I don't know anything about Neri Oxman, but she didn't suddenly become a public figure by virtue of what Ackman did. "Holding her accountable" (to use their dishonest words) is itself mean and bullying.
> Neri Oxman, a former MIT professor and celebrity within the world of academia, stole sentences and whole paragraphs from Wikipedia, other scholars, and technical documents in her academic writing, Business Insider has found.
She certainly sounds like a "public figure", certainly public enough to be held accountable for the crap she and her husband are pulling.
Kudos to Business Insider for this excellent reporting: https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipe...
Or...
I don't support Ackerman targeting students. See? It's that easy to not be partisan.
what did Oxman ever do to help fire Claudine Gay?
If the answer is "Nothing, but..." then you are just going after her because you hate Ackman. That's all.
Anything else you say about "accountable" is just window-dressing for a revenge hit. If you don't like Ackman, be adult enough to stick to attacking him.
Personally I liked Neri- she has done some incredible work. So I think you actually have completely the wrong impression of what my intent is.
so your intent is to have every professor exposed, but only if we start with the ones you don't like?
Ideally, it would be done all at once- for each professor in the US who wrote a technical thesis, identify all sections which can reliably be considered plagiarism (direct copying without attribution, for example) and publish a national report.
That would then expose the base rate of plagiarism, which I believe is extremely high (I could not say, for certain, whether I did it in my thesis, although I worked extremely hard to follow every academic rule associated with technical writing, and would be surprised if there was any text, other than from the papers I had already published, that was directly copied).
Once the base rate had been exposed and people kind of see just how much of this occurred, we can start to have the discussion of "what are the consequences"?
The consequences to Neri are just reputational- she already left her professor role and it's unlikely she needs her reputation to continue to be wealthy/successful/attend the hot parties.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/style/neri-oxman-mit.html
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-year-of-neri-o...
What I did not see was any connection to the Claudine Gay affair. So there is none, correct?
"Oppose us, and we'll ruin you. And your family."
Turnabout is fair play.
As for the "pro Palestinian protestors", they signed their names, did they not? Did they expect all would be forgiven when they try to get jobs?
I have some sympathy for Ackman, but the methods by which he is achieving his goals undermine his own arguments.
Try being grown-up enough (or maybe "big enough") to stick with the people who've actually offended you.