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Follow-ups to yesterday’s entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get why everyone interviewed is upset. Suicide is horrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there’s something big missing from what these amazingly-knowledgeable educators absolutely are missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These ardent academics blamed everything they could think of for these suicides. Except for the policies they fucking set that sent people into unnatural isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really haven’t felt myself needing additional human interaction, but I’m weird<\/span><\/strong><\/em>. I know that. I admit that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can go weeks at a time without face-to-face contact with others. When I was in college, much of my time was spent by myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d have one or two breaks an hour in the middle of the night. I’d listen to the stations’ programming in monitors while I was doing my college research, and writing papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I’m fucking weird. Most people can’t do that. On my nights off work, about my only interaction would be with the clerk at 7-Eleven or the diner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever. I’m comfortable with that. Most people aren’t. Most people can’t deal with just being completely without seeing others smile more than a few times per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This doesn’t have anything to do with the lack of minority representation among your faculty. It’s not because of systemic racism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You did this; this is your fault.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m sorry if saying that bothers you, but it’s the truth. There’s people, including more than a handful of your students, who are dead directly because of what you did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you’ve got lots of letters after your name, so you can’t be responsible for anything bad. You’re a good person, and you were only looking out for others protecting that from a virus that probably wasn’t going to kill them, or cause significate harm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You did this. You are responsible. Admitting your culpability is the first step in not repeating the mistakes you make. You did make them. I know I did. I admit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe if I’d been rich, healthy enough to buy more, I’d feel absolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow-ups to yesterday’s entry. I get why everyone interviewed is upset. Suicide is horrible. But there’s something big missing from what these amazingly-knowledgeable educators absolutely are missing. . . These ardent academics blamed everything they could think of for these suicides. Except for the policies they fucking set that sent people into unnatural isolation. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}