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Originally Posted by Reaper16
My position is more along the lines of "Believe women, nonbinary persons, and persons of color at first, because society has been set up to de-legitimize them." Healthy skepticism of claims is good, but when that skepticism's first impulse is erasure, well, it becomes unhealthy. I assume they are being truthful, and so be it if they aren't. But I think we move forward by believing people. Especially when for every notable example you have of people buying into a lie or fabrication or misunderstanding or hoax, there are hundreds & hundreds more that are very true.
I also hesitate to put the social media postings of people who are in literal fear for their lives on the same standing as someone posting from a position of safety. I think its fair to criticize Head somewhat as a leader for his eagerness to pass along incorrect information last night, but I'm going to choose to have empathy for someone feeling afraid during a death threat situation. I guess you don't have that empathy because you assume that black activists posted the YikYak threats as a false flag or whatever.
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I don't believe for one second that Payton Head is in fear for his life. I do believe that the followers he posted might have been and if they were, it's entirely his fault.
But please, keep on running cover for a group of people that have been thoroughly discredited so far just because you believe 'society' is out to get them. So I guess it's on the University of Missouri to fix up society now, eh?
And the mob drags down another universally respected professor because he had the temerity to tell students to go to class. Meanwhile Melissa Click remains employed.