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Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments
Be careful just how you vent online is the lesson from this story pointed out by reader kungfugleek, from which he excerpts: "A University of Minnesota student has been banned from the Twin Cities campus after three of her instructors felt threatened by some of her Facebook postings. Amanda Tatro was patted down and questioned by campus police when she got to class Monday. The 29-year-old mortuary science student had posted comments on her Facebook page after breaking up with her boyfriend. She told her Facebook friends she wanted to stab a 'certain someone in the throat' with an embalming instrument. Tatro said she was 'looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy.' When the instructors learned of the postings, they contacted police." The Star-Tribune's account offers more detail.
Who the fuck are you to determine the intention of the writer on their OWN facebook portal?
You see, "prevention", when understood in the way you approach it, turns out to be nothing more than a way to make people who dare to think and say and write different, shut up.
Careful. There is a thin line between being "thoughtful" and preventive and just being a nutcase for the status quo.
NO SIG
Lol, why the heck was I modded down troll? It's almost kind of ironic.
'Self & group deprecation won't win you friends across the pond.'
Whoever said I wanted to be friends with you? I live on a small island in Alaska for a reason.
I'm sure my opening line may have made some yanks butthurt, but that doesn't keep it from being any less true, not to mention that the rest of my post was completely on topic.