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1 Feb, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Okay, this point is worth taking up. Jen is right that we have to use our eyes and brains to determine plagiarism, however, these critiques of using TurnItIn in this way smell like bullshit to me when a great many of these faculty likely use TurnItIn to assess student work. (1/n)
As I have said before: defenders of Stock and company routinely play fast and loose with the norms of the discipline. To quote one Harold Finch, "your rules have changed every time it was convenient for you." This is yet another example of a change in rules. (2/n)
By this I mean that when TurnItIn is used in the assessment of student work, it stands as acceptable "proof" of poor scholarship; when TurnItIn is used in the assessment of Stock's work, it "is not itself a reliable indicator of plagiarism." (3/n)
It is to say that Stock and company are not students and should be exempt from the standards that we apply to students. In this, I agree: they should be held to HIGHER standards, but that would imply that philosophy is not willing to play fast and loose with its standards. (4/n)
Which, if anyone has been paying attention, is a goddamned lie. (fin)

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers says
1 Feb
For those of you concerned about the "damage" done to the field and academic freedom by the push to cancel transphobes in philosophy, I have this to say (1/n):

The above is from Gen. Sherman on what is necessary to restore the Union during the Civil War, the sentiment is apt for my position on philosophy: if we are to have an inclusive field and the structure of the field prevents that, then that structure must be destroyed. (2/n)
Now, I understand that this sounds harsh, but consider why it sounds harsh: so much of the pushback against transphobia in philosophy, and the recommendations made to address transphobia in philosophy sounds like "damage" to philosophy by established philosophers. (3/n)
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers says
1 Feb
Putting the plagiarism aside (which is something I never thought I'd write) we need to keep in mind that this is expert testimony submitted to government on an issue that affects the lives of an incredibly vulnerable population and would subject them to further violence. (1/n)
I point out that this is EXPERT TESTIMONY because much of the defenses offered by Stock et al, Leiter, and their associates, and those who circulate and sign on to open letters in their defense, is based on the argument that the scholarship does not and will cause harm. (2/n)
That is, they assume that the scholarship remains within the confines of the academy and has no detrimental effect on the lived experience of the subjects of Stock and co.'s "research." To this end, they can say that they're just "doing inquiry" into valuable subjects. (3/n)
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers says
1 Feb
This is the kind of scholarship that senior members of my field are leveraging academic freedom to protect.

This is what they're saying is acceptable work that needs to be defended from "silencing" and "censorship."

This is garbage.
Just in case someone wants an interactive version of this, Christa's got your back (as always):

I'm increasingly convinced that few, if any senior scholars who defend of Stock and her ilk have actually READ her material. It appears as though they saw precarious scholars, junior scholars, and grad students pushing back and decided that they needed to be put in their place.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers says
1 Feb
So, "Bat Girl Magic" opens up with not only an overt nod to blackness in its title, but some shade to critiques of diversity in the voice-over from the local reporter. "Did I miss something, indeed."

Also, I'm here for Ryan's relationship with Kate's sister. #CrusadingInColor
Victor Zsaz asked the question I was going to ask seconds before I could ask it: "what kind of scientist has a gun in his lab." But also, that ended predictably with a degree of violence I was NOT expecting from the CW.
"Wait, you're a multi-billionare. Why am I only making $12.50 at the Holdup?"

Ryan asking the real questions here. Why IS Ryan only making $12.50, hmm?
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers says
30 Jan
If you're going to report on Stonks, you have a journalistic obligation not to conflate the phenomena of Stonks with Q or the Jan 6 terrorists. While all three are largely decentralized online phenomena, they're DIFFERENT decentralized online phenomena

wsj.com/articles/games…
While all three may have made use of reddit, the degree to which they made use of reddit and the ways they made use of reddit are vastly different. For example, r/WSB was less of an organizing platform for Stonks than the other forums used by Q and the Jan 6. insurrectionists.
To my knowledge, the Q folks choose to use other platforms, specifically in the wake of the demise of r/thedonald, and when they do use platforms it is in a less "pedagogical" mode than r/WSB where there was some direction to take particular kinds of action by members of the sub.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers says
21 Jan
I suppose I should note that both Kaufman and Leiter have called me some variation of confused, as if standing against transphobia and bullying is "mistaken," but this is the first time that the undercurrent of ableism ("deep issues" "get help") has crept in. (1/n)
To be clear, I'm a Black man in philosophy with a disability who is generally outspoken about institutionalized oppression in my field and academia: I've been called far worse by people with far more institutional power, so I'm not concerned about Kaufman's petty insults. (2/n)
What I am concerned about is the ways that our field allows people like Kaufman, Leiter, and Stock (and I'm sure there are others) to use their platforms or adjacent platforms to engage in this kind of behavior. I am concerned that this is a disciplinary norm in our field. (3/n)
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