8/ Thus, it has put members of the secret FB group into more potential violent danger from the white supremacists. This may not have been the intent of the public post, but it is the effect.
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19/ Since our position is even more vulnerable, it is absolutely necessary that group safety measures be upheld. The secret FB group moderators have kept this quiet & not discussed it publicly in order to leave open the possibility of working through these issues w/ Abby
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20/ & bringing her back to the group. Unfortunately, we do not think that will happen now. Open, honest, &evidence-based discussion is important to academic intellectual life & antiracist activism. o is evidence-based, thoughtful, and honest critique.
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21/ But this cannot happen if various parties remove themselves from such discussions entirely (either b/c of a refusal to work honestly or b/c they have refused to discuss). The caveat here obviously being that I am not interested in having “discourse” with fascists.
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22/ But I would like to ask people to please consider the safety of members as the white supremacist fringe of our field & also in general are using this information to mount further violent attacks.We continue to keep the members' safety in the secret FB group our top priority.
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23/ This issue was brought to the scholarly activist org. Medievalists of Color when Abby or her advisor (I am not sure which) contacted a senior member of the Steering Committee and it was then brought to the rest of the committee in December.
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