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September 5, 2016
I AM F***ING TRIGGERED RIGHT NOW
Wherein a moron on Tumblr gets in a fight with a TumblrBot.
September 4, 2016
Didn't expect her to have a job in academia again, much less only a year from her last one.
Gonzaga hires professor fired after viral U. of Missouri video
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/gonzaga-hires-professor-fired-for-trying-to-block-journalist-at-university-of-missouri-protest/Last fall, a University of Missouri faculty member was captured on video asking for some muscle to chase a photojournalist away from a tense campus protest about racial conflicts. She was put on suspension and fired the following February.
This summer, Gonzaga University hired that professor, Melissa Click, for a one-year, non-tenure-track position in its Communications Studies Department.
A video that went viral on YouTube shows photojournalist Tim Tai, on a freelance assignment for ESPN, trying to take photos and being confronted by demonstrators who tell him to go away. (Prominent college athletes were involved in the protest.) The First Amendment protects your right to be here and mine, Tai said. The protesters shouted back: Hey-hey, ho-ho, reporters have got to go! Another told Tai: You got to go, bro.
Shortly afterward, Click appeared to push another reporter, Mark Schierbecker (he told The New York Times that she grabbed at his camera), and asked for help to eject him from the campus protest which was on public property.
This summer, Gonzaga University hired that professor, Melissa Click, for a one-year, non-tenure-track position in its Communications Studies Department.
A video that went viral on YouTube shows photojournalist Tim Tai, on a freelance assignment for ESPN, trying to take photos and being confronted by demonstrators who tell him to go away. (Prominent college athletes were involved in the protest.) The First Amendment protects your right to be here and mine, Tai said. The protesters shouted back: Hey-hey, ho-ho, reporters have got to go! Another told Tai: You got to go, bro.
Shortly afterward, Click appeared to push another reporter, Mark Schierbecker (he told The New York Times that she grabbed at his camera), and asked for help to eject him from the campus protest which was on public property.
Didn't expect her to have a job in academia again, much less only a year from her last one.
September 3, 2016
Because this worked out so well for Mizzou.
University of Nebraska Lincoln introduces new 'non-negotiable respect' policy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3771561/New-chancellor-University-Nebraska-Lincoln-implements-new-non-negotiable-respect-policy.htmlUniversity of Nebraska Lincoln introduces new 'non-negotiable respect' policy which bans insulting groups, individuals or ideologies
During a speech given at the new student convocation last month, Green made it clear that 'actions of hate and disrespect' would not be tolerated.
However, the policy on what constitutes 'hate' and 'disrespect' has not been made clear.
...
'Feel free to politely criticize the ideas of ISIS or the Ku Klux Klan, for example, but make sure not to show any disrespect, much less hatred, for any group, individual, or ideology.
'If you cant express yourself respectfully, shut up.,' intellectual freedom activist David Moshman wrote on the Huffington Post.
During a speech given at the new student convocation last month, Green made it clear that 'actions of hate and disrespect' would not be tolerated.
However, the policy on what constitutes 'hate' and 'disrespect' has not been made clear.
...
'Feel free to politely criticize the ideas of ISIS or the Ku Klux Klan, for example, but make sure not to show any disrespect, much less hatred, for any group, individual, or ideology.
'If you cant express yourself respectfully, shut up.,' intellectual freedom activist David Moshman wrote on the Huffington Post.
Because this worked out so well for Mizzou.
September 2, 2016
Am I missing something about taco trucks?
I is confused.
EDIT: Oh, of course it's a Trump thing. Thanks for cluing me in.