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Recently Claudine Gay resigned as President of Harvard over plagiarism accusations and a fumbled Congressional testimony on anti-Semitism.
The plagiarism was discovered by conservative journalists Chris Rufo and Chris Brunet. It would be quite a coincidence for them to find it at exactly the moment Gay was already under attack for her anti-Semitism testimony. More likely, they either:
Found it a while ago, and kept it in reserve for a time when Gay was in the news
Or were angry about Gay's testimony, looked for dirt on her, and found it.
I think this is obvious to everyone, but I hadn't seen anyone make it explicit, and I think it should be.
I'm not criticizing Rufo and Brunet. Investigative journalism is important, they found a real scandal, and they have every right to bring it to light.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/seems-like-targeting
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I.
Recently Claudine Gay resigned as President of Harvard over plagiarism accusations and a fumbled Congressional testimony on anti-Semitism.
The plagiarism was discovered by conservative journalists Chris Rufo and Chris Brunet. It would be quite a coincidence for them to find it at exactly the moment Gay was already under attack for her anti-Semitism testimony. More likely, they either:
Found it a while ago, and kept it in reserve for a time when Gay was in the news
Or were angry about Gay's testimony, looked for dirt on her, and found it.
I think this is obvious to everyone, but I hadn't seen anyone make it explicit, and I think it should be.
I'm not criticizing Rufo and Brunet. Investigative journalism is important, they found a real scandal, and they have every right to bring it to light.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/seems-like-targeting

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