UCLA professor suspended (guess why)
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 12:43 last edited by
Annnnd, another victim story.
Comments about the killing of George Floyd appear to have resulted in the retirement of the CEO and founder of one of America’s biggest fitness brands and an exodus of the company’s partners.
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Here are his comments that started the whole kerfuffle:
"We're not mourning for George Floyd — I don't think me or any of my staff are,” according to a full recording of the meeting obtained by BuzzFeed News.
“Can you tell me why I should mourn for him? Other than that it’s the white thing to do — other than that, give me another reason.” Glassman reportedly added he didn’t think “that there’s a general mourning for Floyd in any community.”
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We ask for your support in having Professor Klein’s professorship terminated for his extremely insensitive, dismissive, and woefully racist response to his students’ request for empathy and compassion during a time of civil unrest.
Future WTF posters.
wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 12:47 last edited by@Horace said in UCLA professor suspended (guess why):
We ask for your support in having Professor Klein’s professorship terminated for his extremely insensitive, dismissive, and woefully racist response to his students’ request for empathy and compassion during a time of civil unrest.
Future WTF posters.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 12:48 last edited by
I work with a national level crossfit competitor. I suppose she's obligated to mention how disgusted she is with the CEO's words, if anybody asks her about it. Sad.
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I work with a national level crossfit competitor. I suppose she's obligated to mention how disgusted she is with the CEO's words, if anybody asks her about it. Sad.
wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 12:52 last edited by@Horace said in UCLA professor suspended (guess why):
I suppose she's obligated to mention how disgusted she is with the CEO's words
Of course she's obligated. It's what you do to NOT become a target.
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Did you know you are only one click away from helping fire him too?
https://www.change.org/p/ucla-fire-ucla-professor-gordon-klein
Make your voice count!
wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 12:58 last edited by Loki 6 Oct 2020, 13:00@Loki said in UCLA professor suspended (guess why):
Did you know you are only one click away from helping fire him too?
https://www.change.org/p/ucla-fire-ucla-professor-gordon-klein
Make your voice count!
I wonder how UCLA will factor in that change.org is the protagonist here and not 20,000 student votes.
Pretty chilling that you can be cancelled by an on line poll where the poller actually mostly gets a bigger mailing list.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 12:59 last edited by
I am guessing the professor will not be fired, I don't think we're quite that off the rails yet.
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@Horace said in UCLA professor suspended (guess why):
I suppose she's obligated to mention how disgusted she is with the CEO's words
Of course she's obligated. It's what you do to NOT become a target.
wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 13:00 last edited by@Improviso Yeah; like Horace said, it's sad -- especially when you consider the better strategy might be for her to stand with the Crossfit guy. It would be a good opportunity to begin applying the brakes to this insane juggernaut.
That's what needs to happen: less sucking up and moar Sparta.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 13:33 last edited by
The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) suspended Gordon Klein, an accounting professor in the Anderson School of Business where he's been teaching for 39 years, for three weeks beginning on June 25 after he declined a student's request to delay a final exam in light of Floyd's death, the Free Beacon reports.
The Malibu Police Department reportedly has an increased police presence outside Klein's home after multiple threats.
Can you even imagine the reaction of the left if our culture contained systematic elements of violence and social/economic excommunication whenever left-leaning folk didn't toe the line for whatever flavor of the day outrage the fringe of the right came up with? Meanwhile, the right accepts this stuff because this is, in fact, normal life for us.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 13:39 last edited by
And I'm not loving the university's wimpy solution: Three weeks suspension -- a "punishment" that won't overly harm the professor yet hopefully will be taken as an acceptable appeasement.
OTOH, things are so nutty now that if the U didn't do some sort of appeasement, maybe zillions of Floyd mourners would march out, and then where would they be? Worser and worser.
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And I'm not loving the university's wimpy solution: Three weeks suspension -- a "punishment" that won't overly harm the professor yet hopefully will be taken as an acceptable appeasement.
OTOH, things are so nutty now that if the U didn't do some sort of appeasement, maybe zillions of Floyd mourners would march out, and then where would they be? Worser and worser.
wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 13:44 last edited by@Catseye3 said in UCLA professor suspended (guess why):
And I'm not loving the university's wimpy solution: Three weeks suspension -- a "punishment" that won't overly harm the professor yet hopefully will be taken as an acceptable appeasement.
OTOH, things are so nutty now that if the U didn't do some sort of appeasement, maybe zillions of Floyd mourners would march out, and then where would they be? Worser and worser.
The good professor, of 39 years, may be burned out. An old man being sarcastic with kids born with a social media device in their hands demonstrates suicidal tendencies or lack of situational awareness.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 13:50 last edited by
suicidal is probably stretching it. At some point some civilian courage is not suicidal, it's just the duty of a human being capable of seeing through at least the top layer of our insane group-think.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 15:41 last edited by
In other news, yours truly has come under fire for rejecting the statement that my branch of science is founded on "white supremacy".
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In other news, yours truly has come under fire for rejecting the statement that my branch of science is founded on "white supremacy".
wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 15:46 last edited by@Klaus said in UCLA professor suspended (guess why):
In other news, yours truly has come under fire for rejecting the statement that my branch of science is founded on "white supremacy".
Sheer nuttery....
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In other news, yours truly has come under fire for rejecting the statement that my branch of science is founded on "white supremacy".
wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 15:48 last edited by@Klaus said in UCLA professor suspended (guess why):
In other news, yours truly has come under fire for rejecting the statement that my branch of science is founded on "white supremacy".
Oh yeah?
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 16:08 last edited by
Idiots
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 16:09 last edited by
These are really crazy times. As if there were a competition between Trump and the progressives about who is the craziest.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 16:27 last edited by
Trump is one person with a shtick. The left continues to careen off the rails as a group, displaying everything wrong and pathetic with the human psyche.