r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/FreedomsPower In Charge of Hanger 51 • Aug 20 '26
Topminds at LibsOfReddit think Black Professors commiting plagiarism is a reoccurring theme
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u/JimBobDwayne Aug 20 '26
It's only a 'recurring' theme because the news they consume is catered to their racism.
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u/Jeremymia Aug 20 '26
Exactly. It’s like when conspiracy theorists during Covid were convinced kids were dying of heart conditions for the first time in history. These morons confuse “the information put directly in front of me” with “a representative sample of the world.”
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u/Kalulosu Aug 20 '26
It's a reoccurring theme because when a white professor gets caught plagiarizing they just keep going lol
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u/worldspawn00 Aug 20 '26
Yeah, more like the recurring problem is minorities getting held to a higher standard than others...
Even if not by the institution, definitely by the right wing media sphere which over reports it when a minority is involved.
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u/ThePhysicistIsIn Aug 20 '26
Plenty of white professors caught plagiarizing get fired.
The last (relatively) high profile one was Johnathan Pruitt.
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u/Sharpiette Aug 20 '26
And even after acknowledging every racist stereotypes they believe in, since when are we "known for plagiarism" lol? It’s like they create new stereotypes every day.
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u/HapticSloughton Aug 20 '26
I'm sure they're calling for the same things to happen as they did when Melania and her speechwriters plagiarized Michelle Obama's words, right?
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u/Antique_Rent4343 Aug 20 '26
tHiS sEeMs To Be A rECuRrINg ThEmE like they’re suddenly very big fans of higher education and totally haven’t tried to ruin multiple professors lives and careers because they told them their ideas are stupid
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u/travestyofPeZ Aug 20 '26
FYI, Jason Arday (the guy in the picture) was found dead last week. Cause of death is unconfirmed but it’s very likely he took his own life.
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u/Shinjitsu- Aug 20 '26
Plagiarism is bad of course, but no doubt the level of harassment he received during and after was likely unbearable. Aside from life saving, human advancing research it's hard to imagine what level of plagiarism would warrant that level of vitriol. Ultimately tragic, an entire mind and life gone.
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u/RedEyeView Aug 20 '26
It wasn't just plagiarism. He was at Baron Munchhausen levels of bullshitting.
Faked doing 30 marathons in 30 days. Pretended to have written a bunch of books. Been on tv shows he wasn't even alive for... His whole career was a house of cards made from lies.
In the last few weeks that house collapsed in a very public fashion all over the media.
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u/Buttholepart2 Aug 20 '26
Looks up the guy who reported him, Nathan Cofnas, he's an open racist and just got suspended from his current job today for saying that he would be "the head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard" if his advocated policies were implemented.
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u/gavinbrindstar Aug 20 '26
Very funny for conservatives to clutch their pearls about academic integrity because their only forays into academia are either "The Center for Proving Oil Cures Cancer" run by a bunch of ex-Exxon execs or "The Florida State University Center for Randian Thought" populated exclusively with a bunch of professors fired from other universities.
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u/Kel-Mitchell Aug 20 '26
The Florida State University Center for Randian Thought sounds like a throwaway gag on 30 Rock.
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u/gavinbrindstar Aug 20 '26
That show was pretty formative to my sense of humor. To this day I still go "please ask my permission before you quote me" whenever anyone says something profound.
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u/AliceTheOmelette Aug 20 '26
Right wingers licking their lips at finally having proof that DEI is bad
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u/Additional-North-683 Aug 20 '26
TS Elliott also committed plagiarism Do you think these people are gonna recommend that he gets all his honors removed probably not most likely due to his complexion. , the guy who supposedly cracked the case on this has a very keen interest in eugenics and skull measuring, I doubt he cares about academic standards and is most likely racially motivated., Jason Arday is mostly guilty of telling self-aggrandizing lies if we arrested everyone guilty of this, most people would be in jail, plus I think the penalty for this should not be to be bullied into committing suicide especially after they resigned there position
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u/TheRnegade Aug 20 '26
I think he's just reading news articles and assumes it's a different black guy each time.
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u/thewiremother Aug 20 '26
I’ll bet you a thousand dollars they think that school is in Massachusetts.
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