Thread by @HeatherEHeying

“Academia has long been a violent site of imperialism, racism, and patriarchy.”

Violent? VIOLENT?! Have these authors not only never been anywhere outside their sweet 21st century American lives, but also never encountered history? 1/7
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

“One witch’s neglect of her phone gave way to a useful piece of quantitative data.”

Simultaneously pre-modern and post-modern in its silliness. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right… 2/

https://twitter.com/AmirSariaslan/status/1193175803426738176?s=20

WTAF happened to Geography? 3/

The authors create a “feminist invoice,” to address what they see as enduring problems of inequity.

But one respondent objects. This person wants a nonbinary invoice.

A nonbinary invoice. AKA an INVOICE. 4/

This article quotes Ursula K LeGuin. I hate that they do this. When loons take the words of one of your heroes are their own, it hurts. It does, however, remind us why the association fallacy is so dangerous. 5/
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Associati…

Finally, we arrive at a perfect encapsulation of not just the rage of these self-proclaimed academic witches, but the reasons for it:

Apparently, there are too many men.

Obviously, they need to be erased.

WHY IS NOBODY HELPING ME ERASE PEOPLE? 6/

What strikes me most in this article is not the utter lack of intellectual rigor, but how transparent the authors are in their hatred of others, their self-satisfaction, their total lack of self-skepticism.

For all their protests to the contrary, they are feeling ascendant. /end