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This is insane. Julie Overbaugh is among the most kind, generous, upstanding researchers in our field. If you can stand by while her reputation is dragged through the mud because of a fancy dress costume so that

@UWMedicine

can burnish its woke credentials then shame on you

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Jesse Singal

@jessesingal

Feb 25, 2022

1/ A U. Washington doctor who has dedicated her career to fighting HIV in Africa, including research w/sex workers, is having her reputation and career incinerated because she dressed up as Michael Jackson, in blackface, once in 2009. She faces an "intensive education process."

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hard to believe you patronized us about the bounds of proper scientific discourse in Scientific American and days later are defending someone who dressed up in blackface. I hope

@sciam

@meghas

will be more discerning in the future.

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A single racist act thirteen years ago is not a deep original sin, and blowing it up to this degree is unfair (I'm sure you've done other damaging things thirteen years ago too) and religious-like in its cruel piousness. Feel free to contact my employer about this opinion.

4:59 PM · Feb 26, 2022

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Also, I don't think using makeup and costumes to play as some character or person is "racist." And if it is "racist," then it would follow that racism can at times be completely and totally morally benign.