Kamala Harris plagiarized a student's writing on a test, which got her into hot water with the Department of Education. What does this have to do with race and ethnicity? And why is this a problem?
00:06:07.520If you look at her first major job, it was when she, a 20-year-old, was sleeping with a 60-year-old who got her that job and has admitted on record that the fact that they were dating influenced him, giving her these positions, which allowed her to get her first major prosecutor job.
00:06:27.880You know, even if you do something that's not a felony, if you look like Trump and are Republican, then it's a felony.
00:06:35.160And it is just a ridiculous amount of bigotry and double standards at this point.
00:06:39.940By the way, you know that the Harvard woman who used to be, like, had a former president of Harvard and who was caught in all this plagiarism, you know she still has a tenure at Harvard and is still a professor there.
00:06:53.120The point being is that there's really no pushback on this stuff in a mainstream sense.
00:06:57.180While Jordan Peterson loses, loses not just his ability to be a professor, but even his ability to practice medicine because he is center right.
00:07:08.620Yeah, he didn't plagiarize anything, to be clear.
00:07:10.940To my knowledge, he's not accused of any academic wrongdoing, just being a conservative.
00:07:17.660By the way, before we go into this Kamala Harris stuff, we made this Kamala Harris ad that I wish the mainstream party would use.
00:07:24.200And you get to edit it, Simone, if you want me to use an edited version, but I created a version.
00:07:28.700And it's just Kamala's face laughing in the background.
00:07:31.540And in the foreground, it says, remember when you could afford food.
00:07:34.800And I think that that is one of the things that the Trump campaign isn't hitting hard enough is how bad the inflation crisis is right now and how bad the cost of living crisis is right now.
00:07:47.160And if we have four more years of this, it's not going to be a problem for your family.
00:07:51.960It might be an existential risk to your family.
00:07:54.100For those of you who live outside the U.S., by the way, I've discovered this new genre of YouTube video that I find to be really entertaining,
00:08:01.640where people from the EU go shopping at grocery stores in the U.S. and freak out about how much everything costs.
00:09:46.520Even Black Lives Matter asked for her to actually stand for election, likely because they know her actual history on crime and black incarceration.
00:09:57.380It's shocking to me that anyone would suggest that she is not a DEI candidate.
00:10:02.000Everyone knows the reason why she, if a white guy was randomly appointed to be the Democratic candidate, do you think that they would be able to hold that without having to run?
00:10:13.760And then people can be like, oh, but she's, no, she was vice president for four years.
00:10:19.220Doesn't that qualify her for the position?
00:10:21.380And it's like, okay, one of two categories.
00:10:24.220You can either go with what she's saying, which is that she's had literally nothing to do with anything that's happened for the past four years because she doesn't want to associate with it.
00:10:33.160But also that she would not do anything differently, which is something she said in recent interviews.
00:10:37.380Yeah, but she's all like, oh, I'm going to change everything day one.
00:10:39.780She's not saying what she's going to change, but I'm going to change everything, all the day one stuff I'm going to change.
00:10:42.900It's like, you're in office now, supposedly.
00:10:45.600Like, what's all this experience you have if you're not doing anything, right?
00:10:49.800So either she's done literally nothing for the past four years, A, or B, she's completely responsible for the situation we're in right now.
00:10:57.400And if you're voting for her, you're voting for more of this.
00:11:16.180Here's a comprehensive overview of the situation.
00:11:18.120And she co-authored it with Joan O.C. Hamilton.
00:11:21.280Conservative activist Christopher Rufo and Austrian plagiarism hunter Dr. Stefan Weber have accused Vice President Kamala Harris of plagiarizing significant portions of her book.
00:11:31.560The main points of the allegations include at least 12 sections of the book are claimed to contain, well, not claimed to contain, shown uncontrovertibly to contain plagiarized content.
00:11:40.200I'll put something on screen here of, like, highlighted, highlighted.
00:11:44.560Whoever reportedly found 27 cases of plagiarism in the book.
00:11:49.460Sources plagiarized include Wikipedia, wire services, press releases, and reports.
