Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading ‘Mein Kampf’

Re:Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for readi... by Brybry on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:23PM (#34538223)

But isn't this about someone posting an image to Snapchat? Not about reading a book?

And without seeing the image in question, and the context of why it was shared, it's kind of hard to say what's going on.

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Re:Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for readi... by stronglikedan on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:30PM (#34538324)

It's easy to see what's going on. An image of a student reading a book should be a non-story, regardless of where it's posted. What's going on is pure buffoonery and shenanigans.

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Re:Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for readi... by kube-system on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:45PM (#34538559)

This is overly reductionist. There are trivially imaginable contexts in which "an image of a student reading a book" can be harassing. Forget the book at all, sending someone "an image of a student" can be harassing depending on the unspoken details.

Political activist groups love to use FERPA to their advantage, and I bet this is that.

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Re:Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for readi... by causi on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:31PM (#34538343)

But isn't this about someone posting an image to Snapchat?

What does that matter? Why is a university trying to police how crass somebody is on social media? They didn't threaten or harass someone; they didn't call for genocide. They dared to...publicly make light of a historical atrocity? This is trending dangerously into "insufficient piety".

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