He called me “Broomhead”, a minion full of hot air, for attempting to inform someone who I thought was an ally (how wrong I was) about how he was not being truthful about everything that has happened.
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There have been ppl I look up to whom I found out stuff about later that made me upset but in the long run, do I want to maintain a connection with someone who holds terrible views, has done bad things and not accounted for them/owned up/done better? Nope.
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Academia as it is now thrives on keeping quiet and maintaining status quo, which means keeping abusers in power.
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But if we want academia to be an inclusive, anti-racist, diverse space that doesn’t adhere to authoritarian, imperialist, and colonialist models that rewards the worst and punishes the marginalized then we gotta stand up against that.
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We have to stop allowing these people to say and do what they want. Idk how this can happen, but honestly it only works if people stand up and support their BIPOC colleagues.
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