A really important short thread. We tell each other we must be compassionate to our students' complicated lives. We must also be so for our colleagues'. Yeah, some may be silent for the wrong reasons. But some have very good, pressing reasons, & sometimes we will never know thathttps://twitter.com/ADMedievalist/status/1172303843159367680 …
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Replying to @TheMedievalDrK
I wish this had come into my feed *before* a senior, established, and permanently employed UK scholar started calling individual grad students "twats" on here and the only ones from the UK publicly raising it as an issue are, yep, ECRs. sigh.
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Replying to @SLevelt
Holy moly. I.. we have major problems in the field over here, absolutely. But the behavior I see from some UK at fac is jawdropping on a regular basis. I am so sorry I was offline much of today and missed all this : (
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Replying to @TheMedievalDrK @SLevelt
I do not think it's accidence that another early medieval historian deciding to post this after the Halsall debacle.... so, one should consider where folks want to point to things we all discuss, but yet doesn't want to say a thing about the WTF of "colleagues."
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @TheMedievalDrK
ADM's tweet came half a day earlier, but the Halsall meltdown and the silence that followed shows the central problem with the complaint: yes, individual scholars of course have individual lives, but collectively, there are always some who can step up. so when no one does...
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Replying to @SLevelt @dorothyk98
oh no- it was Halsall who was calling names like that?? Are the students ok? Are they getting support? Did SOMEONE sr step in over that?? (I'm going to see if I can find the exchange now but I know I'm hours late)
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It's a problem when apparently the "call-outs" are from BIPOC, LGBTQIA, sexual harassment survivors etc. for asking for inclusivity & safety from white medievalists saying "imperialist, we must include racists, we will invite our prominent harasser to our board" so...
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