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Re:A personal account of how call out culture has harmed tea... by esrauch on Monday March 23, 2015 @11:54AM (#9251530)
As absurd as all of those generally are, I don't think any of those are remotely as absurd as retaliation against a teacher for teaching from a book that calls historical colonial slaughter "genocide".
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Re:A personal account of how call out culture has harmed tea... by falcolas on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @12:30AM (#9254905)
I agree. Sadly, we as a society don't judge on absurdity, we judge on the loudest, most offended voice.

We've seen this occur prominently within the tech industry - offended folks getting their offenders fired through "triggered" public outrage which ended in an indiscriminate swatting of both parties - so I see no reason why universities would be exempt from this absurdity.

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