
Not a few people have noted that the impressive speed with which Black Harvard President Claudine Gay’s academic reputation has been nuked since she irritated the Israel Lobby. Being able to produce all this obscure information so quickly strongly suggests it had been stockpiled.
Which in turn raises the question: upon who else have files been compiled?
Turning away from this rather daunting topic to something else: how was it that no one at Harvard noticed that Claudine Gay [Email her], was a lightweight?
This was not difficult to spot as John Derbyshire discussed in Give ‘Em An Inch, They Take A (Harvard) Yard
…it’s Harvard. This President Claudine Gay must be quite a scholar to have been made president of the place, right?
Apparently not. Digging through her published research, reporters were surprised at how few of them there were—just eleven peer-reviewed articles. They also couldn’t help noticing big slabs of prose lifted from other scholars’ work without attribution…
What is her field, by the way? Comp-Sci? Physics? Anthropology? History? Did her dissertation give us a possible new way to get to quantum computing or cheap fusion energy?…
Er, no.
He summarized:
President Gay is, in other words, just another Affirmative-Action mediocrity, wafted up into the academic stratosphere on thermals of white ethnomasochism.
Derbyshire is positively kind compared to Claudine Gay, Plagiarist, Eugyppius.com, December 15, 2023. This is a devastating, first class polemic.
Claudine Gay is a pseudointellectual who specialises in being a Diverse Black Female Academic…Because Gay’s importance derives entirely from being a Diverse Black Female Academic, she is an underqualified mediocrity, and she has never published anything interesting. In fact, relative to the average tenured Harvard professor, she has never published much of anything at all.
Eugyppius [Tweet him] suggests there are two types of plagiarism:
Type 1 plagiarism reflects an anxiety about the project of composing competent prose and an inability to command the tone and terminology that journals and dissertation evaluators expect. I guess that if you are so intellectually under-equipped that you can’t differentiate between what is standard terminology and what are the original words of your peers, you could accidentally plagiarise, but being this incompetent is hardly an exoneration…
Gay definitely seems guilty of Type 1 plagiarism.
The Washington Free Beacon‘s Aaron Sibarium provides this graphic example of Type 1 word theft:
Gay’s 1993 essay, "Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations," lifts sentences and historical details from two scholars, David Covin and George Reid Andrews, with just a few words dropped or modified. Covin is not cited anywhere in the essay. pic.twitter.com/lFofsT4yAO
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) December 11, 2023
Further,
Type 2 plagiarism, which consists not of petty word theft but of the broader appropriation of others’ theses and ideas, is much more insidious.
Eugyppius notes Vanderbilt Professor Carol Swain (who is black) has accused Gay of precisely this: “A White Male Would Probably Already Be Gone” by Christoper Rufo, ChristopherRufo.com, December 11, 2023
Swain: When I look at her work, I feel like her whole research agenda, her whole career, was based on my work. It bothers me because I know that my work was a big deal in the early 1990s…I would say in particular about the articles that she published that went through reviewers and the people on her committee, I would’ve thought they would have noticed she was doing research that was building on my work…
I don’t believe her record warranted tenure, and I believe that I had to meet a much higher standard than she did…White progressives have always rewarded the blacks who supported their ideas. Someone more mainstream, like me, could never be rewarded in the same way.
VDARE.com has pleasant memories of Carol Swain’s courage and courtesy some 15 years ago.
Eugyppius concludes:
Gay is an obvious, blatant incompetent…If she wants to stay in education, she should resign and find a job teaching in obscurity at an elementary school somewhere.
Clearly, Claudine Gay is a weak reed, even by the standards of her Affirmative Action peers. Why did Harvard choose her in particular?
I believe the answer probably lies in one of the late J. Philippe Rushton’s most valuable VDARE.com essays: Solving The African IQ Conundrum: “Winning Personality” Masks Low Scores.
Rushton noted that average black African IQ appears to be 70 as
reported by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen in their path-breaking book IQ and the Wealth of Nations.
and even that the average for black students at the prestigious University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa was only 84 over a 6-year study period.
However
A typical academic story comes from professors who, on first exposure to African students, express their delight in the high levels of classroom performance. The students are described as engaged, offering lively opinions, and giving a clear impression of brightness. Only when the students took objectively measured essay or multiple-choice examinations did it become painfully obvious to even the most well-wishing faculty members that their grasp of abstract material failed to live up to their classroom rhetoric.
Rushton, one of the all-time great academic bomb-throwers, summarizes
What I am suggesting then, is that Blacks have a self-assured “bright” talkative, personality, which leads many people to over-estimate their abstract reasoning ability.
Like any other group, Whites look upon themselves as the norm. Whites tend not to speak up if they don’t know the answer to a question. Nor do they like to intrude on the privacy of others. They erroneously assume that, because Africans are talkative, they must know what they are talking about.
Looks like the Harvard Corporation got snowed by (no doubt) an exceptionally fluent talker.
And that they overlooked the extraordinary black propensity for larceny (and other crimes).
Email Patrick Cleburne.
Apparently most whites still haven’t figured out that simians have never been that intelligent. If it looks like an ape it probably is one. But whites still love them though–throngs of white females reproduce with these monkey-headed morons & millions of white men fill up sports stadiums with the name of their favorite simian on their jerseys, cheering for these pithecoid born criminals.
