I mean why develop an original or interesting thought when you could just be a jerk instead I guess. People keep giving her a platform.

I guess it’s a lot easier than doing the work and developing their own perspective or actually being interesting? IDK.

It’s really, uh something

I know I’m like is he starring in some insane movie in his own head or what is going on here

This kind of thing makes me very very sympathetic with Lisbeth Salander.

Academia is an asshole magnet. I’m sure other fields suck but to act as if academia is some pure socialist utopia relative to the corporate world is just LOLOLOL

Yeah it’s almost as if the academic apprenticeship approach wherein a handful of people, not necessarily even very accomplished people, wield complete power over a lot of vulnerable young people, should be changed somehow.

Yes, it’s because they can get away with it. Their careers should be ended swiftly and with total humiliation for this type of behavior. Worse things should happen to them that I won’t write in a public forum but having seen a lot of very smart women’s lives fucking destroyed by people like this, something has to…

Yes it’s just endlessly hilarious that people should ever be concerned about the welfare of someone besides themselves. It’s particularly hyssssterical if you present yourself as/make your living from presenting yourself as someone who is sympathetic with left-leaning perspectives. What, you thought I thought you were…

OMG I had a classmate who had this going on as well and I found it insanely distracting and maybe it’s very superficial but yeah...it’s v Mademoiselle d’Avignon.

Yes I’m not sure when it became interesting to be an Ironic nazi or somehow funny and transgressive or contrarian, when it sure as fuck looks like being an asshole to me.

Her twitter profile most recently said she was a journalist “on hiatus”. Not long after writing an insanely anti-trans piece for the American Conservative, of all things. I did not know how bad things were in the Natash VC land until just yesterday, but uh, how bout we don’t even ask her, there are cooler people at…

I hope those vomitous cretins just eat each other. Who will they pick on when it turns out they weren’t ever going to rise to the top of the heap after they got rid of everyone else?

She left twitter because of this kind of nonsense and it’s a bummer because she’s funny and interesting and I miss seeing her there. She’s become pretty successful and visible-it doesn’t make this kind of harassment ok but you do feel for the people who don’t have that to shield them.

I thought this was interesting. http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10/01/dont-let-the-vultures-shock-doctrine-puerto-rico/

Pro forced birth

They’re all about the authoritay.

Oh, I don’t think they will either. But that would be a way.

It is definitely about money, but it’s also about language rights-the right to conduct your daily life in your own language. This is particularly true of the Basque Country. Factories were built en masse in the Basque Country 50 years ago, in part (it has been credibly speculated) to lure Spanish-speaking migrants to…

And it’s such a cult too. I have a friend in social sciences who has had something like 5 different short-term contracts since she finished her PhD and at her last job, they basically stopped acknowledging her when they found out she didn’t get a tenure-track job. She’s so sad but it’s like, look, these people aren’t…