Skidmore students want art proffesor fired for observing police rally

[Invisibleflash]

"Students Demand Skidmore College Fire an Art Professor for Observing a Pro-Cop Rally"

Robby Soave here at Reason has the details, based on a Times Union (Chris Churchill) story and this Skidmore News (Samantha Sasenarine) column: David

reason.com

Good thing I don't work there...I'd be fired in a New York minute...or less!

Sieg Heil!

 

[pknopp]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

 

[toobfreak]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

 

[pknopp]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

I'm asking so I will know. Do you have an answer?

 

[White 6]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

Especially mayors of cities.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

By "involved" do you mean watching a rally? It's a bad thing. A really bad thing.

 

[pknopp]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

By "involved" do you mean watching a rally? It's a bad thing. A really bad thing.

I don't think so, I'm simply trying to determine what the parameters of getting fired should consist of.

If they had participated should they get fired?

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

I don't think so, I'm simply trying to determine what the parameters of getting fired should consist of.

If they had participated should they get fired?

Non violent protest seems reasonable. However just by virtue of watching a rally supporting police
little budding fascist students seems to think otherwise.

 

[pknopp]

I don't think so, I'm simply trying to determine what the parameters of getting fired should consist of.

If they had participated should they get fired?

Non violent protest seems reasonable.

Fair enough.

 

[toobfreak]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

I'm asking so I will know. Do you have an answer?

No, I do not think it is proper for a school teacher or a mayor to be promoting or participating in any highly polarizing social event that both may offend as well as call into question their ability to represent fairly and evenly ALL of the people they are charged to serve.

Most employers demand no less, that as a representative of the company, that the people on their payroll not actively and openly act contrary to the interests and benefit of the company who pays them!

 

[pknopp]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

I'm asking so I will know. Do you have an answer?

No, I do not think it is proper for a school teacher or a mayor to be promoting or participating in any highly polarizing social event that both may offend as well as call into question their ability to represent fairly and evenly ALL of the people they are charged to serve.

Most employers demand no less, that as a representative of the company, that the people on their payroll not actively and openly act contrary to the interests and benefit of the company who pays them!

I go to watch things I do not support. There is no way I support Trump but if he came to town I would likely go and take pics.

 

[toobfreak]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

Especially mayors of cities.

To me, it's a little dicey to be a mayor of a city representing ALL of the people of that city charged with protecting ALL their interests out protesting and supporting a group of people committing crimes, attacking LEO, and calling for special treatment JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR over that of other races.

 

[pknopp]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

Especially mayors of cities.

To me, it's a little dicey to be a mayor of a city representing ALL of the people of that city charged with protecting ALL their interests out protesting and supporting a group of people committing crimes, attacking LEO, and calling for special treatment JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR over that of other races.

That's what elections are for.

 

[toobfreak]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

I'm asking so I will know. Do you have an answer?

No, I do not think it is proper for a school teacher or a mayor to be promoting or participating in any highly polarizing social event that both may offend as well as call into question their ability to represent fairly and evenly ALL of the people they are charged to serve.

Most employers demand no less, that as a representative of the company, that the people on their payroll not actively and openly act contrary to the interests and benefit of the company who pays them!

I go to watch things I do not support. There is no way I support Trump but if he came to town I would likely go and take pics.

Well, I understand Trump through his handwriting, and my uncle had business dealings with him in the late '70s/early 80s, plus I saw Trump in person twice in 2016 at rallies, and what you READ on the internet and what the media shares with you in video and on TV DOES NOT accurately reflect the guy as he actually is in person in real life.

Put another way, Russia alone does not have a monopoly on propaganda and society/mind control.

 

[pknopp]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

I'm asking so I will know. Do you have an answer?

No, I do not think it is proper for a school teacher or a mayor to be promoting or participating in any highly polarizing social event that both may offend as well as call into question their ability to represent fairly and evenly ALL of the people they are charged to serve.

Most employers demand no less, that as a representative of the company, that the people on their payroll not actively and openly act contrary to the interests and benefit of the company who pays them!

I go to watch things I do not support. There is no way I support Trump but if he came to town I would likely go and take pics.

