Dr. Carol M. Swain has responded to alleged documentation obtained by writer and political activist Christopher Rufo accusing Harvard University President Claudine Gay of plagiarizing “multiple sections” of her Ph.D. thesis from 1997.
EXCLUSIVE: @RealChrisBrunet and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic integrity.
This is a bombshell. 🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023
Rufo, through a thread posted on X Sunday afternoon, displayed photos of Gay’s 1997 thesis next to the material Rufo asserts she used without attribution.
Rufo accuses Gay of plagiarizing her thesis by pulling material written by scholar Swain as well as material written by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam, Richard Shingles, Susan Howell, and Deborah Fagan.
Rufo said Gay’s plagiarism is a violation of Harvard’s policy and called on her to resign.
“Gay’s use of Swain’s material is a straightforward violation of the university’s rules, which state that one “must give credit to the author of the source material, either by placing the source material in quotation marks and providing a clear citation, or by paraphrasing the source material and providing a clear citation”— neither of which Gay followed,” Rufo wrote on X.
“I earned a master’s degree from Harvard’s night school — not nearly as prestigious as the graduate school — but, if I had committed these kinds of violations, I would have been expelled. As an alumnus, I am calling on Claudine Gay to immediately resign from her position,” Rufo added.
Harvard’s policy on Plagiarism and Collaboration reads as follows:
It is expected that all homework assignments, projects, lab reports, papers, theses, and examinations and any other work submitted for academic credit will be the student’s own.
Students who, for whatever reason, submit work either not their own or without clear attribution to its sources will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College. Students who have been found responsible for any violation of these standards will not be permitted to submit course evaluation of the course in which the infraction occurred.
Swain responded to Rufo’s thread on Gay’s thesis, writing on X, “I just learned of @realchrisrufo analysis of #ClaudineGay’s work and the allegations of plagiarism. I have not read the articles or books in question. However, two things come to mind: imitation is said to be the highest form of flattery and secondly Dr. Gay’s committee, reviewers, and colleagues should have caught these transgressions. I will issue a statement after I have more information. Right now it seem like she is a victim of the “Adversity of Diversity.””
I just learned of @realchrisrufo analysis of #ClaudineGay’s work and the allegations of plagiarism. I have not read the articles or books in question. However, two things come to mind: imitation is said to be the highest form of flattery and secondly Dr. Gay’s committee,… pic.twitter.com/CBkQdLx8e9
— Dr. Carol M. Swain (@carolmswain) December 11, 2023
When asked by one X user if she can “sue,” Swain responded, “I will not sue. I don’t blame her. I blame the system that elevated her and never checked the work.
Swain added in another post that Gay “would not be the first one” to use her work and sell it as their own.
“The practice among some academics white and black has been to use my work and never cite me,” Swain said.
A respected scholar who has served as a tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt, Swain is the author of The Adversity of Diversity, a critique of DEI policies.
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Dr. Carol Swain will have a place in the next administration.
payoffs of a diversity hire.
surprised she plagiarised from a conservative.
This is just one BIG example of DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION, a Marxist Ideology. It’s nothing more than a method to destroy historical Amerucan institutions & create very dangerous life threatening situations in America. THE US MILITARY is the Most Frightening Example today. And We Taxpayers are Paying for this Destructve Transformation. Its the pathway to destroy Capitalism, Democracy & Meritocracy.
ESG…… Environmental, Social & Governmental is another Marxist method of destroying Capitalism. It is a credit system which grades businesses with scores that affect their ability to get credit through global financial institutions. Larry Flint (BLACKROCK) has been the leader of this destructive system. I DONT SEE CONGRESS CALLING HIM IN FOR QUESTIONS UNDER OATH.
CALL YOUR US HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES & TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON THE NDAA ( NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT) it is full of Destructive Unconstitutional Weapons against this country. Our Constitutional Obligation as US CITIZENS is to let our Congress know we are watching, that we know this country is broke. Our Debt is $34 TRILLION DOLLARS. WE ARE BROKE. This will only decrease the value of the Dollar, which makes all of us POORER.
