It's crap to see someone driven off Twitter by insults and harassment of the crime of...giving her student a pink pen to use as a in joke with her class. Sometimes it's worth engaging in good faith before you start abusing someone.
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In my workshops I often get asked how newbies avoid abuse. Until now I've always said don't be a jerk (sexist, racist, ableist, homophobic, rude or mean). But it feels like I now have to add qualify your teaching behaviour in full when you discuss it to that list.
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
There's a trend on Twitter, or a style, of rhetoric wherin people are permanently shitting themselves instead of taking an issue and thinking carefully about it. They are basically JAQing off or trolling instead of trying to understand an issue (think before you type).
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It's really pronounced and its kind of hilarious if it wasn't impacting people so negatively. It's probably one of the worst things things about the current (?) Twitter climate. I think it's because Twitter is so "right wing".
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Replying to @o_guest @DaniRabaiotti
Something about constantly shitting yourself over something instead of "oh, there's nuance here, lemme think" makes me think of Umberto Eco's description of fascism.https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/ …
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Replying to @o_guest @DaniRabaiotti
You can't sustain an online movement that has no coherent ideology (mild alt right BS) without constant "holy shit" or "we're under attack". Reminds me also of political parties like Putin's which are ideologically vacuous too.
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Replying to @o_guest @DaniRabaiotti
Maybe this is what happens when people are bored. That is, people get sucked into lazy BS takes. And because they are just looking for the next dog pile they can easily be corrupted by the influence of abusive forces or ways of engagement.
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Just riffing off what you're describing, sorry for tangent. 
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