1) You’ll sometimes hear reporters for right-wing campus ‘watchdog’ groups (pressure groups to chill faculty speech) working the non-newsworthy professor Twitter beat say ‘I’m just reporting, I don’t want my target to get threats and harassment.’ I think that’s genuine. HOWEVER..
2) It’s like you’ve watched someone lob a water balloon into a crowd of 100 about 1000 times, and some of those times it was even you who threw the balloon. ‘I was just observing the trajectory, I didn’t mean for anyone to get wet.’ ...
3) You really need to stop and think about what you’re doing. There’s no plausible deniability here. You’re part of an apparatus designed to chill faculty speech by leveraging media networks to whip up angry mobs that threaten and harass the targets and call for their jobs. ...
4) You don’t need to be part of that. I promise you you’re better than that. /end nytimes.com/2017/02/16/opi…
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