Love how the "free speech absolutist" crowd can tolerate all opinions except people who disagree with them.
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I wouldn't even think twice about it. My ds tells me some of his prof's opinions that are much stronger than this, which they regularly talk about. |
For people who call other people snowflakes, right wing peeps sure do get offended easily. |
My 20yo ds is a fan of Musk (aka a douche in the eyes of this professor) and if he had told me a professor said that in his class I would have laughed and laughed and said free speech is absolute, brother. |
“F—k your feelings”….”Ow, my feelings!” |
What PP was saying was you Lefties INVENTED concepts like safe zones, hate speech, trigger warnings, comfort animals, and respect my feelings; but then you call people hypersensitive for daring to even ask if anybody else thinks it’s a tad unwarranted for a MATH prof to disparage not Musk, but people who like Musk. |
Musk may be a douche but so is the professor.
Who even uses that term anymore? At a university, the professor has freedom to call someone a douche while also being one. Good lesson for OP’s DD on how not to act in an academic or professional setting. |
Because this is about professionalism, not free speech. |
Professor seems the opposite of tolerant of others’ opinions. It’s not tolerant to call people who disagree with you names. |
No one would be second guessing the professor if he had led a discussion like this. It would have been a fantastic debate instead of just the demonstrated condescension towards other people. Why didn’t this professor do it? |
Well Elon Musk is a douche, or arguably worse. Just ask his first wife, Justine (mother to his first 4-5 kids) who spoke about emotional abuse and the extreme power imbalance in their marriage.
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Who did you vote for in the last presidential election? |
You mean like calling them vermin and saying that they should be eradicated? |
Then don’t send your kids to a college that does it. Capitalism and market forces are the MAGA way, right? |
It's a useful comment, no matter which side you fall on. I know the book, it's essential for anyone in the field. It's also the thing to casually put on a shelf or namedrop for anyone who prefers that route. With one comment the professor clued people in to both realities. This is what a professor can offer that an Amazon review can't. |