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Intel&Sebastian posted:The moral of the story is whenever you're about to lie about something as a newsman you need to say "Some people say..." before it. I was gonna try and find the original quote to make a FoxNews.com style "completely wrong headline with a question mark at the end" joke but from watching the original piece it looks like he didn't actually lie about anything at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdrtoy8P3po Did he just start making poo poo up after the fact? I don't get it.
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I honestly can't arse myself into being actually mad about that "problem". RWM across the spectrum is a joke, and not just to lefties. Playing pretend feels good but it also gets you moments like "unskewing" the polls and a presidential candidate who feels free to say that almost half the country are hopeless moochers. None of their anchors will ever go down for lying, but they also have Karl Rove on live TV throwing a poo poo fit because he had to leave candyland for a second. They lose in the end. Edit: At least they hurt their own cause in the end. I'm very interested in what they do when the age of the angry white oldster is over. Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Feb 11, 2015 |
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Fellatio del Toro posted:I was gonna try and find the original quote to make a FoxNews.com style "completely wrong headline with a question mark at the end" joke but from watching the original piece it looks like he didn't actually lie about anything at the time: No, it's like I said earlier in the thread; memory is legitimately that horrible. Best I can tell, he didn't start telling the story until 2013. Ten years is plenty of time for the brain to scramble "a helicopter was shot" into "my helicopter was shot". It's honestly 100% explicable without any assumptions that it was on purpose, because brains suck at this sort of thing. And most people just don't think to double-check personal anecdotes, because we assume that we remember things that happened to us correctly. Edit: This article highlights what I'm talking about well. quote:R. T. first heard about the Challenger explosion as she and her roommate sat watching television in their Emory University dorm room. A news flash came across the screen, shocking them both. R. T., visibly upset, raced upstairs to tell another friend the news. Then she called her parents. Two and a half years after the event, she remembered it as if it were yesterday: the TV, the terrible news, the call home. She could say with absolute certainty that that’s precisely how it happened. Except, it turns out, none of what she remembered was accurate. Idran fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Feb 11, 2015 |
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Fellatio del Toro posted:Did he just start making poo poo up after the fact? I don't get it. Somewhere like rawstory or something they had a timeline of his recounting of the incident over the last 10 years and you could gradually see it evolve over time. I think the first time he said they were struck was in 2008.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I honestly can't arse myself into being actually mad about that "problem". RWM across the spectrum is a joke, and not just to lefties. Playing pretend feels good but it also gets you moments like "unskewing" the polls and a presidential candidate who feels free to say that almost half the country are hopeless moochers. None of their anchors will ever go down for lying, but they also have Karl Rove on live TV throwing a poo poo fit because he had to leave candyland for a second. They lose in the end. People actually think that the angry white oldster will end? There are young white people who are scarily ignorant and have the same opinions, slightly modified to appear less racist. Do you use Facebook?
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# ? Feb 11, 2015 05:32 |
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What it kind of reminds me of was when Hackworth and Boorda were suddenly disgraced because they claimed decorations they didn't qualify for. I mean in both cases it was like one honor on one medal in a sea of fruit salad and both were super highly-decorated officers, so it wouldn't have made any sense for them to do it as a lie.
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So something interesting that has appeared amongst the intellectual right is the firing of John McAdamsSedanChair posted:Conor Friedersdorf defends the Marquette professor sacked for grinching on the Internet about a graduate student lecturer’s attempt to silence criticism of same-sex marriage in the ethics course she taught. Conor’s opinions on these matters mean a lot to me. He is a pro-SSM social liberal who is a fierce defender of civil liberties. To refresh your memory, John McAdams is the offending professor, Cheryl Abbate is the graduate instructor, and Richard Holtz is the college dean whose letter informed McAdams that his tenure was being revoked. From the Holtz letter: I actually do think McAdams should be kept primarily because for all of what he did I know that there are professors who have done far worse, and kept tenure and also because I see it as a slippery slope to get rid of tenure completely.
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help help i said stupid poo poo in my job for a private institution and got fired for it I'M BEING OPPRESSED!!!!!!!!
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Crowsbeak posted:I see it as a slippery slope to get rid of tenure completely. Why is this a bad thing?
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Dirk the Average posted:Why is this a bad thing? I mean I guess if your a full accelerationist it is a good thing to have our most learned people impoverished, makes them more likely to be radicalized. Because plenty of administrators would love to be rid of tenure if it meant cutting more costs and fattening their paychecks.
