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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25/ It is a volunteer org. w/ no membership dues. Thus, the group asks members to act in good faith (i.e. with good intentions, be honest, do not harm or harass people, etc.) & to work through things if there is conflict w/in the group.
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26/ If people have been temporarily removed, they have also been given the option to work thru issues to return back to the org. w/ members of the governing group. If you are an activist group, one of the issues is about fostering trust &working through issues,
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27/ something that is discussed in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s piece “Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter” in regards to the
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28/ Taylor writes: “But without the opportunity to collectively assess, discuss, or ponder what the movement is or should be, those political disagreements [within organizations] can sometimes devolve into bitter personal attacks.
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29/ Among movement activists, acrimonious personal disputes were expressed throughout the social media landscape, creating an archival trove of material for state agents. It also fueled animosity and discord between people who had every interest in collaboration and solidarity.
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30/ Callout culture summoned attention to every transgression, armed with the belief that the act was committed with the worst of intentions. The goodwill that many imagined and wanted to rest at the heart of the movement could only be built upon trust and genuine relationships.”
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31/ I believe that this is what the members of Medievalists of Color, the scholarly and activist organization, voted into the constitution. [End]
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