Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon
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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).
@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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@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
@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
He rounded up…
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“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.
@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.
I was only joking
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@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.
@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.
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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.
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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.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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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.
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.
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Would be a fun spectacle to listen to a debate between John McWhorter, another black linguistics professor, and this moron.
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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.
@Mik said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:
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.
That’s the result of the colonization, don’t you know.
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He might be a (he), but he’s still a stupid twat
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This professor kept her job. Another one, who keeps losing his, had this to say:
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@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.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:
@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.
I agree.
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@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.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:
@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.
That’s a pretty big leap of faith that there’s even a conservative faculty member…
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/uju-anya-queen-elizabeth-death-tweet-reaction
Uju Anya, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who sparked backlash after her tweet wishing Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating” pain went viral, is defending her position, saying in a statement that “I stand by what I said.”
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“If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star,” said Anya in the remaining visible tweet.
