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2 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Dear Heather,

Let me validate your feeling: you are an absolute clownfish.

Yours,
Woke Sauron Image
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. ImageImage
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?
Seems to me that our friend Anonymous Mouse is messing with the universal definition of the word mouse because that’s the game that . . . oh no, wait! Image

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3 Apr
“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. Image
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/ ImageImage
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2 Apr
Solid advice.
#JesseSingal’s blame game has some obvious patterns. Image
Yep. His shtick is very cruel.

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31 Mar
What is cancel culture?

One of the burning questions of our time, surely.

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/…
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30 Mar
#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.
Let's fact-checked (or: #peerreview) his tweet.

1. Yes, many job applications are now required to include a diversity statement.

2. No, they don't have to say *anything* about critical race theory.

3. Neither do they ask to "pledge their support" to any other tenet or theory.
4. Holy hell, no, a diversity statement is NOT compelled speech.

5. Being required to submit application documents for a university job violates the First Amendment? Ha ha ha ha ha. What a hilariously absurd claim.
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28 Mar
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. Image
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.) Image
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.
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20 Mar
Curate Science sounding just a wee itsy bitsy little smidgen white supremacist here, non?

"Please note that we were forced to report you to Twitter."

Nobody forced you.

Someone criticized you, tho. Legitimately. Your response is, "you are not welcome in our community." Uh-huh.
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.
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