'Diversity hire' Harvard president Claudine Gay plagiarized PhD dissertation: report

It has been revealed by Christopher Rufo and Chris Brunet that Harvard University president Claudine Gay plagiarized sections of her PhD disertation. These revelations come after Gay defended antisemitism on campus after having condemned so-called misgendering and failure to use preferred pronouns.

Rufo and Brunet reported unequivocally that Gay's dissertation in defense of her doctoral degree "Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies," published in 1997, "contains at least three problematic patterns of usage and citation." They found that her disertation lifted "an entire paragraph nearly verbatim" from a previous paper from authors Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam called "Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment."
 

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