And they're what led to Liz Magill's firing, without the criticism of her academic work!

We're in the bizarre situation where if Gay had resigned on the basis of her testimony alone, I think fewer people would be arguing that racism was involved. Because the story would simply be, "two university president's resign after disastrous congressional hearing."

But because Gay also committed fifty or so counts of plagiarism, and the guy who highlighted it is white and conservative and therefore a de-facto racist in progressive minds, we have to pretend that Gay's firing was all about racism.