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6 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This is such nonsense. I wouldn't even shit on the Telegraph. I'm sorry for Alison, who is an amazing person, & angry that the really harassed & hounded are the victims of false flag opportunists like Kathleen Stock. I can only urge Alison to ignore it all, as I try & do.
I don't have a way to reach Alison, I don't think, can anyone who is in touch give her my love & tell her I'm there if she needs, to just email me or have someone send me her number? I'd rather use nettles for toilet paper than the desperate subtabloid Telegraph.
Oh, sorry, shouldn't have given her more publicity here. Too angry to pay attention.

But again, I emphasise: DO NOT take the Telegraph seriously, no one with half a brain & a thimblefull of integrity does. Even if there's shitty dark money behind these crusades.
Oh BTW, you know how that "silenced" professor resigned a few days ago?

Turns out Sussex had a cushy voluntary severance scheme which ended on the 2nd of November.

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9 Nov
See all this effort put into slamming existing universities & making their own sandboxes is actually a huge concession on their part. It is an acknowledgement that they have lost two arguments within existing institutions, desperately though they are trying to flip those. (1/x)
The first is the intellectual argument. Scholarship, real scholarship of the peer reviewed variety, ranges across many political boundaries but it cannot, in accredited institutions, really, with force, make the case for the things these ghouls want to make the case for, i.e.
Old-school Empire; Race Science; Biological Essentialism; Free Market Absolutism; Hard ethnic Borders; Western Superiority; Strongman Leadership...the list can be expanded. So in order to bring these long discredited ideas to fore & give them patina of intellectual respectability
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7 Nov
Bad enough having to defend the BBC but having to now defend Athena Swan ie. elite white cis women's professorial promotion scheme...Well, history is full of these ironies in a time of monsters.
I wouldn't compare Athena Swan to Stonewall. Completely different projects. But yes, at least there wa some understanding that gender is complex and not reducible to a gonad.
Amazingly, of course, The Silenced One would have herself benefited hugely from Athena Swan.
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29 Oct
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Trust me, I & not a few others I know, have repeatedly thought about quitting our jobs. We've dealt with threats (including posters around down with our face on it), doxxing, editorials & tabloid hatchet jobs calling on our universities to fire us, twitter pile-ons, abuse
Vile racist & misogynist abuse. I've also dealt with outside extremist groups, e.g. Hindutva chauvinists egging a few misguided students to plaster the internet with fake claims, absurd one, easily disproved. We've dealt with "investigations" (in one case, one led by a transphobe
barrister) instigated by people who have white fragility meltdowns when challenged on race issues, complaints, double standards, discriminatory treatment, everyday racism & misogynoir, xenophobia, being called in to Head of Dept office. The whole fucking enchilada. Trust me.
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6 Oct
We must represent the views of both those who are completely right and those who are completely wrong, especially the latter.
"Critics claim sun rises on most days"
Fine people on both sides, Ben, come on.
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6 Oct
The silence of academics is ultimately their undoing. Over and over again, the profession has failed itself by keeping quiet in the face of audacious nonsense.
Everywhere, and heaven knows I know what of I speak, donors, i.e. millionaires and billionaires, determining what can or cannot be said or studied or researched or taught. And if there aren't actual donor threats, management will pretend there is. As I well know
In the face of this fantastical breach of ethics at Yale, we notice the very loud silence of....the Cancel Culture Brigade. It's as if it was never really about academic freedom.
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17 Jun
Churchill College's Master, Athene Donald has disbanded the Working Group on Churchill, Race, and Empire. The third event in the series--on commemoration--did not get held due to pressure from the Churchill family & Policy Exchange, & the college taking fright after the backlash
..to the second event in February.

Members of the Working Group (I was) were told that they had dissolved themselves (untrue) & that in any case, they had been constituted for a limited time (also not something they had been told).
Cancel culture is real & disgraceful. Giving in to it is worse.

NO PASARAN. Stand up to them. You & I will have to be cause the establishment will cave. And remember--activists for gender equality are not necessarily allies in the battle for racial justice.
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