Yeah this was always one of the core issues that nobody wanted to talk about

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when all of this was happening, i came to the same conclusion the piece did— that this was not about proper attribution but instead about the misguided belief that there was a check to be written. cleves’ husband being a businessman aggressively supports this, imho.

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I'm going to spoil the Final Weirdness because I don't expect anyone to read that far. I wasn't sure I should put this in the post at first, but every friend I mentioned it to put their jaw on the floor; Cleves, who is trying to torpedo a lesbian artist's career, is married to a tech VP guy.

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I think people seriously overlooked how weird and implausible Rachel Hope Cleves's claims actually are, because her grievances were so acute.

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out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

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