> Neri Oxman, a former MIT professor and celebrity within the world of academia, stole sentences and whole paragraphs from Wikipedia, other scholars, and technical documents in her academic writing, Business Insider has found.
She certainly sounds like a "public figure", certainly public enough to be held accountable for the crap she and her husband are pulling.
Kudos to Business Insider for this excellent reporting: https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipe...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/style/neri-oxman-mit.html
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-year-of-neri-o...
What I did not see was any connection to the Claudine Gay affair. So there is none, correct?
Ackman is on a jihad so he should have fully expected collateral damage, and should have anticipated this.
I think the first time I heard a leftist reject the categorical imperative was a friend of mine who I met when we were activists for the 2000 Ralph Nader campaign and what was one of the most active local Green parties in the US for a few years. He was teaching a course in ethics at a local college and when I asked him about "how do I make better ethical decisions?" he gave me a spiel about how the left is on the side of the angels and the right is on the side of the devils.
On Mastodon I run into people like that all the time. If you confronted a rightist about, say, Pinochet's crimes, they would probably say it was justified, just look at what Lenin and Stalin did. They did it (and might even do it again) so we have to do it too. Many online leftists (like my ethicist friend) would probably say something to the extent that "it's OK that we do it but not OK when they do it" which is right up there with people who take Carol Gilligan too seriously.
Sleep in the king-sized bed you helped make, Bill.