Harvard made such a big deal about their first, black woman president, it would be humiliating for the school to let her go in ignominy. Rather, they’ll have to find some cover story for her exit, like the Biden administration appoints her as an ambassador to some obscure country. Kamala Harris is a similar situation. They bring these people on board to score a few points for diversity and inclusion, but then they are stuck with under qualified people
She has a small head.
A small head with a big pair of glasses.
Nothing quite screams Cretin louder than that combo. But seriously, the idea that she got the gig because of white ethnomasochism is just silly.
In first place, whites are a dwindling presence at Harvard, and not just Harvard. In the second place, whites as whites have no institutional power or cultural control anywhere in the world today, and certainly not at our teaching-learning institutions. Thirdly, the real owners of this country got away with murdering 3,000 people in one day in NYC a little over 22 years ago. So they’d have no problem installing a university president.
Of course she is a cheater, and unqualified buffoon. But what matters is the boxes she checks. As long as she is black then that’s all that matters. The women part is a cherry on top. If she were a White male her story of plagerism would be on the nightly MSM until he was fired in disgrace. Being a stupid cheating nigger gives her exception to all rules.
She looks quite manly, or lesbo (certainly ugly), but is married to a white man.
He should hang himself.
Funny thing is that if Claudine Gay had taken a pro-Zionist stance in this Israeli slaughter/genocide of Palestinians then no doubt VDare, Jared Taylor, et al., wouldn’t be targeting her. Kind of like how at supposedly grassroots mainstream conservative Free Republic (in reality now fully Zionist-controlled) they are now championing Sen. John Fetterman as ‘red pilled’ (primarily because he went all in with Israel and draped himself with the Israeli flag at a rally and is now critical of a Chinese ownership of a factory* near him in Pennsylvania).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4204374/posts
I have nothing in common with and have nothing but contempt for VDare, Jared Taylor, and the rest of the WN Zionists and philo-Semites.
* but Fetterman would never touch the subject of Israel owning and controlling large parts of our telecommunications infrastructure, etc.
How dumb ya gotta be to plagiarize subjective racial discourse?
What is all the fuss about? We have a wholesale plagiarist in the White House. Who cares about some academic diversity hire? Aren’t they all?
This should be a dog bites man story?
The people pushing the anti-white agenda don’t care about black people so they don’t feel a need to select a black person who is a positive icon. These people are anti-white but are not pro-black. From that perspective they may intentionally select an obviously subpar candidate as a means to sneer at everyone. Obama and Harris are obvious examples.
Peanut head.
So the kikes no longer love this nigra because she supports Palestinians. That’s rayciss, Kikey.
VDARE was first in the field with Kevin MacDonald’s seminal essay Thinking About Neoconservatism
https://vdare.com/articles/thinking-about-neoconservatism in 2003 when no one else dared to say this. We have never wavered from this analyis.
VDARE was also unique in documenting the insidious and paradigmatic influence of Sheldon Adelson, generally extremely undereported:
https://vdare.com/posts/and-so-farewell-to-sheldon-adelson-zionist-activist-immigration-enthusiast-but-only-for-u-s-chinese-asset
VDARE commissioned https://vdare.com/articles/solving-the-african-iq-conundrum-winning-personality-masks-low-scores which is crucial to tempering the current Black worship.
I have nothing but contempt for those who sound off without being properly informed.
Maybe you guys were first hating on that scumbag Adelson, but you were charmingly naive calling him a Chinese asset. His casino blackmails the shit out of PRC officials. And if you think he does it for China, Where were you when he did the assassination scutwork on Assange for CIA?
Adelson’s the world’s most obvious CIA skin on the wall. Not noticing that gives VDARE a goobery Elmer Fudd vibe. Wasn’t anybody ever read in there?
What? Harvard got someone it deserved.
As far as academic credentials? No one expects a black woman to have those. So who can ever be surprised over it?
At her level, the university president level, it’s mostly about show, and money raising. As a black woman Gay has the show angle covered, however due to her inability to dodge questions very well the money part is now a bit complicated for her.
Yet when the rubber meets the road Jewish money lenders will back off because of the overall implications of running a black woman out of town. Not only that, but they got their pound of flesh with white Karen, Liz McGill, over at Penn.
Interesting thing at Penn–new interim is an Irishman. Evidently a legitimate intellect. If you surf over to their home page you can read about him, along with the college Kwanzaa celebration and the university’s commitment to diversity.
Oh yeah, and two researchers given the Nobel for their work on mRNA which Pfizer and Moderna used in their poisons… um…er… I mean vaccines. So much for intellect helping humanity. LOL
Another crucial point that Professor Rushton made is that when white people hear that black IQ is on the average around 70, they think that that cannot be right since people with an IQ of 70 look funny, and blacks don’t generally look funny. But once again they are using the norms of their own race, and indeed a white man with an IQ of 70 or lower may indeed have a characteristic look about him, he might indeed have other physical disabilities or disfigurements, because it is not normal for a white man to have such a low IQ, it is pathological. Blacks with an IQ of 70, OTOH, are not pathological, they are normal, healthy blacks, and look normal.
Oh, stupid me. Since I only know of VDare through Unz I could’ve sworn VDare was that publication who had those writers here at Unz who never, ever, address the JQ, e.g., Derbyshire, Jared Taylor, Steve Sailer, et al. But I must be thinking of another webzine.
