Academia, Love Me Back
We (as outsider observers) lack the evidence to judge this story objectively. It sucks to be unfairly accused of plagiarism (it happened to me once in high school).<p>However, we don&#x27;t know why the professor came to the conclusion that she plagiarised. Maybe they jumped to conclusions on limited evidence, or maybe this paper was written with vocabulary and sentence structure which was inconsistent with the student&#x27;s earlier work. Either way, it&#x27;s incredibly unlikely that an academic professor of sociology would be a closet racist.<p>tl;dr It&#x27;s unfair to be accused of plagiarism for submitting a paper which sounds &quot;too intelligent&quot;, but it&#x27;s also unfair to be accused of racism for attempting to enforce academic standards.<p>Unfortunately, this a story which is going to press the internet&#x27;s hot buttons.