Just wanted to once again note that no one was chased off Twitter yesterday. There was a thread from several people attacking a queer scholar and a Black female scholar for some tweets that offended these folks: they made homophobic comments and 1/
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off Twitter, and attacking her. No one attacked her. As far as I can tell, she deleted because her engagement in a public thread on Twitter was seen by my colleague who up to that point they were mutual follows. 4/
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It is not punching down to call out homophobia and racism. And again, nothing was only directed at her, but at everyone engaging in this behaviour. 5/
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In addition, the person who started the thread who is an academic but is anon started launching ad hom attacks against my colleague and myself. 6/
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Considering that several people are claiming we have chased this person off: we did not. This is false, and it is evident from our tweets that we were not attacking her. 7/
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That you focus on this and not the horrific violent homophobic tweet and other comments really shows who you are and your priorities. 8/8.
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As a follow-up to this, somehow this is getting twisted that the two people who were attacked with homophobic and racist remarks are getting the blame for chasing this grad student off Twitter WHEN THEY NEVER SAID ANYTHING.
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They were never involved in the thread aside from being QT’d and disparaged. How you manage to make this into them being the abusers when no one was chased off or directly attacked is buckwild.
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