I think she’s a great representation of Harvard’s success! Just like Joe Biden is a great representation of the country! Most of those protesters will probably be in Congress someday still carrying a flag for Palestine.
JFK, Obama and even Bush attended Harvard, although Bush went to the business school hmmm
Maybe if we hurry and change the flag, some of them may carry it.
Should read,
“JFK, Bush, and even Obama attended Harvard, although Bush went to the business school while Obama was AA’d through law school…never producing even one scholarly article despite being elected President of the Law Review.”
No “hmmm” needed.
Derby asks what her field was. Why,of course,raycizzum!!
They all spend their lives studying raycizzum.
The president of Harvard, the once-great American institution, is an unqualified diversity hire. This is demoralizing to the American people. Moreover, plagiarism destroys careers and is taken incredibly seriously at her level, yet Claudine Gay gets a free pass. It is a slap in the face to anyone who had to work hard to get to where they are
Bush went to law school elsewhere and Yale, before being dragged through Harvard.
JFK every Leftists favorite Martyr. hmmmm
Yale undergrad followed by HBS. No law school, although he considered U. of Texas Law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
QCIC….
You have touched on something that I have believed for quite some time…for I firmly believe one of the strong motivations of Leftists in power is the opportunity to poke the eye… give the middle finger to all who are their adversaries. It goes far beyond just winning the political day.
They are hateful, vengeful people.
{How Could Harvard Have Chosen A Dud Like President/Plagiarist Claudine Gay?}
Where have you been?
The presidents of the major institutions, including US presidency, are INSTALLED by the Jewish MONEY. Ackman, a zionist Donor, exposed the fact that Gay was installed to the job by Jewish money for the Jewish interest, but since Gay did not prevent students protest against Israel, then she should go. If the students were protesting on behalf of Israel, then EVERYTHING would have been good, but the students made a mistake supporting Palestinian people, like when the Palestinian people elected HAMAS as their leader in a free election 2006, then Israel/US, the enemy of humanity, did not accept it and they placed Hamas on ‘terrorist’ list.
The Jewish donor, Ackman, posting on social media content that implies Gay, who is the first Black woman to lead Harvard, was hired to fulfill diversity metrics.
So, Ackman, exposed the reason behind Gay’s hiring, ‘to fulfill diversity’. She was not hired due to her excellent academic and leadership background, but to fulfill diversity, to help the interest of the Jews and Israel against the interest of the Americans students and America.
How do you feel when the world population view Harvard president and US president NOT sovereign enough to be TRUSTED? How do you think about the beneficiary country, Israel, equipped with NUCLEAR WEAPONS who has not signed the NPT, yet is ordering other states, especially the regional countries, not to go nuclear, so Israel to keep the status quo to have a higher hands to bomb or assassinate at will where the US presidents have supported their dog for decades, because Israel is the extension of imperialism in the region. The evil British empire designed and implemented “Israel Project’ to have a foot in the region followed by the support of the evil American Empire for the zionist entity.
The countries in the West Asia must equip themselves with nuclear weapons against Israel, and the clowns in Washington should shut up and support others to have security against your dog, Israel.
What? She has gigantic Great Big Negro Genius Glasses.
Who needs something stoopid, like a credible CV?
About ‘never, ever, address the JQ’, Jared Taylor specifically answers this, or comments on this accusation, during his recent appearance on Milleniyule, which you can watch here — as I recall, it occurs later in the stream, as part of the superchats — he’s aware of the controversy — you might be interested to hear what he has to say — what I notice is that those who criticize Taylor for not talking about Jews seem to be wise to the JQ themselves, so they obviously got the word somehow — I like Taylor, and value his contributions to white identity and race realism — so I don’t resent him for not talking about Jews — there are many others who do that.
As for having ‘nothing in common with and have nothing but contempt for VDare, Jared Taylor, and the rest of the WN Zionists and philo-Semites’, regarding VDare I am generally sympathetic, but not because I see VDare as ‘philo-Semitic’ — you use ‘WN’, which I assume means White Nationalist — actually, a few years ago Brimelow sued the NYT for calling him a White Nationalist (he lost):
So Brimelow specifically repudiated the label White Nationalist — what is the point of his immigration activism if not to keep America majority white, which is the essence of White Nationalism? — instead of using the opportunity to make the case that there is nothing wrong, politically or morally, with White Nationalism, with wanting to preserve the demographic heritage of America as a majority white nation, Brimelow sued (and asked for donations to pay for it) — that was the last straw for me with VDare.
There is no ‘American People’ anymore. Don’t think like that. There’s just a mish-mash of competing interests grounded in demands stemming from a person’s actual sex, their perceived sex, their various sexual perversions, along with race, plus an admixture of variant ethnicities thrown in to the mix. To think that many of these folks are demoralized by Negro Boss Woman is not true. In fact, many are no doubt uplifted by her example.
I think one of the problems encountered among folks on the more ‘trad’ side of the fence is that they still think in terms that have no meaning in reality, anymore. You find it common among Vdare types pining for something they call the ‘Historic American Nation’. I mean, I get nostalgia and all that, but there comes a time in an adult’s life when they have to look around and come to grips with what has happened, and what is continuing to happen.
