Jason Antic

But still the fact that Anima is from IIT has nothing to do with the student who said this term, Anima already pointed out that the thread was inviting sexist/racist jokes and was distasteful. She was already doing a lot of educating to start with

The burden to educate should fall on many people, especially those who created the thread and were participating in the jokes, not on her, and especially not because she also happens to be from the same chain of schools. I mean to get out of this thread and silenced notifications

Did that on FB but can't do that on twitter & unsure if there's a way to do it. There are many problematic things that occurred but unfortunately its clear that no education/agreement will happen over social media, hence the reason to disengage.

But can't figure out how to do that on this twitter thread.

Ah figured it out :)

The term tone policing applies a lot on what happens with Anima. It also happened with Hal when he brought up all the issues at NeurIPS 2017 publicly, such as a very distasteful joke, which then @KLdivergence wrote an article giving more background on the guy who said it...

leading to a lot of change, A) creating an atmosphere where people like her could tell the stories of terrible things that were done & perpetuated by this culture, B) D&I co-chairs, exposing 2 men etc etc. But people focused on Hal's tone and he got a lot of emails attacking him