Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon

Doctor Phibes

@Aqua-Letifer said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:

It's a shame she didn't die instead.

The irony is that she's living an agonizingly painful life.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

“We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account. Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster.“

Let’s see how that holds up in the future.

Aqua Letifer

@George-K said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:

“We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account. Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster.“

Let’s see how that holds up in the future.

I give 'em 6 months tops before that gets real awkward.

89th

I reluctantly am curious what Anya is referencing. Did Queen Elizabeth order the massacre of Nigerians or something? I know the UK control Nigeria for a while (like a hundred years ago), but guess what... as old as the world is, nations have always invaded/controlled other territories. It's still happening (see Russia and Ukraine).

Doctor Phibes

@89th said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:

I know the UK control Nigeria for a while (like a hundred years ago)

It was under British control until 1960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Nigeria

LuFins Dad

@Doctor-Phibes said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:

@89th said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:

I know the UK control Nigeria for a while (like a hundred years ago)

It was under British control until 1960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Nigeria

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Doctor Phibes

@George-K said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:

“We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account. Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster.“

Let’s see how that holds up in the future.

It's obvious that she should have been fired for saying that. I would be. Let's hope a conservative member of staff tests their commitment to free speech real soon.

Catseye3

@Doctor-Phibes said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:

It's obvious that she should have been fired for saying that.

Yeah . . . unless "we do not condone" doesn't mean what we think it means.

Horace

I would not like to see her fired. I would like this to be an example of stuff a professor can say, without being fired.

Doctor Phibes

Apparently, the great Sage Tucker Carlson has weighed in on this, saying the Queen was the last living link to a truly great Britain.

He should be fired too, for being a fuckwit.

Mik

She also blithely ignores the many genocidal campaigns we have seen within post-colonial Africa, and the child soldier and slaves we see to this day.

Doctor Phibes

The idea that the Queen had any responsibility for atrocities that may have been committed by the British empire is asinine. She's a symbolic figure, and to wish a slow, agonizing death on her personally is not to attack the symbol, but the human being.

She's too stupid to be a professor if she doesn't get this.

Mik

I think we have established that, certainly.

Horace

Destructive righteousness and rationality are always at odds. Otherwise nature wouldn't have needed to evolve this whole righteous destructiveness thing. It's hardly relegated to idiotic professors, though they seem to be a replenishing reservoir of it.