Libtard Thread

[GoodguyEh]

 some women smashing "oppressive" scales. good for them, this should burn a few calories

[augustmoon]

i guess this happened a few years ago, but it's been popping up on my FB a lot over the past couple days

this could just as easily go in the conservtard thread:

[Dengles]

i guess this happened a few years ago, but it's been popping up on my FB a lot over the past couple days

this could just as easily go in the conservtard thread:

Goddamn I can't decide who's more regular there. 

[JB]

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i guess this happened a few years ago, but it's been popping up on my FB a lot over the past couple days

this could just as easily go in the conservtard thread:

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Goddamn I can't decide who's more regular there. 

i think we can file this one under Ameritard.

[QUIT SINNIN]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/13/living/feat-boston-university-saida-grundy-race-tweets/

Blows my fucking mind this bitch wasn't fired. Such a double standard. If ANY professor in the United States said the same thing about her race they would have been fired before the day was over. And she's probably getting paid more than any of us.

[Dengles]

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i guess this happened a few years ago, but it's been popping up on my FB a lot over the past couple days

this could just as easily go in the conservtard thread:

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Goddamn I can't decide who's more regular there. 

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i think we can file this one under Ameritard.

Being out of America makes me feel like the whole world thinks we're this pants on head regular.  My roommate here thinks America is all Libtards like in this thread or like snake church Baptists.  I do miss good burgers and Craft Beer though. 

[NickDagger]

Columbia students claim Greek mythology needs a trigger warning

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Feminist Students Protest Feminist Prof for Writing About Feminism

[NickDagger]

Whatever happened to Gipper?

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/becoming-disabled-by-choice-not-chance-transabled-people-feel-like-impostors-in-their-fully-working-bodies

[JB]

Whatever happened to Gipper?

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/becoming-disabled-by-choice-not-chance-transabled-people-feel-like-impostors-in-their-fully-working-bodies

when i first saw that article, i thought it was going to be able people who wanted to pretend to be disabled so they can ride around in those scooters at the grocery store, because i see people in those all the time and i have a hard time believing that most of they are actually incapable of walking. i didnt actually think there were people out there who wanted to saw their own legs and arms off though.

[NickDagger]

I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

[NickDagger]

http://bad-dominicana.tumblr.com/post/101796950718/social-media-is-gonna-kill-me-the-whole-reason-i

Social Media is gonna kill me. The whole reason i ended up at the hospital 3 weeks ago is i was triggered to hell and back by the harrassment/stalking campaign being waged against me by rania khalek and steve salaita’s troll army for daring to critique their documented antiblackness. My immune system gives out when im triggered that badly.

[QUIT SINNIN]

http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/8496872-74/ritchie-agency-message#axzz3cAWo8KGJ

[NickDagger]

The "Mattress Girl" filmed herself in a rape porn video. Try to figure out her point in this rambling mess of words:

http://www.cecinestpasunviol.com/



Here's the video:

https://vid.me/68ut

[Rusty_Berrings]

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hey look it's me the bearded one with all the crazy white aliens trying to grab at my cock.

[essal]

The "Mattress Girl" filmed herself in a rape porn video. Try to figure out her point in this rambling mess of words:

http://www.cecinestpasunviol.com/



Here's the video:

https://vid.me/68ut

Wait what did I just read and kinda watch? This was the same chick who dragged her mattress around for a year after accusing someone of raping her? This kinda makes me believe that she wasn't ever raped at all, but she just fucking loves attention.

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http://www.slapmagazine.com/component/option,com_jfusion/Itemid,4/index.php?topic=86233.60

[Lusty RunchBox]

http://www.slapmagazine.com/component/option,com_jfusion/Itemid,4/index.php?topic=86233.60

[JB]

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http://www.slapmagazine.com/component/option,com_jfusion/Itemid,4/index.php?topic=86233.60

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that thread is like lustys sponsor me tape for SLAP

[dillanharp]

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/350823-people-accusing-jurassic-world-racism-using-abbreviation-one-dinosaurs/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Partners&utm_term=PRM17&ts_pid=2

[NickDagger]

[NickDagger]

How One Professor’s Tweets Got Her Fired — or So It Seemed at First

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[skateordie]

I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

kind of like jesse jackson's quote (paraphrase): "i'd rather meet a white man in a dark alley than a black man." 