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Is it just me or is that article ridiculously hard to follow? There's no quotes around things referenced as block quotes, and at the top it says the professor is a "pro-SSM liberal," but then his weird Facebook ranting makes him sound not like that at all. Can someone summarize it in a more readable fashion?Dirk the Average posted:Why is this a bad thing? The right wing has been jonesing to get rid of tenure at higher universities so that they can more easily control discourse on college campuses. They're approaching it from the angle of, "intolerance of my intolerance can not be tolerated." So they've been going after students who protest against guest speakers who promote hate speech. If they can get bigots onto college campuses as guest speakers AND also get professors fired for their views via lack of tenure then you'll see a shift over time in the thinking on college campuses. ErIog fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Feb 11, 2015 |
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ErIog posted:
Really funny because if they wanted nice professors who loved the status quo they'd want them well payed. But no because a few professors are firebrands the whole institution must be destroyed, and professors must be poor. Plus if they really wanted money they'd get a "real job".
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quote:And therefore an opinion that may not be expressed. In a university that professes to be Catholic. Understand: Pope Francis would not be permitted to offer his opinion on same-sex marriage in Abbate’s class at the Catholic university called Marquette. As I see it, the problem here is that the debate which will follow is never going to adequately address the circumstances. Without knowing what the student said or how the classroom discussion went down, and without knowing too much of how a discussion over same sex marriage is relevant or irrelevant to the actual course material, it's impossible to know whether Abbate did the right thing or not. It could have been an ideological decision on her part, as the Right will frame it, or it could just have been a pragmatic matter: if the student was being a contrarian rear end in a top hat trying to stir up a barely-relevant debate, or if the student was bringing up his opinions in a way that was actively stifling discussion (which is what it sounds like based on the supposed transcripts), even if Abbate's statements on the transcript don't articulate that that's why she asked him to drop it, it's still perfectly reasonable to think that she was probably in the right. What's flatly, unequivocally wrong, though, is for McAdams to publicly give her name. I mean, holy poo poo, how dumb can you be? There are a lot of unwritten rules about how professors are supposed to treat graduate students, whether they're working together or not. A lot of it has to do with professionalism: you don't expect a tenured professor to publicly tear apart a young graduate student's paper presented at a conference, for example (though every grad student knows someone who will do this every conference). But god drat, there are a lot of explicitly-written rules about student privacy and stuff that you absolutely cannot violate, and this is one of them. If Abbate had put up with some bigoted rear end in a top hat in class, and then went online and gave the kid's name and transcripts of what he said, her career would be over in a heartbeat, and the Right would be all over her for it. McAdams did virtually the same thing to someone he's supposed to see as both a student and junior colleague, and he rightly lost his job for it. In any case, knowing how this will be perceived by the Right and how it will circulate just makes me cringe and I want to punch everyone. These people don't give two fucks about academic freedom. They're going to dumb down the debate and miss the point of the issue at best, and defend outright horrible professional practices that put young academics at even more risk at worst. The only honest way to settle this is privately, where there's no incentive to whip up public outrage, and where smart, articulate people like Abbate and (presumably) McAdams can have a thoughtful conversation with the dean or college president to discuss the merits and justifications for their decisions. I suspect Abbate could provide a lot better rationale for her decision to ask the student to not talk about gay marriage so much in an ethics class than McAdams could for his decision to release a graduate student's name to the public in an attempt to badmouth her.
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John Stewart is leaving the Daily Show. http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/10/media/jon-stewart-leaving-daily-show/index.html?iid=SF_MED_Lead This should make conservatives happy today if the comments are any indication.
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ErIog posted:Is it just me or is that article ridiculously hard to follow? There's no quotes around things referenced as block quotes, and at the top it says the professor is a "pro-SSM liberal," but then his weird Facebook ranting makes him sound not like that at all. Can someone summarize it in a more readable fashion? The way I read that passage was that it was describing Conor Friesdorf, journalist, and libertarian-in-residence at The Atlantic Magazine as being a pro-SSM liberal and still agreeing with the right-wing professor's ability to air his opinions freely.
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BiggerBoat posted:John Stewart is leaving the Daily Show. He didn't say where he'd be going next. Presumably, his writers will also still do what they do somewhere else (maybe with John Oliver).
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Immanentized posted:The way I read that passage was that it was describing Conor Friesdorf, journalist, and libertarian-in-residence at The Atlantic Magazine as being a pro-SSM liberal and still agreeing with the right-wing professor's ability to air his opinions freely. That makes more sense. I should probably have paid more attention when I was reading it. It's still kind of weird you have like 4 layers here with the guy writing the article referencing another guy who is writing about 2 other people, but the formatting probably makes it a lot worse.
