The mindset.
What letters? The usual suspects.
And while he’s got your attention, he’d also like you to take his directions on what people it’s permitted to follow on Twitter.
Nine acquaintances, and he’s telling them he’d “appreciate it” if they stopped following someone because he says so. I might as well tweet that I’d appreciate it if Jeff Bezos ran his friends past me for approval.
Pompous little dictators everywhere.
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8 responses to “No second chances, no discussion”
Is He/Him a Pronoun Person? Why yes! Yes he is!
(see twiliter’s Guide to Spotting Dipshits, chapter 1) :P
Not sure where he’s employed (teacher?) but assuming he’s supposed to be involved in research or academics, I’d fire his ass. Wouldn’t cite someone’s paper because you disagree with his political opinions?
Unclear on the concept.
He teaches at a university.
Older than his Twitter makes him sound.
I’m sure these historians are quaking in their boots.
Or wondering who the fuck this idiot is.
One of those.
There’s a lot of that going around.
“Nine mutual acquaintances who I like and respect follow this person.” This statement admits that a person can follow people you dislike on social media and yet be worthy of respect. Oops?
And how much has he vetted the historians he DOES teach? The field has more than its share of purple-faced Tories and red-diaper Stalin-lovers.
I guess I’m glad that David Wootton is ‘on our side’ in this debate, but a lot of his output after his original PhD work is, shall we say, blinkered, and I’d never cite him anyway. (Two examples of his ideas that I find problematic: he ascribes the Industrial Revolution to ‘science’, while it’s pretty clear that the marriage between science and technology that we take for granted today didn’t start until either the commercial development of chemical dyes or the exploitation of the electromagnetic spectrum (I’m agnostic about which gets the credit) which started late in the 19th century; he argues that ‘science’ is the only way to accumulate knowledge, and thus before there was ‘science’ in the 17th century the world’s ‘knowledge base barely changed’–a weird stance to take given that humans have been accumulating and passing on knowledge for at least 30,000 years.)
Assuming that Garrison Keillor has not been completely canceled, I think parties could benefit from re-reading his description of the Plymouth Brethren from Lake Wobegone Days. For anyone unfamiliar with it, the relevant passage is quoted here with a nice additional joke appended by a commenter.