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   of racism, in the form of inventing a person of color to prop her up, and   
   then killing off that person when she was no longer useful or to make a   
   political point, or both. They also accuse her of making light of   
   professors’ very real fears about teaching in person during the ongoing   
   coronavirus pandemic. And they of course worry that McLaughlin's apparent   
   fraud will damage the Me Too movement in STEM, especially trust in   
   anonymous complainants.   
      
   Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and   
   a core faculty member in women’s studies at the University of New   
   Hampshire, wrote of the controversy on Twitter, “Catfishing is not a nice   
   thing to do and to catfish as queer indigenous person -- and then publicly   
   kill that person off -- is unconscionable behavior.”   
      
   Prescod-Weinstein, who elsewhere has written about some of her experiences   
   concerning both sexual misconduct and racism, said Monday, “Impersonating   
   a Native American survivor of sexual assault is cruel in a time when   
   people are so aware of missing and murdered women and when so many Native   
   women have risked coming forward, using their real names.”   
      
   To have that person then die of COVID-19 when it's clear that Native   
   American death rates from the virus are among the highest in the U.S. “is   
   the most monstrous aspect for me,” she added.   
      
   Anna Fore Waymack, a Ph.D. candidate in medieval studies at Cornell   
   University, also said McLaughlin’s apparent "digital redface" was most   
   grotesque. She tweeted additional comments about McLaughlin having “blood   
   on her hands,” as this “hoax of ‘forced to teach, died of COVID’ is   
   hitting the news right as [university] admins make final decisions about   
   reopening. About whether our fears are overblown.”   
      
   While the McLaughlin saga has rocked science Twitter in particular,   
   Waymack said that “STEM, unfortunately, does not have a monopoly on hoaxes   
   like this.” She cited the gripping blog posts from the self-labeled “Gay   
   Girl in Damascus” revealed to be a white man from Georgia -- fellow   
   medievalist Thomas J. MacMaster -- in 2011.   
      
   In any case, Waymack also said that she’s been following the McLaughlin   
   issue “because STEM has been where the bulk of the antiharassment work has   
   been happening, far beyond just McLaughlin. Look at Julie Libarkin, Deanna   
   Arsala, Tisha Bohr, Erica Smith and so many others who have been putting   
   in hours and brilliance.” All four of those academics were once involved   
   with MeTooSTEM but left the organization. Bohr, Smith and Arsala are among   
   those who accused McLaughlin of abuse and mismanagement. Some now organize   
   under #STEMToo.   
      
   Regarding #MeTooSTEM’s future, Prescod-Weinstein said she didn’t know   
   about its future as an organization. Yet “we rape and sexual harassment   
   victims in STEM existed before the organization, and we will continue to   
   exist after people are done talking about this week’s fiasco,” she said.   
      
   “The need to end rape culture everywhere, including in STEM, remains, and   
   the struggle to end sexual violence and gendered discrimination will   
   continue,” she added. “BethAnn didn’t start that movement, and no single   
   person owns it.”   
      
   Michael Eisen, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor   
   of Genetics, Genomics and Development at the University of California,   
   Berkeley, and a guest at the Zoom memorial for Sciencing_Bi, tweeted that   
   the biggest victims of McLaughlin’ apparent “deception are real people   
   going through real Title IX cases sci-bi insinuated herself into and has   
   now undermined, and the real victims of BethAnn’s abuse at [MeTooSTEM]   
   whose real concerns sci-bi helped to silence.”   
      
   He also warned against mistrusting pseudonymous accounts going forward, as   
   such accounts “give a lot of marginalized people safety and a way to   
   express themselves.”   
      
   Similarly, Eisen said via email that what happened doesn’t discredit the   
   general MeTooSTEM movement or “anyone who takes it seriously.” Yet the   
   apparent hoax “is ammunition for those who don't -- in specific cases and   
   the grander discourse -- as it plays into those who argue that you can't   
   trust anonymous accusations.”   
      
   The “whole thing is a betrayal of the movement,” he said.   
      
   And it’s a movement that McLaughlin did care about, even as she maimed it   
   from within. One verified graduate student at Oklahoma State University,   
   whom McLaughlin helped navigate through a sexual harassment case, and who   
   wished to remain anonymous, said Monday, “Beth has all my respect and   
   support.”   
      
      
   --   
   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
      
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   truck.   
      
   Congratulations President Trump.  Thank you for cleaning up the disaster   
   of the Obama presidency.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
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   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,   
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