DD’s Professor called people who like Elon Musk Douches

[Anonymous]

Love how the "free speech absolutist" crowd can tolerate all opinions except people who disagree with them.

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Anonymous wrote:DD who is a first year in college told me her math professor recommended a book to the class, but cautioned that it had also been recommended by Elon Musk. She then half heartedly said that for some people who are fans of Elon, that would be a plus, and then said “If you’re a douche.”

Am I wrong for thinking this is completely off base, especially for a public college?

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.

[Anonymous]

For people who call other people snowflakes, right wing peeps sure do get offended easily.

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Anonymous wrote:DD who is a first year in college told me her math professor recommended a book to the class, but cautioned that it had also been recommended by Elon Musk. She then half heartedly said that for some people who are fans of Elon, that would be a plus, and then said “If you’re a douche.”

Am I wrong for thinking this is completely off base, especially for a public college?

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.

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Anonymous wrote:For people who call other people snowflakes, right wing peeps sure do get offended easily.

“F—k your feelings”….”Ow, my feelings!”

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, professors say their opinions all the time. Students do not have to agree or they can. It was not part of the syllabus.

Toughen up.

Oh after years of feelings, respect my feelings, now when it's something we don't agree with but you do, we should toughen up. Lol. So typical.

Whatever are you prattling on about. You sound like a douche.

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Love how the "free speech absolutist" crowd can tolerate all opinions except people who disagree with them.

Because this is about professionalism, not free speech.

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Anonymous wrote:Love how the "free speech absolutist" crowd can tolerate all opinions except people who disagree with them.

Professor seems the opposite of tolerant of others’ opinions. It’s not tolerant to call people who disagree with you names.

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Anonymous wrote:I am professor. Would never say things like that personally for the very reason that it might trigger a dcum thread but... it was a joke. Come on.

Really? God, i am sorry.
I am not a person who thinks we are too "woke," but I really worry about how kds are being education if parents get worked up abut this sort of thing. Professors are SUPPOSED to be provocative and this I would imagine is just the tip of the ice burg. Please, please don't complain and trust your kid

What productive discussion would this comment provoke?

Well, it would force students to think. Do I agree? Do I disagree? Why? What is Musk’s role in society today? Is he good or evil? Why do some people react to him that way? Why is he so divisive? Why should we care that he suggested a book?


I don’t know. Just the thinking you need to think for yourself in today’s world.

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?

[Anonymous]

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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Anonymous wrote:Love how the "free speech absolutist" crowd can tolerate all opinions except people who disagree with them.

Professor seems the opposite of tolerant of others’ opinions. It’s not tolerant to call people who disagree with you names.

Who did you vote for in the last presidential election?

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Anonymous wrote:Love how the "free speech absolutist" crowd can tolerate all opinions except people who disagree with them.

Professor seems the opposite of tolerant of others’ opinions. It’s not tolerant to call people who disagree with you names.

You mean like calling them vermin and saying that they should be eradicated?

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Anonymous wrote:What's unacceptable is charging tuition money for the sort of garbage behavior a student could get at DCUM for free.

Then don’t send your kids to a college that does it. Capitalism and market forces are the MAGA way, right?

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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.