This chapter argues that rather than parsing what is and is not plagiarismplagiarism in academic writing, which ultimately is a red-herring aimed at detracting our attention from challenging and questioning the hateful voices that promote it, we should accept that, by one standard or another, we are all plagiarists—and focus on questioning and challenging discourse in other, more productive and significant, ways. If there is a silver lining to the efforts of the hateful voices of late academelate academe who attempt to use our primary values against those who work to make higher educationhigher education more democraticdemocracy and just, then it is that some of their spurious attacks can become opportunities for a revaluation of our values.