For anyone thinking in these now dysfunctional ways, using now meaningless terms that don’t describe anything extant, I know it’s a tough thing to confront… finding Angry Negro Woman heading Harvard and then wondering how that could ever be? But the issue was really decided in 1865, and by the time of the Great Society it was all but over.
So there is no benefit continuing to suppose that what we see at Harvard is something abnormal. In fact, it is now the norm. Look at any large entity doing business in Globohomo and it’s the same. And in any case, to suppose that Harvard is or ever could be the Harvard of Puritan John is to engage in magical thinking. Although it is kind of funny in an ironic way to think how the institution has been mostly taken over by the Jews he wanted to convert to his brand of Christianity. He’s lucky his statue is still on campus, and hasn’t been replaced by Saint Floyd of Fentanyl.
As far as demoralization? Like I said, it’s tough to face reality. But the mark of a well grounded psyche is to take what is the case, and then adapt. At this late stage, the only possible adaptation will be at the personal or individual level. Possibly at the family level–but that is not even assured anymore. The machine will not tolerate an open organization. Vdare is an example of that. Hell, Trump can’t even get on the ballot in Colorado, and he’s the ex-President. So ‘working within the system’ is not a realistic option.
In any case, don’t be demoralized over Negro Woman, or any of the other stuff. Once it all completely falls apart then those remaining can organize and make of it what they will. That day is most likely a ways off, but one can never predict the course of events with certainty. So in the meantime, try and take care of your family if you have one. Just remember when doing that, your castle might not be your home anymore. So adjust accordingly.
VDARE’s John Derbyshire committed the execrable sin of labelling the essential Kevin MacDonald as “the Marx of the anti-semites”, and to my knowledge has never retracted nor modified that philo-semitic faux pas.
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She wrote an article about race relations in Brazil, but her CV does not list Portuguese as one of her languages. For me, that’s almost as bad as the plagiarism. Did she even visit the country?
Actually, her CV doesn’t list any foreign languages. That’s pretty strange. Usually, people will list a language they took as an undergraduate, even though they are far from being fluent. They will say something like “some knowledge of French” or whatever language they took back then. Not to list anything is to acknowledge that one never took a class in a foreign language, and one expects better from a cosmopolitan place like Harvard.
The fact English is so widely taught and spoken as a second language around the world hinders development of language competence in the US — it’s a kind of linguistic chauvinism — so it doesn’t really surprise me.
I think it’s more important to note that her ‘work’ is junk academic nonsense — I’ve made several comments about this recently (some of them), and I don’t think people appreciate the seriousness and extent of the problem — some of the data is fairly startling: e.g. in the not too distant future, women will be 60% of college grads (this will further depress marriage and fertility rates as many of these women fail to find suitable husbands), and whereas in 1970 men outnumbered women in law school 10:1, today there are 25% more women (the potential damage female norms will do to the legal profession and the courts is significant).
Due to ‘women’s liberation’ or whatever, literally millions of midwit women have flooded into higher education over the last decades — very few of these women choose to study engineering or the natural sciences — they predominantly choose ‘soft’ majors, resulting in a huge expansion of junk academia to accommodate them — later some of them get jobs in administration — all of this is a big reason universities are so ultra-liberal today.
“Lickin’ negro arse.
Lickin’ negro arse.
Cucks all come rejoicing,
Lickin’ negro arse!”
>unqualified diversity hire
Some years ago I heard Bill Maher say ‘There’s no such thing as being qualified to hold public office — Mary Bono is in Congress because her husband skied into a tree.’
Similarly, there’s no such thing as not being qualified to be a university president — probably any reasonably intelligent, erudite, outgoing and congenial person (fundraising is usually an important task) could do the job (whether one person or another would be better for the position is a different question) — perhaps experience in academia would help.
One can question her intellect and the quality of her scholarship, or ask if there were ‘better’ candidates, albeit with the criteria being largely subjective, it’s not clear what exact qualities would make another candidate ‘better’ — but it does seem safe to say that race (not white) and sex (female) were among the fixed criteria — this is where the problem with Gay lies, i.e. not with her being ‘unqualified.’
But even when they have a chance to oppose this kind of thing, faux conservatives in America do nothing — here I am thinking of the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, where Biden publicly announced beforehand he would select a black woman — this should have caused every fair-minded member of the Senate, especially among Republicans, to say they would boycott and oppose her nomination on principle — but that didn’t happen.
Being qualified for public office is not the same thing as running a prestigious, private institution. Democracy, in theory, should allow the voters to determine if a candidate is qualified, notwithstanding activist judges in Colorado. A recent egregious example of questionable qualifications occurred when Dianne Feinstein finally died, and the governor of California declared that he would fill her senate seat with a black woman, yet he selected someone who lived out-of-state. One might think that living in California is the basic requirement for a senator representing California.
Being the president of a university is different. These people receive authority due to their position, but the role is widely regarded to be a glorified money-raiser. The key qualification should be to not unnecessarily alienate the university’s donors. There is also an established precedent that a university president has earned some academic credentials. Harvard being a top school, it would follow that its president has top credentials.
While Gay has a PhD, she has been accused of plagiarizing parts of her doctoral thesis, along with other academic papers she has published. Someone in this comment thread (#31) has stated that she doesn’t even claim to know a foreign language, which is a prerequisite for a PhD in the social sciences.
Her role in this position is a departure from established procedure. You seem to admit this when you say:
Is your argument that Claudine Gay is qualified to be the president of Harvard because she fits the criteria of being non-white and female?
