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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“Taking too far” is not an argument.
If they’re going to survive as part of the public sphere, it is. Not survive as in die, obviously, but absolutely survive as in have a voice here—and this goes direct to media narratives. The treatment is so uneven, and that check helps a lot because humans are like that.
I have a friend, you guess gender and race. The field has a job market rumor site, to figure out how to applications are doing and what’s going on. There’s a bunch of people there who post degrading stuff about her, day in day out, for years. I think it’s beyond your imagination.
I can appreciate it. I dislike framing things in terms of safety or survival (even with appropriate backpedaling later) when they are not in fact issues of safety or survival, because it leads to a general flattening of all bad outcomes together and kills any hope of discussion.
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