Rachel McKinnon/Veronic Ivy threatens legal action against own university for poor performance review

IKEA delivering your flapjack????

I wish they did - I'm feckin' sick of banana bread.

....IKEA delivering your flapjack????

"The comment about how disagreement and criticism was considered to be “morally illegitimate” is horrendous"

But it's the entire trans mantra summarized. Forget whether or not male and female brains even exist, the notion that man and woman should solely be defined this way is still just an opinion. And yet disagreeing with it is deemed 'transphobic', i.e. it is deemed "morally illegitimate".

This is what playing the oppression Olympics gets you - ability to ward of all criticism.

We call it kicking someone upstairs.

It's the Peter Principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

This shit is toxic
Shame this doesn't seem to be belated self-awareness.

When IKEA delivering your flatpack one hour too early is also considered transphobia, it's unsurprising.
Noooooo.......really?

McKinnon/Ivy has to be revealed as some kind of satire performance artist at some point surely. Like that Goldsmiths lecturer was?

Rule one: never threaten or express an intention to leave, even if you intend to leave.

But Ivy's response is predictable, that this should be accounted for not by a university's concern for its own reputation and scholarly expertise, but as some form of 'phobia'.

When IKEA delivering your flatpack one hour too early is also considered transphobia, it's unsurprising.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

Thanks for that breakdown.

They gave cyclepath tenure

Did they? I thought that was part of the issue/coded eval - unless you pull your socks up tenure isn't happening.

I did smile at "HE" and then realised it's standing for Higher Education.

The problem has always been clear. Ivy claims expertise in one specific area of epistemological research (and Ivy's chosen specialist subject of 'how to bullshit convincingly' should resonate with quite a number of people). But Ivy is using PhD credentials to raid disciplinary boundaries, including those of the physical sciences on which Ivy has no qualifications and expertise - and is representing these views under the mantra of 'Dr Ivy', as if the mere PhD qualification in an entirely unrelated field is enough to lend credibility. It isn't. For a specialist on BS, this is quite revealing as it's disingenuous to say the least.

Interdisciplinary research is important within academia, but there needs to be a connection and dialogue between those disciplines. Ivy is pushing that to its absolute limit, and laying claim to results, conclusions and arguments that are beyond Ivy's ken.

This is what the appraisal takes issue with. HE courses are taught by specialists in very specific disciplines. Ivy has gone beyond that, and is teaching material that Ivy is unqualified to teach. Dropping the ethics and teaching the epistemology that's within Ivy's remit should be the obvious solution. But Ivy's response is predictable, that this should be accounted for not by a university's concern for its own reputation and scholarly expertise, but as some form of 'phobia'.

You gotta hand it to Ivy. In the chosen specialist field of 'how to bullshit convincingly', these employers have got themselves a winner ...

This legal action - do you think McK's case is going to be "I identify as someone much more competent, hardworking and not at all a one-trick pony as suggested in that appraisal statement"?

(^^ Was posted on FB 2 days ago, so can't confirm the veracity or repercussions.)

Just seen this which suggests McKinnon may not be employed much longer? Surely no College can permit a lecturer to spout this sort of thing online and remain there?

Wow, that evaluation completely savaged Rachel/Ivy's entire agenda! Priceless!

This should be sent to news outlets like NBC every time they trot out a Rachel/Ivy Op-ed on why male bodies should be allowed to compete in women's sports.

Aesopfable This is why such shockingly poor people turn up in high level positions: everyone is desperate to get rid of them and the only safe way to do it is to promote them away from your department/organisation

We call it kicking someone upstairs.

Thanks that explains it.

I love Lionel, and I had forgotten she had a new book out; putting it on my library list now.

Has you read Lionel Shriver’s latest book? The Motion of the Body Through Space. There is a whole section on exactly that. One of the characters loses his job because someone inept is promoted exactly for those reasons. There’s even a mention of Gulags. I suspect Lionel is here somewhere!

This is why such shockingly poor people turn up in high level positions: everyone is desperate to get rid of them and the only safe way to do it is to promote them away from your department/organisation.

I don’t think Ronnie thought that through if that’s the case.

I assumed the more recent name was in part chosen because Ivy is also a name used for women, to avoid being referred to neutrally as McKinnon.

Please can someone tell me why this person has several names?

Given Ivy is Ivy on Twitter with tweets on and off protected, but still uses McKinnon for private Facebook, I wonder if it’s because they were told they needed to tone down their very public aggressive, violent, offensive social media profile.

That worked out well...

poor big Ivy
That made me laugh.
Please can someone tell me why this person has several names?
Plus there's not a chance they would have got a satisfactory in this country. I can't believe they think they are teaching philosophy after the critical thinking skills I've seen on display.
They shouldn't even be in charge of the finger painting in pre-school.