The majority of American voters chose a President/plagiarist to represent the highest office in the land, so what.
He won over a guy who rarely uses a 3-syllable word, but still…
Do you have these kinds of qualifications?
From what I remember, you were 4th runner up at your company’s Fastest French Fry Cooker contest; and complained loudly about not getting a participation trophy.
Your IQ is 91, and you look funny.
What do you imagine a university president does all day? — what do you think is involved in the day-to-day ‘running of a prestigious, private institution’? — it’s not like she has to prepare coherent lectures to convey demanding material to highly intelligent students, like e.g. math and physics teaching faculty do.
There’s a reason I also referred to it as a position: a university president is also a figurehead — in that sense, obviously Harvard could have chosen someone intellectually superior to, and more academically accomplished than, Claudine Gay — someone with considerably more prestige — but then the two likely fixed criteria (race and sex) made that a lot more difficult.
Let me put it to you this way: I have no reason to believe Gay is unqualified for the job of being president of Harvard — I have good reason to believe there are a great many candidates who would have been a better fit for the position — personable academics with more prestige, with superior intellects and records of scholarly accomplishment, and with some administrative experience (likely also a criterion).
So being asked for money is when your political interest terminates? How dedicated you are!
VDARE is devoted to preserving the Historic American Nation https://vdare.com/about
That nation is white. But the interest in it is different from in being involved in a generalized campaign about whites.
Actually the Judge in the libel case agrred VDARE had a case. But she wriggled out awarding any compensation.
https://vdare.com/articles/vdare-com-wins-a-great-victory-over-new-york-times-for-now
Surely you are not so obtuse — as I made clear (or thought I did), my problem was with Brimelow objecting to being called a White Nationalist — so I have no idea why you would tell me that the judge thought he ‘had a case’ — to make it as clear as I possibly can: he should not have sued — he should have accepted the label, and ‘instead used the opportunity to make the case that there is nothing wrong, politically or morally, with White Nationalism, with wanting to preserve the demographic heritage of America as a majority white nation’ — but regarding my parenthetical remark about asking for donations, as a longtime reader and donor (not anymore obviously), someone who had a couple of letters published on VDare, as well as being a White Nationalist myself (in the above sense), I would never have donated money for such a purpose.
>J. Philippe Rushton Knew
And actually, I don’t need Rushton, or anyone else, to tell me what’s going on — I’ve explained it a number of times in comments here: generally, the Establishment puts Blacks in prominent positions, and the media promotes black victimhood, in particular black male vicitmhood, in an effort to disguise and hide the gross extent of black dysfunction, including and especially their criminality, but also their low intelligence as shown by their extremely poor academic performance (resulting in low average SES), and ultimately distract decent white people from the terrible consequences of all that for white society, while at the same time scapegoating Whites for these problems.
Another recent atrocity: a young white girl, only 17 y/o, home-schooled, shot to death because she perhaps happened to briefly inconvenience a black male on the road.
Texas teen dies after being shot in heart in road rage incident as she drove to watch sunrise
But if you want to know specifically about Claudine Gay, why she is president of Harvard University, it appears it’s because Penny Pritzker, now the Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and a member of the Jewish billionaire Pritzker family, wanted Gay in that job.
If you had bothered to read
https://vdare.com/posts/and-so-farewell-to-sheldon-adelson-zionist-activist-immigration-enthusiast-but-only-for-u-s-chinese-asset
you would have learned
“Adelson’s huge fortune mainly stems from gambling operations started in Macao in 2004. The notoriously avaricious Chinese Nomenklatura has never muscled in nor have predatory taxes been imposed.
Flooding America with low IQ unassimilable immigrants could certainly appeal to the notoriously race-conscious Chinese. So could seeing America locked in a permanent conflict with the Muslim world.
Is it conceivable that such a lever went unused?”
Adelson was infinitely more vulnerable to China than they were to him.
China has a long history of bribing foreign officials: Adelson could well have been a conduit. See
https://vdare.com/posts/gatestone-says-hundreds-of-u-s-politicians-purchased-how-can-mitch-mcconnell-not-be-one
What is important about the Rushton piece is the concept that Whites frequently overestimate the intellectual capabilities of Blacks because they are so often glib talkers.
The late, great, Larry Auster had a very valuable post expanding on this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120325042226/https://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011380.html
Macau is governed as a SAR (Special Economic Region) under a common and well defined ‘One County Two Systems’ policy. Your wording seems to imply that Adelson received special tax benefits, when in fact it is the way all Macau corporations are taxed–that is, at a very low rate. To say that the Chinese government has not imposed ‘predatory taxes’ on his operation is true, but only trivially true within the context of Macau governmental tax policy.
Second, Adelson’s ‘huge fortune’ was also made in the US, and through his US subsidiaries in Singapore. Just want to keep that in perspective, since your wording might suggest to the naive that Adelson’s cash is mostly denominated in RMB.
What’s up with your use of a modal verb? I guess one might as easily say that space aliens could have been a conduit… Generally I’ve found that if someone wants serious people to take their arguments seriously, it’s best if they refrain from being so open ended when making ostensibly specific and accusatory arguments.
The idea that China has a ‘long history’ of bribing foreign officials–meaning American politicians? Well, if Gatestone reports it then it must be true. Everyone knows that Gatestone doesn’t have any agenda.
