A case study of leftist DARVO in action: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
Gay is still keeping her teaching job with a $900,000/year salary. No one on the Harvard Corporation board that hired her has stepped down. All of the DIE professors and administrators who support her still have cushy jobs at Harvard.
"Duplicative language with inadequate citation" is peak doublespeak for plagiarism (https://projectluminas.substack.com/p/ncte-and-the-doublespeak-award-professionalized). I just added Gay's plagiarist practice and Harvard's euphemistic defense into the academic integrity syllabus section and plagiarism curriculum in my first-year writing courses at Virginia Tech and SNHU. It's part of exposing my students to the broader demagogic institutional rot that my English departments and the whole discipline professionalized and normalized since the 70s. Hadn't heard of DARVO, IPC, or Perfect Rhetorical Fortress before to account for such scapegoating speech patterns and illogical rhetorical behavior. Thx Greg and Yuri.
"These things really happened, that is the thing to keep one’s eye on. They happened even though Lord Halifax said they happened." Orwell - Looking Back on the Spanish War
This is what I see with the trans craze, when some of the worst unreliable right wing sites call attention to some trans craziness event, and everyone pish poshes them, and they turn out to be right...
I check the reliability of everything I source info from. Rebel News is famously far right, racist, pro-Nazi, everything you can think of. Sources on the far left and right aren't much factual but occasionally they do, esp on certain subjects. If you really want the straight facts on the transgender craze and 'gender-affirming care' on kids, consult the right wing media. If you want more truth on Donald Trump and his deeper-than-the-Marianas-Trench legal follies, consult the left wing media.
The farther down either end of the spectrum, the bias grows and the factualism diminishes. Rebel News will only ever able to get it right once in a great while; better sources on the right include the National Review, the National Post (Canada), Unherd (UK) and even, way more often than Rebel News, Fox News. And I was slamming the far right sources because that's what I was talking about. You'd find me doing the same if I was slamming far left sources yet praising them for being more factual about Donald Trump.
My leanings are to the left but probably closer to the centre than yours. I consult *reliable* sources on both sides; do you? Or do you keep yourself in a carefully insulated bubble?
I agree with all of this, and I'll throw in something more. Chris Rufo spearheaded attempts to bring this plagiarism to public attention, and he was more successful than I imagine he expected. Since the doctrine of DEI requires that the most intersectional person be the "good guy", Rufo basically ju-jitsued lefties into defending plagiarism.
I'm a long-time liberal and proud of it, but I never, ever let my principles get ahead of my reason and become the rope with which I hang myself.
Greg, Thanks for the clear thinking as usual. And for the introduction to the IPC concept, which is so obvious once mentioned that I am embarrassed that I was not aware of it. It is now added to my lexicon. Sorry that I have been too busy to take the time to read your and Jonathan’s new book. The Institutional response to what transpired at Harvard by are widely viewed as the elite academic institutions will be fascinating to observe. I have already emailed the leaders of the two schools on whose boards I previously served to redouble their alertness to two of the causes for which I was the continual nag during my board tenures, the necessity for robust free speech on campus as the most important diversity to be represented on their campuses and the necessity not to give in to the tyranny of low expectations in the quest for surface diversity and the deleterious impact that it would inevitably have on both the institutions and the recipients ( incorrectly labeled beneficiaries) of those low expectations. Keep up the great work!
So when I see calls for “competition” at the K-12 level, my hair starts to stand on end. I think Diane Ravitch’s concept of Public School as a place of learning civics as well as academics is an important one, and with the fragmentation of…well, everything it becomes more important to have some sort of lingua franca, ideally with a free speech *culture* (which you so eloquently fight for) at its core. This would mean fighting for our principles within the public school arena, not attempting an end-around with Charter schools (which have fewer First Amendment protections for students, if any).
At the college/university level I wholeheartedly agree; my alma mater (University of Chicago) was built as an alternative to Eastern schools (not out of ideological antipathy, just Chicago chauvinism, if I remember correctly). There’s no good reason why it can’t be done again.
