6. Just reading through Champion's essays and tweets we see narcissism, threats, irrational outbursts, and suicidal ideation.
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7. How do we deal with someone who is abusive but is also likely to be a threat to themselves. That's never easy.
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8. Perhaps useful to make a distinction between larger literary community and Champion's circle of friends.
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9. Larger literary community, that isn't personally tied to Champion, should condemn him for misogyny & threats.
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10. Going further, just based on his blackmail attempt on twitter, larger community should boycott Champion: not go on his podcast
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11. Friends of Champion have different set of obligations. Should challenge him on his wretched behavior but also encourage him to get help
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12. Hate to always be a Marxist about this, but there is also an underlying political economy to the Edward Champion situation.
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13. Champion lives in a society which is terrible in how it deals with mental illness.
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14. Champion is blogger, podcaster and freelance writer -- none professions that provide enough cash for treatment.
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15. Why money is scarce: The economy of literary Brooklyn isn't a money economy at all: it's a reputation economy.
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16. Literary Brooklyn is a fishbowl world -- or perhaps the world's largest high school, one where no one ever graduates.
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17. What stature Champion has comes from ability to get attention in reputation economy -- people do read his blog & listen to his podcast
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18. In reputation economy of literary Brooklyn, social media is like the stock market. You got to play to make it big.
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