Kamala Harris, did you copy any of the passages in her 2009 publication? It certainly appears like it. It’s damning to see how Harris has spoken out loud about using other people’s work and passing it off as her unique. Christopher Rufo has found some compelling evidence of this. Now, when many American take for granted that officials lie, this may not seem like a big deal, but it is. The theft calls into question Harris ‘ honesty, her dignity, her trustworthiness, and perhaps her most famous area of reported expertise, as the plagiarism took place in a book that was designed to build her credibility as a prosecutor.
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JD Vance knows it’s a big deal. ” I saw now, actually”, Vance said Monday,” a tale that Kamala Harris seemingly copied some important chunks of her guide from Wikipedia. Voting for Donald Trump is therefore if you want a leader with your own thoughts. If you want a leader who files her individual ideas from Wikipedia, voting for Kamala Harris”.
The New York Times attempted to discredit Harris ‘ plagiarism in a 1100-word article on Monday, and it shows how far the sainted Harris ‘ adversaries will go. In the Times ‘ version,” conservative]a four-alarm word for the Times and its hapless readers ] activist Christopher Rufo” is making a mountain out of a molehill. He “had tried to “make a big deal of” the fact that he had used relatively small referencing mistakes in a lot of text.” ‘”  ,
That was the judgment of one Jonathan Bailey, whom the Times identifies as” a copying consultant”, without explaining what exactly a “plagiarism expert” is or how one attains like a lofty status. Bailey, the Times informs us magisterially,” said on Monday that his first response to Mr. Rufo’s claims was that the errors were never significant, given the size of the file”.
As long as you fit the incidents into a file of sufficient size, you can get away with ripping out entire passages of different functions and claiming them as your own if you’re a Democrat. Our moral superiors have also determined that Harris ‘ plagiarism was the wrong kind:” The New York Times found that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer, which is considered the most serious form of plagiarism. Instead, the sentences are copied of programs or statistical data that are published elsewhere. So relax, peasants, and vote for Kamala as you have been told to do.
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However, Rufo returned to the real world and discovered a number of instances of paragraphs that Harris had purloined so precisely and extensively that they would derail any politician with an R after their name. An NBC News report from 2008 stated:
In Detroit’s public schools, 24.9 percent of the students graduated from high school, while 30.5 percent graduated in Indianapolis Public Schools and 34.1 percent received diplomas in the Cleveland Municipal City School District…. Nationally, about 70 percent of U. S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma and about 1.2 million students drop out annually…. The report, issued by America’s Promise Alliance, found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation’s largest cities receive diplomas.
Compare for yourself. Harris wrote:
Only 25 % of the students in Detroit’s public schools earned degrees in the Cleveland Municipal City School District, compared to 30.5 percent in Indianapolis public schools, and 34 % in the Cleveland Municipal City School District. Overall, about 70 percent of the U. S. students graduate from public and private schools on time with a regular diploma, and about 1.2 million students drop out annually. About half of the students who attend public schools in the nation’s largest cities receive diplomas.
Vance noted that this was the case with the Wikipedia entry before Harris published her book:
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The Center for Court Innovation and the New York State Unified Court System collaborated to create the Midtown Community Court. The court works in partnership with local residents, businesses and social service agencies in order to organize community service projects and provide on-site social services, including drug treatment, mental health counseling, and job training. The Midtown Court combines punishment and help, making low-level offenders required to pay back the neighborhood through community service while also providing them with help with issues that frequently underlie criminal behavior. This is in contrast to the typical court system.
Harris:
The Center for Court Innovation and the New York State Unified Court System collaborated to create the Mid-town ]sic ] Community Court. The court works in partnership with local residents, businesses, and social service agencies to organize community service projects and provide on-site social services, including drug treatment, mental health counseling, and job training. Midtown Court was novel because it required low-level offenders to repay the neighborhood through community service while also providing them with assistance with issues that frequently underlie criminal behavior.
These are not “relatively minor citation mistakes”. These are instances of someone appropriating another person’s research as her own. Rufo also points out that in cribbing from Wikipedia, Harris made a revealing error. She was offering a citation for her claim that “illegal vending was down 24 percent”, and Rufo notes that “on Wikipedia, the’ 24 percent ‘ figure was apparently tied to a different report, which found that’ arrests for unlicensed vending,’ rather than unlicensed vending as such,’ fell by 24 percent’ (emphasis mine ). Her reliance on Wikipedia, an unreliable source, led to an unreliable conclusion”.
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Once again: this matters, or at least it used to matter. Young Joe Biden delivered a speech that mash-uped class warfare rhetoric with his own experiences and those of his family in September 1987, hoping to become president before he became a doddering figurehead. It was gripping stuff, but as it turned out, it was n’t his class warfare rhetoric at all. It was all that Binden had uttered in a speech delivered by British Labour leader Neil Kinnock. Admitting he had made “mistakes”, Biden bowed out of the race.
Thirty-seven years ago, lies and plagiarism were still enough to end a presidential campaign. Why are n’t they now? Because Harris is ( supposedly ) black and undeniably female and because, Old Joe’s 2024 experience notwithstanding, leftists (unlike patriots ) tend to stand by their own. The American people simply must accept less trustworthy politicians than those of the previous era. And that’s exactly what we’ll get.