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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.
That is rediculous. In a land of free speech... How many times have people said in a state of rage, "I want to kill him"... they don't actually mean it, they just say it. That is fucking pathetic, and I hope she can find some good legal representation and sue the University because that is an absolute joke, everyone has emotions and sometimes they get the better of you, to deny that is denying your own humanity. Absolute joke.
Yes, I understand that you guys have had some gruesome stuff happen at schools and all, but some dark and frustrated writing on a wall is no threat at all.
So you acknowledge this bad stuff happens.
Can you acknowledge that it can be prevented?
I would much rather a student be banned from 1 school for Emo behavior then having them run amock and killing several students.
Seriously, get you're head out of where its stuck. People could have been killed. 1 Person is inconvenienced.
So, thinking about committing a crime is now the same as actually committing a crime?
I'm NOT posting anonymously because I live in Minnesota, and I'm going to say "I am thinking about stabbing the U of M Campus Police, as well as the Professor Dipshit that called them about this."
I fucking DARE you to come harass me over this post. I FUCKING DARE YOU.
"Be prepared, son. That's my motto. Be prepared." --Joe Hallenbeck
If there dosen't have to be any merit to my feelings of "threat", will the school ban him without thinking about it?
Then I grew older. I realized no country is inherently cool, when you look at the society and politics and not just action movies. USA seemed reasonable though, I remember a history (or geography) lesson in elementary school when a teacher described the basic ideas of the constitution, and the emigration from Sweden->America in the previous centuries. Inspiring.
Fast forward til now. Do I awe you? No, because in my opinion (which will be modded down really freaking fast), your country is going downhill. You are teaching religion as science, I don't even think fundamentalist muslims do that. Then you sort-of ban freedom of speech by forbidding blogging, of all stupid things to ban (whatever happened to land of the free?), introduce laws like DMCA, and are actively trying to destroy the whole worlds intellectual property laws.
Think about it.
Regards, Swedish citizen.
It's all part of the Political Correctness movement. It started by convincing people certain words (gay, fagot, indian, handicapped, etc.) were at their very core evil (they use the word hateful because the word evil is also evil). It so happens I read the best definition of PC I have ever heard today. It was the winning submission to an annual contest (2007 if sources are accurate) Texas A&M holds to define popular terminology. It defines Political Correctness as:
"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional,
illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream
media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible
to pick up a turd by the clean end."
This story is kinda like getting arrested for yelling FIRE in a crowded parking lot full of empty cars next to a movie theater full of people.
1) unsubstantiated abstract factoid - check /. anti-establishmentarianism - check
2) pander to
3) car analogy - check
Profit!
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Nothing threatening? Other than "Hmmm, who is most likely to attempt to cornhole me when I'm not paying attention?", there's not all that much of a threat. But still a threat.
Since when do you need a supporting argument to back up that Americans are generally pretty braindead? Hell, just watch our nightly news and that's all the support you need. Most yanks live in a little bubble of society enforced self-delusion. That doesn't need an essay because that's just common knowledge.
I do have to admit I lol'd at excessive cursing. I haven't said a single thing that's "cursing." Sounds more like you're just a self-important twit who just happened to get some mod points for the month.
You're a pussy. Plain and simple. I sincerely hope that not only do you not procreate, but that you go ahead and remove yourself from the gene pool as well. Your assessment of what is clearly not a threat, and one in which 99.99% of humanity has expressed, shows that you have no business breathing. Thanks for fucking things up for the rest of us.
How is Universal health care not socialist? By pure definition it is. - That doesn't mean its a bad thing by the way.
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