I understand the knee-jerk reaction to respond with sarcasm. But how exactly does it help fix the situation?https://twitter.com/julie_b92/status/871268434750959617 …
I can't agree that 2 post-PhD dudes one calling the other an "idiot" (which btw carries a LOT of baggage I am _sure_ you know) is the same
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dynamic as one student being sarcastic about the initial language ("idiot" etc).
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never thought it was.
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Ah, right! See, I thought you were equivocating them.
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no. not at all. just tired of the verbal violence. want to focus energy on educating each other and fixing things, not on name calling.
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Is it poss that you might have some serious crossed wires with Julie? I mean I know you and I use sarcasm against ppl/communities/behaviours
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esp when they have hurt us or excluded us. I'm like pretty sure we have both done so in tweets recently. So it seemed a little harsh to me
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to speak out against a PhD student for calling out bad behaviour.

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I was calling out her bad behavior. and she responded with extremely bad behavior.
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