academic plagiarism should sit this out.
