#MedievalTwitter Thread: 1. "Democracy has a rule, an absolute prohibition on the use or threat of violence to coerce political ends. Trump is walking the road away from democracy, and he is not walking alone," argues @DavidFrum: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/trump-bombs-florida-tweets/574108/?utm_source=twb …
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#MedievalTwitter [messed up thread sequence so will thread here]: 2. David Frum is not a liberal commentator so please don't give me the "both-sides" BS. Switch the article's title to "An Academic Who Condones Academic Violence" & look what has happened to our field for a while.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
3. Switch several figures & spaces around in some of the paragraphs of the article and this is basically academia, medieval studies, etc. Especially this paragraph near the article's end.
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#MedievalTwitter 4. So switch this paragraph by putting in RFB and the Ivory Tower and you get: "When people talk about RFB condoning and inviting academic violence, her behavior over the past...--and that of her academic followers--is exactly what they have in mind:2 replies 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
#MedievalTwitter 5. "... the utter lack fo sympathy for those attacked or threatened; the readiness to blame victims of terrorism for being terrorized; the determination to exonerate RFB of any consequences for her own wild behavior; the indulgence of wild conspiracy theories as1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
#MedievalTwitter 6. "... a means to achieve that exoneration, piped directly into the Ivory Tower from the furthest extremes of American life." How little we have to change this paragraph or this article & it exactly describes academia+medieval studies.1 reply 1 retweet 1 likeShow this thread
#MedievalTwitter 7. So, beyond the academic white terrorists who think violence is perfectly legitimate, what about all those enablers and hand wringers including faculty, Deans, and institutions who continue to imagine this is some "free speech" debate. We see you.
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