00:11:54.620Specific examples, a section apparently lifted verbatim from a press release by John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
00:12:01.720Content copied from an NBC news report on high school graduation rates without proper attribution.
00:12:07.260Text allegedly taken directly from Wikipedia, including a factual error present on Wikipedia at the time.
00:12:13.420And material supposedly copied from Bureau of Justice Assistant's report on crime statistics for West Palm Beach.
00:12:20.360And what's so shocking to me here is this was a book on catching crime, and she's committing crime while writing a book on catching crime.
00:12:31.040It's very much like the deep state gets to do whatever it wants and isn't subject to rules, and our job is just to control and incarcerate you.
00:12:40.580Our job is to mind our own damn business.
00:12:43.060Yeah, I love how you pointed out that Tim Walton's mind-your-own-damn-business phrase, many people thought that he meant this, like, don't get in, like, my family's sexuality's life.
00:12:53.300But what he actually means is when he's abducting your child, because a nine-year-old has decided to say that they're trans, or when he's, because that's what he did, by the way.
00:13:02.740He made a state that, or when he creates something like this COVID lockdown policy, where you can call and have your neighbors arrested for, what was it, 90 days for leaving their house during COVID?
00:13:13.360You know, and you're being dragged from your house, or your kids are being dragged from your house, and you're like, why are you doing this?
00:13:20.100He means mind your own damn business in those scenarios.
00:13:23.440He basically means don't ask questions of people in authority.
00:13:26.100And you can see this by the way he used the mind-your-own-damn-business line in the debate, which Simone noted.
00:13:32.420He's like, oh, he basically means don't ask me questions about why I'm doing something shady, which is similar to, you know, the way Camelon, right?
00:13:39.840Any further thoughts before I go further?
00:14:25.460And I have pointed out, like, when it was cheaper to pay people to do a job, she argued to keep them in prison because it was fire season and they needed the free labor, even though the free labor costs more than just paying for them.
00:15:02.440And it's like, we need a form of pronatalism that doesn't say, we need to force dinks to have kids, but that says, I support your decision not to have kids, but I just want to make it easier for those who are choosing to have kids to have more kids.
00:15:14.660And I'm like, that's exactly what we say!
00:15:20.620These are people who really, really, really, really should not be having kids.
00:15:23.920We mean this both from a genetic reason, like as we've talked about, like a dink is obviously more likely to be narcissistic, less likely to want to get back to society, etc.
00:15:32.240But in addition to that, they're not going to be good parents.
00:15:41.800Anyway, in December 2023, Claudia Gay faced accusations.
00:15:46.400This was the head of Harvard at the time of plagiarism in her academic work.
00:15:50.300This was, by the way, a black woman who was head of Harvard and clearly didn't have the qualifications to get there.
00:15:55.620And I will go over proof that she didn't have the qualifications to get there, but they wanted a black woman running things.
00:16:01.360Over her 1997 PhD dissertation, the allegations came shortly after Gay's controversial congressional testimony where she was incredibly anti-Semitic.
00:16:10.100By the way, if you're wondering, how anti-Semitic could she have been?
00:16:13.940When she was asked, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment?
00:16:19.820And she responded, it can be, depending on the context.
00:16:24.340And they tried to give her an out on this.
00:16:26.320Like the Republican was like, you can't possibly mean what you just said.
00:16:30.440And her response to that was, quote, again, it depends, depending on the context, end quote.
00:16:35.620So genocide calls for the genocide of all Jews, not, not bullying or harassment, not even hate speech, not bullying or harassment, not cause for any form of discipline within the existing Harvard system.
00:17:05.220If you want to know why they're not your friends, it's because they have created a world in which all differences between groups are the result of some form of past oppression.
00:17:13.260Because Jews are disproportionately in positions of power, Jews just succeed more than other groups.
00:17:19.440That's really clear in the statistics.
00:17:21.040That means that definitionally, not only can you not have been subject to past oppression in the past, but if you say you might have been, that's pretty sus in their minds.
00:17:30.060They might not say it out loud, but they say behind closed doors, let me tell you what, I've been to enough of the New York dinner parties to know this at this point.
