This is true. Part of the tragedy of this is that, after it happened, women who were genuine rape victims at UVA came forward, with some of them saying, “I would have talked to her.” Erdley wanted the most outrageous, most twisted story she could find, damn the consequences. She didn’t even fact check the most basic…

the entirety of the blame for this shit-show lies with Rolling Stone.

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…

Agreed. I mean, “Jackie” is clearly a lying nutjob but precisely because she’s a lying nutjob and a college student, the entirety of the blame for this shit-show lies with Rolling Stone.

you shoulda heard merlan when she defended the article.

Even people with journalism degrees from Columbia.

Yes, she is trash. She was a professor who physically assaulted an Asian student journalist who was no threat to anyone. She should be able to work again, sure, but not around college students.

I’m actually amazed at how many people are shrugging off the unprofessionalism this woman has exhibited, both in her actions and her apology in which she still essentially blamed “spirited journalists” for her behavior. She doesn’t deserve to be shamed or harassed, but she also should not be in a position to shape…

The University of Missouri suffered a drop of 2,600 students enrolling for the Fall 2016 semester. The drop translates to a $36 million budget shortfall for the university. This largely has been attributed to the furor surrounding the student protests and Ms. Click’s actions.

You want to see a career destroyed on social media, not from a relatively unknown academic but a nobel laureate for breaking exactly zero laws in a twitter shitstorm that gave him no chance to set the record straight? Read this story. I can’t remember anyone coming to his defense and asking people to let go on…

Not sure that saying “I was only fired cuz im a white lady” is admitting any mistakes, at most shes saying it wasnt her fault at all.

She did not admit that she was wrong:

I think she should be able to work again, but a communications professor blocking journalists from a public area and saying bring some muscle (a threat) is a very, very, very bad look. That and her non-apology, I know I sure as hell wouldn’t want her working for any department I was involved with.

She is trash. If she held conservative opinions people here would be clamoring for her to be beheaded.

I fully agree that it sounds like a mental health issue, combined with paranoia that was no doubt fueled daily by social media. Regardless of what origin brought this situation to be, when you point a weapon at cops and threaten to shoot them, it’s lights out, and its justifiable.

The headline is sneaky and misleading—it makes it sound like ANOTHER poor black woman was killed by the horrible police. Meanwhile, she’s pointing a gun at them—which, black or white, is likely to get you killed. Come on, jezebel. Why are you trying to escalate things?

I'm feeling that way too. It really sounds like she did everything in her power to make this be the only outcome, and to harm her child in the progress, emotionally if not physically.

To all the people saying what a waste... She clearly thought of herself as a martyr (take a look at her other videos). She also taught her son that every interaction with police will be a life and death situation simply because she felt the need to escalate it to that level each time. She was delusional and this was a…

If she was unarmed, then I will gladly eat my words, but otherwise, I have to side with the cops on this one. Pointing a firearm directly at the cops and threatening to kill them really puts them in a no-win situation, and justifies deadly force. The fact that they engaged in a 7 hour standoff, rather than shooting…

Ok she shot at cops and used her son as a human sheild...fuck this shit