The professor of the #distractinglysexy fame loses his job

[Eddie Teach]

If you are a young girl with aspirations to become a scientist, then hear one of the scientist with the most prestigious awards saying that you should stay the fuck away because you can only do harm, what would you think?

No reason there can't be both boys and girls teams. Well, besides that it is juvenile.

[Tamas]

Cutting his allowance for a pretend job is exactly the way to do it.
"Haha, he is such a jerk, silly fellow" would not have been enough.

Crimethink must be punished.

You must be terrified of women. Every time there is a public reaction (overblown or not) against a guy who made an assholish remark on females, you appear to defend him.

The guy was the public face of the organisation. Turned out he has views the organisation didn't want to have as his public image. He was asked to step down. What is the story here?

[Legbiter]

Thank you for educating me on social justice Tamas. I see it now, I was just terrified of women all along.

[Tamas]

Thank you for educating me on social justice Tamas. I see it now, I was just terrified of women all along.

I hate even the term social justice. This has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with the PR face of an organisation making a major blunder and being forced to resign. Most natural thing ever.

[merithyn]

Thank you for educating me on social justice Tamas. I see it now, I was just terrified of women all along.

I hate even the term social justice. This has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with the PR face of an organisation making a major blunder and being forced to resign. Most natural thing ever.

[sbr]

Thank you for educating me on social justice Tamas. I see it now, I was just terrified of women all along.

I hate even the term social justice. This has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with the PR face of an organisation making a major blunder and being forced to resign. Most natural thing ever.

But you don't understand.  The "major blunder" was an insult to females and only femi-nazis and SJWs care about that.  If you were a real man you would understand how this undermines us.

[Legbiter]

The largest donor to British universities: Saudi Arabia.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b276dcc0-0893-11e2-b37e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3dPbAlOQb

LOL

[Caliga]

The largest donor to British universities: Saudi Arabia.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b276dcc0-0893-11e2-b37e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3dPbAlOQb

LOL

When I was at Harvard the Kennedy School of Government had a Bin Laden Fellowship.  That was kind of a problem when 9/11 happened.

[Gups]

The largest donor to British universities: Saudi Arabia.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b276dcc0-0893-11e2-b37e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3dPbAlOQb

LOL

That's a pretty serious comprehension fail

Over the past decade, Saudi Arabia has been the largest source of donations from Islamic states and royal families to British universities

[Valmy]

"Haha, he is such a jerk, silly fellow" would not have been enough.

Why not? Why is condemnation of wrong ideas as wrong not sufficient? Why must people be crushed as well and not just ideas? Must eggs be broken to make omelettes?

[Valmy]

Thank you for educating me on social justice Tamas. I see it now, I was just terrified of women all along.

I hate even the term social justice. This has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with the PR face of an organisation making a major blunder and being forced to resign. Most natural thing ever.

I do not even necessarily disagree that he should have lost his job under these circumstances. But the way these things go down is disproportionate to the crime. If this guy ever needed to get another job well a quick google of him during the hiring process would make him unemployable forever.

I think the problem is that the media have created this "holistic" approach where we are expecting people to be flawless (of course every group defines "flawless" in a different way) in each aspect of their life or personality no matter how relevant it is for their public or social function - and anyone who stumbles one way or another is immediately pilloried.

Yep.

[Eddie Teach]

If this guy ever needed to get another job well a quick google of him during the hiring process would make him unemployable forever.

Doesn't he have a Nobel Prize?

[LaCroix]

Yes perhaps modern technology is the end of privacy and beginning of a reign of terror, oppression, and paranoia. Are you ok with that?

i'm not ok with reigns of terror, oppression, and paranoia, no. i am, however, ok with something that's always happened continue to happen. technology has just made it easier for info to travel.

This is like the argument that modern surveillance system is nothing new, you could always go to a public library to look up public records.  Total bullshit, in other words.  The nature of technology changes some things to the point that they become something else entirely.  Internet makes it much easier to organize a viral lynch mob, and have it gather critical mass before something else catches the fancy of would-be mob members.  It's yet another example that sometimes total freedom results in oppression.

people shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions? that's the gist of the argument i'm seeing here. at least the "what he said wasn't bad!" makes sense assuming those people also agree that hitler jokes aren't bad.

[derspiess]

If you disagree with what I'm saying, then say so, and why.

I just think people are too sensitive about stuff like this.  Will what this guy said seriously deter any wimmenz from becoming scientists?  If anything it may strengthen their resolve, to prove the guy wrong and whatnot.  Unless I'm totally incorrect and all women are delicate flowers that must be coddled.

Try to pretend that I'm something more than a vagina. It would make a nice change.

Hey now.  I'm not the one who reduces women to their private parts.  That's Code Pink's shtick.

[DGuller]

people shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions? that's the gist of the argument i'm seeing here. at least the "what he said wasn't bad!" makes sense assuming those people also agree that hitler jokes aren't bad.

I'm saying that a punishment should fit the crime.  A concept that many lynch mobs have historically had problems with.  Permanent unemployability is not a just punishment for making one stupid comment that happened to go viral.