That’s the thing that perplexes me - I’ve not been following this closely but it sounds like he was a compulsive liar and grifter whose actions caught up with him. Doesn’t seem like someone to rally behind.
He was investingated for plagiarism by Liverpool University, where the degree in question was from, and they found his work flawed in attributions and references, but not full on plagiarism.
The current media storm came from a self a owed race realist who says “in a meritocracy there’d be no black people at university” stirring it up repeating the claims he was found innocent of until he quit his job and killed himself.
Not to say he’s blameless, the errors and failings in attribution and referencing are not the be all and end all, but a lot of the other claims about things he made up - raising money for charity, running the marathons - this article fact checks and comes down on more likely true, or closer to true than not.
His last ditch claim was that it wasn’t plagiarism, it was autistic mimicry, which is an insult to autistic individuals everywhere.
Looks like a conman who couldn’t handle reality catching up with him.
So like Trump, and probably Musk too?
Theyre rather too shameless
That’s the thing that perplexes me - I’ve not been following this closely but it sounds like he was a compulsive liar and grifter whose actions caught up with him. Doesn’t seem like someone to rally behind.
We should be able to deal with plagirism without hounding (only black) plagarists until they commit suicide.
I’m not pro-hounding.
But you said you’ve not been following closely but you’re closely regurgitating the far right propaganda character assassination.
Do better FFS
Based on the other comments here it’s messy, which was my takeaway. My comment was more about making him a figure to rally behind.
Not appreciating the insinuation I’m lying though, maybe I should go off myself as well, eh?
He was investingated for plagiarism by Liverpool University, where the degree in question was from, and they found his work flawed in attributions and references, but not full on plagiarism.
The current media storm came from a self a owed race realist who says “in a meritocracy there’d be no black people at university” stirring it up repeating the claims he was found innocent of until he quit his job and killed himself.
Not to say he’s blameless, the errors and failings in attribution and referencing are not the be all and end all, but a lot of the other claims about things he made up - raising money for charity, running the marathons - this article fact checks and comes down on more likely true, or closer to true than not.