So many stand on the sidelines
Alice Dreger on Twitter:
From one of my close friends. I haven't actually read the Advocate piece. Why bother. pic.twitter.com/D50CmF4iuq
— Alice Dreger, Ph.D. (@AliceDreger) March 26, 2016
This is not a healthy intellectual climate. A political movement that can demonize and lie about an academic of Alice Dreger’s caliber is not going to lead us to a better world.
Did you see PZ’s blog, where he refers to people who think the students of today are trivial, too PC, and so forth, as assholes who have never met any students?
I just bought Dreger’s book. The purchase is recorded in my Book Depository account. When the Inquisition comes, will this be the evidence proffered to send me to the stake?
iknklast, any vestige of respect I may have had for PZ have been removed by such blatant intellectual dishonesty over the Emory University fracas.
There appears to have been one minor discrepancy in some initial reporting of the student’s reactions to finding ‘Trump 2016’ chalked in various locations on campus, namely the claim, later retracted, that counselling was being both requested by, and offered to the students. PZ has used that single discrepancy to dismiss the reports as “….all lies”.
Nothing else about the reports, even those of the most absurd complaints, have been denied or retracted. Nobody is denying the students were claiming to feel threatened, triggered, frightened, assaulted and attacked. Some claimed to feel intimidated, at least one saw the graffiti as a threat to their life, whilst others insisted that it had caused them actual physical pain. Among all of that, only the counselling part was false, so PZ has invoked the Horde’s rule that they are free to redefine the meanings of words ad hoc and declared ‘minor discrepancy’ now means ‘total falsehood’.
Honestly, Muslim, Hispanic and black students do have every reason to wonder if Trump graffiti is a physical threat. His supporters love to beat up and intimidate minorities.
Maybe also students of any kind of female persuasion?
I have no constructive input here, having decoupled from PZ some time ago.
Any lingering thought I may have had that PZ is at heart a good person was erased by the last three words of this post.
So much culpability in that story, so much negligence and criminality, and who does PZ single out? An older woman apparently unresponsible for the crime, grieving in what is likely the only manner she knows how.
But older women are, after all, the default target for abuse in FTB land.
What an incredible fucking asshole.
Still, you gotta admit this is a somewhat elderly man expressing his disapproval in what is probably the only manner he knows how. Though he really ought to do better; agreed. ;-)
Appreciate the joke, but he knows how to be a better person. He has made the decision on repeated occasions to foster a climate of abuse in his blog, both in comments and in his own posts.
And I’m not saying I haven’t been there and done that. But I tried to stop once I saw what it was doing to people, and to me.
He sees that he’s making the world a worse place, and he doesn’t fucking care.
Yes, seriously I see what you mean and no joking. It’s a disappointment to me too if he’s gone that way.