On the other hand, my bet is on Israel as the numero uno bribe maker in American politics. Or maybe that’s more of a blackmail thing. In any case, the entire foreign policy of the US is based on bribes, and of course threats.
Your link to one of Derb’s ’01 columns is interesting in that he mentions the then ‘missing’ Jack Ma. About how Ant was ‘nixed’ by Chinese bank regulators. This is of course true, but one must understand it in the context of Chinese banking regulations, certainly in contrast to the American way.
In China the government controls the actions of the banks, including the central bank. Consequently, banking must adhere to set regulations that are in line with a more or less long-term anticipatory economic policy. In the US, it’s typically the other way around. Especially at the central bank level, where monetary policy is a function of a ‘private’ entity not tightly regulated by legislative or executive oversight.
Thanks for the links.
I’m surprised that no one has yet mentioned in this connection that other revered plagiarist and lubricious (in both senses) orator, the GNAT (Greatest Negro of All Time) himself, the Reverend Dr. “Martin Luther” King. He even plagiarized his very name! But that hasn’t stopped the nation from bowing its head in respect every time that name is invoked, or installing a memorial statue to him more than fifty percent taller than the one to Jefferson.
The Christian God, the soul, human rights, and the equality of all men are all imaginary entities the existence of which is boldly assumed. What else then can we expect from a nation founded on such fairy tales than that one of these simians would eventually be made president of its most prestigious university? For a people so willing to accept comforting lies in place of truth, it comes easy. A talented tenth can seem almost human.
>her ‘work’ is junk academic nonsense
Due in part to that, the plagiarism accusations against her were probably taken less seriously — who really cares if a junk academic plagiarized some subjective text from another junk academic? — her ‘work’ has no concrete value, its correctness cannot be measured, and the standards for what is scholarly enough to justify a PhD are very loose — so it was no surprise she was largely cleared, i.e. it appears the allegations did not come close to jeopardizing her job, and the statement by Harvard about its investigation said she ‘omitted’ attributions, as if it was inadvertent, a little oops.
But regarding that:
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Again, these Blacks placed in prominent positions have too much value for the Establishment — rubbing the noses of white people in the double standard is a bonus.
Nice parody of “Bringing in the Sheaves” relevant to our times.
>Whites frequently overestimate the intellectual capabilities of Blacks
I’m sure that’s true — but I also wonder how much guilt inculcated in Whites about Blacks has to do with that? — I’ve found it easier to talk to Whites about the superiority of some Asian ethnic groups in having slightly higher average intelligence, e.g. in the context of the affirmative action suits and rulings, than it is to talk to them about the inferiority of Blacks, i.e. the reason Blacks have low SES is that they are significantly less intelligent than Whites, lack many behavioral characteristics needed for success in a first world technocratic society, and this is genetic and not the fault of white people — no matter how rational and careful you are, many Whites still get physically uncomfortable if you broach the subject.
Adelson sold his US Conference business for $1B and invested the proceeds in Casinos. His Macao operations were the profit heart. His Singapore activities primarily catered to Mainland Chinese. He was intensely vulnerable to the Chinese Government.
Your reference to the John Derbyshire/Jacky Ma piece https://vdare.com/posts/power-versus-money-in-china (actually 2021, not 2001 as you said) proves you must have seen my discussion further up on Chinese bribery in my Adelson obituary https://vdare.com/posts/and-so-farewell-to-sheldon-adelson-zionist-activist-immigration-enthusiast-but-only-for-u-s-chinese-asset
“I have recently read Michael Pillsbury’s seminal “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower.” This points out that, while for 2,000 years China had no experience of conducting foreign relationships except with minor states which it completely dominated, there was a phase in the distant past when something analogous to the European state system existed.
This was the Warring States Period (475–221 BC) when China itself broke up into competing units. After much struggle, one state conquered all the others.
A detailed literature exists discussing the stratagems employed. One of the favorite: bribing an opponent’s advisors.”
Insinuating that my only source on Chinese bribery was Gatestone’s https://vdare.com/posts/gatestone-says-hundreds-of-u-s-politicians-purchased-how-can-mitch-mcconnell-not-be-one was therefore dishonest.
Besides, so what if Gatestone has an agenda? We all have agendas. A smear is not an argument.
For that matter, insinuating I implied anything about tax exemptions in Macao is equally groundless.
The fact remains that the Chinese do not normally allow foreign entrepreneurs to make so much money in their domain without grabbing more of it.
Adelson seems to have received special treatment for some reason.
>The late, great, Larry Auster
A current article on the OO mentions Auster:
Blacks Unleashed: It’s Black Rapists All the Way Down
This was more or less the theme of the late Colin Flaherty’s work.
>because they are so often glib talkers
This kind of shit isn’t happening because Blacks are ‘glib talkers’ — there’s an agenda, it’s being pushed, even coordinated, same as plastering Blacks all over advertising out of all proportion to their share of the population, especially in roles of authority figures or competent professionals.
eah: “… there’s an agenda, it’s being pushed …”
No agenda, just the logical working out of the white man’s Christian heritage.
