TIMELINE of events that led up to Stephen Basdeo's hit piece that further led to enabling/invitations to doxx my family via false information provided by Paul Halsall
1) I tweeted about the Sunday Telegraph story & white-washed British history
2) Stephen's friend RT'd me and since Stephen is apparently obsessed with much of what I say, he interjected to suggest as a Canadian-born person it's not my place to criticize British imperialism.
Keep in mind I had one brief interaction w/ him & no others on here (or anywhere)
3) But, as you see, he has been obsessing about me in that alt-medieval FB group for years. I had no idea who this guy was until ppl started alerting me to vicious alt-medieval group comments.
4) And yes, there is a record of him saying he likes to provoke &attack. For someone who felt compelled to write a hit piece that he's now heavily editing bc he knows exactly how it's being read & then to say he was "laughing." Not laughing out loud rn as you frantically scrub
5) Many more receipts from yrs back, but this is just to establish he & others have been doing this for yrs. Show me a record where I have named him publicly to besmirch him BEFORE he attacked me & endangered my family.
6) So after he was honing in on Canadian BIPOC are beneficiaries of colonization I said this bc I asked him and his friends to prove I wasn't British. He couldn't answer & the others started a tirade:
7) His silence & allowance of his friends to attack ME bc we whose ancestors were colonized don't owe colonizers credit said everything. That is Uncle Tom behavior.
8) Not long before he had attacked an ECR who spoke out about MB & transphobia. Stephen pointed transphobes to Florence & claimed it was revenge. Now he's claiming he doesn't know them (as per his hit piece).
9) I kept a record bc altho I hadn't said anything publicly abt this, he's been enabling racists for yrs. This was a live record of him sending racists my way abt a tweet that had nothing to do w/ him (the Telegraph piece). Eg. *some* of the vile comments
14) Days go by & I assume we're all just going on our merry way until some failed Conservative politician tags me in a post abt respectability politics. He's quoting from Stephen's blog that paints me as an aggressor:
16) Stephen establishes this is just to be cruel and gain attention
17) You'll see the irony in the name he's titled the hit-piece as he has been busy scrubbing the piece. The thread has a lot of the vile comments too. This is clearly personal for someone who claims he "confronts" ppl
20) Paul Halsall unmasks himself as a sock puppet that was created yesterday to argue that my family is not being doxxed -- releasing their location which I do not do is endangering them. I am the target of wyte supremacists around the globe:
21) I have explained abt stalkers before and yet Paul had outed me under my pseudonym in 2018. I had to apologize to him (victim apologizing to abuser) before he agreed to remove my info:
23) My priority upon learning about family's possible endangerment was to ensure they were safe. It took a few hrs before an update which started to show Stephen's & Paul's connections with fascists:
25) Stephen's hit piece (apart from the comment he lied abt (he approved &liked the comment & let it sit there for at least 24 hrs) is being called out for exactly what it is. I don't need to "froth", ppl can read:
I'll get to this abomination of a rumor about my graduate studies tomorrow. I know Paul Halsall likes to keep us WOC preoccupied so he can complain that we are mediocre and don't publish enough but I have a publication to finish tonight.
26) Alt-medieval going back and forth about where I may or may not be and what constitutes doxxing or enabling it. Posting cities is not the same as "Canada" & saying I was *born*/*raised there doesn't mean shit.
27) The insidious rumors that alt-medieval spreads to create wyte supremacist hysteria & backlash against scholars of color. Here is the thread w/ receipts where Paul Halsall claims someone he doesn't know (my father) is some sort of bully to academics.
🧵I've established that the alt-medieval fascist loving group has been targeting antiracist medievalists for yrs. Here's where I undo Paul Halsall's lie. This man besmirching my Dad's character (a man he doesn't know) & repeats these claims on several platforms. Racist wyte-lash.
2/As an activist scholar, I will always credit my folks for their love &support, but I want to ensure they are safe. Apart from adoration & a few references, they are off limits & should never be the topic of conversations particularly by those who consider themselves "scholars."
3/ Any BIPOC (& white) antiracist activist knows that you become targets of malicious racist aggression, and that your safety can be in jeopardy. We word things VERY carefully but ppl misread information. Being *born* having lived in or even working at X doesn't reveal one's
In case anyone is in doubt abt the vileness of that alt-medieval FB group, below is the profile of Thomas J MacMaster who pretended to be a gay girl from Damascus & caused an international incident. These aren't morally superior individuals, having 'debate' over scholarship. 1/
This man who pretended to be a gay, Syrian girl to catfish another woman has the absolute audacity to claim that we WOC exaggerate threats and violence when people LITERALLY SEE IT IN REAL TIME. Also using a pseudonym isn't faking, dolt. 2/
Speaking of "basic research" before "slandering" your own group could with some better skills but I'm afraid you'd just end up doxxing everyone. 3/
🧵In case ppl are unclear as to why I said @sbasdeo1 is caping for racists, see here. The alt-medieval group has literal nazi-lovers in it & these ppl claim (like Dr. Alex Woolf & Dr. Dan Franke) to be more "antifascist" than some of us. They can't even tell who the nazis are.
And yes, they are all part of that FB group. WHO are the racist and nazi lovers? The actual audacity of them to say they are antifascist (which many of them have).
On top of that, they even CLAIM and are proud they are targeting WOC in the field. So "antifascist work" is mocking &targeting harassment to WoC in medieval studies?
🧵Thank you to everyone for your support. I've updated an action plan w/ & for my parents which I should never have to do. Now that I can breathe a bit, I just wanted to update y'all. I'm posting the relevant info in tweets below if you want to report some of the harassers: 1/
Please use the blocked out screenshots &don't reshare private info about/locations of my family. They are absolutely off limits. Regardless of what was revealed, the fact that the blogger approved that comment on his blog & liked it could lead to endangering my family. 2/
He continues to bring violence my way (which he did earlier in the week but forgot to mention) 3/
There is no such thing as "'Anglo-Saxon' political traditions" unless Margorie Taylor Greene is talking about Old English charters and she isn't. If she wants to return to those, she'll have to stop advocating for gun use. "Anglo-Saxon" is being weaponized by the far-right.
For all those arm-chair 'critics' & faux antiracist advocates who think that terminology isn't the issue, terms are wrapped up in ideologies. We can tease them apart to undermine their false beliefs while also taking other practical measures. Get real. mrambaranolm.medium.com/history-bites-…
And re-circulating this to equip yourselves with info so you can tell those far-right ppl that they are factually wrong.