Nope. Holyoak mayor guest lecturer at UMass Amherst.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @CalliopeAnim
I think poly sci, his name is Alex Morse.
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There's a bunch of stories about him from undergrads that finally led the Amherst College Dems to withdraw their endorsement, which provoked this outcry about how this is neoliberal sabotage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @hyperdriveprof and
One wrinkle to this story is that he's gay (one of the youngest mayors in the country when elected 9 years ago and one of the first openly gay ones) and these are male undergrads, which has led his defenders to accuse his critics of homophobia
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I mean this is just like the situation with Judith Butler's friend. She was a woman and it was a young guy, so it was Woman Power and thus okay. The entire idea of giving out "passes" on this invalidates the concept of stopping abuse that isn't male against female cishet
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I mean, if this was mainly a question of whether he should be fired, and he never slept with anyone underage or currently being advised or in his class, I'd say just sternly talk to him.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
That was the official policy for me as a professor (I didn't have to worry since I was in a relationship and I could just date people from a few towns over if I wasn't): don't sleep with YOUR students, but please, don't sleep with any students.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
But frankly the whole thing has a very Mr. Jefferson quality to it, by which I mean from the College Dems statement he was building popularity on social media based on his status as a professor, and then crossing personal boundaries
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Yeah - and it's the kind of thing where, like: the people he dated might really have been totally cool with it, and had a good time and enjoyed the experience. But the other part of having power is how it affects everyone else you have power over.
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Well, this only blew up because of multiple complaints from people he dated who were not in fact cool with it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Yeah, good point. Sorry, that was meant to be a hypothetical where it's not good EVEN if nothing goes wrong with the people who are immediately and directly involved.
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