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  • #571
    Re: Headline News Thread

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
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    • #572
      Re: Headline News Thread

      Originally posted by SonofSouthie View Post
      See You Next Tuesday.

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      See you in the unemployment line.

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      • #573
        Re: Headline News Thread

        Originally posted by SonofSouthie View Post
        See you in the unemployment line.

        http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pro...U42?li=BBnb7Kz
        Can't say I'm either surprised or bothered by her termination.

        Is it wrong of me to think she got exactly what she deserved?
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        • #574
          Re: Headline News Thread

          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          Can't say I'm either surprised or bothered by her termination.

          Is it wrong of me to think she got exactly what she deserved?
          I'm a little bothered by it. She wasn't advocating for his punishment, only saying that if you're going to trespass into unfriendly nations, expect severe consequences if/when you're caught.

          So much for the integrity of holding forth an independent thought in academia.
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          • #575
            Re: Headline News Thread

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            Can't say I'm either surprised or bothered by her termination.

            Is it wrong of me to think she got exactly what she deserved?
            I'm not sure I disagree with her on the facts. Her tact is a little harsh but should she be punished for that?
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            • #576
              Re: Headline News Thread

              Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
              So much for the integrity of holding forth an independent thought in academia.
              The integrity of holding forth an independent thought in academia has an operational definition: tenure. She didn't have it.

              It sounds like she was a real as-s clown. I probably agree with her politically 99%, but I have no need to see her have a slot that someone with a little more circumspection and common sense could have.

              She's not the hill I'm dying on.

              It is, however, also true that if this had been a conservative mouthing conservative idiocies the entire Echo Camber would have wailed LIBURAL CENSORSHIP!!11!1 if he had been kicked out.
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              • #577
                Re: Headline News Thread

                Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                I'm not sure I disagree with her on the facts. Her tact is a little harsh but should she be punished for that?
                In a word, yes. That's beyond tact.

                And here's the thing. The privilege that academic protection affords extends, in my opinion, to your own field. It is conferred because you've studied the facts of a situation and you know more than the conventional wisdom, so you should be allowed to hold forth contrarian positions. When you conflict with the masses you get to have your say because you're an expert and the masses are asses.

                But this adjunct professor was just talking out of her as-s the same way you or I would about something she knows nothing more than you or I do. On this subject, she's just another opinionated f-ckwit.

                Finally, having a knee-jerk reaction to straight, cis, white males is so 1988. Wake up to the new century, sweetie. You're not speaking truth to power, you're speaking last generation's dull-witted, over-generalized, ill thought out bromides to a new generation of students who are hungry to create their own generation's NEW dull-witted, over-generalized, ill thought out bromides!
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                • #578
                  Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                  I'm a little bothered by it. She wasn't advocating for his punishment, only saying that if you're going to trespass into unfriendly nations, expect severe consequences if/when you're caught.

                  So much for the integrity of holding forth an independent thought in academia.
                  Except it wasn't in the course of academic work. Just someone spouting off on social media. To me, the problem was the impression that him dying is him getting what he deserved.

                  The fact that a 20 year old white male didnt anticipate the full consequences of his actions isn't surprising nor is North Korea throwing the book at an American who violated their laws.

                  He certainly did not deserve to die for what he did.

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                  • #579
                    Re: Headline News Thread

                    Originally posted by Almington View Post
                    Except it wasn't in the course of academic work. Just someone spouting off on social media. To me, the problem was the impression that him dying is him getting what he deserved.

                    The fact that a 20 year old white male didnt anticipate the full consequences of his actions isn't surprising nor is North Korea throwing the book at an American who violated their laws.

                    He certainly did not deserve to die for what he did.
                    She definitely worded what (I think) she meant very poorly. IMO, if you are an American, going to N Korea is idiotic. That being said, the kid didn't deserve what he got. Because of how she worded her thoughts...I'm not really bothered with her punishment.
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                    • #580
                      Re: Headline News Thread

                      Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                      She definitely worded what (I think) she meant very poorly. IMO, if you are an American, going to N Korea is idiotic. That being said, the kid didn't deserve what he got. Because of how she worded her thoughts...I'm not really bothered with her punishment.
                      Right. If he really wanted a souvenir that badly, he should have just gone on down to the gift shop in the lobby to get one, not trying to swipe it from the hallway. Heck, it wasn't that long ago when that tourist kid was in Singapore and got caned for littering. several good whacks on his backside with a bamboo stick as I recall it. And Singapore isn't nearly the shibbyhole that North Korea is.
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                      • #581
                        Re: Headline News Thread

                        Dude certainly had all the earmarks of a spoiled, bro'd out date rapist. Someone will need to find another long stick middle at Avon Old Farms.

                        But the rule is if somebody with a different flag murders you you're a --sniff-- national hero and nobody gets to criticize you.

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                        She didn't get fired for being wrong. She got fired for being stupid.
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                        • #582
                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          Dude certainly had all the earmarks of a spoiled, bro'd out date rapist. Someone will need to find another long stick middle at Avon Old Farms.

                          But the rule is if somebody with a different flag murders you you're a --sniff-- national hero and nobody gets to criticize you.



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                          • #583
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                            Originally posted by bigmrg74 View Post
                            Right. If he really wanted a souvenir that badly, he should have just gone on down to the gift shop in the lobby to get one, not trying to swipe it from the hallway. Heck, it wasn't that long ago when that tourist kid was in Singapore and got caned for littering. several good whacks on his backside with a bamboo stick as I recall it. And Singapore isn't nearly the shibbyhole that North Korea is.
                            at all
                            Agree. The punishment certainly didn't fit the crime but it is some kind of crazy to go to that country and do anything but behave perfectly. Either the kid never had anyone say no to him or he was not bright. Rubs me the wrong way that the parents are deifying the kid

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                            • #584
                              Re: Headline News Thread

                              Originally posted by leswp1 View Post
                              Rubs me the wrong way that the parents are deifying the kid
                              1. That's what parents do.

                              2. Kids don't just have their character spawned spontaneously. The parents are probably a piece of work, too.
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                              • #585
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