Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon

[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.

[Horace]

Would be a fun spectacle to listen to a debate between John McWhorter, another black linguistics professor, and this moron.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Staying classy at Carnegie-Mellon:

fun

[LuFins Dad]

@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.

[George K]

Stay Classy, UCLA:

[Doctor Phibes]

[Aqua Letifer]

This professor kept her job. Another one, who keeps losing his, had this to say:

Link to video

[George K]

Not a real Norm McDonald quip, of course, but still accurate:

[taiwan_girl]

@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.

[LuFins Dad]

@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…

[Axtremus]

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.

[George K]

NPR: Not everyone mourns the queen

Queen Elizabeth II's death has garnered a spectrum of feelings around the world about her life, legacy and the monarchy.

When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population was under British imperial power. That was more than 700 million people — including in parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific islands.

While her 70-year reign saw the British Empire become the Commonwealth of Nations — and the decline of the United Kingdom's global influence — the scars of colonialism linger. Many note the enslavement, violence and theft that defined imperial rule, and they find it difficult to separate the individual from the institution and its history.

Moses Ochonu, a professor of African studies at Vanderbilt University, told NPR the queen's death brought attention to "unfinished colonial business."

"There is a sense in which Britain has never fully accounted for its crimes," Ochonu said.

Elizabeth was associated with colonial and de-colonized Britain

The memory of Elizabeth is complicated by the fact that during her rule, more than 20 countries gained independence, Ochonu said.

"It's her dual status as the face of colonialism, but also a symbol of decolonization that defines how she is perceived in many former British African colonies."

[Doctor Phibes]

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

NPR: Not everyone mourns the queen

Queen Elizabeth II's death has garnered a spectrum of feelings around the world about her life, legacy and the monarchy.

When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population was under British imperial power. That was more than 700 million people — including in parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific islands.

While her 70-year reign saw the British Empire become the Commonwealth of Nations — and the decline of the United Kingdom's global influence — the scars of colonialism linger. Many note the enslavement, violence and theft that defined imperial rule, and they find it difficult to separate the individual from the institution and its history.

Moses Ochonu, a professor of African studies at Vanderbilt University, told NPR the queen's death brought attention to "unfinished colonial business."

"There is a sense in which Britain has never fully accounted for its crimes," Ochonu said.

Elizabeth was associated with colonial and de-colonized Britain

The memory of Elizabeth is complicated by the fact that during her rule, more than 20 countries gained independence, Ochonu said.

"It's her dual status as the face of colonialism, but also a symbol of decolonization that defines how she is perceived in many former British African colonies."

It feels like they're just using this as an excuse to try and bring up the same topic again.

Presumably, Moses Ochonu left Nigeria to get a well-paid job in the West from which he can lecture us all on what terrible people we are.