Her behavior made the book blogging community look like a bunch of idiotic hypocrites who holler when we find authors plagiarizing but ask for forgiveness and receive it when one of us commits the same act. She didn't do anything to you so stop making shit up. Message: Get off your high horse and leave Kristi the fuck alone. Kristi Diehm did that all on her own, by plagiarizing two people who run excellent sites about fashion and their own interests. So back the fuck off and call off the dogs that are out to get her.ī at Beautifully Invisible and Vahni didn't do anything to ruin Kristi Diehm's reputation. She is a better writer and human being than you could ever hope to be. Kristi has done more for the blogging community than anyone I have ever known, and now you and your friend have started a witch hunt that will tarnish that forever. And for what? A few extra hits on your pathetic blog? Message: Dear B, I hope you are proud of yourself for ruining the reputation of one of the nicest people I have ever known. The sad irony is that B, Vahni, Jane and I were accused of bullying because we exposed and discussed Kristi's plagiarism. I'm not including the email addresses of the people who sent these messages, because I do not know if they are minors. from Beautifully Invisible forwarded me some of the email she's received since Jane and I started posting about Kristi Diehm's plagiarism at The Story Siren last Monday. Worse, this commenter flogs the plagiarist's victims for being so unclassy as to “create drama.” It's bad enough you were so ungrateful as to be angry when a popular blogger stole from you – but you had to make a stink about it, too? Why can't victims just shut up and be quiet? Why do they have to speak up and make us think about bad things when we'd rather be thinking about Hugh Jackman on a unicorn?ī. The people who had their CREATIVE CONTENT STOLEN are depicted as being hostile and unreasonable when the plagiarist “gave them what they wanted so they demanded more” – more being the demand to have their rightful creative content, which had been taken without their permission, off the website. This, dear readers, is what is known as victim blaming. But tell that to this commenter on the blogger's “Apology” post: But the ones who smelt it are not the ones who dealt it. Plagiarism is not less wrong than BRINGING UP PLAGIARISMĬlearly, this blogger tried to go the “silent but deadly” route but misjudged the amount of clenching required to pass a bubble of rights-infringing flatulence. It is jaw-hang depressing to see the same repeated responses, patterns and excuses, but we really could fill a bingo card at this point.ĪnimeJune rounded up a perfect list of responses to the clarification and comments at The Story Siren's page, and I want to focus on this one:ħ. A few of us have been joking about making plagiarism bingo cards so we can check off the predictable responses to any discussion of plagiarism.
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