From what I can tell, she is guilty of plagiarism and unless SHE is claiming that her race somehow "made her do it", her race has absolutely nothing to do with her getting caught; although it could possibly have had something to do with why she had not already been held accountable by the powers that be.
One cannot say with any credibility that a woman, or even a black woman, is just as capable of doing job "X" (i.e. a certain position in business, academia, or even in politics) "as a man", then when she is caught having done, or doing, something wrong cry that the only reason she is being called out is because of "right-wing critics", or "it's only because she is a woman", or "it's because she is black". I've found that, more often than not, the race card and/or the gender card is used when someone realizes that they have been held accountable, just as anyone else would have been, and they cannot defend their own actions, or lack of actions in some cases. When someone tries that, not only do they realize that they have lost the argument, but they are letting everyone else know that they have lost the argument and deserve whatever they got (had to resign, lost their job, fired, lost the election, etc.).
People who so easily use the race card, when race had nothing to do with the mess they got themselves in, probably used the same card to unjustly get the position in the first place. Falsely claiming something, or someone, is racist only serves to do a disservice to actual victims of racism (regardless of the victims' race); When everything is "racist", then nothing is.
If someone makes the claim that someone, or something someone said or did, is racist, then they should be prepared to back up that claim with evidence of it. If they can't, then they need to shut up and focus on and address the actual issue at hand.
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