I love John Oliver because he condenses complicated issues into little pieces of snark I can parrot to my friends. I don't even have to formulate my own opinion to feel morally superior!! It's great to be alive.

This is why I haven’t been able to watch John Oliver as much lately. For a while, the show was great at in-depth reporting on some issue no one else was talking about. Now he’s just repeating the same old stuff every other news outlet is saying, but perhaps a little bit funnier. It’s sad, cause Oliver is obviously…

Sorry, no price, you need to build in “feminists” and “SJWs” to win the bullshit bingo.

The political correctness and pandering in the US is really getting sickening.

Yes, people did. He received a massive wave of vitriol and resignation demands from students not in his classes after his emails spread over Twitter. People Tweeted vile things at him, about him. Click his hashtag on Twitter, they’re all right there for you to look at.

And yet literally the first words in ANY email he sent (see the original email here) is “If you don’t feel safe coming to class, don’t come to class.”

No, read it HERE.

It was absolutely not dismissive. His FIRST response to the students emailing him was “If you don’t feel safe, don’t come to class. Schedule a make up exam.” That is not dismissive. That’s a teacher doing his job and accommodating his students.

Alrighty then.

I didn’t mean so much you were vilifying him... I had just looked at different posts and comments where people were immediately posting his picture, saying oh look he is white so therefore he is the devil for saying this, etc. I guess I just feel for all involved here, especially those who are trying to actually…

I read that piece also, and that’s not what I came away with at all. Kristof was not saying, or implying, that certain people don’t have ‘a right to be.’ He was saying that we all need to be open to listening to the ideas and opinions of others, especially those with whom we disagree. To try to shut down those with…

He offered a make up test what accommodation should he give? No test at all? If the university and police didn’t deem this threat credible enough to lock down the school and cancel classes it seems pretty appropriate for a professor to hold his regularly scheduled classes.

Yeah, that’s life. Responding to a question earnestly with all of the turmoil going on. Then saying yes, you can make it up. (Make sure you ignore that he added that). Heaven forbid he not word his email to the internet’s liking. No student is being penalized, no student is “forced” to come to class (which is…

Have you read his full email? I’m curious if you’re responding just to Jezebel’s reporting, or to what he actually said. I think Jez is really misrepresenting the situation in this case.

The fact that they are terrorists is specifcally the reason why it’s important not to let them win. For one, it’s a morale shot against the people being attacked. It tells them that these assholes can dictate how they spend their lives. It tells them that some asshole with an email account, regardless of actual threat…

Given the comments on the previous Jezebel article about this topic, where multiple people pointed out that the initial email being reported was presented without a lot of context (like the longer, subsequent emails where he offered make-up exams and thus wouldn’t penalize students who didn’t make class) and that…

My only problem is with the presumption of guilt, especially with some of the things we’ve seen with campus rape allegations. It seems like an over-correction (to a well known historical problem of treating victims as liars) to assume accusation=guilt. I know many progressives believe that since false allegation…

So, how do we, as feminists, handle it when we are aware of false allegations? I’ve had 2 separate events in my life where false accusations were made. 1) In college, 2 friends were in a relationship and broke up. The girl later accused the guy of rape. She admitted to several people she made it up to hurt him. 2) A…

I think the problem with false accusations isn’t so much that they happen so often, but more that they could happen at all. It is VERY easy (though, granted, not for everyone and not everywhere) for a female to just say “That guy over there raped me,” and ruin a guy’s life. I’ve seen it done. Not so much as an adult,…

Eh. This is one issue where I diverge greatly from feminists on, probably due to my ethnicity. As a black man in America, I just can’t be so dismissive of the the existence of false allegations of rape and the impact that they have when they occur. Many an African-American man in the early-mid 20th century ended up…