“I have yet to hear a single parent say anything bigoted” says #Quillette author about anti-trans parents at the 600-word mark of article that is very liberally spiced with bigotry.
If you encourage me, I will write more about how bigoted, exactly. Not right now, though, Twitter, not right now. 🙃
OK. Here we go.
Brace yourselves, please. This #Quillette article is one in a series by a pseudonymous academic who has no expertise in this area of study and will publish three more pieces like it. 3/
What makes Heather a man, a woman, or a wannabe clownfish in the year 2021 in the United States of America is that 500 million years ago there existed sexual reproduction. Nobel-Prize-worthy material.
Shall we tell Heather that trans and non-binary folk can sexually reproduce, too? Or, shall we keep that information from her for 500 million uninterrupted years, just to tease her?
Been reading one of #EricKaufmann's #AcademicFreedom reports. In it, he cites the National Association of Scholar's data sheet on cancellations to highlight how many there have been. 1/
So I went and looked at that. It was fun. It had a number of cases on it that I didn't know yet, and there are links the news pieces and blog posts, so it's useful in its way. 2/
The association itself way oversells what they think the data sheet shows. Just listen to the snippy description below. Aside: the article from which it's taken leads with a dictionary.com definition, ahem. Follow the links for the data sheet. 3/ nas.org/blogs/article/…
#GeoffreyMiller is at it again. Making wild and entirely wrong pronouncements about diversity practices in current academic work, well-directed to his easily outraged anti-academic and/or reactionary audience.
Friends, sorry to bother you, I need to give myself a little pat on the back for a moment. Joe proves my point. I responded (maybe I shouldn’t have—I’m not here to back-pat myself for impulse control) WITHOUT SWEAR WORDS. Not opposed to swear words, but it’s on Rod’s timeline.
Still refraining from cursing, swearing, or being verbally aggressive! A little proud of myself.
(This is not that easy for me. Oh, the slight suffering.)
Coming back for a moment here to try to put my finger on why I was so angry and wanted to swear at Joe. My point was that the rule "don't ask people for their motivations, only the truth of the claim counts" denies us the opportunity to ask for motivations because we need trust.
Etienne P. LeBel—the person who runs the Curate Science Twitter account—retweets right-wing crusader Chris Rufo, of the Discovery Institute:
Ah, yes, the leader of Curate Science endorses the view that the "neoracist ideology of diversity/equity/inclusion is toxic and reflects psychopathology."
That's a transparent way of thinking, I give it that.