How does #MeToo work when the accused is dead?

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2018-12-06 23:33

Article here. Excerpt:

'But there’s a difference in this case. The professor is dead. Mazor, who taught at Hampshire from its founding in 1970 until 2007, died in 2011.

“Lester was one of the chief influences in my choosing a legal career,” Sigmund Roos, chair of the college’s board of trustees at the time, said in an obituary. “He was really an amazing teacher, and someone who even as he was teaching was always learning.”

That tribute now stands at odds with the stance of the board of trustees, which had to decide this semester what to do with the legacy of a man unable to answer the accusations against him. College leaders have issued a formal apology to the alumna who came forward recently to complain of “inappropriate behavior in the 1970s,” according to a letter from Hampshire’s president, Miriam Nelson, which was addressed to the college community last week. Its subject was “Historical Harassment.”
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“Professor Mazor,” the administrators wrote, “cannot defend himself.” What’s more, they said, “these actions date from decades ago.”

Nevertheless, the college chose to remove Mazor’s name from the room and the fund created in his memory.'

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1. Identify a celebrated man, preferably white, and dead so he can't sue or refute you.
2. Find sincere or insincere sources of accusation of #MeToo-esque sexual somethings.
3. Accuse dead probably-white guy of same.
4. Get him institutionally banished by removing his name from things like meeting rooms, scholarships, etc.
5. Use a different, preferably female name in its place.
6. Finally, close the memory hole tight and hide all tracks pointing to any kind of revisionism. Bury the various meeting and committee notes associated with the revision so that it'd take deliberate effort to find them.
7. Move on to the next target.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2018-12-07 06:14