Thread by @brief_fiction

@UNM @UNM_Global I just got to deal with your social media liaison, Nora Heineman-Fleck,

linkedin.com/in/nora-heinem…

who posts on Twitter as @NoraReed. This is the person who you've chosen to have represent your university on the Internet.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed This person, your representative, went on the attack because I referred to her / him / it / (whatever Nora wants to be called) as "Ms. Reed."

https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1487529670547410945

Let us note that Nora, who is a biological female, still chooses to go by the name "Nora" (a woman's name).

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed Most people, on seeing the name "Nora," would think that they were dealing with a woman, with a "she," which biologically was the case. But Nora came absolutely unglued over nothing more than the fact that I made that simple, natural assumption.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed Nora Reed / Heineman-Fleck then tried to target me for harassment over this non-issue.

https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1487537064446812161

https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1487537758889332736

https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1487540240487272448

https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1487540870450761729

I've had to spend my Saturday blocking the members of the online lynch mob s/he assembled.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed Yes or no. Does the University of New Mexico feel that this is appropriate, professional behavior on the part of the person it has chosen as its representative on the Internet?

I remind you of the common law principle that holds that silence indicates assent.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed Here's your rep, at her professional best.

https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1487530406056316930

Before s/he decided to respond to a natural perception with an orchestrated campaign of cyber-harassment.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed Is this considered acceptable behavior out of a member of your staff? If the answer to that question is "yes," then does this not become a good reason for others to avoid the University of New Mexico?

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed If it is not considered acceptable, which I should most certainly hope it would not, then what, specifically, does the University intend to do to get this out of control employee to start behaving in an at least marginally civilized manner?

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed Let us understand each other clearly. I am about to become a professor, myself, fiction writing only being my hobby, not my career. If I were to give you my real name, there's a good chance that you would have heard of it.

I'm sure that you know what scientists are like.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed I'm sure that you can make your day go a little more smoothly today by appeasing the crazy people who've popped up in the comments, but what your employee did today was not OK.

If you back her up today, those crazy activists will have forgotten about that, by tomorrow.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed But I won't, nor will anybody I know. I'm sure that you've heard of "the great resignation" and I have no doubt that you will be touched by it.

You're going to need new faculty members.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed If you take the easy path, today, and support this rabble rowser's "right" to harass others over a non-issue like this, I'm going to spread this story far and wide, and I will do so for the rest of my career.

You have my word of honor on that.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed Who is going to want to work for you after hearing a story like this one? Weigh your options, do as you see fit, but don't think for a second that I'm going to accept any apologies down the road.

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed You are either willing to do the right thing or you are not. So, which is it? Does the UNM think that what Nora Heineman-Fleck did, when s/he engaged in this unprovoked act of harassment, was acceptable or does it not?

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed Silence on your part will be taken as an official expression of approval of her actions.

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