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College student suspended for calling blacks ugly....

I figured you were not making up the article referenced, but you most assuredly are making up the title of this thread.

Now that you've found the article, what do you want to say about it? Should he have been suspended for longer?
 
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It doesn't say that he called them "ugly". He said: "They matter, they’re just not hot."

This is a very different thing. People and objects can be aesthetically pleasing without being sexually attractive.

I wonder if he'd still have gotten suspended if he'd qualified his response by saying that he didn't personally find them hot, instead of simply saying that they're not hot?
 
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On the social media app Yik Yak, a post read "#blackwomenmatter." Pryor responded with, "They matter, they're just not hot."

Did mouse thread indeed.

On the other hand I am failing to see why this should get 6 month suspension. Or even 21.
 
College student suspended for calling blacks ugly.... let me guess, microagression? or do I need to read the article?
 
"I have considered your request carefully, and I see no grounds for appeal. In your own words, you accepted responsibility for your comment, which you deemed hurtful and distasteful, and stated you deserve to be held accountable for your actions," a Colorado College official wrote Pryor in a letter posted by the College Fix.
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Young young man.

I wonder what kind of standards this college uses to judge such hmm actions. Like bunch of people get together and go like .. So, what do you think Frank?
 
Pryor says he immediately regretted his remark. “I was ashamed, because some people were clearly upset,” Pryor told The College Fix. “So I deleted it.”

Sounds like he agrees with the assessment. Except for the consequences part.
 
marplots said:
Pryor says he immediately regretted his remark. “I was ashamed, because some people were clearly upset,” Pryor told The College Fix. “So I deleted it.”

Sounds like he agrees with the assessment. Except for the consequences part.
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What assessment? That it was "hurtful" and "distasteful"? I tell you something. When I fart on crowded bus I also feel ashamed, and will try to hold next one, but I do not think its hurtful nor distasteful. Hurtful ok, we can get some data on this, but distasteful? wtf is that?

I suspect he "agreed" because he was either told to (apologize its the right thing to do) or he was simply pressured by peers. When he was posting it he probably did not think it was hurtful and distasteful. I do not think it is. That hatters gonna hate and carebears gonna cry, well, as I said .. young young man.
 
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What assessment? That it was "hurtful" and "distasteful"? I tell you something. When I fart on crowded bus I also feel ashamed, and will try to hold next one, but I do not think its hurtful nor distasteful. Hurtful ok, we can get some data on this, but distasteful? wtf is that?
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I'm not quite certain the analogy works, but if you have willful control over fart production, and releasing the foul stench on the bus reveals something about your character and motivations, then I suppose we can run with it.

So, you fart on the bus. We (the other people on the bus and the driver) worry that you might not be the sort of person we want to ride the bus with. It seems natural to ask you to get off the bus as punishment.
 
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I'm not quite certain the analogy works, but if you have willful control over fart production, and releasing the foul stench on the bus reveals something about your character and motivations, then I suppose we can run with it.

So, you fart on the bus. We (the other people on the bus and the driver) worry that you might not be the sort of person we want to ride the bus with. It seems natural to ask you to get off the bus as punishment.
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Well, yes that is their right. But there is a teacher on the bus. Its a school trip. This teacher is in charge and, among other things, will prevent said lynching. I mean, unless there is rule I cant fart on the bus how will you get me off without resorting to power or authority? So now we have this teacher who is authority. On what standards he operates? We know the standards of the crowd .. there are none, written and/or agreed upon. They do not like something and that is enough.

That was my question. Standards upon which the said college operates. I hope its not lynch mob and I also hope its written.
 
marplots said:
I'm not quite certain the analogy works, but if you have willful control over fart production, and releasing the foul stench on the bus reveals something about your character and motivations, then I suppose we can run with it.

So, you fart on the bus. We (the other people on the bus and the driver) worry that you might not be the sort of person we want to ride the bus with. It seems natural to ask you to get off the bus as punishment.
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You've NEVER had a fart slip the gate without intent?
 
Especially when trying to go for silent one but something goes wrong ..

It was argued that Thaddeus Pryor agreed with the assessment of Colorado College official in reply to Pryor's appeal:

In your own words, you accepted responsibility for your comment, which you deemed hurtful and distasteful ...
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Responsibility for action is given so we are left with deemed hurtful and distasteful. I have already pointed out how problematic this is, especially without knowing code of conduct at the College Thaddeus Pryor certainly, not seemingly, agreed to follow when he signed up.

Lets look at this in different way. The college official? lol Like 11 year old .. Your appeal is refused because you "called it" already. First who calls it gets it and there is no taking back.
 
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You've NEVER had a fart slip the gate without intent?
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That's where the analogy breaks. I've never sent a tweet without intent. I might change my mind and regret it later, but typing a message and sending it hardly counts as an uncontrolled biological process.
 
The punishment seems quite a bit excessive, but it's all too typical of today's "can't offend anyone" college campuses.
 
marplots said:
That's where the analogy breaks. I've never sent a tweet without intent. I might change my mind and regret it later, but typing a message and sending it hardly counts as an uncontrolled biological process.
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A cursory examination of the Twitterverse proves you wrong. :p
 
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