Yeah, but can’t we criticize him for that stuff instead of for the name he chooses to use?

I’m no fan of the guy, but I honestly get offended when people think they know how immigrants should adjust to life in America or interact with their family's original culture. I know a number of Asian-Americans who have changed their first names in the name of easier integration. I certainly don’t think those who…

I don’t think we should necessarily give him a hard time for going by “Bobby” instead of “Piyush.” People have complicated motivations for changing their names. I had some family members who did similar things (they would be, like, Herschel to their friends and Henry in the phone book) and it wasn’t because they were…

hoooooooooo. SHADE!

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Honestly, I really do not consider calling a class a bunch of pussies to be academic freedom. It has nothing to do with her research/work or her politics. I don’t think she should have been fired over it, but calling people a bunch of pussies for being “weak” is definitely misogynistic and can contribute to a negative…

Funny, because people feelings are taken at face value when we’re talking about sexual harrassment done by males or when somebody claims that they were raped/assaulted.

1. Her job is to teach early childhood education. And lack of professionalism IS a reason to be fired because if she was working as a teacher in a kindergarten, you bet that parents would be calling for her to be fired.

I actually know a bit about what went on here, but can’t say a damn thing for professional and personal reasons. There is more going on that Jezebel is would have you think by their reporting of “ prof. fired for saying naughty words”.

Citing “freedom of speech” when you have to face consequences for the things you say is. Freedom of speech does not mean that you can say whatever the fuck you want at any time, and no one can disagree with you or decide that they don’t want to associate with you based on it.

No. I’m not mad at all. It’s just helpful for you to assume that I am so that you can villianize me instead of having to.... you know, think or have any substantive whatsoever to contribute.

For what? Pointing out the reality of the situation? Do you have any idea how messed up you have to be to have a judge rule that you aren’t mentally fit to have control over your finances? Do you know how much that threshhold goes up when your earnings are in the tens of millions?

As an Asian, I applaud the fall of Affirmative Action. Too many promising Asian students have been denied college admission because of white quotas.

I am so sick of British people complaining about “American tea.” We have the same fucking tea, imported from the same damn place, which is decidedly NOT Britain. If you are from Asia and you want to complain about American tea, go for it. But tea does not and has not ever belonged to - or been grown in - Britain.…

I do not think his physical appearance had anything to do with his rejection.

I say keep with the theme of not allowing mental illness (real or suspected) to be used as an excuse for violent behavior. Period. Yes its a black man in this case, and yes its still horrible when this shit is done for white guys that do violence but the solution isn't to broaden the excuse, its to shrink it.

The Right to Free Speech doesn’t give people the right to force others— individuals, businesses, organizations or other institutions— to be complicit in aiding the dissemination their message.

Being outside the norm is hard, regardless of what norm we are referring to. My guess of where the snark comes from (said as a 5’3” woman) is that I have the opposite of your problems, and the grass is always greener. Professionally people are less likely to take me seriously, people will literally walk into me on the…

I just truly do not see this, Stupider Like a Fox. It is a token representation that, if anything, may even justify poor treatment of women (“Look; Jennifer Lawrence is making more money than Chris Pratt: what are you complaining about?”) Has the status quo truly changed for the vast majority of African-Americans in…

Hmmm.... let me check.....nope; women earning a decent paycheck has not made me a Marxist. I simply wish that MORE women would earn a decent paycheck, and that the values were not so skewed, here. The rich become obscenely rich, and the poor work two jobs and still cannot make ends meet.