Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

As a professor, my most controversial position was that I didn't care at all about plagiarism. a) they at least found some material b) it was probably better written than most of what I received c) privileging "originality" is a very bougie and culturally insensitive position

I would of course explain to plagiarist that others would take a harder line, and that the lives of some academics were so tied up with pedantic notions of citation that they wouldn't hesitate to destroy a life over a forgotten footnote

All too often this was used as a way to expel southeast Asian, African, and Eastern European students, and that angered me