Although I have been guilty of this myself in the past, it seems a good time to remind psych and open science Twitter that quote tweeting an abusive asshole to condemn them still spreads the abuse further than it needs to be spread
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I would agree with this, and I have absolutely no problem with people directly addressing the offender. I think I am a bit salty myself from how many times I’ve seen it quote tweeted and showing up in my feed
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I mean fair enough. Who wants to see slurs. I personally agree with
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Also to be clear: I am sorry because I must have made that slur appear on people's TLs by RTing and interacting with the discussion around it. I hate that slur (& all slurs ofc) — it's weaponised against so many people including some of the absolutely most vulnerable in society.
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But I did it because I think it's important to show this to those who behave as if such things don't happen, which is the point made here too:https://twitter.com/priyasilverst/status/1148982397624553472 …
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This is honestly a good point that I had not thought that much about, and in this context I tend to agree with you. Although many of us are well aware, raising awareness is necessary.
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1. I think many of us are aware but many also aren’t which is an argument against the need for the kind of discussion we ran anyway; 2. Re putting the slur on people’s timelines I’m really sorry and will be more careful next time; 1/
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3. Re not speaking up for years, I use twitter a lot more than I used to and can honestly say if I’d come across something like this I always would’ve said something, it’s just a lot harder to miss a tweet when people alert you because the original one was about your discussion
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Yeah, I mean please let's not forget that this was a verbal "argument"/abuse against Priya herself as well as others. She's a student who organised a workshop on diversity and a guy tweeted she's a you-know-what for doing that. Many in her position would feel very unsafe.
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I'm one of those who called it out. I've seen his 'work' before & ignored it (don't feed the trolls) but am always concerned that ignoring may contribute to passive acceptance. When to/not to ignore poor behaviour is evolving for me, confounded by issues eg not speaking over URM
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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