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The right-wing trolls refuse to listen but they demand to be heard. Hard pass. Block them early and often.
Trolling + misinformation requires an audience: so when rather than responding, I simply block, they also perceive that as censorship. This latest accusation, for example, claims that, as a university professor, I am a public official and hence shouldn’t be allowed to block anyone on social media.
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I also imagine she’s posting from a personal device, often outside of normal working hours (not that faculty have that kind of schedule anyway). Part of this is a total inability to imagine that people are anything other than employees at all times and then using that to bludgeon them.