{"id":502,"date":"2024-10-16T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/kamala-the-plagiarist\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:38:08","slug":"kamala-the-plagiarist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/kamala-the-plagiarist\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala the Plagiarist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">She follows in the footsteps of Joe and Jill Biden, Claudine Gay, and so many others. Christopher Rufo <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/p\/kamala-harriss-plagiarism-problem\">exposes her<\/a>.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">At the beginning of Harris\u2019s political career, in the run-up to her campaign to serve as California\u2019s attorney general, she and co-author Joan O\u2019C Hamilton published a small volume, entitled&#0160;<em>Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor\u2019s Plan to Make Us Safer<\/em>. The book helped to establish her credibility on criminal-justice issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">However, according to Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/10\/world\/europe\/plagiarism-baerbock-austria-germany.html\" rel=\"\">plagiarism<\/a>&#0160;hunter\u201d who has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world, Harris\u2019s book contains more than a dozen \u201cvicious plagiarism fragments.\u201d Some of the passages he highlighted appear to contain minor transgressions\u2014reproducing small sections of text; insufficient paraphrasing\u2014but others seem to reflect more serious infractions, similar in severity to those&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiarist\" rel=\"\">found<\/a>&#0160;in Harvard president Claudine Gay\u2019s doctoral thesis. (Harris did not respond to a request for comment.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Read it <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/p\/kamala-harriss-plagiarism-problem\">all<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She follows in the footsteps of Joe and Jill Biden, Claudine Gay, and so many others. Christopher Rufo exposes her.&#0160;&#0160; At the beginning of Harris\u2019s political career, in the run-up to her campaign to serve as California\u2019s attorney general, she and co-author Joan O\u2019C Hamilton published a small volume, entitled&#0160;Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/kamala-the-plagiarist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kamala the Plagiarist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,29,125,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plagiarism","category-political-ponerology","category-truthfulness","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}