Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo Wants America to Return to 1776

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Rightwing activist Chris Rufo recently led the charge in helping oust Claudine Gay from the Harvard presidency. While the charge is plagiarism—a charge Gay herself acknowledged—the reason for Rufo’s intense focus on her has little to do with academic pedigree. Rufo, a former vegetarian yogi, is leading the right-wing charge against DEI trainings, LGBTQ+ rights, and any mention of critical race theory. Rolling off his "victory" of Gay's resignation, he's published a blog post that he hopes will become the guiding manifesto for the "New Right." As Derek breaks down, this means returning America back to 1776 in many ways. Show Notes The New Right Activism How We Squeezed Harvard to Push Claudine Gay Out Claudine Gay: my part in her downfall Bill Ackman’s wife is accused of plagiarizing part of her dissertation Contracts Between Hungarian Nonprofit and Christopher Rufo, Others, Raise Foreign Agent Concerns The Plagiarism War Has Begun A lesson in persuasion — Loretta Ross Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Right-wing activist Chris Rufo recently led the charge in helping oust
0:34.9	Claudine Gaye from the Harvard presidency. While the charge is plagiarism, a
0:40.0	charged Gay herself acknowledged, the reason for Rufo's intense focus on her has little to do with academic
0:46.8	pedigree. I'm not going to touch the charge of plagiarism in this episode, but I will link to an excellent article in the Atlantic by
0:54.7	game desire Ian Bogost, who replicated the fact-checking process that Rufo and
0:59.7	his cohorts likely used on his own academic publications and showed the many problems that occurred in the process.
1:09.0	Now this isn't to excuse Gay and the problem goes far beyond her. I recently took a course on science
1:16.3	writing via Stanford University and the professor found that roughly 20% of
1:21.6	published scientific studies exhibited plagiarism.
1:26.0	Now a few days after revelations about gay surfaced,
1:30.0	it was discovered that Neri Oxman, who is the wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill
1:35.3	Ackman, plagiarized part of her dissertation as well.
1:40.3	Now Oxman admitted her errors on Twitter while her husband jumped out and said they were going after her because he had threatened to withhold donations to Harvard.
1:52.0	Okay, a lot going on here. withhold donations to Harvard.
1:52.9	Okay, a lot going on here.
1:54.2	Now, Rufo shared Ackman's praise of Rufo's own book
2:00.0	the very same day and completely avoided any talk about Oxman's plagiarism.
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