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BiggerBoat posted:John Stewart is leaving the Daily Show. One of the stereotypical right wingers in my office was next to my desk smugly asking another co-worker where people were going to get their made up news now?
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BTW about the "protests against guest speakers". You know if you want to speak on a campus you really should not be allowed to filter questions.
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Radish posted:One of the stereotypical right wingers in my office was next to my desk smugly asking another co-worker where people were going to get their made up news now? Probably FOX. Gravel Gravy posted:Probably FOX.
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ErIog posted:That makes more sense. I should probably have paid more attention when I was reading it. It's still kind of weird you have like 4 layers here with the guy writing the article referencing another guy who is writing about 2 other people, but the formatting probably makes it a lot worse. It's several layers of people talking about one another, yeah, so it's confusing. John McAdams allegedly overheard grad student Cheryl Abbate telling an undergraduate he could not say gay marriage should not be allowed in class. McAdams wrote a blog piece naming Cheryl Abbate, who then became a target for harassment. University Dean Richard Holtz fired McAdams, something Conor Friedersdorf apparently thinks is a sign that authoritarian left-wing ideology has won, or something. If you read it on The Atlantic's website it's clearer what's a block quote and what's Friedersdorf's own commentary.
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Mike Church just called for people to lock arms and prevent gay couples from entering the Alabama courthouses for marriage licenses. This is the same guy who regularly derides people as 'Lincoln lovers' It's subtle
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Crowsbeak posted:So something interesting that has appeared amongst the intellectual right is the firing of John McAdams The reason McAdams was fired was not just because of the Cheryl Abbate thing. McAdams has been naming and trying to shame all sorts of people he sees as liberals on campus. The Abbate incident was just the more highly visible one, but the guy has been going after all sorts of "liberals" on campus, despite multiple warnings. This is a guy who, by his own admission, called the parents of a student who had the audacity to be involved in bringing a "vagina monologues" production to campus. If there is one clear cut, obvious reason to remove tenure from someone is when someone uses his position as a professor to harass students, especially when he knows he is throwing people in front of the redstate bus. Cognac McCarthy posted:It's several layers of people talking about one another, yeah, so it's confusing. John McAdams allegedly overheard grad student Cheryl Abbate telling an undergraduate he could not say gay marriage should not be allowed in class. McAdams wrote a blog piece naming Cheryl Abbate, who then became a target for harassment. University Dean Richard Holtz fired McAdams, something Conor Friedersdorf apparently thinks is a sign that authoritarian left-wing ideology has won, or something. If you read it on The Atlantic's website it's clearer what's a block quote and what's Friedersdorf's own commentary. It was a little bit different than that. Abbate was teaching about Rawl's equal liberty principle, and someone brought up the example of gay marriage and why it should be legal. Abbate asked if anyone objected to the example, and no one did. A student then showed up after class to ask why didn't Abbate challenge the gay marriage example. He also recorded the conversation and then took it to McAdams, who then claimed Abbate was censoring the student. But the student never brought up the example in class, when Abbate asked about it, and was clearly trolling afterwards to get a reaction (since he was recording the conversation without Abbate's knowledge). Conor Friedersdorf is an idiot of the Andrew Sullivan school of journalism, where punching down while pretending to deeply care about something is seen as a sign of seriousness.
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joepinetree posted:But the student never brought up the example in class, when Abbate asked about it, and was clearly trolling afterwards to get a reaction (since he was recording the conversation without Abbate's knowledge). I don't know if I'm the only one, but the...I dunno, is it irony?...of a student in an ethics class (as far as I can tell) illegally recording a conversation with the intent of harming another person is just kind of hilarious to me. Relevant Wisconsin law: quote:968.31 Interception and disclosure of wire, electronic or oral communications prohibited.
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The female hostage killed by ISIS is not very popular in some media circles. Who wants to guess why?
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skaboomizzy posted:The female hostage killed by ISIS is not very popular in some media circles. Who wants to guess why? She went to my alma mater, and we overlapped (I didn't know her), and seems like she was a great person, and I'm proud to have her as a fellow alum. Such a sad loving story. joepinetree posted:The reason McAdams was fired was not just because of the Cheryl Abbate thing. McAdams has been naming and trying to shame all sorts of people he sees as liberals on campus. The Abbate incident was just the more highly visible one, but the guy has been going after all sorts of "liberals" on campus, despite multiple warnings. This is a guy who, by his own admission, called the parents of a student who had the audacity to be involved in bringing a "vagina monologues" production to campus. If there is one clear cut, obvious reason to remove tenure from someone is when someone uses his position as a professor to harass students, especially when he knows he is throwing people in front of the redstate bus. But on the other hand, McAdams is an extraordinary rear end in a top hat who is attacking others for, and to prevent them from, exercising their academic freedom, so...
