I won't embarrass this individual, who seems more clueless than malevolent, but from this philosopher's Twitter feed I learned that Keyvan Shafiei (yes, the person who launched the out-of-the-blue verbal assault on feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith, and who prefers the pronouns "they/their," which I honor in what follows) actually had the audacity to stand up at a panel on diversity at the Pacific APA two weeks ago to ask about the "harassment" [sic] of "junior" scholars by "senior" scholars (referring to my noting their misconduct although presumably without mentioning their declaration that Prof. Lawford-Smith was a "vile fucking human"). The member of the Twitterati recounting the story reported, with astonishment, that no one on the panel took this part of the question seriously or responded to it.
It did not seem to occur to this Tweeter that this is because it is not "harassment" to criticize people's gross misconduct on public social media platforms. If you're really having trouble understanding this, try looking at this and this. Or to quote the otherwise absurd Rebecca Kukla: "Calling people out for their shitty behavior is not rude [or harassment]; it's morally necessary." She apparently didn't notice that's what Professor Green did, however.
UPDATE: Subsequent experience reveals that Johnathan Flowers (the indivdual unnamed in the original post) is not only clueless, but malevolent and reckless.
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