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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:18:48 JST Paul Cantrell

   And yeah, if you use racial slurs, or sexually harass people, or refuse to call people by their name, or misgender them, or personally denigrate them for their religion…in that case, you are indeed not welcome in my classroom.

   Interrogate and debate the biological and social construction of race and gender all you like — these are complicated questions, many unresolved, many resolved but still in need of hashing out for those newly learning! — but the •required• starting premise is that we all keep each other personally safe.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:20:36 JST Paul Cantrell

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     This is messy and complicated in practice. Keeping each other safe is real work, and hard work. None of us (including me) get it right 100% of the time. All that’s required is that we try, that we believe we are •supposed• to try. That is not negotiable.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:22:50 JST Paul Cantrell

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     So if you want to argue that we need poltiical diversity on campus, that we need to allow “conservative” views, please be clear. Be specific.

     By “conservative,” do you mean we need to make sure there’s room for people to argue for market economics? Yes, we need room for that.

     Or by “conservative,” do you mean we need to accept white supremacists? Or that it should be OK to tell people they’re going to hell for being queer or whatever? No. Piss off.

     Tell me which one you mean.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:51:39 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Kim Scheinberg

     @kims correctly guessed that this was one of the posts that sparked this thread today, and it’s good to have some concrete context for all my general remarks up thread:

     https://mas.to/@kims/114580486911886587

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     inquiline (inquiline@assemblag.es)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 02:39:17 JST inquiline

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     • Kim Scheinberg

     @inthehands @kims

     Yup to all this.

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     aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 03:26:37 JST aburka 🫣

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     • Kim Scheinberg

     @inthehands @kims can't imagine why people who don't think universities should exist don't want to work in them!!

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     JuavanZyl (juavanzyl@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 03:49:41 JST JuavanZyl

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     @inthehands We are not owed comfort. Especially if our “comfort” comes at the expense of someone else’s safety, identity, or humanity.

     “Complaints about whose political views need special protection are less rooted in who’s actually oppressed than in who thinks they’re entitled to never being questioned.”
     YES.

     Discomfort is not oppression. Truth-telling is not hate. Silence in the face of bigotry is. #EmpathyIsPower #TransRightsAreHumanRights #JCvZ

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     JuavanZyl (juavanzyl@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 03:49:42 JST JuavanZyl

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     @inthehands This thread is everything. I write about this often, from a different angle but with the same heart. In my piece Woke Isn’t the Problem—Selfishness Is, I said:

     “Being ‘woke’ isn’t about being perfect. It’s about being open—open to truth, open to discomfort, open to others.”

     And that’s what your post honors: the difference between discomfort (growth) and harm (danger). #JCvZ

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     JuavanZyl (juavanzyl@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 03:49:42 JST JuavanZyl

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     @inthehands In The Importance of Learning from History, I wrote about growing up in Apartheid South Africa—believing a comfortable lie until I chose to face the discomfort of truth.

     That’s what education should do: not protect worldviews, but challenge them, without compromising safety or dignity. You captured that complexity so well. #LearnFromHistory #WokeIsNotWeak

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 03:50:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Anna

     @mothninja
     Thank you!

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     Anna (mothninja@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 03:50:11 JST Anna

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     @inthehands This is a fantastic thread Paul, thank you for being so good with words, and for being you and being excellent

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     aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 00:44:54 JST aburka 🫣

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     @inthehands I feel like this is going to go the same way as the NYT a few years ago trying to hire an "acceptable" conservative columnist or two (before the management changes and they went full mask off). They kept hiring someone that they thought was sort of centrist enough, then going all shocked Pikachu and firing them when their history of being a racist shit bag came out