John McWhorter is an American hero
wtf I love the New York Times now
He published this article in The New York Times 30 minutes ago:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/opinion/harvard-claudine-gay.html (paywalled)
https://archive.ph/JS8OH (unpaywalled)
Yes, I work as a writer who occasionally publishes paywalled articles, and I am fine with bypassing paywalls. Sue me.
(don’t actually sue me)
No. No no no. No!
He capitalizes "black." He lower-cases "white." And if one cannot be just a wee little bit pregnant, one can't be slightly plagiaristic. He was willing to overlook what God knows how many unfortunate Harvard undergrads became un-Harvardized for over the years, little wee bits of uncitationed submissions.
No. Johnny-come-lately. And some miserably pedestrian prose for a guy who's a linguist, for fuck's sake.
I know you must be giddy now. Take a deep breath. Remember how long you been on our Claudine's case. You should be John's hero.
Harvard Finds More Instances of ‘Duplicative Language’ in President’s Work
--- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/us/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism.html
"Duplicative Language". That is creative writing.