Plagiarism is A-OK...If You're the President of Harvard...and a DEI Hire

Apparently she gets to go back and put quotation marks around the "duplicative language" in her dissertation.

   At what point do the absurd consequences of this general view become so apparent that even the true believers have to give it up?

   Answer: probably never.

   A perhaps more important question: at what point do they become so patently absurd that the center-leftists who enable it by their silence and complicity have to stop doing so?

   Paleo-PC lost its power when that happened. 

   And, once it becomes unfashionable, many of the true believers will tacitly give it up as well.

   Which is not to say that it will be defeated forever. I expect it will never just go away. It'll merely retreat into academic Mirkwood, the land of obfuscation and fantastical foolishness of the humanities and qualitative social sciences, building its power, biding its time.

   Oh: and, of course, expecting Gay to abide by the ordinary standards of scholarship is racist...but you knew that.