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As of the last time I checked, @NSBPInc President-Elect Hakeem Oluseyi’s blog entry that seeks to exonerate homophobic federal admin James Webb still contains what I consider to be potentially libelous comments about me, one of the only openly queer faculty in the organization.
"The...article references a professional astrophysicist as his original source for learning about the allegations against Webb. This scientist propagated unsubstantiated false information as if it were true without performing proper scientific rigor to investigate its veracity."
This comment specifically cites an article on https://t.co/5MxzND1CGW by Matthew Francis where Francis says that he first learned about the allegations against Webb because of me. Francis does not identify me as an authority nor does he quote me as an authoritative source.
I believe that what Francis was (quite reasonably) referring to is seeing me tweet The Stranger article by Dan Savage.
Oluseyi takes it a step further by insinuating that I knowingly made false statements and claiming that I did not investigate.
Oluseyi has no evidence.
Again, I want to highlight that the president elect of the National Society of Black Physicists wrote an essay, claiming to support queer people, where he makes a point of impugning the integrity of the only openly queer faculty member in the org, who is also early career.
"The...article references a professional astrophysicist as his original source for learning about the allegations against Webb. This scientist propagated unsubstantiated false information as if it were true without performing proper scientific rigor to investigate its veracity."
This comment specifically cites an article on https://t.co/5MxzND1CGW by Matthew Francis where Francis says that he first learned about the allegations against Webb because of me. Francis does not identify me as an authority nor does he quote me as an authoritative source.
I believe that what Francis was (quite reasonably) referring to is seeing me tweet The Stranger article by Dan Savage.
Oluseyi takes it a step further by insinuating that I knowingly made false statements and claiming that I did not investigate.
Oluseyi has no evidence.
Again, I want to highlight that the president elect of the National Society of Black Physicists wrote an essay, claiming to support queer people, where he makes a point of impugning the integrity of the only openly queer faculty member in the org, who is also early career.
On what “burn it all down” really means, where it comes from, and why the predominant reactions to Sarah Bond’s original tweet from academics are willfully ignorant and reactionary. Thread.
Talk of “burning it all down” is not new nor aimed at nihilism. It's a standard phrase in abolitionist scholarship, aimed at dismantling structures that at best treat decolonization as an intellectual debate, and at worst enact state-sanctioned death.
In academia, I, like Sarah Bond, take “burning it all down” thus to mean addressing that white supremacy, casualization, and sexual violence are not aberrations, but business as usual in academia, such that a radical restructuring is required.
.@Eidolon (rip) published an editorial on “burning it all down” in 2019. “Bound to infuriate Boomers,” this kind of rhetoric is “a challenge to imagine how, if you had a blank slate, you’d go about solving big problems in creative, radical ways.”
At AIASCS 2018, @platanoclassics urged against defending the field, calling instead “for this contemporary configuration of Classics to die, so that it might be born into a new life.” Merely waiting out the storm is "not only unethical but
Talk of “burning it all down” is not new nor aimed at nihilism. It's a standard phrase in abolitionist scholarship, aimed at dismantling structures that at best treat decolonization as an intellectual debate, and at worst enact state-sanctioned death.
In academia, I, like Sarah Bond, take “burning it all down” thus to mean addressing that white supremacy, casualization, and sexual violence are not aberrations, but business as usual in academia, such that a radical restructuring is required.
You can care about certain scholars, students, material culture, and texts within a field and still want that field to be dismantled and burned so that those elements can be truly saved & white supremacy can be smothered.
— Dr. Sarah Bond (@SarahEBond) January 23, 2021
.@Eidolon (rip) published an editorial on “burning it all down” in 2019. “Bound to infuriate Boomers,” this kind of rhetoric is “a challenge to imagine how, if you had a blank slate, you’d go about solving big problems in creative, radical ways.”