00:17:36.220And it means that you're probably architects of all the oppression.
00:17:40.480So, really, really, really, do not be Jews for Hitler on this, okay?
00:17:48.720We are trying to just elevate, this is their own writing here.
00:17:54.280This is their own genocide for all Jews.
00:17:58.740I really don't know if they should face any disciplinary action at all, is what they're saying here, and that is horrifying to me.
00:18:05.060Initially, Harvard's governing board, the Harvard Corporation, stood by Gay, describing the situation as a few instances of inadequate citation, rather than research the misconduct.
00:18:14.420So, they refused to research it, then independent researchers researched it further.
00:18:17.420As more allegations suffered, Harvard announced that Gay would make corrections to her dissertation and two academic papers.
00:18:24.320An independent review was conducted, but completed in just a few weeks, and lack of transparency raised questions about its thoroughness.
00:18:32.100By early January 2024, the number of allegations had grown significantly, with claims of plagiarism affecting about half of Gay's published works.
00:18:39.420So, she plagiarized about half of all things she had ever published.
00:18:42.360Okay, I didn't realize that they kept investigating and they found more.
00:19:04.860I think knowing how the urban monoculture works, they just seriously didn't consider investigating someone they considered a protected class.
00:19:13.580Yeah, well, we can't really fire a black woman from the president of our school, so, like, why investigate, right?
00:19:22.740Like, she gets to do whatever she wants, break whatever rules she wants.
00:19:26.180I think this is why progressives aren't freaking out about the Kamala Harris plagiarism, even though, like, the urban monoculture should know, like, this is a big issue and should be a huge stain on her character.
00:19:36.040Whereas, it's very clear we live in a classed society right now, where, depending on your ethnicity, you are subject to different rules.
00:19:46.640Like, that is what I thought what we called racism and what we were fighting when we said we were fighting racism.
00:19:53.400So, but anyway, some of the most clear-cut cases involved verbatim copying without proper attribution, including instances where Gay allegedly lifted material from other scholars without quotation marks or citations.
00:20:05.960One example involved copying from a Bureau of Justice assistance report on crime statistics.
00:20:11.460In some cases, Gay reportedly used language from Wikipedia articles, including factual errors presented on pages at the time.
00:20:59.180First, my qualified and supremely trained heterosexual white male graduate students,
00:21:04.360and I've had many others, by the way, face a negligible chance of being offered university research positions despite stellar scientific dossiers.
00:21:11.800This is partially because of the diversity, inclusivity, and equity mandates, my preferred acronym, D.I.E.
00:21:18.940These have been imposed universally in academia, despite the fact that university hiring communities have already done everything reasonable for all the years of my career,
00:21:27.480and then some, to ensure that no qualified, quote-unquote, minority candidates were ever overlooked.
00:21:32.720My students are also partially unacceptable precisely because they are my students.
00:21:37.480I am academic persona non grata because of my unacceptable philosophical positions.
00:21:43.020And this isn't just some inconvenience.
00:21:45.000These facts render my job morally untenable.
00:21:47.700How can I accept prospective researchers and train them in good conscience, knowing their employment prospects to be minimal?
00:21:54.000Like, you should be fired when you do certain things, and I don't think Jordan Peterson should have been fired,
00:21:58.640but what I'm just saying is being mildly center-right, which is what Jordan Peterson is.
00:23:00.200We need to say that expecting originality of people, like this Smithsonian report that was like hard work and being on time or only for white people.
00:23:07.200That's imposing white culture on other people.
00:23:56.160But we are not having a natural cultural shift in that direction.
00:23:59.120We are having an instance in which people of certain ethnic and gender groups.
00:24:03.220Right, where selectively plagiarism is okay and permissible, right?
00:24:07.420Yeah, so Alday McKinn, chief DEI officer for staff at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, accused of plagiarizing parts of his dissertation for Wikipedia and other sources.
00:24:20.260So keep in mind, all of this is like just this year.
00:24:22.400Natalie J. Perry, leader of the cultural North Star program at UCLA School of Medicine, which was a heavy DEI program, accused in April 2024 of publishing large parts of her doctoral work.
