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Dr. Katja Thieme 👀 Profile picture
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Aug 31, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
This point appears to be correct.
I’m going to line up my favourite comments here.

You know how much I like using a direct letter format on Twitter. And a parody that channels the parodied’s sentence structure back at them.

If Yascha Mounk thinks talking about “2+2” has a negative impact on the reputation of public health research during a pandemic, has he asked himself what negative impact his talk of “cancel culture” has?

Whoa! The efficiency of this one.

By the way, I have a research article that argues persuasion isn't a useful concept. It presumes we want to leave it up to those we address to decide whether to take up our option and shift in the way we want them to shift. We don't. Because that would be description.
Persuasion as a term obfuscates the power we bring to bear in order to push--more or less forcefully--our addressed audience into the positions we prefer them to have. Much of that power is contained in how we address and position those addressed audiences.
Yascha Mounk's promotion of his Persuasion platform buys into the genteel notion of persuasion, which I think is outdated and inaccurate.
Mounk's tweet positioning Kareem Carr's 2+2 talk as contrary to what Mounk thinks his dean's vision for public health should be, exemplifies the power at play in trying to change someone's position--in this case directly the dean's, and indirectly Carr's--by casting them into it.
Here's the article I wrote about that.

#publicpedagogy #writingstudies #teamrhetoric #rhetcomp #rhetoric #discourseanalysis

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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May 24
I've been fascinated by yet another pronoun discussion that's been happening in various subthreads. It all took off from this tweet. Let me share some interesting observations that have emerged—about the powerful aura of gendered pronouns! 1/

Pronouns are a very functional class of words. I love them, linguistically, because of the intra-situational relations they create and rely upon. Very basically, a pronoun is a word, chosen from a limited set, that is used to stand in for other words, phrases, and concepts. 2/
When analyzing how pronouns are pragmatically used, the first thing you ask yourself is: what is this pronoun's antecedent? What is the word, phrase, or concept which came before (in a text or utterance) or which is part of this situation and which is replaced by this pronoun? 3/
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May 19
@AmberGloryHole @mashakleiner @skyscaping @AHousefather @marcomendicino @UBC In her own video, several protestors at the encampment speak to Masha. But she keeps claiming—falsely—that they won’t speak to anyone.
@AmberGloryHole @mashakleiner @skyscaping @AHousefather @marcomendicino @UBC In her own video, Masha reads aloud the camp community rule of “solidarity with Gaza & the Palestinian people.” But she keeps claiming—falsely & insistently—that this means, “You have to agree that Israel must be annihilated to go in. This is genocidal.”

@AmberGloryHole @mashakleiner @skyscaping @AHousefather @marcomendicino @UBC Once again, this happens. I engage in dialogue with one of the insistent critics of the UBC encampment, a critic who repeatedly professes to want dialogue and who complains that protestors don’t talk to them as often as they want them to.

And then this. Puzzling, isn’t it. Image
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Jul 10, 2023
Someone tweeted a Riley Gaines clip at me today thinking it unassailably showed we should not teach about trans identities and experiences in schools. The question attached to it was, „Are you okay with enabling this kind of abuse?“
In the clip, Gaines talks about feeling mistreated in a photo op with Lia Thomas. They both won 5th place. Thomas was the tiniest fraction ahead, not enough to effect placement. But enough to say Thomas should hold the single available 5th-place trophy. Gaines got hers mailed.
Gaines gets tearful about the emotional effect it had on her that Thomas was holding the trophy which she had also won.

That’s just whiny. What a sore not-even-loser.
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Nov 2, 2022
#NathanCofnas has written a response to recent journalistic articles critical of his appointment as Leverhulme fellow in philosophy at Cambridge. I was tempted to line up the terms he is using to give the impression that his work can't have been debunked.
So, let's do that. 1/
A: terms he uses to describe his own work
B: terms for the work of his critics

A: He works in "philosophy of biology and ethics" and his paper in a "highly respected philosophy and psychology journal" calls for "free inquiry into all possible causes of race difference" in IQ.
B: In response to that story, a "small group of philosophers" had "a meltdown" which is "its own funny story."

I'll leave out the description of his encounters with the journalists at the two news outlets; it's not as relevant to the characterization of his & others' research.
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Oct 7, 2022
Playbook for white supremacist profs.

1. Do your white supremacists things. Write blog posts, tweets, articles in which you take white supremacist positions. Attend white supremacist rallies. Take photos with Nazi symbols. Whatever it is you like to do.
2. Do it repeatedly, perhaps more openly in public & more veiled in professional life. Do it enough until your students and colleagues are alert to it and your university administration notices.
3. When an investigation is launched, immediately contact FIRE. Let them in on the public parts.

4. Provide FIRE with receipts that show you engaging in public political expression. Indicate how people have noticed you doing so & have sent career-threatening emails to your uni.
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Oct 4, 2022
Pit of a puzzle to me how one can say faculty *must* work to make their institutions more equal and inclusive, and then dismiss a request to sketch out how faculty do this work they *must* do as "purity tests" that open some mysterious yet unsavoury doors.
Oh, wait, here's how I should have written the above tweet:

I believe university faculty must work to make their institutions more equal and inclusive. #BUT.
What am I going to do with this ubiquitous #BUT structure. Should I write a paper about it? What kind of paper?
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