[Lenny the Fatface]

Its true though, mental illness reform only gets brought up when white men trip the fuck out.

[QUIT SINNIN]

http://www.theonion.com/article/parents-dedicate-new-college-safe-space-honor-daug-50851

[NickDagger]

]Ruling in Twitter harassment trial could have enormous fallout for free speech

What’s believed to be the first case in Canada of alleged criminal harassment-via-Twitter is just a judge’s decision away from being over.

After hearing closing submissions Tuesday from Chris Murphy, who represents 54-year-old Greg Elliott, Ontario Court Judge Brent Knazan is expected to rule on Oct. 6.

In the balance rides enormous potential fallout for free speech online.

Elliott is charged with criminally harassing two Toronto female political activists, Steph Guthrie and Heather Reilly, in 2012.

Allegations involving a third woman were dropped.

The graphic artist and father of four lost his job shortly after his arrest, which was well-publicized online, and if convicted, could go to jail for six months.

These are astonishing repercussions given that it’s not alleged he ever threatened either woman (or any other, according to the testimony of the Toronto Police officer, Detective Jeff Bangild, who was in charge) or that he ever sexually harassed them.

Indeed, Elliott’s chief sin appears to have been that he dared to disagree with the two young feminists and political activists.

He and Guthrie, for instance, initially fell out over his refusal to endorse her plan to “sic the innernet” upon a young man in Northern Ontario who had invented a violent video game, where users could punch an image of a feminist video blogger named Anita Sarkeesian until the screen turned red.

Guthrie Tweeted at the time that she wanted the inventor’s “hatred on the innernet to impact his real-life experience” and Tweeted to prospective employers to warn them off the young man and even sent the local newspaper in his town a link to the story about the game.

Elliott disagreed with the tactic and Tweeted he thought the shaming “was every bit as vicious as the face-punch game”.

Until then, the two were collegial online, with Elliott offering to produce a free poster for Guthrie’s witopoli (Women in Toronto Politics) group.

As serious as the ramifications of a conviction could be for Elliott, so could they be dire for free speech online, Murphy suggested in his final arguments.

He said the idea that all it takes to end up charged with criminal harassment is vigorous participation in online debate with those who will not brook dissent “will have a chilling effect on people’s ability to communicate, and not just on Twitter”.

In fact, Murphy said that contrary to what Guthrie and Reilly testified to at trial, they weren’t afraid of his client — as suggested by both their spirited demeanour in the witness box and their deliberate online campaign to call Elliott out as a troll.

Rather, Murphy said, they hated Elliott and were determined to silence him — not just by “blocking” his Tweets to them, but by demanding he cease even referring to them even in making comment about heated political issues.

To all this, Guthrie pointed out once in cross-examination that feelings of fear, like all feelings, “develop over time”, and snapped that she was sorry she wasn’t “a perfect victim” who behaved like a conventional victim.

The criminal harassment charge is rooted in the alleged victim’s perception of the offending conduct.

The statute says if that conduct caused the alleged victims “reasonably, in all the circumstances, to fear for their safety”, that’s good enough.

Yet Guthrie and Reilly didn’t behave as though they were remotely frightened or intimidated: They convened a meeting of friends to discuss how Elliott should be publicly shamed; they bombarded their followers with furious tweets and retweets about him (including a grotesque suggestion from someone pretending she was a 13-year-old that he was a pedophile); they could and did dish it out.

“They were not vulnerable,” Murphy said once. “They are very accomplished, politically savvy women. If they can’t handle being mentioned in the tail end of a political discussion (on Twitter), then they’re in the wrong business.”

And, he said, of the meeting both women attended in August of 2012, to discuss how Elliott would be called out, “That was a conspiracy to commit a criminal offense … they were conspiring to go out and publicly shame Mr. Elliott.”

Murphy said the case was akin to “a high school spat, except it’s adults on the innernet”, and said it is astonishing that the court should be acting as referee in an online political debate.

“If anybody was being criminally harassed in this case,” Murphy told the judge, “it was my client, it was Mr. Elliott.”

That Reilly, who was anonymous on Twitter and who directed her own volley of hateful tweets at Elliott, should come “to this court and the police and say she’s being criminally harassed is an abuse of the system.”

