This is not remotely an apology. You said Dr. MRO was a race-faker, compared her to Jessica Krug, doubled-down, and blocked anyone who criticized you. This led to a huge amount of others attacking Dr. MRO as a race-faker. Why not apologize TO HER? #BrightAgesSoWhite 
https://twitter.com/analuciaraujo_/status/1521600602874294274
Dr. Araujo's awful tweets were quickly followed by similar tweets made by Dr. Sarah Bond's friend, as well as by a series of right-wing accounts. No apologies have been made. #BrightAgesSoWhite
Manu scholars of color, especially WOC, expressed how painful they found this entire episode. To not apologize directly to Dr. MRO and to the larger BIPOC community that was harmed means that this is an empty PR move, just like Dr. Gabriele's apology. #BrightAgesSoWhite
All of this was over Dr. MRO's critical but balanced review of Dr. David Perry and Dr. Matthew Gabriele's book The Bright Ages, solicited for LARB by Dr. Sarah Bond, then killed when Dr. MRO refused to be more "generous". #BrightAgesSoWhite
Dr. Araujo and others did this kind of violence--the questioning of credentials, of race, of motive, of identity--to BIPOC scholars in order to protect Dr. Bond, Dr. Gabriele, and Dr. Perry from any criticism. This is how brutally whiteness is defended. #BrightAgesSoWhite
That Dr. Bond, Dr. Gabriele, and Dr. Perry (to say nothing of Dr. Eleanor Janega, whose glowing review was solicited by LARB after LARB killed Dr. MRO's more critical one) have been silent since then speaks worlds. #BrightAgesSoWhite
The most important thing here is to center the BIPOC voices that spoke on the violence Dr. Araujo and co did, so I am going to add a few of the important threads and comments made by scholars of color in the aftermath of all this. #BrightAgesSoWhite
Obviously, Dr. MRO's voice is central here:
https://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1520439121847754752#BrightAgesSoWhite
Dr. Margo Hendricks' thread here is essential:
https://twitter.com/Elysabethgrace/status/1520445950602276864#BrightAgesSoWhite
As is her incredible open letter:
https://twitter.com/Elysabethgrace/status/1520827351864471552#BrightAgesSoWhite
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's commentary here is a must-read:
https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1520448485111173120#BrightAgesSoWhite
As Dr. Fúnez points out here, Dr. Araujo's tweets immediately drew the attention of Dr. MRO's long-time harassers, who welcomed Dr. Araujo into their "club":
https://twitter.com/Jairo_I_Funez/status/1520461398798708739#BrightAgesSoWhite
Dr. MRO and Dr. Dorothy Kim discuss those harassers here:
https://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1521298818934919170?s=20&t=B7QzWX9B9MytYZ-q61u7Hg#BrightAgesSoWhite
This is the effect of what Dr. Araujo chose to do, in order to protect white historians and white power structures from critique. To not apologize directly to Dr. MRO (the absolutely MINIMUM that could be expected) suggests this is little more than a PR move. #BrightAgesSoWhite
And the people who seem swayed by this PR move are precisely who you would expect, as shown here:
https://twitter.com/__ThoughtPolice/status/1521769365984714753#BrightAgesSoWhite
She was being criticized for this abhorrent tweet today and she deleted it, so she's not actually OFF twitter. She's just ignoring criticism and actively refusing to apologize to Dr. MRO.
Continuing the thread of BIPOC scholars speaking about these events with this incredible thread by Dr. Chisomo Kalinga:
https://twitter.com/MissChisomo/status/1521413562337579008?s=20&t=vMcrdBRt58QcqsZWnqeFKA#BrightAgesSoWhite
Adding another important thread by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein:
https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1521281277772541952#BrightAgesSoWhite
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