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Cali4lifeAnne Branigin
7/03/18 11:30am
“Don’t believe what you read, what I apologized for, and what the four women have said. Just believe this story now.”
Wow. what a mess.
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MurietaLivesAnne Branigin
7/03/18 11:07am
Junot has a fragile ego. I believe all his accusers. I studied under the man. He was openly dismissive of white men, openly coddling of women, the more so the bigger the chest size. He made homophobic statements. He was just generally unpleasant and all of it came down to a fragile ego. He didn’t hold power with grace. So I believe every woman who comes forward. Especially the students he was in down-low relationships with.
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  kameliyahMurietaLives
  7/03/18 11:16am
  When I knew him he was deferential to the white men, wanted their respect/friendship etc and was brutal to the women. His treatment of the few women of color in the program was, I want to say, pretty horrible. I wish he’d count his lucky stars and go away.
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  MurietaLiveskameliyah
  7/04/18 3:38pm
  Are you a woman of color? Asking because it would be interesting if my experience as a white man and your experience as a woman of color both involved feelings of worthlessness. Perhaps he’s just an asshole who treated students poorly. Or perhaps he changed his M.O. in different environments. (though I suppose we could have been in the same program). He was pretty young when I studied with him - post Drown but pre Oscar Wao. And I did have sympathy for his being so young and so promising and being in a position of authority over people who were close to peers in every way but talent (myself 100% included). Anyway, I don’t much care for the man. He never struck me as being open- or big-hearted or particularly kind. And he wasn’t interesting enough to compensate for it like some other ego-maniacal professors who will remain nameless here.
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cyanicAnne Branigin
7/03/18 11:34am
He knows the allegations are true. His admission of guilt was an acknowledgement of the inescapable world we live in now where an allegation is enough for an action against the accused to transpire. His attempt to walk it back after the initial storm has moved on makes him look worse than the allegations themselves. His disposition has always been unpleasant so it is shocking to me he was so widely embraced in the first place. His identity first prose are typical of what white people respond to when they hype themselves behind a nonwhite voice in literature and people from said community feel like one of their own has made it. Grateful for the Black literature tradition that has pushed passed most of the cliches and certainly represent a more expansive view of our existence beyond Black is beautiful and whitey is bad.
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TheEldreadAnne Branigin
7/03/18 5:08pm
Díaz says he was “confused” and “panicked” when he was confronted with the allegations, telling the Globe, “I was, like, ‘Yo, this doesn’t sound like anything that’s in my life, anything that’s me.’”
“[D]efinitely, that statement is the worst thing I’ve written, the worst thing I’ve put my name to,” Díaz told the Globe. “Boy, I wish I’d had the presence of mind to rewrite the damn thing.”
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borgohurisAnne Branigin
7/04/18 12:10am
Most of these men only care about moving on with business as usual. So they are only motivated to apologize if it means they can maintain the standard of living they have grown accustomed to. They don’t want to suffer any consequences for behavior that they perceived as acceptable at the time.
I guess Junot realized that is better to deny, deny, deny.
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Mr.DuckSauceAnne Branigin
7/03/18 11:44am
Can someone take this piece of shit out?
How is the whole issue where it’s questionable at this point?
Get him sacked.
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