Christianity has always been a revolutionary creed that demands constant renewal, raising up the weak and humbling the strong. Thus, the “good” works it demands become a feedback loop, because there’s never an end to the need to demonstrate one’s virtue. If more can be done, it must be! As Christian theologian and philosopher of technology Jacques Ellul put it so well in his magnificent book on propaganda:
This self-reinforcing mechanism explains a lot about the disproportionate presence of negroes in modern advertising. A Christian culture can never grovel enough before them.
https://www.unz.com/article/how-america-got-an-antiracist-constitution/#comment-6064062
As a Vdare contributor myself, the feeling is mutual, champ.
>there’s an agenda
The agenda is to hide and morally dissuade Whites from recognizing this reality:
Face it, Brimelow cucked when given an explicit chance to stand up for Whites and white identity, for preserving a majority white America, whether it’s called White Nationalism or something else — in fact, as I pointed out above, he actually repudiated white identity — it’s better to acknowledge the reasons people have become disenchanted with VDare, rather than react with vitriol.
Hard to see VDare as anything but a grift at this point.
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Her husband Christopher Afendulis, must be a gay or AC/DC and marrying a female that looks like his black male fantasy killed two birds with one stone. His parents could go to their graves knowing that he didn’t marry a man (like they dreaded) and he got to marry his dream black man (without the plumbing he desired). Some people make real sacrifices just to please their parents.
As to what job she’ll do next, Biden will appoint her to be the next American Ambassador to Upper Volta, Being appointed to Ouagadougou is considered to be one of the most prestigious appointments the State Department can give out.
“since people with an IQ of 70 look funny, and blacks don’t generally look funny.”
Blacks look funny to me, especially when they’re appointed to be president of Harvard.
Having the last name “Gay” made a lot of progressives feel all fuzzy and warm down there.
It seems strange that Latin or French or Spanish are not languages she claims a smattering of understanding.
The two legitimate reasons for immigration control are
Protect citizens and other residents of a realm from immediate predator criminality from foreigners.
Keep the basic harmony of the existing race.
Other that that it is a somewhat pointless effort.
History is the migration of tribes.
Macau is a tourist destination. Tourism is its main ‘industry’. The Adelson entity doing business in Macau is the Las Vegas Sands Enterprise, Sands China, now run by Robert Goldstein. Is ‘under the table’ skimming going on? Your guess is as good as mine. Are the Macau Triads working it like the Jewish Mob and Italian Mafia in Las Vegas? Not sure that would surprise anyone. Are government officials involved in corruption? The answer is clear, but that is not a strictly Chinese phenomenon.
As a SAR, governmental control is going to be different, and somewhat removed from mainland administration. We should note that anti-corruption activities are a priority of the Xi regime (actually, going back forcefully to the prior Hu administration). I’ve always half-joked that it would be impossible for most Western politicians to be members of the Communist Party because they (i.e. Western politicians) are too corrupt. And there is a large truth to that, in many different ways.
Generally, the presence of large spread corruption entails a government-organized crime co-op. Probably one of the largest in the China sphere, that is the sphere affecting China, are Myanmar quasi-official organized crime syndicates running telescams and and narcotics, with private armies and official governmental payoffs. The Chinese government is aggressively confronting that, but Chinese police have had a tough go of it because it’s difficult to work through official Myanmar corruption. But that is another story altogether.
Back on topic: foreign companies doing business in China works out to over a trillion USD in yearly revenue. The names are common household names in the West, and would probably surprise the uninitiated.
Finally, I did not ‘smear’ the Jewish operation called Gatestone. How did I lie or spread a false rumor about them? Is a snarky quip a smear, nowadays? Anyone can look at their history, the quality of their reports, and make up their own mind about their qualifications and competence.
Plus, I’ve always said that because a source might be shady, doesn’t necessarily mean their words cannot be true. With this in mind, I always advise scrutiny before uncritically accepting news and facts. Generally, if you read a source long enough you can tell who their friends and enemies are, along with their biases. Then act accordingly.
I think they picked her because of her plagiarism for the same reason Jeffrey Epstein was collecting material. They wanted her to be their tool, but they wanted a weapon against her if she acted up.
Well now, she didn’t write “Haitian Creole” either, even though both of her parents are Haitian immigrants.
…Anna Laura Myers Prize for best undergraduate thesis in economics…
…Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science…
It’s obvious her professors didn’t read her work closely and/or didn’t know their fields the way they should and/or didn’t care and/or were just plain corrupt.
Truth, I’m sure you know the answer. After all, it’s how you “graduated” from BT.
Or everyone does it.
Or, they were unfamiliar with the source material.
Or they weren’t very good at their jobs, maybe because they’re Daddy’s names got them there. Like a few of our presidents.
No, Old Sport:
I STARTED at BT.
I GRADUATED from Phillips Exeter Academy
a small head and a fugly visage
>>>they’ll have to find some cover story for her exit, like the Biden administration appoints her as an ambassador….
You are probably correct, though Harvard will delay her forced departure for as many months as possible… and Gay’s exit will never be presented as anything other than voluntary.
Personally, I’d like to see Ms Gay stay on as the public face of Harvard University for many, many years. The Honorable and Reverend Board of Overseers deserve no less.
“How could the puritan seminary have chosen their president on superstitious grounds?”
What mystery.
Such difficult.
Many hard.
Wow.
Unless the white male in question is Joe Biden. He was on the nightly MSM but at a time when the MSM had a modicum of integrity.
