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Re:What happened when I challenged the PC campus culture at NYU by riverside on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:20PM (#12868997)
My critique of his actions starts and ends with this: If you're posting a bunch of trollbait just to see if your peers and students will react poorly, and then they do, and you get in trouble for it, good.
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Re:What happened when I challenged the PC campus culture at NYU by LyndsySimon on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:34PM (#12869087)
How is this any different than saying "If you're a black man and you appear in public with a white woman just to see if people will react poorly, and you get in trouble for it, good"?

Before someone suggests that I'm equating the two actions, I am not. My point is that this line of thought absolves others of responsibility for their actions. Whether or not the professor anticipated the response is irrelevant to the question "Is this sort of response wholly inappropriate?"

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Re:What happened when I challenged the PC campus culture at NYU by riverside on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:45PM (#12869167)
>How is this any different

>Before someone suggests that I'm equating the two actions, I am not.

Sounds like you know the answer!

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Re:What happened when I challenged the PC campus culture at NYU by LyndsySimon on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:54PM (#12869231)
> My point is that this line of thought absolves others of responsibility for their actions.
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