White people please name your "Twitter influencers" lists appropriately. E.g. "A Racially Biased List" more accuratehttps://twitter.com/TamaraHiler/status/916315832111763456 …
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List of 34 "higher ed social media influencers" has 6 Black people & 2 Asian people. Only 1 of them in top 10. No Latins or Indigenous edu.
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Half of people on this list have less than 5,000 followers.*
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*This is not a negative reflection of the people on this list, all of whom do good work. But list is subjective & perpetuates racism in edu.
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White people - especially White men - can leverage engagement on social media to sell their academic capital. Doesn't work like that for POC
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#POC who educate on Twitter face a lot of abuse & are looked over professionally. Black educators are sanctioned or fired over Twitter edu1 reply 4 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
Lists may be arbitrary but they are promoted by White people to lift their status and their networks. Another facet of institutional racism.
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This will be another case of "unconscious bias" - authors didn't mean to exclude
#POC. This is how racism thrives - intentionally or not.1 reply 5 retweets 11 likesShow this thread
Don't be fooled. What we do online mirrors behaviours offline. #POC are excluded & ignored in 100s of ways, everyday, in higher ed & beyond.
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