If right upfront I state that most of what follows is from a variety of sources, should I be accused of plagiarism? Likewise, if I do not note that most of the following is from other sources, should I be accused of plagiarism?
Just to be clear … most of the following is from either The Loop, Daybreak Insider, or Townhall, using the “copy and paste” method. There I’ve said it!
Granted while ‘copy and paste’ can easily occur incidentally in blogs, it should not happen in significant pieces of literature, such as doctoral dissertations or published books, and if it did occur, it would be correctly identified as plagiarism.
Now for the parts that I copied from other sources.
From Daybreak Insider:
“Vice President Harris is being accused of plagiarizing from several sources in her 2009 book on policing that was released while she was district attorney of San Francisco. The book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer,” was co-authored with Joan O’C Hamilton. The so-called “plagiarism hunter,” Austrian professor Stefan Weber, found 27 times that Harris, the 2024 Democrat nominee for president, and her co-author allegedly committed some form of plagiarism. He found that ‘24 fragments are plagiarism from other authors, and 3 fragments are self-plagiarism from a work written with a co-author’”
From The Loop:
“A study conducted by a world-renowned plagiarism detection expert found that 2024 Democratic nominee Kamala Harris plagiarized a significant amount of her 2009 book “Smart on Crime.”
“Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation,” scholar Christopher Rufo wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Monday morning.
“The current vice president even lifted material from Wikipedia,” Rufo added.”
From Townhall:
“Kamala Harris might have plagiarized good chunks of her book, Smart on Crime. This goes beyond the recent plagiarism scandals that have rocked elite higher education institutions. It’s one thing not to cite someone else’s work. It’s another when you copy and paste entire sections of Wikipedia, which the vice president is accused of. And I thought Joe Biden lifting Neil Kinnock’s speech during his 1988 campaign was bad. This is even more egregious.”
As Christopher Rufo commented:
“The New York Times provided its “plagiarism expert” with only five plagiarized passages—in other words, it deliberately withheld more than a dozen of the accusations in an attempt to manipulate the expert and run interference for Kamala Harris. This is pure corruption.”
No, you just didn’t catch me as I admit that Rufo’s comment was directly from X.
10/15/24
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