[FRIAM] the cancellation arc

[David Eric Smith]

What do you call a Jewish Uber driver in Texas who takes women to clinics, because an upstander accepts danger and difficulty?

An Uber-mensch.


> On Sep 18, 2021, at 2:20 AM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> More mob justice:
>> 
>> US rightwing group targets academics with Professor Watchlist 
>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2feducation%2f2021%2fsep%2f17%2fturning-point-usa-professor-watchlist&c=E,1,miq5rO3fImgOymXC9vDCVrtvmJneWtPFoCQS6bYK6nwxon3gkbrfCOHTq0XiRE3Sy5KnnET1iXU4J7WNGpDFt8YeKyCIMJxIojA4qr73rYk44TPWbop9bZs,&typo=1
> 
> Just now reading a biography of Thoreau and learning a little more about
> the Transcendentalists and Utopians of that stripe makes me realize that
> this was also the era of Abolitionism and the Fugitive Slave Law which
> makes the TX Abortion shenanigans seem very tame.  Discussions about
> abolitionism often started with absurdisms such as trying to decide
> *when* it was OK to "own another human being" without the inverted
> perspective of "when is it ok, as a human being, to be owned"?
> 
> I chatted with a good friend this week, in CA after Newsom was absolved
> (or more to the point, Elder was rejected?) and he used the phrase "now
> that Texas has legalized hunting women from helicopters" and I nearly
> fell into NST's famed "Giggles" over the dark twistedness of it all (not
> to mention the oblique Palin reference).
> 
> I share Glen's multi-valence about being on the list being a badge of
> honor, yet also having real consequences.   I haven't seen any stories
> coming out of TX yet where individuals (say an Uber driver) have
> deliberately provoked an Anti-Choicer by say... claiming on social media
> that he/she had just driven a woman to an abortion clinic and asking 
> them to "bring it on".   Can only ONE person bring a lawsuit per
> incident?  What is the modern day Gibson/Sterling/Stephenson equivalent
> of Ambulance-Chasers???   Uber-stalkers I suppose?
> 
>> 
>> And because the Guardian doesn't seem to link directly to it:
>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fprofessorwatchlist.org%2f&c=E,1,CN6uubvqiBZOZ48aFda2mtxMvH1uuHSpCH9dYyz3owF4ICWAQ-X9M8K83QrzyxLvSoGP_tAFEWYpVspowq-BeNJuKIAEivs5yjzmvdMHAg,,&typo=1
>> 
>> Is this different from doxxing nazis? It would be a badge of honor to be on that list, I think. But their violence isn't merely implied.
>> 
>> On 9/16/21 6:09 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>>> The Chronicle of Higher Education noticed that there have been two massive cancellation protests against fraternities where sexual assaults were reported in the past few months, in Kansas and Nebraska.  Is group cancellation better/worse than individual cancellation?   Are students at Kansas and Nebraska really liberal lynch mobs out to destroy the glorious traditions of greek life?
>>> 
>>> https://www.chronicle.com/article/at-kansas-another-confrontational-protest-against-greek-life <https://www.chronicle.com/article/at-kansas-another-confrontational-protest-against-greek-life>
>>> 
>>> They also incidentally brought up recent research on trigger warnings, a crowd sourced clinical intervention for PTSD dating to the 1970's and a long time tough-guy bug-a-boo.  
>>> 
>>> https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work <https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work>
>> 
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