The chief diversity officer of Columbia University's medical school, Alade McKen, plagiarized extensively in his doctoral dissertation, lifting huge chunks of material without attribution

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[–]JulienMayfair 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

As a former academic, I'm not surprised. I'm just glad these people are finally being exposed for what we've all known they were doing for years.

All they do is regurgitate the same ideology. We should hardly be shocked that they have no original contributions to make to the sum total of human knowledge. They were never trained to be critical thinkers; they were trained to promulgate a very specific set of ideas to go along with the color of their skin. They were indoctrinated and passed along through a system, the same system that then gave them jobs.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It’s terrifying how they have managed to infiltrate the highest levels of the academy, government and are in positions where they have real power over public policy. If it’s happening in the US, it is almost certainly happening elsewhere in the Anglosphere, and I hope there are efforts made to root them out too.

I don’t care what their skin colour is, I care that it appears that a fifth column is at work within our trusted institutions and they’re causing actual damage to those institutions and destroying trust in those institutions.

[–]JulienMayfair 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

how they have managed to infiltrate the highest levels of the academy

That's where they originated . . .

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, but they came from the shittiest faculties and have spread throughout the serious faculties and administration like a toenail fungus.

[–]JulienMayfair 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

shittiest faculties

CRT originated at Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

well it's not like there's any primary research to be done or new interpretations to defend! they just need their sophomore versions of Judith Butler and Peggy McIntosh and Derrick Bell and just snowball them around between each other for all eternity

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Everyone plagiarizes now it seems. Maybe they always did but these woke people pissed off "toxic males" so they combed over their writings and compared it to others. Lesson learned.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Probably always- if you're in college, there's always going to be at least one paper you mail it in and just reword some things in the reference. I'm sure the people combed over could be found to do it too if someone tried.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

These aren’t undergraduate papers. These are postgraduate dissertations. Plagiarism on a paper for an UG course is bad, but in a PG dissertation that is the entire basis for the awarding of your advanced/postgrad degree including PhDs is next level and should be grounds for immediate termination.

The fact that it seems to be so rife in the softer academic subjects is interesting, the intellectual toll is already lower than in the hard sciences/philosophy/economics/etc and plagiarism is just an admission that you lack the intellectual ability.

Hopefully the plagiarism-pogrom continues and takes many more scalps.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It makes sense to me why it's so rife in these diversity-based subjects, to be honest: facts don't care about your feelings, and "you can only use peer-reviewed sources as references" doesn't care about that one person who tweeted how it made them feel sad when a person called them Danganronpaself with one flag but they totally felt Danganronpaself with this other flag at that second.

The fewer peer-reviewed sources you can use, the easier it is to plagiarize.

[–]Jiminy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah but just one they might get away with but these wokes plagiarized every single paper they did. Hard to imagine how they got away with it but they were allowed to for woke reasons.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

One of the plagiarized authors is Kwayera Archer-Cunningham, a "change agent" and "well-being coach" who offers courses on "decoloniality."

McKen also lifts a jargon-filled passage from LaGarrett King, a scholar of black education at the University of Buffalo who urges the "dismantling" of "white epistemic logic." King is not cited anywhere in the dissertation.

They'll even steal from their fellow travelers :D.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And I guarantee that lagarrett king didn't write it, he plagiarized it from a white or Jewish woke person. Black people are all illiterate

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

MLK plagarized. It's a nigra thang dog.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They mentioned Claudine Gay but these examples are so much worse. As i understand, her plagiarism was largely about background information with the citation present but not putting quotes on the material. This stuff is just page after page of copy paste. What happened to their thesis committee? Is there no thesis defense in these subjects?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is there no thesis defense in these subjects?

I think there is a problem throughout the soft subjects, the academics are all doing some form of con, either publishing nonsense, plagiarising or some combination of both. The last thing they want is for scrutiny from outside which will blow the whole scam wide open. So they wave through these dissertations and theses hoping that by not making waves they will continue in their cushy job for life.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it's clear that these high ranking people only care about the piece of paper so they can apply for jobs as "director of" whatever. I'm just surprised because I'm used to all my friends having defended a thesis in a science field. No clue what actually goes on in sociology fields. I know some people can graduate with an exam instead but these cases are all describing their thesis papers.