BTW - forgot to mention that I love The Silver Spoon Rule - great insight and excellent example - one of the things that I learned in college and has proved invaluable many times since my graduation is how often seeming inexplicable behavior ( sometimes even the practitioner in retrospect) is the theory of cognitive dissonance, of which The SSP is a wonderful illustration.
Oh, the sweet irony of Harvard which so earnestly defended affirmative action all the way to its demise at the Supreme Court has now become a national laughing stock precisely because of its affirmative action hiring of its plagiarizing president. Now, at least the most obvious example of the malignancy has been excised.
I encourage Freshmen to learn from "the least among us:"
UC Berkeley attracts 18 year olds and homeless schizophrenics easily triggered to scream in anger. The "smarter than average and mostly over protected newly minted adults" are unlikely to vote. As I pass the one whacko on a campus bus full of Freshmen I discretely whisper a trigger for a 15 minute threatening loud angry rant that scares the hell out of the kids... while their shy eyes are still in shock from their first ever exposure to such abject Emotional Immaturity I address their nervous wide eyed panic:"Haven't you ever seen a Trump voter before? Since you young people don't vote... that threatening drooling smelly dude in rags... who never did anything for anyone.... will be your new leader."😁😁😁😁
Forget for now her indifference to the ranting of pro Hamas voices at Harvard. And even put aside the plagiarism. If there was an equivalent to Gay who was white (and female) , Phillips Exeter and all that, no fucking way that person would be president of Harvard with 11 publications. It’s a joke. And we all know it. 4 pubs when she got tenure? Seriously?
It’s tiring to see the justification of no standards for people with dark skin and then see these people talk about racism.
Massive silencing? DEI is everywhere in elite education and in corporate America. Including at my undergraduate alma mater, where every faculty hire applicant must submit an "Equity and Inclusion Statement" to ensure ideological conformity.
Here I quote:
" One of the most critical components of your application dossier is your Equity and Inclusion Statement. The Equity and Inclusion Statement is an opportunity to share with the search committee and with the department your values, commitments, and abilities to contribute to Pomona’s educational mission. Should you become a faculty member, the statement can also serve as a “first record” of your journey with DEI as an instructor, researcher, mentor, and community member.
The statement should emphasize your knowledge about the sources of inequalities in higher education, especially at historically white institutions such as Pomona College, and your track record and success in mentoring, teaching, and engaging with under-represented/marginalized groups on and beyond campus. Finally, you can use the statement to explain how your experiences and skills with teaching, mentoring, and advising through a diversity, equity, and inclusive framework align with or challenge Pomona’s DEI values and will contribute to growing inclusive excellence across the campus, from curricular to the co-curricular to residential life." https://www.pomona.edu/administration/academic-dean/faculty-jobs/how-prepare-diversity-statement
I am all for "diversity" but not the institutionalized imposition of a particular epistemology as a precondition of employment--e,g. the delusional racial reductivism of Ibram Kendi who is the main exponent of the philosophy behind DEI. I am a classical liberal who hates Trump and the right wing and who believes that diversity of thought is a virtue, even if I happen to disagree with the thought. This kind of ideological winnowing is not necessary to achieve racial diversity and comes at an even higher cost of ideological conformity. This sort of thing is the sort of Orwellian groupthink that leads to mediocrity.
A case study of leftist DARVO in action: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
Gay is still keeping her teaching job with a $900,000/year salary. No one on the Harvard Corporation board that hired her has stepped down. All of the DIE professors and administrators who support her still have cushy jobs at Harvard.
We must keep up the pressure and expose all of the rot: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-get-into-harvard-gay-bobo-corporation
"Duplicative language with inadequate citation" is peak doublespeak for plagiarism (https://projectluminas.substack.com/p/ncte-and-the-doublespeak-award-professionalized). I just added Gay's plagiarist practice and Harvard's euphemistic defense into the academic integrity syllabus section and plagiarism curriculum in my first-year writing courses at Virginia Tech and SNHU. It's part of exposing my students to the broader demagogic institutional rot that my English departments and the whole discipline professionalized and normalized since the 70s. Hadn't heard of DARVO, IPC, or Perfect Rhetorical Fortress before to account for such scapegoating speech patterns and illogical rhetorical behavior. Thx Greg and Yuri.
