It wasn't like they were "tricked." They knew exactly what they were doing. It was an active partnership between @nytimes.com and the fucking white supremacist Rufo.
Certainly seems so. Ultimately, Republicans mean tax cuts for the wealthy, so it’s all 💰 driven. The more fascist or white supremacist, the more clicks, the more 💰.
Doesn't have to be breaking laws.
I bet he's stolen quotes from all kinds of right-wing politicians, pundits, and ranters, who were saying them in contexts that made it clear that they were racist/misogynist/homophobic/etc.
and some of those people were also bad in ways RW hate-mongers disapprove of
Given the off-the-charts amount of projection standard on the right, it’s probably safe to assume that every paper that man ever turned in was made up entirely of plagiarized material.
Question is did he have the forethought to disappear anything that might’ve been out there?
I’m sure he’s protected some by the fact he did nothing of remotely any note before hitting it big with his right-wing propagandist role. No reason for anyone to hold on to a copy of any of his C- material.
Except exposing him as a raging hypocrite will change nothing. He’s white conservative, and destroys liberal careers and institutions. Nothing else matters to his backers.
Mr Critical Race Theory and more recently "Gays In the Classroom" so- we know his tactics always work. Because he's being paid by the GOP and fox is the GOP they will run ANY store he manufactures. And all other news platforms "both sides" it and this man for some reason controls all media.
I would donate money to a Democratic candidate whose gimmick is to bag on the NYT and other MSM outlets for being a bunch of willing marks for amoral fascists. Just go absolutely apeshit on them
Luckily this particular grift is incredibly easy to use against them. Just pull the same shit on any journalist who played along. Pretty sure the people who willingly go along with Rico’s stated plan aren’t particularly pure in their academic work.
The way I see it, there are four possibilities:
1. Nobody on the left has tried this with the work of Amy Wax et al (in which case, someone should)
2. Wax et al are somehow actually more rigorous than progressive scholars (which is unlikely but a real problem if true)
1/2
3. This will eventually expose a double standard that leaves progressive scholars exposed and protects egregious racist “academics”
4. This will be entirely ineffective because Gay was uniquely positioned and academic tenure exists.
I’m kinda rooting for scenario 1 tbh
During the Cultural Revolution, the Maoists purged, exiled, and executed academics.
Sometimes they drove scholars to commit suicide after denouncing their life's work.
Many will dismiss this as inconsequential Ivy micropolitics, but it's actually just foreshadowing.
