Hundreds of academics in the linguistics community now feel comfortable openly imposing sweeping speech taboos on colleagues. Their immediate target, @sapinker , won't be silenced But the breadth of speech they stigmatize will affect younger scholars

Hundreds of academics in the linguistics community now feel comfortable openly imposing sweeping speech taboos on colleagues. Their immediate target, @sapinker, won't be silenced

But the breadth of speech they stigmatize will affect younger scholarshttps://t.co/QKLYaF7Eid

— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) July 20, 2020