THE LEFT wants to give Ukraine Billions to protect their border, ampngbother things like salaries & pensions, but they won’t protect our border. WHAT? ARE WE CRAZY,? The complicit media will not tell the truth about Zelensky & his corrupt country. Zelensky is a vicious Dictator. Why does our President want to keep sending him Billions? Is he being Blackmailed or is the Big Guy getting his 10 % cut?
Joe Biden is inviting dangerous people to invade this country, Crossing our border illwgally. Not all are coming to get work. As an example, 34K Chinese Nationals all men have crossed our border, & no one knows where they are. DO YOU THINK CHINA (THE CCP) WOULD JUST LET 34K MEN LEAVE THE COUNTRY. WITHOUT A GOAL FOR THEM TO DO SOMETHiNG NEFARIOUS? They are already killing 100,000 Americans a year with FENTYNAL. Our President is doing nothing about it. It’s like he doesn’t even know. IS HE COMPROMISED? Or does he get a 10% cut of the profit? He allowed China to survey our military institutions by a balloon without a word. We know China has bought land close to our Military bases. Yet there has been no questions asked of this President by the corrupt media.
I know I’ve gone off the topic, but it is all related. It is a coordinated effort by some in our own country & their globalist partners to bring the US down. Once the US is down, the rest of the world will follow very quickly.
THE TIME IS NOW OR NEVER. YOU MUST NOT SIT BACK & SAY NOTHING. OUR FOUNDERS & WARRIORS RISKED IT ALL TO KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING IN AMERICA. ITS TIME FOR A REVOLUTION BY PATRIOTS. ITS SCARY. WE ALL SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO THE J6ERS. OUR GOVERNMENT IS OUR ENEMY. We can either choose Freedom or Serfdom.
Universities like Vanderbilt Medical School as an example. Medical students & instructors will now be selected based on skin color & ethnic & sexual orientation rather than entrance scores, etc. I don’t know who will be paying for these unqualified students to attend VMU, but coupled with instructors being employed based on DEI, the quality of training will be diminished & outcomes will be destructive to our Healthcare institutions. Obama care started the downfall of quality healthcare. DEI will finish it off. The Vanderbilt University Board holds a fiduciary liability to provide the best training, research, & delivery of the best Healthcare possible to this City, State, & Country. “DO NO HARM” is not the Standard any longer.
This was proven when it was discovered that Vanderbilt Hospital was performing Sexual Mutiation Surgeries on Minors. It doesn’t matter whether the parents sign a Permission Slip for Health Experts to perform these surgeries & chemical sterilization procedures on minors. These Experts know they are selling a lie to the parents & the general public. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE ONE’S SEX, JUST LIKE ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE ONE’S SKIN COLOR OR AGE. IT IS FRAUD & CHILD ABUSE, & SHOULD BE CRIMINAL.
DEI goes farther than this. Hospital Staff & Patients will be selected on DEI measures as well. THINK ABOUT THAT. THIS IS SIMPLY RACISM.
Yet it is occuring in every profession. The Education Systems are infected as we saw displayed in a Congressional hearing last week. The answers to questions by three Elite Universty Presidents, were eerily the same. As if they had the same Lawyer coach them on a response. They looked like incompetent idiots. The Airlines pilots & controllers are infected as well.
These are examples of just a small sample of what is taking place, and it is time for this to STOP.
I actually spend a lot of time researching companies that I purchase commodities with from Vitamins to Clothing. You can google a company, which may just be a part of a huge global giant if companies under one Parent Company. If you look at their MISSION STATENENTS you can usually eventually get to their REAL AGENDA. DEI & Globalism is the mission. I avoid supporting their agenda & purchase from another company that’s not controlled by DEI & ESG credit system.
Carol Swain is a strong conservative.
Most of the cognoscenti assume this was a DEI hire. When you start putting anyone other than the best qualified person in a job, it eventually comes back to haunt you.