Meanwhile on Twitter, people are comparing Brian Leiter to Gamergaters.pic.twitter.com/ipVqPUD7Ac
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@schakalsynthetc Dude is aggressively abusive in a weirdly public way. Lots of people act like that but few document it so thoroughly.
@St_Rev could be understood as Leiter getting a bit drunk on the perceived kingmaker power, maybe
@St_Rev lots of ppl do that but most of them have the PR sense to keep it mostly out of public view
@St_Rev academics have that deeply ingrained sense of impotence, which weirdly can become how they give themselves permission to abuse >
@St_Rev < what power they do have. that "none of this really matters anyway, so why not?" kind of thing
@schakalsynthetc Interesting point. You may be on to something.
@St_Rev ppl who know their words can have consequences they'll be held responsible for do tend to use them more judiciously, ime
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