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Yeah. She quit because lying conservative pundits got their base riled up with the mere idea she committed plagarism that they made enough of a stink to pressure her or the school.
This is the right-wingers favorite play: Cancel Culture. They harass, pressure, send death threats and swat anyone they don't like for any perceived fault. More often than not, those targets just quit to get away from the harassment or magnifying glass their life comes under as a consequence. Everyone has shit in their past they aren't proud of and with that much attention it'll be brought out and made a much bigger deal of than often warranted.
It almost always boils down to projection with conservatives. I think it's the levels of selfishness and inability to consider the experience of those who are not like them, so they must apply their own experience and by extension how they would deal with a given situation, to everyone else around them, to make the world make sense to their narrow minds.
The same reason they latched onto the term "virtue signaling". They can't comprehend doing something that doesn't provide them with a benefit, therefore the people who are being altruistic must be doing it to get recognition and gain "points".
They call it that, because when they do it, that is why they are doing it. They just assume the other side is doing it even more, not realizing how exausting it would be to keep it up if it was fake. If it was possible to fake it as much as they think dems are, wouldn't at least one conservative be doing it? They love "points", if they could earn as many "points" as they see democrats earning, they would be all over that. But because it is an act to them, they can't keep up.
It's exhausting when it's real. The amount of effort required to tell people they are being shit heads everyday is staggering. So of course they don't get it. They barely put in that much effort when it benefits them. They couldn't comprehend doing it for no personal benefit.