Much as I want Big Brother to go back where he came from, someone should have called the police on this woman. Filling up your trunk with plastic bags full of gasoline? That's just dangerous.

 

Who knew that allowing the mentally ill to make fires wherever they wanted would be dangerous?

"
As the homeless crisis in Los Angeles continues to surge, the city is facing a growing number of fires at encampments, according to reports Wednesday.

Fires related to homelessness have nearly tripled in the three years since the Los Angeles Fire Department started classifying them, LAFD officials said.

In the first quarter of 2021, they occurred at a rate of 24 a day, and made up 54% of all blazes the department responded to, the Los Angeles Times reported. "

https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-ange...mber-of-fires-at-homeless-encampments-reports

 

As a law school we *strongly encourage* you to express your honest opinions and beliefs. ...of course if those beliefs happen to differ from the mobs, count on being expelled for having the temerity to express them.

This woman's offense? During a debate on the subject said that Trans-women athletes were stronger than cis women athletes. LOL, must be some "debate" when only one POV is acceptable to utter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/l...ring-gender-discussion/ar-BB1gPBYr?li=BBnbfcL

 

I haven't heard that the people that insulted her are being investigated at all. Also, debates are there to express and evaluate different POVs. I don't think it's reasonable to have a formal complaint against a student for the position they took in a debate! That sends a chilling message out and serves no legitimate purpose.

 

I think the college administration should have said, "look, this was a debate. Unless the conduct of the speaker was so out of the character of a debate it shocked the conscience of the moderators then the complaint isn't justified on its face. The purpose of a debate is NOT to make the most sensitive among us feel at ease."

The college and free speech LOST in this situation by giving credence to the complaint in the first place.

 

Why not just make a public statement, like: " yes, we received a complaint from a student, and we are endeavoring to work with our students to learn through debate rather than attack people with opposing POVs.

You know my solution to this situation? Take the people on each side and force them to have a second debate with each of them taking the other position, with a grade to be assigned based on how well they did the second time (when they were arguing what they *don't* believe in). That would be an actual college experience.

 

LOL, what do you mean the "perceived intolerance of the position" as opposed to the position itself? C'mon, man, if she agreed with the complainer the complainer wouldn't have cared HOW intolerant the "typical white cis-girl" was.

She went off because someone disagreed with her beliefs, no more, no less.

 

On the first part, I think things devolved because people were true believers in the positions they were taking and took it personally when others couldn't see the "rightness" of their position. This wouldn't be the case if they were arguing something they believed to be false.

On the second bit, I see your point, but you missed the mark if you wanted to tie the situation to my personal beliefs. See, I'm not vested in the belief that Hillary is a reptilian who must drink baby's blood to maintain her immortality. For all I know she just kills babies and drinks their blood as part of a tribute to her demonic master, or because she likes the taste, or (and this is the most probable) she just likes killing the innocent. Who knows what the "real" reason is? In any event I'm not tied to any of them in particular, so if you wanted to argue a different reason for her behavior I'd be fine with it as a hypothesis so long as it correctly explained her behavior.

 

I don't think they'd necessarily change their position if they were forced to debate the other side of the issue - but it would probably be a more civilized debate. I agree completely there's no excuse for their behavior.

On Hillary, yeah, not much to become uncivil about. As long as we can both agree she's an evil witch why sweat the small stuff?


Sry the emoji's the size of a house, LOL!