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When all of thay stuff between her and the black swan bloke (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) happened, I was amazed with how he sought to bully her with his opinion, ho

When all of thay stuff between her and the black swan bloke (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) happened, I was amazed with how he sought to bully her with his opinion, how he tried to drum up hate towards her, and his utter contempt for field other than statistics. I realised then that this was exactly why she had to write 'Women and Power' etc.

AzzieElbab 5y ago
I think he just called her a fraud, and honestly, I never seen him making a mistake in this regard. Here: https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/the-insidious-racism-of-mary-beard-et-al-8b6b768b4575 https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-ge... pretty entertaining twitter thread https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/892567659342114816 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/892567659342114816
- marcellus23 5y ago
  Mary Beard is absolutely not "a fraud" just because you disagree with her view on diversity. (fwiw I also don't particularly like that tweet of hers, but come on.)
  - AzzieElbab 5y ago
    well, I guess neither of us is a member of same ethnic group as Taleb. For him that was personal
    - marcellus23 5y ago
      So? That makes it okay to call a distinguished scholar a fraud? (is that a claim Taleb ever made? or just you?)
      - AzzieElbab 5y ago
        absolutely. He demonstrated her claims to be both baseless and racist
      - booleandilemma 5y ago
        Part of Taleb’s philosophy is “if you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud”. I don’t think he calls people frauds lightly.
- andybak 5y ago
  It's possible that she's nice and wrong and he's right but a dick about it. It's also possible that there's more nuance to this than that.
gremloni 5y ago
I honestly buy his perspective on her. I also feel like you’re severely misrepresenting academic discourse as “bullying”.
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- jimnotgym 5y ago
  I don't think calling another scholar a fraud based on your forensic takedown of a 140 character tweet could be anything but bullying.

AzzieElbab 5y ago

I think he just called her a fraud, and honestly, I never seen him making a mistake in this regard. Here: https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/the-insidious-racism-of-mary-beard-et-al-8b6b768b4575 https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-ge... pretty entertaining twitter thread https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/892567659342114816 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/892567659342114816

marcellus23 5y ago
Mary Beard is absolutely not "a fraud" just because you disagree with her view on diversity. (fwiw I also don't particularly like that tweet of hers, but come on.)
- AzzieElbab 5y ago
  well, I guess neither of us is a member of same ethnic group as Taleb. For him that was personal
  - marcellus23 5y ago
    So? That makes it okay to call a distinguished scholar a fraud? (is that a claim Taleb ever made? or just you?)
    - AzzieElbab 5y ago
      absolutely. He demonstrated her claims to be both baseless and racist
    - booleandilemma 5y ago
      Part of Taleb’s philosophy is “if you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud”. I don’t think he calls people frauds lightly.
andybak 5y ago
It's possible that she's nice and wrong and he's right but a dick about it. It's also possible that there's more nuance to this than that.

gremloni 5y ago

I honestly buy his perspective on her. I also feel like you’re severely misrepresenting academic discourse as “bullying”.

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jimnotgym 5y ago
I don't think calling another scholar a fraud based on your forensic takedown of a 140 character tweet could be anything but bullying.