Well, I understand Trump through his handwriting, and my uncle had business dealings with him in the late '70s/early 80s, plus I saw Trump in person twice in 2016 at rallies, and what you READ on the internet and what the media shares with you in video and on TV DOES NOT accurately reflect the guy as he actually is in person in real life.

Put another way, Russia alone does not have a monopoly on propaganda and society/mind control.

My judgement of Trump has nothing to do with the media.

 

[toobfreak]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

Especially mayors of cities.

To me, it's a little dicey to be a mayor of a city representing ALL of the people of that city charged with protecting ALL their interests out protesting and supporting a group of people committing crimes, attacking LEO, and calling for special treatment JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR over that of other races.

That's what elections are for.

If so, then taking your argument to its logical conclusion, rather than going to war with Adolf Hilter and WWII, we should have just waited to see if he'd be removed from power first, come Germany's next election?



The failing of elections is that far from their ideal, elections also depend on the electorate being intelligent and well informed making good decisions. Those days seem past us in the USA today, with more and more voting based on half-truths and feelings / emotions driven largely by media-paid, special-interest driven propaganda.

 

[White 6]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

Especially mayors of cities.

To me, it's a little dicey to be a mayor of a city representing ALL of the people of that city charged with protecting ALL their interests out protesting and supporting a group of people committing crimes, attacking LEO, and calling for special treatment JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR over that of other races.

Leadership, without core convictions, a moral outlook and courage to stand behind values has always dicey. No history of it working out positively, that I am aware of.

 

[pknopp]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

Especially mayors of cities.

To me, it's a little dicey to be a mayor of a city representing ALL of the people of that city charged with protecting ALL their interests out protesting and supporting a group of people committing crimes, attacking LEO, and calling for special treatment JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR over that of other races.

That's what elections are for.

If so, then taking your argument to its logical conclusion, rather than going to war with Adolf Hilter and WWII, we should have just waited to see if he'd be removed from power first, come Germany's next election?



The failing of elections is that far from their ideal, elections also depend on the electorate being intelligent and well informed making good decisions. Those days seem past us in the USA today, with more and more voting based on half-truths and feelings / emotions driven largely by media-paid, special-interest driven propaganda.

Godwin.

 

[toobfreak]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

I'm asking so I will know. Do you have an answer?

No, I do not think it is proper for a school teacher or a mayor to be promoting or participating in any highly polarizing social event that both may offend as well as call into question their ability to represent fairly and evenly ALL of the people they are charged to serve.

Most employers demand no less, that as a representative of the company, that the people on their payroll not actively and openly act contrary to the interests and benefit of the company who pays them!

I go to watch things I do not support. There is no way I support Trump but if he came to town I would likely go and take pics.

Well, I understand Trump through his handwriting, and my uncle had business dealings with him in the late '70s/early 80s, plus I saw Trump in person twice in 2016 at rallies, and what you READ on the internet and what the media shares with you in video and on TV DOES NOT accurately reflect the guy as he actually is in person in real life.

Put another way, Russia alone does not have a monopoly on propaganda and society/mind control.

My judgement of Trump has nothing to do with the media.

Unless you can tell me that know him personally and deal with him regularly face to face, I have to take that as a rather foolish claim.

 

[toobfreak]

Well shoot. Is it a good thing or bad thing for someone to demand that someone get fired over being involved in a protest?

Then that would include school teachers and mayors of cities, right?

Especially mayors of cities.

To me, it's a little dicey to be a mayor of a city representing ALL of the people of that city charged with protecting ALL their interests out protesting and supporting a group of people committing crimes, attacking LEO, and calling for special treatment JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR over that of other races.

That's what elections are for.

If so, then taking your argument to its logical conclusion, rather than going to war with Adolf Hilter and WWII, we should have just waited to see if he'd be removed from power first, come Germany's next election?



The failing of elections is that far from their ideal, elections also depend on the electorate being intelligent and well informed making good decisions. Those days seem past us in the USA today, with more and more voting based on half-truths and feelings / emotions driven largely by media-paid, special-interest driven propaganda.

Godwin.

Not at all. Hitler was an easy and obvious example of comparison. I could use many others. Just because he is used or mentioned does not always invalidate or reduce the statement to godwin's law.