I say this realizing that women have it so much worse. My point is, @BretStephensNYT couldn't even handle the level of abuse a male quackbuster gets., much less what women handle.
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What
@BretStephensNYT's reaction to@davekarpf's joke reminds me of is antivaxers. I've had antivaxers attempt to cause trouble for me at work by emailing my boss to complain about me saying mean things about them on the blog more times than I can remember dating back to 2005.Show this thread -
Make no mistake. What
@BretStephensNYT did was no different than what antivaxers have been doing to me, only worse. Why worse? He's a@nytopinion columnist, and the prestige and privilege of that position make what he did so much worse than some random antivaxer emailing my dean.Show this thread -
Make no mistake, by cc'ing the provost,
@BretStephensNYT was intentionally trying to make@davekarpf suffer at work for making a joke about him on Twitter. Think about how petty a man had to be to do something as vindictive as that.Show this thread -
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@davekarpf, but he's just some unknown assistant professor on the Internet, while@BretStephensNYT is an opinion writer for the frikkin'@nytopinion page. If Stephens is so thin-skinned, maybe a platform at@nytimes is not for him. Ditto social media.Show this thread -
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@BretStephensNYT will deny that was his intent, I know better. I've been on the receiving end of exactly the same behavior too many times. If his intent was not to get@davekarpf disciplined or at least "talked to" by his provost, he wouldn't have cc'ed.Show this thread -
It appears that Stephens shut down his account, either temporarily or permanently. I can't wait for his next column lamenting how mean people on Twitter hounded him into closing his account because he had tried to get an academic fired for making a joke.https://twitter.com/Sou_HotWhopper/status/1166317872882171905 …
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I mean, what are the chances that he'll actually take a moment, reflect on what happened, and come to the realization that he shouldn't be such a bully punching down like that? Sadly, probably slim and none.
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The thing about making complaints like that at a workplace is that unless something the complaint is about something *genuinely defamatory or libelous* management will start to see those complaints as what they are - on-the-job harassment intended to get you fired over 1/2
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telling the truth. And if they're repetitive enough, those complaints will get the troll in question marked down as a loon. This is probably exactly what your bosses did WRT Adams, not that they needed to even go that far in terming him a loon in the first place.
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