"Openly Reading" a Book is Now Harrassment ... in Academia, Anyways

[teenerted1]

didnt we already have this discusion about this very same book/janitor issue months ago when the story first broke and was already resolved....

someone needs to find NEW jibber jabber on the net to talk about. if its on the internet i HAS to be TRUE...

[Superman]

Originally Posted by varmint

corporations are capable of the exact same sort of behavior. it can be argued that employees have fewer rights than students. my boss can tell me not to come to work wearing a giant foam dickhat. and there's little i can do about it. free speech be damned.

but lets be clear. the guy was hassled because some dimwit "felt" offended. the guy hadn't actually done anything by any objective standard. at least not anything that the school will identify. this is fascism with a smiley face. one person is oppressed and threatened in the name of tolerance. and the school administrators know exactly what they're doing.



non sequitur, changing the subject, losing an argument, interesting concepts, look in a mirror.

This reminds me of the oppression scene in Holy Grail. Fascism? Here we (very possibly, and conspicuously missing from the "news" reports linked) have a guy who may have deliberately harrassed a co-worker. For example, let's say Worker A doesn't like Worker B. Worker A learns that Worker B is bothered by the song Dixie. Worker A sings Dixie in the workplace without ceasing. Worker A is warned. Et cetera. Here, Worker A is arguably within his rights. Then again, he is deliberately harrassing Worker B. The "news" reports hint at this, and fail to tell that part of the story.

We have an administrator who arguably made a suboptimal decision, which was subsequently reversed by the University. If this serves as proof of rampant fascism in higher education to you guys, then.......carry on.

[Jeff Higgins]

We have been told time and time again, in my workplace, that it matters not whether what we say or do is "offensive". All that matters is that some one was "offended". This is my company's official position on the matter; developed, I'm sure, by its army of lawyers after studying applicable case law. Pretty frightening standard, really.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by teenerted1

didnt we already have this discusion about this very same book/janitor issue months ago when the story first broke and was already resolved....

someone needs to find NEW jibber jabber on the net to talk about. if its on the internet i HAS to be TRUE...

Yes, this is old news. THere's another thread here about it.

[tabs]

I'm offended that your offended.....

[m21sniper]

This thread is yet more proof that people go to college to become stupid.

[Pazuzu]

There was nothing academic about this story, I cannot tell why you are all clumping "academia" with this instead of "administration". The latter group is the bane of the former group just as it's the bane to modern society.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

There was nothing academic about this story, I cannot tell why you are all clumping "academia" with this instead of "administration". The latter group is the bane of the former group just as it's the bane to modern society.

And we all know that school administrators NEVER rise the ranks from teacher to administrator.

[Tobra]

Sorry Supes, you are full of crap on this one

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

And we all know that school administrators NEVER rise the ranks from teacher to administrator.

Despite your green text, in the university world...unlikely. Departments like HR were not of the same cloth as the educational departments. See, professors are still, by and large, there to teach kids and do research that increased the general education of the world, despite what some rightwingers claim. The administration however is there to make the professor's lives hell.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

This thread is yet more proof that people go to college to become stupid.

So, you qualify for for an honorary degree? There'd be a quirky irony in using the sheepskin to clean up after yourself.

[Superman]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Sorry Supes, you are full of crap on this one

Okay. I'll accept that. Because it means that any instance that has the appearance of (if you use your imagination) an organization acting inappropriately means all similar organizations are completely out of control. It means.....that the Republican Party is a bunch of gay men.

You sure about that, Tobra? You sure all conservatives are gay?

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by DARISC

So, you qualify for for an honorary degree? There'd be a quirky irony in using the sheepskin to clean up after yourself.

How does one "qualify" for an honorary degree?