"These things really happened, that is the thing to keep one’s eye on. They happened even though Lord Halifax said they happened." Orwell - Looking Back on the Spanish War
This is what I see with the trans craze, when some of the worst unreliable right wing sites call attention to some trans craziness event, and everyone pish poshes them, and they turn out to be right...
"unreliable right wing" in the same sentence as "and they turn out to be right".
You are doing exactly everything this article describes.
(1) Not using logic. If they keep turning out to be right they are NOT unreliable.
(2) Protecting your (self-admittedly broken) worldview by using the leftist language of endless slander (unreliable, right wing).
I check the reliability of everything I source info from. Rebel News is famously far right, racist, pro-Nazi, everything you can think of. Sources on the far left and right aren't much factual but occasionally they do, esp on certain subjects. If you really want the straight facts on the transgender craze and 'gender-affirming care' on kids, consult the right wing media. If you want more truth on Donald Trump and his deeper-than-the-Marianas-Trench legal follies, consult the left wing media.
The farther down either end of the spectrum, the bias grows and the factualism diminishes. Rebel News will only ever able to get it right once in a great while; better sources on the right include the National Review, the National Post (Canada), Unherd (UK) and even, way more often than Rebel News, Fox News. And I was slamming the far right sources because that's what I was talking about. You'd find me doing the same if I was slamming far left sources yet praising them for being more factual about Donald Trump.
My leanings are to the left but probably closer to the centre than yours. I consult *reliable* sources on both sides; do you? Or do you keep yourself in a carefully insulated bubble?
I agree with all of this, and I'll throw in something more. Chris Rufo spearheaded attempts to bring this plagiarism to public attention, and he was more successful than I imagine he expected. Since the doctrine of DEI requires that the most intersectional person be the "good guy", Rufo basically ju-jitsued lefties into defending plagiarism.
I'm a long-time liberal and proud of it, but I never, ever let my principles get ahead of my reason and become the rope with which I hang myself.
You don't get tripped up because you are a liberal and not a leftist (DEI religion believer).
I haven't run across a liberal in over a decade. A once great breed, now reduced to watching the Democrat party destroy everything they believed in.
Greg, Thanks for the clear thinking as usual. And for the introduction to the IPC concept, which is so obvious once mentioned that I am embarrassed that I was not aware of it. It is now added to my lexicon. Sorry that I have been too busy to take the time to read your and Jonathan’s new book. The Institutional response to what transpired at Harvard by are widely viewed as the elite academic institutions will be fascinating to observe. I have already emailed the leaders of the two schools on whose boards I previously served to redouble their alertness to two of the causes for which I was the continual nag during my board tenures, the necessity for robust free speech on campus as the most important diversity to be represented on their campuses and the necessity not to give in to the tyranny of low expectations in the quest for surface diversity and the deleterious impact that it would inevitably have on both the institutions and the recipients ( incorrectly labeled beneficiaries) of those low expectations. Keep up the great work!
Tucker
Thank you Tucker! Shoot me an e-mail and we can send you a book!
So when I see calls for “competition” at the K-12 level, my hair starts to stand on end. I think Diane Ravitch’s concept of Public School as a place of learning civics as well as academics is an important one, and with the fragmentation of…well, everything it becomes more important to have some sort of lingua franca, ideally with a free speech *culture* (which you so eloquently fight for) at its core. This would mean fighting for our principles within the public school arena, not attempting an end-around with Charter schools (which have fewer First Amendment protections for students, if any).
At the college/university level I wholeheartedly agree; my alma mater (University of Chicago) was built as an alternative to Eastern schools (not out of ideological antipathy, just Chicago chauvinism, if I remember correctly). There’s no good reason why it can’t be done again.
Fighting within most absolutely and unequivocally was tried - and has failed spectacularly.
"Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result" - AE
BTW - forgot to mention that I love The Silver Spoon Rule - great insight and excellent example - one of the things that I learned in college and has proved invaluable many times since my graduation is how often seeming inexplicable behavior ( sometimes even the practitioner in retrospect) is the theory of cognitive dissonance, of which The SSP is a wonderful illustration.
