Context "This is the story about campus free speech that keeps getting obscured. Black, queer and trans student protestors with legitimate grievances get reduced to caricatures of Social Justice Warriors while they, and those who support them, get threatened and belittled. Flagrantly racist trolls sling epithets online, respectable liberals wring their hands at the lack of civility, authorities dismiss the danger of the threats, and the school does nothing until it isn't just black people being threatened. This experience had a chilling and silencing effect on many of Evergreen's student protestors, but where is the concern about students' right to speech being suppressed? Why don't we hear the stories of people of color, and women, and trans people on campuses losing their platform and right to speak? I've spent over a year recovering from the trauma of becoming a lightning-rod for alt-right hatred and then being thrown under the bus by white liberal complacency. I was dismissed, disbelieved, and ultimately treated as though my anger in responding to racism was on par with the racism itself that I was trying to address. The backlash and condemnations that I received achieved their intended goal. I was largely silent about my experience for over a year, for fear of further recrimination. I'm now done being afraid of my anger."
https://www.naimalowe.net/yours-truly-naima-blog/2020/11/21/re-introductions
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