Thread by @gauravsabnis

It's that time of the year again when sanghi twitter thinks this is going to work. 🤣🤣🤣

It's like they don't even google me. 😭😭😭😭

Today is Tuesday btw 😌

Just to be clear, yes, this is a legit email from my school's HR. So I guess after @AudreyTruschke, they stayed in Jersey in terms of their online swarm activity. This could be a great research opportunity!

All this swarm tantrum does, bhakts, is generate unnecessary work for already overworked US university HR folks. No professor in a US university is ever going to shut up because you complained to their boss. This is not India.

Going after me through my employers is particularly bizarre because

A. I don't really have THAT big a following or influence. At 14K, I'm like a level D influencer tops. I know. I research this stuff for a living.

B. I literally gave up a job over this when I was still in debt.

B. contd..
I gave up an IBM job when still in significant student debt over a random shitpost about a random diploma mill. This time, I think the fate of one fifth of humanity is at stake. If not the whole of humanity. You think I'm going to cower now?

C. When IIPM decided to try their hand at squeezing me through my employer, I barely got a 1000 views on my blog. Their swarm tantrum against me turned that into like 20K a day for a while. Classic Streisand Effect. And I was a total unknown then.

D. Now I'm tenured in an American university, LITERALLY the least likely employer to fire someone over their first amendment rights.

Just putting the disgusting fascist mentality aside, the only possible endgame here is more visibility for me. Maybe I should get an agent. 🤣🤣

So this hinduoncampus twitter account that is going around coordinating this sockpuppetry, pretending like it's some widespread student movement. Sigh, such amateurs in terms of covering their tracks. Following only 15 accounts. Which tell a lot to a social media researcher. 🤣🤣

Lol.

In case you're wondering why these folks are spending so much time and effort against this random marketing professor in a small private NJ university with just a few thousand followers, they're following an old playbook. Always be on the offensive.

https://twitter.com/gauravsabnis/status/1357238783717081088?s=19

They want to exhaust you into submission or at least indifference. Make engaging with them so much of a personal nuisance that you just walk away. And most people, justifiably, do.

Just spoke to school HR and really, I feel bad for them having to deal with some Junior Hagga type with no connection to Stevens writing an aggrieved typo-filled email because some Malviya acolyte needs a raise. Basically did not eat drink anything, broke a glass ₹0.75
🤣🤣🤣

TLDR - Sabnis is mean to BJP and says mean things about Hinduism. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

https://twitter.com/JRaghunath2/status/1369370539379339275?s=19

Full transcript of the call.

HR: We got this complaint about your twitter. Your twitter bio says opinions personal.

Me: Yup

(That's the end of the call, officially speaking. Everything else was just two colleagues chatting.)

Anyway, this tiny cabal of extremely incompetent keyboard warriors running that pathetic almost pitiable hinduoncampus twitter pretending like they are a movement, lol. Come at me. 🤣🤣🤣

"Oh it's nothing, Gaurav. Last I checked, bashing fascists isn't bigotry."

I love my colleagues. 🤣🤣🤣

The statement I suggested HR that my school release if they do feel like releasing one 🤣🤣 -

"Official statement from Stevens in response to complaints from strangers against Prof. Sabnis's personal tweets -

Stevens Institute of Technology is in USA. Thank you.'