Prosecutor Marnie Goldenberg made only the briefest remarks, and refused to provide Postmedia with a copy of her written arguments, saying it wasn’t her practice.

Student Expelled from University for Calling His Ex a "Psycho Bitch" on Twitter

A University of Kansas student was expelled for calling his ex-girlfriend a “psycho bitch” on Twitter. The tweet, which did not mention the woman by the name—and was not visible to her—is disallowed under Title IX, KU has argued.

The matter is now before the Kansas Court of Appeals. Both the American Civil Liberties Union and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education have filed briefs in support of the former student, Navid Yeasin. According to FIRE:

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The widespread abuse of harassment policies under the banner of Title IX enforcement signals to students and faculty that colleges and universities are no longer safe for free speech. The misapplication of Title IX and other anti-harassment statutes affects the speakers directly and also chills other would-be speakers by signaling that engaging in controversial, dissenting, unpopular, or merely inconvenient expression may lead to investigation and discipline. In an atmosphere where students and faculty do not feel free to express and debate different views, ideas, and opinions, the creation and development of knowledge will grind to a halt, to the detriment of not only the university community but also society as a whole.

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After a dispute between Yeasin and his ex-girlfriend—who was also a student—KU imposed a no-contact order on him. KU then accused him of violating that order by tweeting “psycho bitch” and “#psycho,” even though the tweets did not identify his ex-girlfriend as the target of these insults. He was eventually expelled. A county judge ruled in favor of Yeasin last November, but KU appealed the decision.

At the Court of Appeals hearing on Tuesday, KU attorney Sara Trower argued that Yeasin’s tweets were designed to alienate his ex-girlfriend and created a hostile environment for her in violation of Title IX. According to KCTV:

    Judge Stephen Hill's interrogation began Tuesday soon after KU's attorney, Sara Trower, began speaking.

    "Why isn't that prior restraint of speech?" he asked. "You can't talk about anybody, isn't that right? Isn't that what you're saying?"

    Trower responded that the school is saying "you can't persist by retaliating and harassing her, seeking to alienate her."

    The university also argued that Yeasin's action violated Title IX of federal law by creating a hostile educational environment for his ex-girlfriend. His off-campus actions created an on-campus hostile environment, Trower said.

Yeasin’s attorney countered that KU was assuming “world-wide jurisdiction” by policing speech outside the university campus.

It seems likely that Yeasin will win his case and be able to re-enroll at KU in the fall, and that’s a good thing. Still, this was quite an ordeal for the young man; his entire life was put on hold for more than year because he said something mean. That’s it. If the standard of offensive conduct is this low, any student who sends a similar tweet—perhaps complaining about a particularly difficult professor, or loud roommate, or unpleasant cafeteria worker—could find himself in a similar situation.

Time and time again, we see Title IX being used as a weapon to smash free expression at university campuses. Administrators cannot—and should not—interpret the law in such a manner. Perhaps Congress, or the courts, can remind the federal bureaucrats in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights that the First Amendment trumps overly-broad government anti-harassment dictates.

In related, more encouraging campus free speech news, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon recently signed a law prohibiting universities from restricting student activity to designated free speech zones.

[Hannity]

thanks for maintaining this thread Nick. it's definitely troubling to look out at the world nowadays and see all this hyper-vigilance and readiness to accuse each other. american society is in a huge state of limbo right now as obama finishes his term. we are growing more suspicious of each other, it feels like, yet there is definitely a growing sense of solidarity among many people that social issues, or at least the conversation around them, are moving in the right direction.

i didn't know where else to post this, or whether to start a new thread, but two things have been on my mind lately. one is the perception i have that there is a tangible and growing conservative backlash over the progressive supreme ct decisions. everything from bakeries and county clerks refusing to serve gay couples to killings of transgendered people. i would assume that in deep south/heartland/rural towns, the extent of this is far under-reported. i worry what the rest of the year will bring in terms of other tragic, cruel, sick attacks on people who are not perceived, for whatever reason, to be normal. the second thing is the way that religion functions in all of this, too often as a facade of virtue to hide behind.

i read way too much slate and salon. 2015 is quite the year for racial/sexual politics.

[JB]

it's definitely troubling to look out at the world nowadays and see all this hyper-vigilance and readiness to accuse each other.

always coming from people who preach tolerance and equality.

paging alanis morrisette.

[NickDagger]