How could she be so stupid as to think that no one would ever notice such a blatant case of trying to cheat the system? Most of us make certain that we don’t even plagiarize ourselves from our previous publications.
How could her major professor be so stupid as to ignore all the misappropriation of scholarly work in her dissertation by her most significant competitors at other academic institutions, which would have been covered de rigor in her introductory chapters or sections? The major professor is expected to thoroughly read and edit the work before it was presented to her dissertation committee. His (or her) reputation is assumed to ride on the merits of whatever document the student produces under his (or her) tutelage.
How could her dissertation committee, which is assembled from tenured faculty in the student’s area of specialization, be so stupid, or so remiss, as not to read the tendered document and not to notice the blatant swaths of stolen words and stolen ideas? This particular committee, drawn from political science scholars employed at Harvard, is tasked not only with evaluating the worth of what this student purportedly produced, and whether it is worthy of conferring a doctorate degree upon this woman, is equally importantly charged with upholding the standards and reputation of the entire institution of higher education called Harvard University.
Along with presentation of their dissertation to the committee, the Ph.D. candidate also gives an hour long oral presentation of their purportedly “new” scholastic discoveries before an “open-to-the-public audience, followed by at least another hour defending any and all observations, interpretations and novel conclusions reported in the dissertation and its public oral presentation. If the candidate is a fraud this should be discernable at any of the three key stages to what should be a rigorous evaluation in i) reading the dissertation, ii} orally presenting the dissertation and iii) defending any new facts, interpretations and applications during the final oral exam step. It is rare, but possible to be denied the degree even upon completion of the very last step in one’s oral defense.
I hope for the sake of our civilization, which has become increasingly underpinned by the hard sciences and high technology, that our academic institutions have not appreciably diminished the rigor in their degree programs merely to accommodate the artificial production of increased numbers of black and female students assumed capable of being plugged into all the important high paying job openings currently being created by affirmative action and downright racial and gender discrimination against white males.
I retired from Academe in 2004. Twenty years of unrelenting black and female privilege since then may well have put us beyond the point of no return, in a system I personally saw degenerating over the preceding 40 or more years, though nowhere near as rapidly. I was one of the first to ignore the preference of my colleagues and opened the doors wide to Asian students in the 1980’s. They quickly took over most science departments, first as students, then as professors and now as administrators. They are incredibly different from blacks. They (mostly) deserve every reward which they achieve and are discriminated against as badly as white males. This assumes you believe that jobs should be filled on the basis of merit and capability rather than identity politics. Personally, I don’t think there is any other way. Not just Russia and China, but Iran and most other countries that the US foolishly chooses to consider enemies (and therefore inferior in every way) have proven to be quite the match for American science and technology.
I enjoyed reading your words. As a regular joe that grew up in the inner city of Cleveland Ohio at the very beginning of desegregation the baptism by fire that was the busing of black and White children in some cases more than 15 miles across town for reasons only the “scholars” of that era can explain, I can say this, watching how many of the black children acted at that time with authority figures was stunning. In the 7th grade I kid you not, I saw black males with beards in the same grade as me.
That being said, with Ms. Gay I’m sure it’s not much different than the reasons why prosecutors fall all over themselves figuring out how to charge these murdering, raping turds with manslaughter and simple assault instead of 1st or 2nd degree murder and rape.. I believe it’s as simple as just not wanting to come off as too harsh when it comes to our colored cousins due to the easy avenues they have today in getting retribution through the courts at the mere appearance of racist or bigoted behavior that could hold them back from advancement, that today has less to do with merit and far more about their demands. The fact that even though she caved and resigned they still let here keep that 900k a year salary that came with the title, if that isn’t and arrogant middle finger to the establishment, what is?
MLK was a proven plagiarist too. America should demand his day – jan 15 this year- be cancelled and replaced with an american that actually did something to help the country. Say thomas edison or henry ford. Maybe john browning or steve jobs.
Well, look on the bright side FeelImUseless:
You could have done reverse bussing…
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Like Sam Francis, Phil Rushton died far too soon. We should have had decades more from them.
This seems not quite right. After all, who does Harvard need to impress? More likely, such hirings/appointments reflect the Left’s need to allow blacks to feel good about themselves. If there’s an essential difference between the NPR and UR types it’s the former’s penchant for empathy. They want to boost black amour-propre.
You realize your last paragraph is completely circular and so seld contradicting?
https://vdare.com/articles/are-women-destroying-academia-probably
There is much to be said for being old.
Same as Resident Brandon, that known and exposed plagiaristic fcuker was reelected year after year as senator, then chosen and appointed as POTUS.
Harold Stassen, a politician with a law degree who held elected and appointed positions and once was a presidential aspirant, served as president of the University Pennsylvania following the end of World War II. It is said, Penn did recover from his presidency in not too long.
Dwight Eisenhower served as president of the Columbia University after the end the world war. Many regarded him as not entirely suited to the position but his interest in international relations was evident while he was there and he did influence the institution’s Postwar course.
Pick the right outsider, and they can do the job.
One doesn’t need to be black in order to qualify for employment by Harvard as an unqualified buffoon, female is sufficient. Jacinda Ardern is on the academic staff with a ‘studies’ bachelor degree.
Jacinda Ardern tranny? new zealand czar.
>Hard to see VDare as anything but a grift at this point.
The same goes for Steve Sailer, who is intimately affiliated with Vdare:
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Also read the replies.