This seems to be happening to lots of academics. Weird time not to be verifying them. No category for “academic”.https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/1402768648578625536 …
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Some may have chips on shoulders, and gonna go with that’s more widespread than PhDs. But yes many people need to insist on title/blue check because tons of people refuse treat them like they’re fellow humans, let alone educated ones. You don’t face that so may be hard to grasp.
It’s like the rich saying, no, no the money doesn’t matter. It does if you don’t have it, and so do titles and credentials if you get treated like an idiot and/or subhuman by default by a sizable group. That’s not “grasping”, more like trying to survive.
Recently, some black women medical doctors were discussing that fewer than ten black women doctors have a blue check. That was interesting and sad.
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