Just another regular day on twitter. Here, a white prof calling a black PhD student "racist" for calling out a white prof on her privilege.https://twitter.com/PsychRabble/status/1151686246688808960 …
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I am not quote tweeting to stimulate a pile-on (please don't; please just let both profs be). I am merely quote tweeting to make visible to well-intentioned academics what URMs need to put up with on a daily basis. This is draining, on top of challenging academic work.5 replies 0 retweets 21 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @IrisVanRooij
To be fair, if we don't pile on we also get accused, as a community, of ignoring these problems and/or tacitly agreeing through silence.
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Replying to @auzdassertation
I do not think so. There are other ways to contribute to positive change, and I’m not sure if fear of accusation should be a priority.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @auzdassertation
Perhaps you mean that you do not want to give impression that you/we tacitly accept as a form of support for URMs?
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij
One of the explicit pieces of feedback at SIPS was that a lack of explicit responding by a large segment of the community to tweets like this one was a reason why URMs didn't feel safe within the community.
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Replying to @auzdassertation
I understand. But do you see a difference between my phrasing (show support) versus your (accusation). Perhaps you meant it differently?
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij
I do understand the difference, but a lot of this feedback was phrased as accusations of tacit support for these sorts of views due to a lack of, well, piling on. Supporting URMs was also part of it, but was explicitly a different thread of that conversation.
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Replying to @auzdassertation @IrisVanRooij
"Pile on"s IMHO are negative in nature. They imply siccing followers into another account with explicit intention to harm them and often report them till they are banned like TERFs do with trans women on Twitter. Why would that be good?
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij
I was just using the term for "substantial portion of the community responding", wasn't aware of the other negative aspects of it.
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Got you. Sorry. I am struggling to follow but I think it's totally up to you and Iris if you want to unpack a bit more context. 

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