German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to Indian Student

Re:German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to I... by _jgdh on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:09AM (#9171295)

What I find unusual is that the professor told the student the exact reason she was rejecting him. I would have imagined that many people hold such biases in their minds but generally brush applicants off with "you don't meet our needs" or "we're currently full now". After her apology, she did change her statement to "currently full", but I'm surprised she didn't use that in the first place.

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Re:German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to I... by czardoz on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:22AM (#9171361)

I guess the email was supposed to be a way of "raising awareness" about the issue.

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Re:German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to I... by stefantalpalaru on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:41AM (#9171499)

Denying access to education to Indian males because they are rapists is a way to "raise awareness"? Maybe in the same sense that requiring jews to wear yellow stars in 1939 Germany because they were a dangerous subhuman race was a way to raise awareness?

I never really understood the banality of evil, but listening to people coming up with benign excuses for what I perceive as blatant abuse I'm beginning to get it.

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Re:German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to I... by pekk on Monday March 09, 2015 @06:01PM (#9174507)

Indian males aren't a dangerous subhuman race and everyone knows that.

It isn't abuse if he didn't make the cut.

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Re:German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to I... by stefantalpalaru on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:09PM (#9174734)

Read the professor's emails in the article.

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Re:German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to I... by pekk on Monday March 09, 2015 @05:59PM (#9174490)

The reason he was rejected was that they had limited room and he didn't make the cut. I'm sorry, but being of a certain race does not ENTITLE you to declare you made the cut even if you didn't make the cut.

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Re:German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to I... by _jgdh on Monday March 09, 2015 @10:20PM (#9175613)

You've made 3 comments in the thread saying "he didn't make the cut". Read the article please. He didn't make the cut because he was an Indian male. The professor didn't even discuss anything else - his grades, or his previous internships or his research interests.

Even the excuse she gave afterwards didn't say he lacked anything, just that she didn't have space in her lab.

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Re:German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to I... by pekk on Monday March 09, 2015 @10:22PM (#9175623)

Research labs have limited space, therefore they select candidates similarly to any job.

I can't imagine anyone here would have the same response if a startup were hiring two Senior Developers, considered many candidates and then got hate mail from some guy claiming that the ONLY reason he wasn't selected was because of his race.

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Re:German Professor Apologises for 'Rape Problem' Email to I... by stefantalpalaru on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @07:26AM (#9177122)

You missed the fact that those emails are from the actual professor who rejected him? This must be the forth time I tell you to read the article. Don't do any speed-reading bullshit, take your time and read every word and screenshot. Slowly.

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