RA plagiarism scandal n.X+1

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Klein’s line was “I did the paper according to the instructions received, submitted my paper, it was marked by a university professor, end of story. What is the big deal?”

The fact that he passed the class proves why Klein is so damn smart. He obviously avoided any non-politically correct thought crimes in his paper. He just copied the approved viewpoint: Allende the Marxist = Genius, wonderful, progressive, etc. So what if Klein forgot to change a word in every sentence; every sentence he stole was an approved sentence. If he had actually done any independent thinking or failed to support the party line, then he would have been in some real trouble.

Has anybody checked the prof's syllabus for plagiarism? I bet it was copied verbatim and without attribution from some other prof's syllabus.

I once googled some idiotic comment a prof made on one of my papers and found it was verbatim from the über verboten Wikipedia. The only standard in higher ed is no standard. If it's good enough for Comrade Putin it's good enough for you and me.

Here is the original paper.

Allende did not control the entire state machinery — he did not have a
majority in Congress, he did not control the judiciary, he did not have the loyalty of the
entire civil service nor of much of the army high command, which had been trained in the
United States. The upper classes owned most of the mass media, and used it against him
(the CIA also gave money to conservative newspapers and radios to do a vicious smear
campaign playing on fears of communism). (Internet)

Wow...is this awesome referencing style APA, Harvard or MLA?

But what would you expect from some social-communist crackpot named GHH-LAAH-EEH-EEEN (that's how you'd hear it spelled in original, not Kleen or something).