Progressive response to death of Barbara Bush

[smilesammich 10,727]

1 minute ago, Boiler said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Platform

 

it's a uk thing. i'll stick with maximum rock and roll's take and agree that racists and nazis should be no platformed, if said platform doesn't want to support racists and nazis. not sure what racists and nazis have to do with these tweets and the progressive response to barbara bush. 

 

[Boiler 46,016]

1 minute ago, smilesammich said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Platform

 

it's a uk thing. i'll stick with maximum rock and roll's take and agree that racists and nazis should be no platformed, if said platform doesn't want to support racists and nazis. not sure what racists and nazis have to do with these tweets and the progressive response to barbara bush. 

 

Germaine Greer is a Nazi?

[Steeleballz 7,550]

16 minutes ago, bcking said:

I don't think anyone here is saying that they don't think the woman has a right to say what she thinks. No one here (I'm assuming but I'm fairly confident) thinks the government should silence her.

 

The First Amendment doesn't say anything about other people liking what you say. We, as fellow citizens, are allowed to express our displeasure with the inconsiderate, crude, and disrespectful way she is talking about someone who just passed away and, politics aside, was a major figure in the US.

 

So she's allowed to say what she wants, but I'm also allowed to call her an ...the hole at the bottom of your tush.

 

    I guess I wasn't clear; if you look at the people responding on her twitter feed, many are calling for her to be fired. She works for the state of California and she made these comments as a private citizen, so she is allowed to voice that opinion. Of course we don't have to like it or agree with it.

 

  Personally, I think when someone dies, it's one of those times that if you can't think of something good to say, you really shouldn't say anything at all. I really don't like the comment that she made at this time, and to me it's always something that reflects poorly on the person who says it. However she does have the right to say it, and in this case, she shouldn't be facing losing her job over it.

[smilesammich 10,727]

48 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Germaine Greer is a Nazi?

depends on how you classify feminists.

[Boiler 46,016]

I did not now there were classifications.

[TBoneTX 46,058]

8 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

I think when someone dies, it's one of those times that if you can't think of something good to say, you really shouldn't say anything at all.

Yes, this.

Even if someone asks directly, you can say "I'm still composing my thoughts" or "her family will really miss her" or "she lived a long life."

[Dashinka 24,766]

12 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    I guess I wasn't clear; if you look at the people responding on her twitter feed, many are calling for her to be fired. She works for the state of California and she made these comments as a private citizen, so she is allowed to voice that opinion. Of course we don't have to like it or agree with it.

 

  Personally, I think when someone dies, it's one of those times that if you can't think of something good to say, you really shouldn't say anything at all. I really don't like the comment that she made at this time, and to me it's always something that reflects poorly on the person who says it. However she does have the right to say it, and in this case, she shouldn't be facing losing her job over it.

While I agree she certainly has a right to say whatever she wants, and quite frankly I am glad she is out there saying what she is saying, I think professionally there should be consequences.  I remember those that lean left here being somewhat gleeful of people losing their jobs over protests such as Charlottesville or others.

 

I do find it rather hypocritical that this professor goes on her rant, then sets her Twitter to private, I want her to keep talking for the extreme left.

[smilesammich 10,727]

white supremacists and nazis should lose their jobs if their employers don't want such filth representing them. i don't consider a person tweeting offensive opinions about former first ladies and their former president children to be on par with being a proud racist/supporting ethnic cleansing. big big difference.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

The thread celebrating Barbara Bushes life? 5 posts. 

The thread ratholing the private rantings of one person who never met her.. 23 posts.

Pretty much sums up our priorities.

[Dashinka 24,766]

24 minutes ago, Amica Nostra said:

The thread celebrating Barbara Bushes life? 5 posts. 

The thread ratholing the private rantings of one person who never met her.. 23 posts.

Pretty much sums up our priorities.

This professor is getting what she wants, people to listen to her.

[Boiler 46,016]

1 hour ago, smilesammich said:

white supremacists and nazis should lose their jobs if their employers don't want such filth representing them. i don't consider a person tweeting offensive opinions about former first ladies and their former president children to be on par with being a proud racist/supporting ethnic cleansing. big big difference.

Not much difference, hard left hard right, pretty much the same.

[Dashinka 24,766]

1 hour ago, smilesammich said:

white supremacists and nazis should lose their jobs if their employers don't want such filth representing them. i don't consider a person tweeting offensive opinions about former first ladies and their former president children to be on par with being a proud racist/supporting ethnic cleansing. big big difference.

You may not consider it, but possibly the employer does, and this professor's filth was no less than that of the people you say should lose their jobs.  Personally, I hope she loses her job, but I also hope she keeps speaking for the extreme left, it will do them a lot of good.

[Boiler 46,016]

1 minute ago, Bill & Katya said:

You may not consider it, but possibly the employer does, and this professor's filth was no less than that of the people you say should lose their jobs.  Personally, I hope she loses her job, but I also hope she keeps speaking for the extreme left, it will do them a lot of good.

I would not go that far but I would hope the College is addressing students concerns who would otherwise have to be taught by her and are providing alternatives.

[smilesammich 10,727]

32 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Not much difference, hard left hard right, pretty much the same.

 

26 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

You may not consider it, but possibly the employer does, and this professor's filth was no less than that of the people you say should lose their jobs.  Personally, I hope she loses her job, but I also hope she keeps speaking for the extreme left, it will do them a lot of good.

a tweet is the same level of filth as people who want to put people in ovens? sorry, i totally disagree.

[Dashinka 24,766]

33 minutes ago, Boiler said:

I would not go that far but I would hope the College is addressing students concerns who would otherwise have to be taught by her and are providing alternatives.

I am amazed that this intolerant professor is allowed to teach students.

9 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

 

a tweet is the same level of filth as people who want to put people in ovens? sorry, i totally disagree.

Intolerance is intolerance plain and simple.