Think about that, all of you people who defend @Stanford. After Turner was convicted, sentenced, and in jail, @Stanford denied her quote because it "targeted" Brock Turner. Instead, Stanford offered to choose the quote for her, one that would make Stanford look less bad. 2/
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Then, undaunted, she gave them another quote. This one had been a headline in the Washington Post. It was often quoted in the press. They rejected it as "triggering." I personally appealed this terrible decision to the Provost
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I appealed that to President Marc Tessier Lavigne and he didn't even do me the courtesy of a response even though I am a tenured full professor. He never even replied to my email begging him to have a conversation about re-victimizing this young woman by rejecting the quote. 4/
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This is what women are worth to
@stanford. The sexual assault victim's words are discarded. The tenured professor standing up for her being branded crazy or worse and just ignored. If they aren't putting her words on that plaque they should put back the dumpster. 5/Show this thread -
At least the dumpster would tell women what Stanford really thinks about women and how they are systematically silenced and ignored. Where are the alumni? So,
@reidhoffman you and your friends should tell@Stanford to put up Chanel's plaque. Tell them no more money until they do.Show this thread -
I've been here long enough to know that the alumni and ruling elites of Silicon Valley will never, ever stand up to
@Stanford for this quote. I guess you were too busy eating lunch with Jeffrey Epstein to make time to care.@karaswisherShow this thread -
So now, the students have had to take it on themselves to try to put an AR version of her quote at the site. Sadly the children are having to teach the adults
@Stanford about what the Fundamental Standard actually means. https://www.torch.app/blog/stanford-students-use-mobile-ar-for-justice-and-healing …Show this thread -
The second-worst part of this betrayal is that I know when I attend the AR event on 9/27 that the very administrators who betrayed Chanel Miller by rejecting her quote will be standing around trying to look like they care about her. It sickens me.
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@Stanford alumni and faculty are you proud of your school being called an abhorrent example of "institutional cowardice" for mistreating a sexual assault victim? Are you so inured to this kind of ghoulish conduct by the corporate university that you won't speak up?Show this thread -
Where is your voice
@Clayman_Inst? Stand up for Chanel Miller. What is your point for existing otherwise. Demand that Stanford put up the plaque as agreed. Let the f--ing wind of freedom blow. Fiat Lux.Show this thread -
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@juliaioffe there absolutely was a “ready lesson.” That was incorrect. Here it is. Stanford is a corporate university in which women and survivors are silenced, erased, branded as crazy.Show this thread -
Every woman at Stanford can see that empty space and discern the lesson. It’s odd that you didn’t but maybe Princeton is better. Anyway just because there’s no text doesn’t mean we can’t read the subtext
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Instead of the quotes proposed by Chanel,
@Stanford proposed a line ripped out of context that says "I'm OK. Everything's OK" So in case you are wondering what Stanford hoped the plaque would say, that’s it. This is peak misogyny of@kate_manne theory. SHE makes it ok for them.Show this thread -
What we can’t know is what was going through the mind of the female
@stanford functionary who typed that enraging line into an email. Was she thinking “oh this will be fantastic” or was she hoping this would ingratiate her to her superiors? Was it a misguided notion of loyalty?Show this thread -
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@Stanford the land is all. It is the Precious. Putting anything even a plaque on the land that Stanford didn’t control was likely highly triggering to the corporation. All we know for sure is that Marc and Persis decided to break their agreement, revictimizing Chanel.Show this thread -
But the point of the plaque was to serve as a reminder to future
@Stanford students that here, in this seemingly safe pastoral landscape an atrocity occurred and it will reoccur if we aren’t vigilant. It will preserve the urgency. That is why we neeit and why they don’t want it.Show this thread -
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@stanfords expectation that Chanel would just accept “I’m ok. Everything’s ok” was in part influenced by unconscious intersectional racial bias— the expectation and stereotype that that an Asian American woman would be passive and compliant.@emrazz@eughungShow this thread -
The crowning and peak privilege and misogyny of this sad
@Stanford story is that stanford knew she was writing a book. They knew that their horrendous behavior could be set down. They just likely feel safe and secure that no one who matters would believe her over them. And so?Show this thread -
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@Stanford, this genius is who you treated like garbage. To your eternal shame. She isn't going to be your visiting scholar. Your students are the losers for that. She isn't for sale. KNOW HER NAME.#ChanelMillerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=242&v=ouIxvBMF7Rw …Show this thread -
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Here's my correspondence with Provost Persis Drell about the fact that
@Stanford was censoring Miller. She defended the censorship which I found shocking. This is inappropriate in a university environment. I offered to put a trigger warning on the plaque, but she ignored me.pic.twitter.com/CJCPV98EEa
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@Stanford censored an anodyne sentence from Miller's work as "triggering" yet sent a graphic book about the Native genocide including a rape this year to every frosh (the excellent There There). This clarifies that Stanford is protecting itself, not students, by censoring MillerShow this thread -
I am sure if There There author
@thommyorange knew that@Stanford was censoring Chanel Miller's words about her experience as an Asian female being assaulted by a white Stanford student he would be appalled and stand with Chanel as another author. Censorship is not the answer.Show this thread
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