They won’t lose or gain much, but what has happened is that these kinds of celebrity posts have changed the culture and ethos of the academy in key ways that have been quite detrimental. Yes, she brings attention, she may bring some experience knowledge (not much frankly), but she doesnt actully bring much policy…

Im familiar with it, as am based at a UK university and have ties to LSE (as an academic.) This is why I don’t blame her, I blame the UK university infrastructure that has turned into a pay for play shitshow.

I was just typing a similar comment until I scrolled and saw yours. Here I am supporting my family, under intense pressure to finish my dissertation so I can be “legitimate” and also trying to be a good mom to my kids while we have zero savings or resources and someone just fucking hands it to her because she is rich,…

So many people have devoted 25+ years of their lives to obtaining a PhD, academic research, and writing to teach at a world renowned university. If Angelina Jolie was teaching my class I would want my money back.

Who’s more sensitive, someone who experiences emotional distress at discussions of sexual assault, or someone who experiences emotional distress over a sign warning people who might feel emotional distress at discussions of sexual assault?

“But I also find it VERY telling that a white woman and an Asian man are pretty much the biggest examples of cops being thrown to the wolves by other cops.”

I think it’s telling how much of the comment section here has been devoted to that aspect of the story.

I think you’d be getting a lot less pushback if you’d flipped it and said, “Now let’s also prosecute the white men who keep shooting unarmed black civilians.”

Oh, look, white feminism again. Let’s take a moment while black people are lying dead in the streets at the hands of the police. Let’s take a moment to look at more important things, like workplace inequality. Where women police officers can’t gun niggas down in cold blood like male police officers can. That’s not…

And now this is the third time you’ve gone on about this “sacrifice” without any acknowledgement of the man she murdered.

No, the actual sacrifice would be that of the life of the Black man which you apparently have little if any regard for. This is the second time in this comment section you’ve mentioned it without any mention of the actual victim, you know, the dead man.

Maybe it’s because she clearly murdered this man with no remorse. Typical white woman clutching her purse when she sees a black man.

I didn’t realize that there was a package of white privilege that Asians and white women should also be entitled to that includes shooting black people without consequence. This sacrifice language is problematic.

This is why as a black woman, i sometimes look at white women and say I have nothing in common with these people aside from a vagina.

Yes. How “strange” that a black man, when confronted by a cop, would put his hands in the air. It couldn’t possibly be that he wanted to preemptively signal that he was unarmed, given that so many other black person-cop interactions turn deadly without provocation.

Yes, because “just don’t be afraid” is a really helpful suggestion. I hear you on the point that this is what the terrorists want, we shouldn’t be scared, and I personally am not, but telling BabyGotFront that you’re “not sure why [they] don’t understand that” is disingenuous. They may understand, but that doesn’t…

I’m aware that terrorists want to scare people (the term “terrorists” sorta implies that).

That’s lovely for you, but I, for one, am scared and so are tons of other people. I used to live a 1/4 of a mile in Chelsea where the bomb was detonated and have friends who live with their young daughter 2 blocks from where the bomb went off---all the pictures fell off their walls and glass shattered everywhere…

I recall that there were plenty of people who said maybe we should pump the brakes on this story since parts of it aren’t adding up. Granted, those people were tarred and feathered on Jezebel and Gawker, but they certainly existed. One particular person was roundly ridiculed for daring to question the story and…

I agree with you that Ornella’s joke was about Jonah’s appearance/weight, and that justifications around gender/the power differential are a stretch. The mitigating factor, for me, is that Hill is a comic actor, with several of his films pitting him opposite Adonises like Tatum Channing or James Franco, replete with…

Yeah, I don’t get this. The joke was “I want you. Just kidding, no one wants you because you’re fat and ugly.” How is that a joke anyone here can stand up for?