Penn Psychiatry Chair Assisted Anti-Psychiatry Trolls Seeking to Destroy an Emeritus Professor’s Reputation
I never met the chair of my department, Professor Maria Oquendo. Yet her uninformed denunciation of me to an irrational cybermob several years ago continues to have devastating consequences.
The chair of the Penn Department of Psychiatry, Professor Maria Oquendo provided an uninformed denunciation of me to an antisemitic cybermob several years ago. Quotes from her communication continue to have devastating consequences in repeated mobbings. Penn needs to acknowledge and rectify the damage.
Prologue: Contextualizing the discussion of cyber mobbing and institutional harassment
Hateful cyber mobbing and cry bullying online pose potent threats to our ability to have needed conversations and to make progress addressing societal and global problems, especially when we are burdened with differences that are not readily resolvable.
In the US, as elsewhere, we are plagued by our inability to discuss issues like climate change, race relations, public health problems such as responses to the pandemic, abortion and women’s rights, and the war in the Middle East. There are very real and imagined threats to anyone voicing an opinion.
The threat of online harassment poses problems for th…