Ms Gay is already under pressure to resign, just six months into the job, after appearing at a congressional hearing in which she said it “depends on the context” when asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would constitute a breach of Harvard’s bullying and harassment policies. The original paper by the academics contained the same sentence, using “blacks” instead of “African-Americans”. In one sentence, Ms Gay remarked that “using 1987 survey data, Bobo and Gilliam found that African-Americans in ‘high black-empowerment’ areas… are more active than either African-Americans in low-empowerment areas or their white counterparts of comparable socioeconomic status”. Passages of the thesis posted online showed phrases had been lifted. Harvard’s policy states that “it’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words”. Ms Gay was accused by Christopher Rufo of reusing “verbatim language, with a few trivial synonym substitutions, without providing quotation marks”, despite naming the academics whose works she had cited. i live in a modern first world european country, so even in countries which you might consider more “civilised”, it is extremely dangerous to your personal safety to exist as a queer person.The embattled president of Harvard University has been accused of plagiarism in her own PhD dissertation amid calls for her resignation over anti-Semitism on campus.Ĭlaudine Gay, the university’s first black president, was accused on Sunday of lifting sentences from other academics for her 1997 doctoral thesis on the success of black politicians.Ī conservative blogger posted sections of her dissertation that contained almost the exact phrases of academics she had cited in her work, in an apparent breach of Harvard’s anti-plagiarism policy. where i come from, being out is extremely dangerous, and displaying vaguely romantic affection of someone of the same gender, or presenting as slightly gnc, can put you at pretty much a 99% chance of a violent crime. So yeah, most people still grapple with some form of homophobia and that absolutely has a psychological impact when you’re growing up in a world that is actively hostile to your existence.Īlso!! most online queer discourse assumes everyone lives in america, where people are generally more accepting, compared to countries in the rest of the world where, you know, the majority of the population lives. And most of my LGBT students are in the closet and scared of their parents finding out. My school district in San Francisco is very overtly LGBT-positive, but I still hear gay slurs on the playground and today I had a student arguing with me for teaching a short story that happened to have a gay character. bc some people are getting WAY too comfortable acting like homophobia isnt like, a REAL issueĮven in more accepting places, you won’t meet an LGBT person who has never experienced homophobia in some shape or form, even if isn’t super obvious. looking at the state of homophobia worldwide and wherever they are and like really intimately remind yourself how there is nowhere on the planet where you can have gay relationships without your life being in danger, either by hate crimes or institutionalized violence. I honestly think some people on here could use a reality check of just.
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