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Conservatism is a death cult.
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skaboomizzy posted:The female hostage killed by ISIS is not very popular in some media circles. Who wants to guess why? Black boyfriend? Used contraception? Held an opinion at some point?
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:
But, once again, the reason for the firing wasn't just Abbate. When you are calling student's parents to do a little gotcha blog post on liberalism gone awry, when you have been warned multiple times about that sort of behavior, and you keep going, it is clearly grounds for dismissal. Nothing in "academic freedom" says it is ok to harass students because of their political views. This isn't the first, second or third time that McAdams has done that sort of stuff.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:I'm a pretty strong believer in academic freedom, so I'm a little wary of them firing McAdams. Abbate is clearly in the right, and McAdams needs to be punished for basically driving a graduate student out of Marquette, but I dunno, it might be a kind of overreaction that gets used to justify other firings. And that's all that really should matter here. This is not a professor whose academic freedom is in jeopardy because someone disagreed with the tone or content of his lectures or research. This is not someone who is being fired because of their academic positions or actions. This is a man whose "name and shame" actions of someone who did something he personally disagreed with have an obvious causal link to the harassment of a student, not to mention the direct harassment he's engaged in before. I don't really see an overreaction here, or any sort of expansive potential like you're putting forward here. This is a pretty clear case of "harass students, get told to gently caress off".
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:And that's all that really should matter here. This is not a professor whose academic freedom is in jeopardy because someone disagreed with the tone or content of his lectures or research. This is not someone who is being fired because of their academic positions or actions. This is a man whose "name and shame" actions of someone who did something he personally disagreed with have an obvious causal link to the harassment of a student, not to mention the direct harassment he's engaged in before.
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DrNutt posted:People actually think that the angry white oldster will end? There are young white people who are scarily ignorant and have the same opinions, slightly modified to appear less racist. Do you use Facebook? Not end, but for the baby boomer set to filter out.
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I think the hope is less that white people as a group will become less racist (doubtful) but more that they will be reduced in percentage of the population but other groups. I assume that's the fear that leads to these hyper Christian white families with 20 kids like the Duggars.
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joepinetree posted:The reason McAdams was fired was not just because of the Cheryl Abbate thing. McAdams has been naming and trying to shame all sorts of people he sees as liberals on campus. The Abbate incident was just the more highly visible one, but the guy has been going after all sorts of "liberals" on campus, despite multiple warnings. This is a guy who, by his own admission, called the parents of a student who had the audacity to be involved in bringing a "vagina monologues" production to campus. If there is one clear cut, obvious reason to remove tenure from someone is when someone uses his position as a professor to harass students, especially when he knows he is throwing people in front of the redstate bus. Wow that is horrible. I mean that actually sounds like he should be liable for harassment.
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http://video.foxnews.com/v/4044995818001/university-of-michigans-inclusive-language-push/#sp=show-clips Wherein Fox and Friends provides a passionate defense of ethnic slurs. Guest starring a college senior who's well overdue for a solid face punching.
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Its been fun to see the right wing reactions on the new records showing lychings topping 4000. So much of. "they probably had it coming"., "Racism is over and you're opening old wounds". "It was the liberal DEMOCRATS fault." I mean I got to love how they cannot actually just out and out condemn this poo poo.
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"They were all holding what looked like guns"
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Crowsbeak posted:Its been fun to see the right wing reactions on the new records showing lychings topping 4000. So much of. "they probably had it coming"., "Racism is over and you're opening old wounds". "It was the liberal DEMOCRATS fault." I mean I got to love how they cannot actually just out and out condemn this poo poo. The last one's probably funniest because you know a ton of the people saying this are blood descendants of Dixiecrats who either lynched blacks or 'd at lynchings.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:The last one's probably funniest because you know a ton of the people saying this are blood descendants of Dixiecrats who either lynched blacks or 'd at lynchings. It's funny watching conservative Southerners tie themselves in knots trying to deny that their family voted Democrat until about 1980. An acquaintance of mine from rural Alabama brought up some macro recently which talked about how "the KKK was made up of DemocRATS " and it took all my strength to keep from calling him out and asking him what party his grandfather belonged to back in the day (he's one of those people who completely flips out when you disagree with him politically). Some of the more honest ones will of course bring up "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me." They often don't give a answer as to why that doesn't boil down to either cultural or racial issues, as much as they try to deny it.
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Wait, you've talked to people who say the Democrats were the KKK in the sixties, but they're not Democrat anymore because the party changed? Is that a subtle way of telling you they're still active in the KKK?
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