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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUC Davis professor threatens Jewish journalists, families
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Good thing she's at a university. It's "the place for making mistakes"
Otherwise there could've been a problem. People who want her fired just have no sense of intellectual curiosity.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/uc-davis-professor-under-fire-over-posts-threatening-zionist-journalists-and-their-families/
Edit: Eesh, another one. What is going on in academia?
https://13wham.com/news/nation-world/chicago-art-professor-under-fire-for-calling-israelis-irredeemable-excrement-in-wake-of-hamas-invasion-school-institute-mika-tosca-israel-palestine-terrorism-terrorist-middle-east-conflict-chicago-illinois
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)Don't you hate it when people talk out of their asses when expressing their own opinions but readily assume they're speaking for everyone?
ripcord
(5,544 posts)getagrip_already
(14,864 posts)This is not free speach nor academic thought.
madaboutharry
(40,226 posts)One would think threats like those she posted would be where the line is drawn. What is wrong with U.C. Davis and why does this person still work there?
spooky3
(34,483 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)usonian
(9,908 posts)it's so easy to do. And nobody waits for confirmation of anything.
Seen any lately?
Hekate
(90,842 posts)AZSkiffyGeek
(11,084 posts)Usually Mediaite is used for reposting video clips - or at least that's what I remember it for.
The other places this is being reported look to be far-right, however.
That said, the professor has locked down her Twitter and her school page, so I can't look at posts to see how incriminating it is.
Sympthsical
(9,124 posts)And fairly reliable as these things go. I've pulled other stories from there in the past. Caught this story because it's on their front page next to a look back on "Sydney Powell's Nuttiest Election Claims" and Matt Gaetz getting lit up by Republicans, so pretty safe to say they're not wingers.
Hekate
(90,842 posts)spooky3
(34,483 posts)As if this is real and actions are already being taken.
Assistant professors dont have tenure so she has very limited employment protection.
But I agree we should wait for confirmation from a mainstream source.
Hekate
(90,842 posts)
there would be no hesitation to get rid of her. The words and the emojis were a direct threat of violence and even death.
What shit.
Marcus IM
(2,241 posts)Big Blue Marble
(5,151 posts)Words fail. Why hasn't she been fired.
usonian
(9,908 posts)Speculation would have had Israel thrown out of the U.N. overnight.
I post about once a day about AI, fakery and the falsehoods perpetrated on social media.
Ask me about the weak passwords that academics use. I ran a department network.
TheProle
(2,202 posts)Anti-Semitic thuggery on the streets is bad enough, but the form cloaked in "intellectualism" is the truly insidious version.
tritsofme
(17,404 posts)spooky3
(34,483 posts)Sympthsical
(9,124 posts)"Officials have launched an investigation into whether the educator violated the schools code of conduct."
Well one would hope it's against their code of conduct.
I know they have to do a formal investigation and all that, but it's always funny to read a line like that following what is obviously shitty behavior.
spooky3
(34,483 posts)why its better to have an investigation.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Im sure the FBI is probably going to pay a visit as well.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)if true she needs to be fired.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Im sure the university will make the right decision.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)AkFemDem
(1,836 posts)She needs to be fired and blacklisted so she never shows up on any other campus.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)Is up in arms about some school teacher in NYC that supposedly has tweets supporting Hamas. Havent had a chance to look and see if its true or not
LexVegas
(6,105 posts)Cha
(297,757 posts)paleotn
(17,989 posts)Sounds like a viable threat to me.
JohnSJ
(92,433 posts)sickle and a hammer
If she is unhappy here she might consider joining Tara Reade and Ed Snowden in the Russian Utopia
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)I hope someone called the FBI
AkFemDem
(1,836 posts)Here imo, is that my right wing in laws turn out to be correct about some of these pieces of excrement who are working on our university campuses and influencing our kids.