@SwipeWright This happened to me when I wrote a piece challenging Lynne Tirrell’s article on Toxic Speech, journal Philosophical Topics wouldn’t give me the time of day, so I went to the Journal of Controversial Ideas, same response, some scholars are protected and their positions Sacred Cows
@BrandonWarmke@CrispinSartwell They’re winning. Moorpark CC instructor gets probation only after killing a Jewish man at a pro-Palestinian protest in 2023, and Cal State University Philosophy instructor exonerated by a Federal court after attacking ICE agents at an anti-ICE protest w a smoke canister in 2025
@BrandonWarmke I taught in Penn St Phil Dept for 13 years, we had one of the foremost “experts” on anti racism studies (Sullivan), after the Sandusky scandal, I put a section in my ethics courses devoted to pedophilia, child sex assault and institutional corruption, admin pushed back hard
Launching today: Faculty Leaks Animated.
Episode 1 — "The Faculty." A new professor's surreal first day on the tenure track.
Inspired by our recent essay of the same name. The essay was reporting. This one's satire.
MSM defers to so-called ‘Antifa experts’ who are activist-professors funding Antifa, they deny the existence of an organization that they themselves support, fearing arrest for supporting domestic terrorism #antifa@substack : https://t.co/sDDj06IivE
@Tyler_A_Harper Dist bet doing & studying activism is often lost. Mellon wants scholars to engage in activism thru scholarship. Media consults Antifa “expert” @RutgersU re: orgs goals and methods, & he responds strategically, it’s a non-entity. Politics obscure truth. Activist’s goal is to win.
Lynne Tirrell articulated the idea that certain kinds of speech—particularly hate speech directed at marginalized groups—is toxic or harmful: https://t.co/4Az7DSG7QN
First Charlie Kirk. Then a professor assaults a journalist on a university campus. Inspired by Lynne Tirrell’s thesis that words are weapons (toxic speech metaphor). Political violence and incivility are now perfectly acceptable among the professoriate.