I think it's because I really hate one side of this debate and really dislike the other
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These public displays of white liberal self-flagellation are quite odd. Though it's not unusual for piety and self-regard to trail in the wake of good intentions.
What exactly was this prof trying to achieve via this email response? he could have literally googled it and had a conversation with his student about it.
It looks like the student put this on Twitter that she's going to confront the professor about the curriculum and she was already pissed off that it was being taught by a white man
we also have no idea what the email she sent looked like, she spent a day or two on twitter telling everybody how she was going to call out the professor and how she's fuming before sending the email.
IMO, it is a joke that someone teaching a course on marginalized groups can’t be bothered to include a single black author. Who does that in 2020?
Can be categorical about it - there was no rage. Or rudeness. Just indignation at what was (I think we can safely assume since it's not been allowed to see the light of day) a conceited/ignorant/arrogant/all of the above email from some snot nosed brat who seems outraged at the idea of a white person teaching a queer studies course, and spoiling to dox and go after peoples livelihoods at the first opportunity.
Not sure how you hold the professor to a standard of fairness and you are comfortable with the student being provocative on social media before even she reaches out to the teacher. There's something wrong with you
I’ve just searched Alex Turner’s name and the top thirty/forty tweets are about how silly this is. There’s no evidence of anyone “cancelling” him whatsoever.
It depends when you catch these things, if youre late to the party then you tend to miss the initial outrage and instead catch the fight back.
Is there any way to reconstruct these initial stages of alleged scandals? Some sort of documentation beyond a few selected tweets? A way to order comments chronologically would help, but it doesn't seem to exist on Twitter and Instagram. I had the same question about the Adele issue.
I'm not sure, I don't mess around with Twitter or Instagram.
Same here. Genuinely find it hard to relate to that universe and determine what's "real" (and in which ways), and what's not.
Not via the app but the website version does let you do advanced searches which i guess you could use to pinpoint events back. Twitter is basically manufactured so things go viral easily so there's certainly an element of stoking embers.
Will try it out, thanks. Looks like I'll finally get myself an account, yay.
I never knew that about "cake walk" - it's not a phrase you often hear. I'm surprised by the derivation.
Same, nitty Gritty as well - I had no idea where they came from. If they have genuine roots in slavery I can see the logic in avoiding them. The ‘whiter than white’ stuff seems a bit much though. It’s got no link to race at all as far as I know.
Some people are trying to move away from using words and phrases pushing that whole white good black bad thing, e.g. some programmers are moving away from using the terms blacklist and whitelist. Not because it's explicitly linked to race or that it's a pressing issue, but just because why not? There are a lot of words and phrases to choose from, we're probably not in dire need of that particular image.
I think it's more that in general white words/phrases tend to have positive connotations, black prefixed words/phrases tend to be negative. So if you can get out of the habit of using phrases like, "a black mark against him," it's a good thing.
Her point about All Lives Matter is spot on as well. He's such a twat.
Chance often plays a big part. It's really down to whether it catches the eye of the right account, and by that I mean accounts that have enough followers that them interacting with it means thousands more will be exposed to it.
Wait, how was anything she wrote racist?
She was probably fed up of his constant whining. I don't know the guy, I have no idea about what he has done professionally and yet he seems to be all over british medias whining about the misery that his life is.
Fox a passive aggressive racist cnut, frustrated cant verbalise his racist views overtly, and frustrated that he is getting canned because he cant admit to being a racist publicly.
I'm guessing he's calling Front's line about 'the least we can do is let them have a fecking slogan' racist, as if she's dismissing black people as 'them', worthy only of the BLM branding and nothing else. As far as I can see that's not what she's saying at all; she thinks that's the least black people deserve (you know, maybe they deserve not to be shot dead by police at x-times the rate of white people in the US as well) and is actually calling out the small-mindedness that leads people such as Fox to reframe BLM's MO from something like 'we're sick of being poor relations, it'd be good to have some equality and whatnot' to 'Black lives matter and everyone else's don't matter a fecking jot'. 'Just let them have a slogan' is a patronising and terrible thing to say but the point is it's many times less bad than what Fox and his ilk have decided to do.
I dunno I didn’t know anyone actually cared about it since those phrases refer literally to the colour black, rather than black people. But yeah if any black people are offended by it let’s change it, it doesn’t affect me.
