3/ @studentactivism think a ton of this stuff is overblown and wrote about it in context of microaggressions earlier today
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@studentactivism http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/09/microaggression-complaints-and-victimhood.html … It's ONLY the "unsafe spaces" anti-speaker argument that bugs me.2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes -
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And when it IS made, sometimes it's valid. Kipnis publicly maligned a woman who'd brought a sexual harassment suit.
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@studentactivism Kipnis = how unis handle Title IX, which is a whole other discussion and issue, albeit a related one1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I'm not trying to make you the boogeyman here, and I appreciate the line you're trying to draw. But this stuff is fraught.
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1/ Not worried about being bogey man; part of my job is to express and defend ideas. I think reducing Yoffe's
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2/ argument about alcohol to "victim-blaming" is a BIG oversimplification and part of the problem. This is stuff that
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3/ just about any public health researcher will tell you if you call them up (alcohol as risk factor, basically). The
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@jessesingal@studentactivism Um, only in my 2nd semester of my MPH but how can something be a risk factor for being a crime victim?4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@amockingbird Lotsa things can be! Being black is a huge risk factor for being a victim of violent crime. Being a freshman as compared to1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@amockingbird an upperclassman is, unfortunately, a risk factor for being a victim of sexual assault. Lotsa examples of this
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