This is just bizarre to me. Granted, I am in a small department where people are pretty close to their advisors. My advisor would know within a few sentences if something wasn’t genuinely mine.
I hope she’s stripped of her degree. It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with the fact that I believe passing someone else’s hard work off as your own is as slimey as it gets.
Maybe we’ll start having to turn in our dissertation chapters through plagiarism checkers like we make our undergrads do. I’m for that.