Thread by @MsEntropy

I’m soooo tempted to do a thread right now on how a Nazi death threat led to my current unemployment.

Because I’m still extremely pissed off.

I’ve been explicitly told not to publicly talk about this “because academia.”

But when higher education is run by administrators so obsessed with PR and rich donors that they victim blame terrorism experts for terroristic death threats...

I don’t have a career left to ruin.

I’m not going to go into too much detail but I will say this:

Institutions of higher education shouldn’t lie to the FBI to obstruct investigation into death threats made against a professor. That’s a federal crime.

How do I know? The FBI told me.

Here’s what I was told - verbatim - about why my permanent hire wouldn’t go through:

“The president, the provost and the board of trustees look askance at a faculty member who would bring so much attention to herself as to warrant death threats.”

Best believe I memorized that.

Anyway, my ex-employer knows who they are.

That’s why I’m unemployed and utterly fucked.

Because I work on terrorism, Nazis wanted to kill me, and my old employer blamed me. After hiring me to work on... TERRORISM.

/TheEnd (of my career)

That Nazi cop story just set me off, guys. Sorry.

Anyway, that’s why I’m trying to sell my art on Twitter while applying for the nonexistent academic jobs as they come up.

Sucks, too. I am damn good at my (theoretical) job. Academia, get your shit straight.

Hire me, someone.

I’m fun.

It also makes me extra furious that I was warning about the threats of white supremacist violence before it was all over the news.

That’s the shit that got me targeted in the first place.

FOR. BEING. RIGHT.

Last word: always stand up to Nazis. I wouldn’t do a damn thing differently.

Those that enable such violence are, to my mind, even worse than those with rancid ideological convictions.

And now I’m going to feed my whiny cat.

In case you wonder why an ISIS expert would be a target for Nazis, terrorist violence has long been in my life.

I grew up in Wichita, Kansas during the “Abortion Wars,” one of the most sustained campaigns of domestic terrorism in American history.

amandarogers.org/2020/01/09/fro…

In conclusion, here’s my Plan B on Etsy.

If you too are constantly trying to find something of beauty in this hideous world, maybe you’ll find something of value here.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for the support. etsy.com/shop/ArtOfEntr…