CV NEWS FEED // According to a recent analysis conducted by scholar Christopher Rufo and The Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak, embattled far-left Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-NY, plagiarized parts of his Doctor of Education dissertation.
Bowman made headlines last fall after he pulled a fire alarm on Capitol Hill ahead of a House vote.
The congressman “often appeals to his work as a former school principal and his Ed.D. in education as the basis for his policy positions,” Rufo and Rosiak wrote Friday.
However, they pointed out that “Bowman’s primary academic work,” his Ed.D. dissertation, “is riddled with basic errors, failures of logic, and multiple instances of plagiarism.”
Bowman penned the dissertation at Manhattanville College in 2019, one year before he was first elected to Congress.
“In one passage, Bowman explains critical race theory, one of his theoretical methods, by copying from another author’s summary of the 2001 book, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction,” Rufo and Rosiak noted:
[Bowman] takes the passages from R. Rolon-Dow without quotation marks, as required by academic authors. In the copied passage, Bowman merely substitutes “Latino/Latina” with “Latinx/Latina,” following the latest academic fashion, although it appears that he misunderstood the purpose of the “x” noun ending, which is to remove gendered language like “Latina.” He also inserts a typo, by changing “the intersection between race/ethnicity and caring” to “the intersection between race/ethnicity caring.”
“Though he credits a string of authors in parenthesis, those citations are also copied from Rolon-Dow, with her name also tacked on the end,” Rufo and Rosiak added.
Again from Rufo and Rosiak:
On multiple other occasions, Bowman summarizes other research by copying and pasting without quotation marks, instead of paraphrasing the passages to show that he has an independent understanding of the concepts
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In another instance, when describing a study by other researchers, he copies verbatim, again without quotations
“[Bowman’s] paper provides little in the way of meaningful advances in scholarship,” they summarized. “The general observation he seems to offer amounts to a form of racial reductionism, separating people into identity categories and judging them according to their ancestry.”
“This is the kind of dismal pseudo-scholarship that drives much of education and, unfortunately, an increasing share of political life,” Rufo and Rosiak concluded. “It should be scrutinized, as should its authors.”
>> ALARM-PULLING CONGRESSMAN BLAMES STAFFERS FOR ‘NAZI’ MEMO <<
On September 30, 2023, Bowman “activated the alarm in the Cannon House Office Building … resulting in a ‘floor-by-floor’ evacuation,” CatholicVote reported at the time.
CatholicVote also noted that the bizarre incident “took place before the House was set to vote on funding the government and avoiding a shutdown.”
“Many observers deduce that Bowman may have pulled the alarm to prevent a vote on the measure, which was ultimately successful,” CatholicVote added:
The congressman later claimed that he had set the fire alarm off by accident in order to open one of the building’s doors.
This door was marked with a sign that read “Emergency Exit Only!” and “Push until alarm sounds (3 seconds). Door will unlock in 30 seconds.”
Video evidence released nearly a month later further convinced many that Bowman deliberately pulled the alarm.
In the days following the incident, the lawmaker’s office circulated a memo of “talking points” which referred to some Republicans as “Nazis.”
CatholicVote reported: “Following significant backlash, Bowman attempted to distance himself from his office’s memo, claiming his staff included the epithet ‘Nazi’ without consulting him.”
In December, the Republican-controlled House voted to censure Bowman for pulling the alarm. Three Democrats voted for the censure, and an additional four voted “present.”
This Tuesday, Bowman is likely to lose reelection to Hillary Clinton-endorsed Westchester County Executive George Latimer in a Democratic primary vote.
Bowman trailed Latimer by nearly 20 points in a poll conducted earlier this month.
The congressman represents New York’s 16th Congressional District, which covers parts of Westchester and the Bronx. He was first elected to this seat in 2020 after defeating a 16-term incumbent in the primary.
He is a member of the “squad,” an informal coalition of nine far-left House Democrats that includes other controversial lawmakers such as Reps. Cori Bush, D-MO, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, Ilhan Omar, D-MN, and Rashida Tlaib, D-MI.
Bush is also likely to lose her primary, which will be held on August 6.