Thread:Una74/@comment-71.58.210.121-20171010133156/@comment-71.88.214.165-20171103175049

Ok. So all this is making *me* obsessive. (I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why people believed Pizzagate, too.) It's a pretty big misreading of Berube' s Sandusky article to say he's defending him. And given what's happened to the careers of such politically diverse people as Milo Yiannopoulous and Kevin Spacey over charges of pedophilia or defense of it, I can see why he might be perturbed. And it makes sense that if there was a recent link to the page from IHE, he might want it taken down.

And I found an article where Schuman talks about leaving academia. Interestingly, she does not mention being bullied by Berube in that context. So I'm going to guess he did not drive her out.

I also see that Bereube published articles defending adjuncts and wanting to make their conditions better. So I think that anti-adjunct claim is just false.

But I don't want to get caught up in going back and forth about Berube. It's not about him. It's about whether we're ok with off-topic, demonstrably false claims to be posted under the label of "venting." I'm not okay with that.