00:24:33.220I can't even imagine plagiarizing a dissertation, not like homework, which is what I was terrified of plagiarizing, a dissertation.
00:24:41.400You'd expect it from students because we've already, and we've had other episodes about how just bankrupt and hollowed out the university classroom is today from a student's perspective.
00:24:51.060But professors and PhD students, I mean, these are people who have invested.
00:24:55.400We've had departments where like our friends, like Johnny and Amelie, gets removed from departments from stating like mildly controversial things.
00:25:06.520And he's been removed from running multiple departments that he started.
00:25:09.840The one that always gets me the worst is at, what school was it?
00:25:13.680But anyway, he ran a department there that was a very, very popular department on like controversial philosophy.
00:25:19.300And he ended up having his department shut down and he was fired by the person who ended up being his boss, who was the lady who, by the way, a woman of color, who did all those spurious accusations around, oh no, Duke, around the Duke lacrosse lawsuit, which have since been shown to be completely wrong.
00:25:36.760That the person was completely in the wrong, this person has never apologized to the people whose life she's ruined, and yet she continues to be promoted to running a department right now.
00:25:45.860If the world had any justice, she would be fired and never able to work again.
00:25:49.680And yet she's running a department and able to do things like in his career, which is insane.
00:25:54.880But hold on, I haven't gotten to the last person.
00:25:56.460LeVar Charleston, chief diversity officer at University of Wisconsin-Madison, implicated alongside his wife, Sherry Modison, in allegations of research misconduct.
00:26:04.700So just across the board, you keep seeing this.
00:26:07.680And the question is, I think you see two things here.
00:26:10.720I think one, you see a society now where it's very clear that the legal system and the rules within universities are applied to different ethnic groups differently.
00:26:19.920And I think that no matter who you are, it's very clear that this is the case.
00:26:31.700And I don't think anyone who historically fought against bigots would see this as anything else.
00:26:36.600And I think that the institutions right now, our university campuses are fundamentally bigoted institutions that have an ethno hierarchy and a gender hierarchy.
00:26:47.600And they need to be, quote unquote, decolonized.
00:26:51.240They need to be decolonized by the urban monoculture.
00:26:53.380And I think we need to lead a decolonization effort of our university system because this is horrifying that's gotten to this level.
00:27:02.020But I also think more than this, the fact that everyone's so okay with all of this plagiarism, like on the part of Pamela or on the part of these other individuals, and they just don't care.
00:27:11.400It's because they know they don't expect her to actually do the job.
00:27:15.360They're like, yeah, she's like a priest cast.
00:27:18.980Like the deep state does all the work.
00:27:20.800And it's like, yeah, well, this becomes a problem when the FAA starts like hiring people based on how much they hate authority and how much they hate science, which is a real thing that happened.
00:27:30.540Yeah, see, Tracy Woodgrain's write-up about this and or our episode about this.
00:27:35.360I guess, yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, there was in U.S. politics another issue of plagiarism associated with one of the two major presidential candidates that did come up.
00:27:45.200And there was a big kerfuffle about it.
00:27:46.820And it was when I believe a speech of Melania Trump's was partially plagiarized, if memory serves.
00:29:18.020The left feels like, and I can tell you, so right now we, 20-something days up to the election in the U.S., are looking at two very polarized sides collectively freaking out in a very myopic matter about the other side.
00:29:34.940On the right, there's a lot of awareness that there's manipulation in the media, really a lot of bias.
00:29:44.060And then on the left, there is genuine concern that the right is going to lose the election and then attempt some kind of revolution to undermine democracy in the U.S. and to just take over by force or something like that.
00:30:06.360When we were driving this morning to go on our strategy walk, we drove by various lawn signs because we're in a key swing state and in a key swing district within that swing state.
00:30:18.880Which is why we moved here, by the way.
00:31:26.240Okay, give me a chance here, because I can present, I think, maybe a compelling argument.
00:31:32.620These people are only accustomed to consuming what you might call mainstream media.
00:31:38.280So, their attempt to consume media on the right to take in both sides exposes them to mainstream conservative media, which I would argue is actually pretty low quality and not very good and pretty unhinged.
