No, it’s actually very likely that they were not credible threats. Do you really think most threats made on the internet are actually carried out?

It’s more than annoying, it’s dishonest and makes Jezebel no better than right-wing rags or Fox News.

At any time are you going to acknowledge that you are continually misconstruing this guys entire response? Is the Jezebellian creed of demonizing white men can’t report anything without bias?

Context is irrelevant when there’s outrage to be had.

99.9% of people who make violent threats on the internet have no intention of actually carrying them out. Freaking out every time someone makes one is just a stupid as the post 9/11 hysteria that tried to convince everyone a terrorist was lurking around every corner.

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 vast majority of people who threaten violence on the internet have no intention of actually following through with it,

He encouraged his students to come to class because the class was not yet cancelled. What’s the fucking problem?

People threatening mass murder anonymously on the internet are “criminals” and “terrorists”, because they intend to cause terror in people and what they do is illegal. But they are also “bullies”, because 99.999999% of the time they have no intention of following through on their threats and are only trying to bully…

Indeed, he was asked to resign for saying something positive. Read his entire email. There is nothing wrong with it.

What the hell is happening on college campuses? I’m a Gen Xer. I burned an American flag after the Rodney King verdict. But this “safe space” theme on campuses is driving me mad. There simply can’t be…

Yeah I’m not seeing what the issue is to get worked up about here. If it is that he didn’t cancel class, would perhaps the University who did not cancel classes in response to this threat not be the better focus of ire?

Its annoying you only post part of the email. He stated that he would be in class giving the exam, but later sent an email that students could take a make-up exam. The threat wasn’t verified by the university, and he probably wasn’t clear on what he was allowed to do. His first email definitely lacked sensitivity, but…

Someone below posted the entire email. He offered students the choice to come to class (which the University had not cancelled) and take the exam or take the exam the next day. No penalty for choosing the latter.

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…

Or it’s just some idiot basement dweller posting threats online. If we stayed in every time someone did that, no one would ever leave the house.

So he didn’t refuse to accommodate student’s safety? He just said he’d hold class (I guess in his mind in defiance of the bullies or whatever) and students were free to come or retake the test later without a penalty. And apparently the University didn’t cancel classes so... I don’t know. This doesn’t seem nearly as…

The rest of the professor’s email also told students they had to make the decision that was best for them (2) that he would also be giving a make up exam for people who made the decision to stay away from campus (3) and that as a professor he would follow the university’s directives regarding canceling class - at the…

Here is the entire message sent from the professor trying to DO HIS JOB. I guess before long there will be no professors or administrators on campus.

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