[FRIAM] Fwd: the cancellation arc

[Steve Smith]

Poifekt!



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Subject: 	Re: [FRIAM] the cancellation arc
Date: 	Sat, 18 Sep 2021 06:16:56 +0900
From: 	David Eric Smith <desmith at santafe.edu>
Reply-To: 	The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<friam at redfish.com>
To: 	The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>



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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