Advances in scholarship are not individual achievements. They depend on interactions among scholars; this is true in all fields.
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A variety of perspectives and approaches yields better and more comprehensive results; this is also true in all fields.
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Stop honoring bullies and serial harassers with keynotes, chairs and professorships, no matter what their scholarly contributions have been.
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Their work has enriched our knowledge. Fine. Read it, cite it, teach it to your students.
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But racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination have immeasurably impoverished our disciplines.
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How many have changed careers due to bullying and discrimination? How would their work have changed their fields? We’ll never know.
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If we honor those who abuse their positions to silence and alienate others, we will forever limit our ability to truly learn, to discover.
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And if the public university dies as a result, we will deserve it. /rant
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Replying to @ReneeTrilling
Up with you until this, which is so deeply wrong-headed. Not stopping the empowerment of abusers is NOT A REASON to abandon our students.
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My fear is actually that the students will abandon us, as we become less and less relevant and welcoming than their other options.
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This. The student demographic is changing. Who is comfortable in these areas if it remains a space of whiteness. The areas are going to die.
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