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-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the cancellation arc Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 06:16:56 +0900 From: David Eric Smith <desm...@santafe.edu> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@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 <sasm...@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> >> > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,vAwsFjBo0nYHDqP7R5uNOMwHa-3mLW0vK2oEX0dDZiBcZxtU3rJCXGTyGsc-0kMrVlRB3eu0WOXqslSMQwpM1So4yUIuQmxTUr4vnCDOBp404JE,&typo=1 > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,yem9QSA9CdnQC89Wl-SNhbg_1jEQDj0lEMOpEMNjobHdRxVQbpJxC4dLRTJSe7C35QW07nRdW6WMNiZaCBSlnTRpVXsTnIkDFRSnIO7KZ44_geY,&typo=1 > archives: > 5/2017 thru present > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fpipermail%2ffriam_redfish.com%2f&c=E,1,zmal698Xip8rYj0UHw7kF6XTfhPnj89-zdA3KarEvGF8M7f2vcnGOgO_fZtdAppA5GxDdZGiBr0GI1jssjmUMlPgE2S5r7nq6R30v4C12cCt3QjMKSU,&typo=1 > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . 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