00:31:53.500Well, there isn't mainstream conservative media.
00:31:55.200I mean, you've got Fox News, which most conservatives would call a left-wing media outlet right now.
00:32:00.120I would call it a left-wing media outlet.
00:32:01.880Well, that's what they're watching when they watch both sides.
00:32:08.380If you think even Fox News is a left-wing media outlet, what do you think is a right-wing media outlet?
00:32:13.500And it's like, I want you to go to a list of the top 10 most popular podcasts right now.
00:32:18.780You won't find a single left-leaning podcast on the list, and you will find, like, eight explicitly Republican podcasts on that list.
00:32:27.120Right-leaning media has become decentralized.
00:32:30.560It's things like this podcast, like what you're listening to between Simone and I, but we can't even go into everything.
00:32:36.820While this used to be true, it looks like recently the New York Times slipped into spot number seven under the top 10 list.
00:32:45.620Like, if you want to see our further thoughts on this, you can go to our Antifa video where I talk about things that I don't want to talk about here because I don't want to get demonetized.
00:32:51.480I understand your point, but I mean, I, you know, but have some pity on the person that you met before, you know, when we first started dating, you know, I came from a progressive background, I consumed progressive media, and I just didn't know better because I, I...
00:33:16.280Yeah, but when you don't know the right person who can show you the right things, you're just not going to find these things out.
00:33:25.780And, and that's, that's my argument, is, is there's a lot of really well-meaning people who are very afraid about the integrity of democracy and human rights, et cetera, et cetera, and...
00:33:35.360I am afraid about the integrity of democracy, right?
00:33:37.820Because Camilla didn't run for office.
00:33:40.000She kept people in prison when they shouldn't be there.
00:33:42.020She used them for prison labor when it would have been cheaper to set them free.
00:33:44.700Her running mate is a guy who did a COVID snitch line to have people randomly arrested when they did things like leave their house, even though we now know that the science didn't back that.
00:33:54.480Camilla has said that Brazil was right to ban X because they allowed for free speech.
00:34:00.140Most well-meaning American voters don't know that.
00:34:03.000Political figures, like, this is, this is, like, she has said, basically, up front, I plan to be a dictator.
00:34:20.920But I think that that's because we are entering an era right now where we are going to need to decide in one of the upcoming elections, what do we want?
00:34:30.720Do we want a democracy that is corrupted in that it is controlled by a dictatorially, fascistly minded cabal of deep state people who think they're better than you, basically don't think you're human, don't care what you have to say, hate the poor, love the rich, and control the state?
00:34:49.940Or do we want to be controlled by a loose organization of crazy conspiracy theorists who lack the, the organizational competence to take over their own campaign?
00:35:03.720Like, I, I just, it's, it's so night and day in terms of what you're looking at here, from my perspective, at least.
00:36:33.240Just that I do find it very interesting that, I guess, okay, this takes me to my whole thing about privacy.
00:36:40.660Where, like, I am not so afraid of online privacy rules and internet privacy.
00:36:46.000Because I'm like, I don't have anything to hide.
00:36:47.440And the one thing that changed my mind on that, though clearly we're still not big on privacy, was people saying, hey, you know, you may be free now, but then suddenly when some new administration is in power and someone needs to take you out, they will use that.
00:37:04.700They will use your lack of privacy as a tool against you.
00:37:09.700And I think that what's scary about the plagiarism case study in the United States in politics and elsewhere in academia.
00:37:20.320This is one of those things of, like, people can copy, and then they just will use the, any, any, or you can commit academic misconduct.
00:37:31.320And people will only use that selectively when they want to take you out.
00:37:35.980And I just am afraid of systems in which there's selective application of rules.
00:37:41.040Because that, to me, is a sign of some kind of regime that is not run in a just way.
00:37:49.380That is not run as intended or as designed, but instead run with special interest.
00:37:54.120So I guess that was a very inefficient way of saying that when I see unequal and inconsistent application of standards and rules, that is a sign of deep and dangerous corruption that is meant to be the hammer of inflicting unjust policies.