At AIASCS 2018, @platanoclassics urged against defending the field, calling instead “for this contemporary configuration of Classics to die, so that it might be born into a new life.” Merely waiting out the storm is "not only unethical but
The real danger for the country isn’t the election results, it’s the reaction to, and the refusal to accept the results. For more than four years, Trump and the Right Wing Media Echo Chamber have conditioned his supporters to believe the election is “rigged”. They believe it….1/
In a recent thread about collective election anxiety/PTSD, I wrote that “one half the country doesn’t believe in evidence, the other half can’t trust it.” 2/
This couldn’t more evident than by the fact that 87 percent of Trump supporters believe he will win re-election, despite the fact that… 3/
…the empirical data that shows Biden *should* win easily. This has resulted in https://t.co/e8JNg5tYmK calculating that Trump has only a 10% chance of winning. To be clear, 10% is a non-zero number, much like the 30% chance that Trump had in 2016. 4/
But the real problem isn’t necessarily about low probabilities, the real problem…..or more accurately, the danger…..lies in the pathologically unrealistic expectations of the cult of Trump: 90% of them have been conned into thinking that a 10% probability is a “sure thing”. 5/
In a recent thread about collective election anxiety/PTSD, I wrote that “one half the country doesn’t believe in evidence, the other half can’t trust it.” 2/
The collective anxiety is the by-product of two unfortunate realities of the Trump era:
— Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych (@Nick_Carmody) October 20, 2020
1)You\u2019ll never go broke if you consistently bet on the ignorance/depravity of 1/3 of this country.
2)One-half of the country doesn\u2019t believe in evidence. The other half can\u2019t trust it.
1/ https://t.co/gY5lzJxNxq
This couldn’t more evident than by the fact that 87 percent of Trump supporters believe he will win re-election, despite the fact that… 3/
…the empirical data that shows Biden *should* win easily. This has resulted in https://t.co/e8JNg5tYmK calculating that Trump has only a 10% chance of winning. To be clear, 10% is a non-zero number, much like the 30% chance that Trump had in 2016. 4/
But the real problem isn’t necessarily about low probabilities, the real problem…..or more accurately, the danger…..lies in the pathologically unrealistic expectations of the cult of Trump: 90% of them have been conned into thinking that a 10% probability is a “sure thing”. 5/
People see what Trump is doing to the country. They see how much worse our country is doing than other countries dealing with Covid. They see the violence on both the right and the left that is exacerbated by Trump’s stoking of the divide.
They see how Trump lauds White Supremacists. They see how he caters to the super wealthy. They saw how he was revealed not only to not be a billionaire as he claimed, but to be millions of dollars in debt. He lies about everything. He’s not under audit. He never built a wall.
They see how he’s a desperate wuss, constantly attacking anyone who affronts his vanity - he just isn’t man enough to take criticism. He sucks up to dictators across the globe because he wants to be one - but he’s not smart enough.
They see how he goes on about Biden’s mental capacity but he can’t say the word Yosemite and shows massive signs of dementia and degeneration. America is on to his game of accusing his opponent of whatever his flaw is.
He made fun of Biden’s son for being a recovering drug addict - something almost all of us, Democrat or Republican, have in our lives and love.
What do you thinking is the biggest reason more Texans are voting? A specific issue or what?
— TheRealDubT (@DubT4Real) November 1, 2020
They see how Trump lauds White Supremacists. They see how he caters to the super wealthy. They saw how he was revealed not only to not be a billionaire as he claimed, but to be millions of dollars in debt. He lies about everything. He’s not under audit. He never built a wall.
They see how he’s a desperate wuss, constantly attacking anyone who affronts his vanity - he just isn’t man enough to take criticism. He sucks up to dictators across the globe because he wants to be one - but he’s not smart enough.
They see how he goes on about Biden’s mental capacity but he can’t say the word Yosemite and shows massive signs of dementia and degeneration. America is on to his game of accusing his opponent of whatever his flaw is.
He made fun of Biden’s son for being a recovering drug addict - something almost all of us, Democrat or Republican, have in our lives and love.
