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by lupire 1807 days ago
a tweet eulogy seems like an easy peformative act.

likely he suspects that colleagues are afraid to publicly associate with him because he is too left wing / unapologetically Black / hot topic for Harvard.

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Maybe, and maybe the other person with a similar experience is also to be understood as similarly persona non grata, for those with more insight into the circumstances.

This is definitely one of those "could be full of shit, or might barely even be scratching the surface and is actually quite restrained" kind of letters. It's hard to tell without more info.