Context is a topic about the professor who opposed the idea that white students, as opposed to black, should vacate campus during the annual "Day of Absence," which would have been an inversion of the tradition that blacks would excuse themselves for a day. This inversion was suggested due to black students concerns that they were unwanted on campus post-election:

“There is a huge difference between a group or coalition deciding to voluntarily absent themselves from a shared space in order to highlight their vital and under-appreciated roles,” he wrote, “and a group or coalition encouraging another group to go away.” The first instance, he argued, “is a forceful call to consciousness.” The second “is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.”

Eight pages into the thread, Tyler posts. The relevant parts for this thread here:

This is all very reminiscent of what happened to off-topic for a couple months post-election. Of course, that madness turned out to be directly induced through sabotage by a now-former admin secretly banning *hundreds* of members totally outside of any justifiable grounds (not that any attempt at justification was made to begin with, being undisclosed and undocumented bans) in some 85-90% of each of those bans that were subsequently investigated after we became aware of the incident.

Of course, everyone discusses how awesome this post is, but the question is, who was this person who was creating thread graveyards in their wake?

The timing referenced alludes to one particular mod who stepped down, with one explanation being to focus on game development/graphic novel project.

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