Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory... by barry-cotter on Saturday September 08, 2018 @01:45AM (#17939609)

All of that can be true and Amie Wilkinson's campaign of harassment would still be vile and disgusting behaviour, unworthy of an adult of any kind. She got the paper withdrawn from two different journals, and got Dr Tabachnikov to withdraw his name from the paper.

What do you think of Dr Wilkinson's behaviour? Because that’s what the article is about, a campaign of harassment from a woman in a position of power.

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Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory... by mirimir on Saturday September 08, 2018 @02:14AM (#17939695)

What's relevant here is her unprofessional and harassing behavior. If she were a man, the behavior would be no less vile, nor more so.

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Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory... by AlexCoventry on Saturday September 08, 2018 @03:17AM (#17939865)

> What do you think of Dr Wilkinson's behaviour?

I'd need a more authoritative account of it to form a view.

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Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory... by aunasdfuyb on Saturday September 08, 2018 @11:10AM (#17941135)

And what authoritative accounts have you used to dismiss the paper and the journal editor?

If you believe the editor when they say "I am happy to stir up controversy" why not also believe them when they say "we could make a real contribution here"?

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Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory... by AlexCoventry on Saturday September 08, 2018 @12:36PM (#17941548)

> what authoritative accounts have you used to dismiss the paper and the journal editor?

I read the paper and drew my own conclusion.

> why not also believe them when they say "we could make a real contribution here"?

That snippet in context: "After the Middlebury fracas, in which none of the protestors had read the book they were protesting, we could make a real contribution here by insisting that all views be heard." That's just fancy language for "stir shit up." There's nothing there about the intellectual merit of Hill's paper, just an unobtainable value that "all views be heard."

People should read the paper to make up their own minds, though. I'm with her, there.

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Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory... by antidesitter on Saturday September 08, 2018 @01:50PM (#17941894)

> That's just fancy language for "stir shit up."

How so?

> I'm with her, there.

With who?

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