Mary Beard.

[EastWestWhosBest]

Interesting tweet.

I'm so glad I'm not at University now and if I had children I'm not sure I'd encourage them to go either. Get charged a fortune to have your brain taken out. Some of those tweets about Mary from so-called academics are bonkers.

I am actually quite heartened by the response - most UK classicists have just ignored the drama or tweeted something generally supportive about trans rights being human rights. The idiots who compared MB’s declining to justify her Twitter choices with Nazism, or who said things like “I don’t know what MB has done but we must all condemn her because ... reasons” just got ridiculed. I don’t think this would have happened 2 years ago.

Mary Beard has responded in the Times 'In the eye of a Twitter storm'. What a farce (that she feels she has to respond to this nonsense).

The witch-finders general of Twitter are still not happy, of course...

LOL. What is she supposed to have learned, exactly?

This seems to take that even further: only follow those with whom you agree, and insist that those who follow people with whom you disagree say publicly that they don’t agree with them either! Is that really in the spirit of free debate on social media? (It feels more like the Twitter equivalent of a pistol to the head.)

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