{"id":2139715,"date":"2024-01-03T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T21:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-blame-claudine-gays-lack-of-ethical-standards-on-the-conservatives-who-pointed-it-out\/"},"modified":"2024-01-03T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T21:17:11","slug":"media-blame-claudine-gays-lack-of-ethical-standards-on-the-conservatives-who-pointed-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-blame-claudine-gays-lack-of-ethical-standards-on-the-conservatives-who-pointed-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives blamed for exposing Claudine Gay&#8217;s ethical shortcomings in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-blame-claudine-gays-lack-of-ethical-standards-on-the-conservatives-who-pointed-it-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2139715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Leftists \u2064and the Media Blame Conservatives for \u200dHarvard President&#8217;s Resignation<\/h2>\n<p>Leftists\u200b and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-az-gubernatorial-candidate-kari-lake-wrecks-cnn-you-really-need-to-put-down-the-crackpipe\/\" title=\"WATCH: AZ Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake WRECKS CNN: \u201cYou Really Need To Put Down The Crackpipe\u201d\">corporate media allies<\/a> are blaming conservatives for the ouster of former Harvard\u2064 president and apparent plagiarist Claudine Gay, who formally resigned from her job Tuesday after being accused of nearly 50 instances of plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press ran an op-ed Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harvard-president-plagiarism-claudine-gay-3b048da1f2ee17b5edec3680b5828e8f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaining<\/a> that Gay\u2019s \u201cresignation highlights\u2064 [a] new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.\u201d The problem, according to AP authors Collin Binkley and\u2064 Moriah Balingit, isn\u2019t that Gay pirated the \u2062work of other educators to \u2064climb the academic ladder, but that conservatives \u2063\u201czeroed in\u201d on Gay in a \u201ccoordinated campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Plagiarism Excuses and the Danger \u200bof \u2062Academic Incompetence<\/h3>\n<p>Binkley \u2063and Balingit go on to cite Trinity College historian Davarian Baldwin, who\u2062 makes \u2062the \u2064argument that \u200bplagiarism in certain fields of study is somehow not plagiarism. \u201cIn \u200bhighly specialized\u200c fields, scholars often use similar language to describe\u200c the same concepts,\u201d write Binkley \u200dand Balingit, paraphrasing Baldwin. \u201cGay clearly\u2062 made mistakes, [Baldwin] \u2063 said, but with the spread of software designed to detect plagiarism, \u200dit wouldn\u2019t be hard to find similar overlap in\u200b works by other presidents and professors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing\u200d Baldwin, \u2063Binkley and Balingit add that this plagiarism \u201ctool\u201d can become\u200c \u201cdangerous\u201d if it \u201cfalls\u200b into the hands of those who argue\u2063 that academia \u2062in general is a cesspool of\u200c incompetence and bad actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the\u2064 AP. Politico\u200b ran a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/politico\/status\/1742366356450816150?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> about \u201cthe right\u2019s\u200c coordinated campaign that helped engineer the departure\u200b of the head of the most influential university in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an \u200dMSNBC\u200d interview, The New York \u200cTimes\u2019 Mara Gay <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1742545491764593077?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> the disgraced Harvard president\u2019s downfall is a \u201cattack on academic\u2064 freedom,\u201d \u201cdiversity,\u201d and \u201cmulticulturalism.\u201d She added that \u201cyou can hear and see the racism\u201d in criticisms of\u200b Gay, since \u201cwomen of color\u201d are \u2062easy targets.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Downplaying Plagiarism and the Culture Wars<\/h3>\n<p>New York Magazine journalist Jonathan Chait <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zMun2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> \u2062 a piece downplaying Gay\u2019s malpractice as \u201cmorally insignificant\u201d and \u201cpicayune\u201d instances of \u201clow-level plagiarism,\u201d which weren\u2019t so bad because \u201cshe could have fixed them easily.\u201d He characterized her\u200d ouster \u2062not as a symbol \u200cof \u2063the decline\u200c of higher education, but as \u201ca symbol in the culture wars\u201d\u200b and\u2063 \u201chand[ing] a \u200bvictory\u2062 to the braying mob.\u201d\u200b The BBC also ran an<strong> <\/strong>article blaming \u2062Gay\u2019s departure on the \u201ccultural wars,\u201d \u2064but promptly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1742582815420817566?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deleted<\/a> it on X after numerous community notes corrected the\u200c record, writing that Gay \u200dresigned\u200d because\u200b of plagiarism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In his article, Chait\u200d placed blame on Christopher Rufo, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youngkin-cleans-house-at-state-diversity-office\/\" title=\"Youngkin Cleans House At State Diversity Office\">education reform activist<\/a>\u2063 who has been one of Gay\u2019s greatest critics, claiming Rufo \u2064\u201cattacks targets that maintain\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-omar-act-seeks-to-stop-lawmakers-from-enriching-spouses\/\" title=\"Republicans\u2019 \u2018OMAR Act\u2019 Seeks To Stop Lawmakers From Enriching Spouses\">high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-already-having-to-deal-with-ethical-headache-created-by-kamala-harris-niece-report\/\" title=\"White House Already Having To Deal With \u2018Ethical Headache\u2019 Created By Kamala Harris\u2019 Niece: Report\">ethical standards<\/a><\/a>, which he himself doesn\u2019t care about at all, forcing [institutions] to choose \u2062between maintaining\u200b their standards and resisting his nakedly political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federalist Senior Editor John Davison responded to\u2062 Chait by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/johnddavidson\/status\/1742372308592054564?