I was once on the waiting list at HBS. I am REALLY glad I never attended Harvard, dodged a bullet there.
We need a moratorium in journalism and media of using lazy adjectives like “liberal” or “conservative” to describe the players in the production.
They’re not creative enough on the labels.
They could have used “Trumpalite” or Trump lite.
Maybe I shouldn’t be giving them ideas.
Mr Lukianoff, I love you! Also, I hadn't seen that op-ed from Steven Pinker, which was fantastic. Double thanks for pointing that out.
Excellent.
Oh, the sweet irony of Harvard which so earnestly defended affirmative action all the way to its demise at the Supreme Court has now become a national laughing stock precisely because of its affirmative action hiring of its plagiarizing president. Now, at least the most obvious example of the malignancy has been excised.
GOTV
I encourage Freshmen to learn from "the least among us:"
UC Berkeley attracts 18 year olds and homeless schizophrenics easily triggered to scream in anger. The "smarter than average and mostly over protected newly minted adults" are unlikely to vote. As I pass the one whacko on a campus bus full of Freshmen I discretely whisper a trigger for a 15 minute threatening loud angry rant that scares the hell out of the kids... while their shy eyes are still in shock from their first ever exposure to such abject Emotional Immaturity I address their nervous wide eyed panic:"Haven't you ever seen a Trump voter before? Since you young people don't vote... that threatening drooling smelly dude in rags... who never did anything for anyone.... will be your new leader."😁😁😁😁
what are you even saying?
Not to worry! I'm a "licensed professional"... notice my "sensitivity" with this psychotic patient::
https://youtu.be/Rr914tQIGdQ?t=97
😁😁😁😁
Forget for now her indifference to the ranting of pro Hamas voices at Harvard. And even put aside the plagiarism. If there was an equivalent to Gay who was white (and female) , Phillips Exeter and all that, no fucking way that person would be president of Harvard with 11 publications. It’s a joke. And we all know it. 4 pubs when she got tenure? Seriously?
It’s tiring to see the justification of no standards for people with dark skin and then see these people talk about racism.
DEI and ESG. Political correctness is a way to institute totalitarianism in a very disgusting way.
Massive silencing of DEI initiatives incoming from right wingers and they’ll still claim to be free speech absolutists. Total hypocrisy!
Massive silencing? DEI is everywhere in elite education and in corporate America. Including at my undergraduate alma mater, where every faculty hire applicant must submit an "Equity and Inclusion Statement" to ensure ideological conformity.
Here I quote:
" One of the most critical components of your application dossier is your Equity and Inclusion Statement. The Equity and Inclusion Statement is an opportunity to share with the search committee and with the department your values, commitments, and abilities to contribute to Pomona’s educational mission. Should you become a faculty member, the statement can also serve as a “first record” of your journey with DEI as an instructor, researcher, mentor, and community member.
The statement should emphasize your knowledge about the sources of inequalities in higher education, especially at historically white institutions such as Pomona College, and your track record and success in mentoring, teaching, and engaging with under-represented/marginalized groups on and beyond campus. Finally, you can use the statement to explain how your experiences and skills with teaching, mentoring, and advising through a diversity, equity, and inclusive framework align with or challenge Pomona’s DEI values and will contribute to growing inclusive excellence across the campus, from curricular to the co-curricular to residential life." https://www.pomona.edu/administration/academic-dean/faculty-jobs/how-prepare-diversity-statement
I am all for "diversity" but not the institutionalized imposition of a particular epistemology as a precondition of employment--e,g. the delusional racial reductivism of Ibram Kendi who is the main exponent of the philosophy behind DEI. I am a classical liberal who hates Trump and the right wing and who believes that diversity of thought is a virtue, even if I happen to disagree with the thought. This kind of ideological winnowing is not necessary to achieve racial diversity and comes at an even higher cost of ideological conformity. This sort of thing is the sort of Orwellian groupthink that leads to mediocrity.