I hate to break it to a certain person who seems disturbed to see her photo on Twitter posts, but if you put a photo of yourself on a public social media, it will show up when people link to your--wait for it--public social media. Which is public. Where you put it. To be shared.
It's just silly to try to generate manufactured outrage by pretending to be scared that your photo appears when your public profiles are linked to, claiming that the person is stalking you. You put them there.
The difference is that when you screencap and link our profiles (for months on end) you're inciting nearly 14,000 people to scream lies at & about us, contact our employers, and even send us death threats.
It doesn't bother me that someone links to my work, which I in fact put online to be shared. But having it circulated specifically to extremists with ill-intent and accompanied by false accusations is different.

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23 Aug
Hello to new followers who have joined in the last day or so! 👋 It's not usually this full of drama, though it has obviously has been recently. I usually post on premodern Japanese history, digital humanities, academic life, and cats with good faces. I try to keep it balanced.
I believe it's important to maintain a positive though grounded perspective on academics & life more generally, and to foster a supportive community. I therefore make open access resources a lot, like my guide to Twitter for academics (and everyone else): prcurtis.com/docs/twittergu…
If you're here because you teach or research East Asia (or want to learn more about it!) I maintain a database of English-language digital resources to help folks diversify their work/learning to include non-European stuff: prcurtis.com/DH/resources/
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22 Aug
For 6 months East Asia scholars have been harassed by ultranationalists on Twitter. We've received nonstop messages (even threats), while a ringleader insists *we* are harassers. So here's the evidence for how @sachihirayama has targeted @astanley711 & me. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… Image
I focused on Amy & me because we've been targeted by this person with particular hostility. These lists of tweets show that she tweeted at or about us 400+ times, combined. This does NOT include replies to her followers, which often occurred several times over on every thread.
It also does not include her constant retweeting of her followers when they agree with her or take similar actions to her, like screencapping our media, professional profiles, linking to our pages/tweets, contacting employers, etc. These would triple or even quadruple the number.
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4 May
Please enjoy Japanese language versions of these invalid argument explainers! Below: Ad Hominem, Cherry Picking, and Conspiracy Theories.
Here we have Fake Experts, Impossible Expectations, and Logical Fallacy.
Here: Magnified Minority, Moving Goalposts, and Oversimplification.
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3 May
So, if I want to tweet wildly outside my area of expertise I should tweet from a fake account? I see you are modeling this well! 😌Also glad you believe screencapping people lacks dignity--please convey this to Sachi & co, who began this dispute by screencapping us repeatedly. ✨
I mean, yeah, I could. And I would. But they're not the ones harassing us online right now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ When they do, the same will happen to them. I'm equal opportunity in my burn delivery service.
According to Bad Kitty, exposing people & their tweets with screencapping lacks dignity. 🤔 Perhaps someone should have spread the word back in... February?
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2 May
Do you need to explain to your trolls why their argument is invalid without expending too much energy? I've made some helpful explainers you can use. ImageImageImage
These are core categories based on an excellent explainer from a climate science denial site that can be found here. crankyuncle.com/a-history-of-f… ImageImage
I might create more after I crank out an application today, but in the meanwhile, go forth and engage in responsible public engagement! 😘
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29 Apr
For any of the students at my lecture on Monday, here is a prime example of the need to fight for (ethical) historical scholarship. Scholars wrote a *36-page-long* refutation using evidence. But denialists with a following will insist on logical fallacies. apjjf.org/2021/5/Concern…
Rough translation: "The Kono Statement has been overturned & these cornered foreign professors can't refute with historical facts so they make emotional arguments like "Japan must be embarrassed". What is embarrassing is that they are scholars who teach lies and despise Japan!"
History is living not only because we live it and we are always reassessing it based on our best evidence to date or latest discoveries, but because putting it to paper does not mean that it will be accepted or that it cannot be misused. Teaching and learning history is crucial.
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