It's so incredibly depressing to see ECRs and small indy presses, both barely hanging on due to the pandemic, attacking *each other*, rather than the dystopian systems of 21st C academia which doesn't value the labour of either.
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To be honest, I don't even think they are attacking each other; their friends are. But, yes, sad and unnecessary.
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The initial tweet was very rude, and the OP kept going on even after apologizing, refusing to stop all the people coming in to attack the grad student.
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Acting like this is some sort of both side issues completely ignores the power dynamics within the interaction. No matter who they work for, an employed person in an alt ac job has no right to be snide to a grad student for asking for a PDF.
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And when the friends of the editor have rude subtweets complaining about the concept of open access or are members of a Facebook group of racist and sexist medievalists one of whom has harassed said grad student before, that is unacceptable and not at all a level playing field.
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And I wish people would stop weighing in like the people defending the grad student, namely me and mostly other ECRs and precarious people, were also in the wrong.
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Stop characterizing this as a both sides issue. Caroline tweeted that Chris was killing publishing, while I see a bunch of employed tenured and tenured track people along with a few other ECRs falling over themselves to defend her while Chris did nothing wrong.
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