tequila4kapp said:
I seriously do not understand going to the mats for Gay. 50 alleged instances of plagiarism is insane. That should be indefensible. And her "punishment" is that she gets to earn 900K to be a professor. It is such a head scratcher that she's allowed to stay on campus at all.
This whole thing is a scandal manipulated by Christopher Rufo. No one really cares but he's probably the best current right wing provocateur at taking
meaningful (EDIT: meaningless) issues and convincing conservatives to manipulate the media into making them stories.
He's done this with a bunch of things over the last few years and appears to be the thought leader along MAGAts. Nothing he is doing is like helpful to the country or likely to lead to any meaningful policy change, but he's winning at what he cares about.