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Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture"

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On 8/1/18 10:22 AM, SilverSlimer wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:04:22 -0700, Steve Carroll wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 9:40:35 AM UTC-6, SilverSlimer wrote:
>>> “How dare the left have pretensions of moral superiority. Leftists in
>>> power have mass-murdered and imprisoned more people than any other
>>> contingent in political history. Don’t come around here acting morally
>>> superior to me or anyone else, you monsters.”
>>>
>>> AMEN.
>>>
>>> <https://www.infowars.com/nyu-professor-were-on-the-verge-of-
> completely-
>>> losing-our-culture/>
>>
>> What's the deal with this guy? Seems many on the left believe he's a
>> wolf in sheep's clothing. Even his dean is publicly accusing him of
>> lying. In the only article specifically referenced by the Dean as shown
>> in the campus News Release, here:
>>
>> <https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-
> correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html>
>>
>> The prof's statement read:
>>
>> "Two days after the interview and the same day as the response, I was
>> summoned by my dean, via email, to meet that afternoon. I accepted, and
>> when we spoke in person, to my surprise, he stated (for my ears only)
>> that the meeting had nothing to do with the interview or the Twitter
>> account. Rather, he said (after a representative of NYU human resources
>> joined our conversation), certain unidentified members of the staff or
>> faculty had expressed concern for my well-being. Suffice it to say that
>> I was strongly encouraged to take a paid leave of absence and that,
>> according to the administration, it had nothing to do with my recent
>> media posture. That’s not exactly how I see it."
>>
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-
> culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?
> noredirect=on&utm_term=.a04e46574dc1>
>>
>>
>> If you've been called into a meeting with HR and you're asking for
>> leave, isn't there supposed to be some kind of written document of you
>> asking for leave if you're the one initiating that leave? Seems to me
>> the dean would've made sure such a document was included in the campus
>> News Release. The prof saying he "needs" the leave doesn't mean he
>> wasn't "strongly encouraged" to take it beforehand. Did the prof ask for
>> the meeting? According to him, he was summoned by my dean"
>> and that doesn't appear to be challenged in the News Release.
> 
> Speaking as a real educator (not whatever Snit does), I can confidently
> claim that exposing yourself as anything right of centre is suicide.
> Logic and reason are no longer a part of the education system and the mob
> dictates that every teacher must be as Communist as Lenin was. If you
> aren't, they _will_ get you fired or killed.
> 
> 
What name did you use when you were in my class?

-- 
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They 
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel 
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-08-01 15:40 +0000
  Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-01 10:04 -0700
    Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-08-01 17:22 +0000
      Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-01 11:21 -0700
      Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-01 11:23 -0700
        Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-01 11:28 -0700
          Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-01 11:29 -0700
            Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-01 11:31 -0700
        Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-08-01 22:03 +0000
          Re: NYU Professor: "We're on the verge of completely losing our culture" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-02 08:26 -0700

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