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointing<\/a> out that, \u201cIf Claudine Gay had high ethical standards \u2063she wouldn\u2019t \u200bhave plagiarized,\u2063 hence there \u2063would \u200cbe\u2063 nothing for \u2063 [Chris Rufo] to expose. It\u2019s not a \u2018trap,\u2019 it\u2019s sunlight, and the \u200dinstitutional left hates \u200dit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/03\/claudine-gays-resignation-from-harvard-isnt-the-victory-the-right-thinks-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Claudine Gay\u2019s Resignation From Harvard Isn\u2019t \u200cThe Victory The Right\u200d Thinks It Is<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Left&#8217;s\u200c Hypocrisy \u2064and Rejection of Ethical Standards<\/h3>\n<p>The left\u2019s backward \u200creaction to Claudine Gay\u2019s resignation is not hard to understand. A foundational concept in Marxist thought is the idea that \u201cthe ends justify the\u200c means.\u201d Gay\u2019s rise to Harvard\u2019s\u2064 top post furthered the ends\u200d of racial \u200cidentity politics, so\u2063 the shortcuts\u2064 she used to get there are happily excused.<\/p>\n<p>The Claudine Gay \u200bscandal does not symbolize conservative-led \u201cculture wars\u201d or racism. It is an\u200b example of how leftists \u2062reject their self-proclaimed \u201chigh ethical standards\u201d the moment those standards are inconvenient for \u200bthem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"> <\/p>\n<h2> Why should plagiarism be condemned and addressed regardless of the political affiliation of the perpetrator?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \/article\/1081\/leftists-media-blame-conservatives-harvard-president-resignation&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener noreferrer&#8221;>deleted it<\/a> after\u2063 facing \u2064backlash for their biased reporting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What is clear from these reactions\u2062 is the attempt\u200b to shift blame from the individual responsible for the plagiarism to conservatives who\u2062 dared\u2064 to hold her accountable. This is a dangerous game that undermines the principles of honesty, integrity, and \u2063intellectual rigor that are the foundation of academia.<\/p>\n<p>Plagiarism is a serious offense that undermines the credibility\u2063 of the academic world. It is a form of\u200d theft\u200b that violates the principles \u2062of originality and intellectual\u200d honesty. It is not a matter of political ideology or a &#8220;conservative weapon,&#8221; as The Associated Press claims. Plagiarism should be condemned and addressed regardless of the political affiliation\u200d of the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>The attempt to downplay and excuse Gay&#8217;s plagiarism \u200bby \u2064suggesting that it is\u2062 accepted in certain fields of\u2062 study is troubling. It sends a message that integrity and originality are not valued in those fields, which undermines the scholarly pursuit of knowledge. Plagiarism should \u2062never be tolerated, regardless of the academic discipline.<\/p>\n<p>The claim that the criticism of Gay\u200d is part of a coordinated conservative campaign is another baseless accusation aimed at \u2062deflecting responsibility. Holding individuals \u200daccountable for their actions is not a coordinated attack; \u2064it is a basic principle of accountability.\u2064 The fact that conservatives drew attention to Gay&#8217;s plagiarism should not be interpreted as an attack on academia, but \u2064rather as a defense of academic integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation that the criticism of Gay is racially motivated is another attempt to\u200b silence legitimate concerns. Accusing critics of racism without any evidence\u2063 undermines the fight against real racism and\u200b distracts\u200d from the issue at hand &#8211; the violation of academic integrity. It is\u200c misguided and \u2063unfair to dismiss valid criticisms as racially motivated simply because the person being criticized is a woman of \u2063color.<\/p>\n<p>The media&#8217;s attempt\u2064 to\u200c frame the resignation of Claudine \u200bGay as a victory for conservatives in the culture wars is a disservice to\u200c the pursuit of truth and \u200bintellectual honesty. \u200dThis case should not be reduced to a political battle; it is about \u200dthe\u200c fundamental values of academia and the importance of upholding\u2062 those values.\u2062 The resignation of Gay should serve as a reminder of the need for integrity and accountability in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>Plagiarism should be taken seriously, and\u2062 those who commit it should face \u200bconsequences. Blaming conservatives for holding a plagiarist accountable is \u2062a misguided attempt to deflect responsibility. It is essential to address plagiarism and uphold academic integrity, regardless of\u2064 political ideology. The focus should be on\u2063 maintaining the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and intellectual rigor in academia.\u200c Only by doing so can we \u200densure \u2063that our institutions of higher education remain beacons of knowledge and \u2063scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftists and corporate media blame conservatives for the resignation of ex-Harvard president Claudine Gay, accused of almost 50 plagiarism instances. 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