On Tuesday's MSNBC broadcast of “Alex Wagner Tonight,” guest host Ali Velshi said that outgoing Harvard University President Claudine Gay's resignation was “an attempt by Chris to bend academia to his own ideological mission.”・It's a story about villains like Rufo.'' And by reporting on Gaye's “instances of inappropriate citations, which at worst are not plagiarism,” the mainstream media has made Rufo's “first black person to head the nation's oldest institution of higher education” Supported the Women's Movement. It makes me think. ”
Velshi said, “[N]Now, today we see the impact of Rufo's latest movement, the movement's impact on Harvard University President Claudine Gay, the first black woman to serve as president of the nation's oldest institution of higher learning.Last month, Rufo tweeted“We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the right. The next step was to smuggle it into the left-wing media apparatus to center-left actors with the power to bring her down.” Justify that story. Then narrow it down.'' In the past few weeks, allegations that Harvard University's president plagiarized academic research have had exactly what Rufo expected. Rufo's Blog , to the pages of conservative publications, and then to mainstream publications such as: new york times. Now, Harvard University itself has investigated the allegations and found the citation to be inappropriate at worst. However, these are not the things that are associated with the word plagiarism. Gay didn't steal anyone's ideas, nor did he present someone else's ideas as his own. Nevertheless, today Claudine Gay resigned anyway. There's a lot going on in the story of Claudine Gay's resignation. Was it easier for her conservatives to kick her out because she was a woman? Was it easier because she was black? Probably all of the above. But this is also the story of villains like Chris Rufo who seek to bend academia to their own ideological mission. ”
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