I would say there have also been some horrible headlines out of Canada. Yesterday a Federal Court Canadian Judge said one of the most vile things i have ever heard. He asked a homeless rape victim, “why dont you just keep your knees together” and “why she allowed the sex to happen if she didn’t want it”. The World…
I’m from Canada and New Zealand so it’s been a weird couple of weeks for me between celebrating Trudeau and the unending horrible headlines from NZ. But, like, we won the Rugby World Cup so who cares about institutional misogyny?
I teach at a university where there was a whole string of bomb threats over a course of several weeks a few years ago. The entire student population was terrified; they seemed like hoaxes, but you never really knew if one was going to end up being real. There were threats called in at 2 or 3 am, saying that there were…
oh my god
The media just goebbels this stuff up.
Damn! I did nazi that coming!
“OK, pro-Hitler.” I’m in love.
If you’d bothered to read the story you would have noted that she gave her ID for a photocopy.
She was already in the lead at that point. By calling out random letters, she was minimizing how much she was helping her opponents, while letting them do all the work.
I doubt they talked. Can either of them speak the other person’s language? She can barely communicate in English, I can hardly imagine what her Russian would sound like.
Looks like he just up and saw the light.
FTR, I want everyone to know not ALL profs and departments are like this. Our grad students were some of the first to report hate speech they were seeing on yik yak (and have done it before) and our chair responded with LIGHTNING speed allowing us to do what we needed to do or felt comfortable doing to keep our…
White people flip shit when an entirely fictional character isn’t white. Seriously, test a black Spider-Man or a Latino Batman and see what happens.
I think you mean ‘youuuuggeeee’.
Bill Nye understands the importance of moisturizing. I dig it.
The blood of climate change deniers?
potent potables