Thread by @JeffreyASachs

Once again, I want to draw attention to the plight of Nathan Jun, a philosophy prof at Midwestern State University who recently resigned his tenured position. The reason? Death threats.

leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2021/09/n…

For a full background on Jun, see this article from last year in the Chronicle. The gist is that during the height of the George Floyd protests, he took to his personal Facebook page to harshly criticized police. What followed was month after unremitting month of hell.

chronicle.com/article/these-…

Local activists, rightwing politicians, and national media all got in on the act. Jun was personally doxxed, as was were his relatives. His house was vandalized (twice!) with swastikas. And yeah, lots and lots of death threats.

Through it all, @MSUTexas quite conspicuously failed to have Jun's back. Except perhaps for the purpose of planting a knife in it.

timesrecordnews.com/story/news/loc…

@MSUTexas Which is what prompted the resignation. Over the last year, Jun has grown severely depressed and has been hospitalized on multiple occasions for PTSD. But his university has essentially abandoned him.

docs.google.com/forms/d/12gajK…

@MSUTexas And not just his university. Whereas other academic resignations have attracted no end of comment, Jun's has been largely ignored. I am not the first to note this odd discrepancy.

dailynous.com/2021/09/17/tal…

@MSUTexas What can you do? Well, you can start by signing this petition.

docs.google.com/forms/d/12gajK…

@MSUTexas You can also donate to Jun's legal fund. I know that at an earlier stage in the process, @TheFIREorg had intervened on his behalf, but I don't know if that's still the case. Regardless, he will need financial support.

gofundme.com/f/please-help-…

@MSUTexas @TheFIREorg And of course make a fuss. That's something at which Twitter seems to excel. Have at it.