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Felicia Sonmez
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Update: For those who, like me, are blocked from reading my colleague’s tweets, here is his thread from this afternoon. No apology, but a whole boatload of more false accusations and mischaracterizations. To be clear: - There was no “unrelenting series of attacks.” 1/x
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Felicia Sonmez
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So far I’ve received no apology from my colleague for baselessly accusing me of engaging in “bullying,” “harassment” and “cruelty” — just for objecting to a sexist tweet. I did, however, receive an email from him accusing me of fostering a “toxic workplace.” And now this! twitter.com/feliciasonmez/…
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Felicia Sonmez
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- I saw no comments intending to “tarnish [Jose’s] personal and professional reputation.” The replies to Jose’s tweets are still up, for anyone who’d like to check. - There were tweets objecting to Jose accusing me of “bullying” and “clout chasing” for… objecting to sexism. 2/x
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Felicia Sonmez
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- Jose’s description of his tweets as “calling for compassion within our workplace” is inaccurate. It omits the fact that he repeatedly made baseless accusations against me. - When asked for proof to back up those accusations, he deactivated his account. 3/x
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Felicia Sonmez
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- Contrary to Jose’s claim, there was no “barrage of online abuse directed by one person but carried out by an eager mob.” Not only is this an egregious statement to make about a coworker, it echoes the sexist far-right trope of women being accused of leading online “mobs.” 4/x
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Felicia Sonmez
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- “The one-sided attacks continued even after I stopped engaging.” Again, I saw Twitter users taking issue with Jose’s baseless claims and asking him in good faith to provide evidence — as any good reporter would do. I did not see anyone attacking him based on his identity. 5/x
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Felicia Sonmez
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As I wrote last night, some people seem to be angry that I publicly objected to sexism. I laid out my thinking on that in a personal thread below. In short - it’s about understanding the impact of silence in the face of misogyny. 6/x
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Replying to @feliciasonmez and @jdelreal
Let me give you another example of why publicly objecting to sexism matters. In Jan. 2018, a woman came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against a journalist in Beijing. Soon, screenshots circulated in which members of a mostly male soccer club denigrated her online.
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Felicia Sonmez
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To anyone reading this and wondering whether it’s wrong to speak out—it’s not. It matters greatly and makes more of a difference than you know, to people you may never know. Attacks like the ones I’ve highlighted in this thread are wrong and don’t make for a safe workplace. 7/x
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