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Addendum: It appears the sole rationale of the arbitrator is not any dispute over the facts or actual due process, but that Negy wasn't warned more about his bad conduct so he could "change his behavior." Of course, if UCF had done that, he would have complained about censorship.

This is the guy who talked about black men's genitalia in class then high-fived a black student. And threatened retribution if students complained. Etc etc. If you can't recognize he's unfit to teach, you're too far gone to be reached. /end

Not a single response "defended authoritarian approaches on the left." Firing someone for covering up a sexual assault is not anything but common sense.

Just saw this. It's one person's fact-free opinion of how the case was handled and rather unfortunate it holds sway given the collective bargaining agreement. Negy was justly fired after covering up a sexual assault case & repeatedly acting inappropriately in the classroom. /1

Not sure I follow. If cavalier treatment of human bones is clearly ok for her, then why isn't it ok at a funeral? Are you trying to *silence* people who want to pose with human remains for social media?

Apparently, you're so desperate for examples of political "silencing" that this is what you grasp onto. An in the weeds sanction about the proper treatment of human remains with no particular political content. Says everything one needs to wrap this up.

Lol, are any of those of someone holding human remains? One is someone holding an austrolopithecine, one a prop (I think), one standing at a tourist spot? Did you just google "skull"?

Oh, you thought you could pick up a human skull (whose descendants are trying to repatriate) with your bare hands to pose with for fun? You should try that at a funeral and blame "silencing" if anyone doesn't invite you to lunch after.

Right, if you take every case of an ethical lapse and blame the reaction on nefarious "silencing," it's easy to gin up some examples. Moral panics need fuel! You should move on to tax fraud and parking tickets next.

Correct, glad we agree. Casually posing with human remains for your insta can get you a loss of access to more bones, while you remain a tenured professor. Tragic.

Read up on it & the bone case is nonsense. A prof is restricted from access to remains after taking an inappropriate photo posing with a skeleton. This gets branded "silencing" & you just buy it. Ironically, she insisted that her chair retract criticism of her. Silencing?

Read up on it & the bone case is nonsense. A prof is restricted from access to remains after taking an inappropriate photo posing with a skeleton. This gets branded "silencing" & you just buy it. Ironically, she insisted that her chair retract criticism of her. Silencing?

Lol, you still have 0 of 6. A lawsuit about access to skeletal remains! What? And another petition that did nothing. 0 examples of punishment by a university for political speech. On & on. Your refusal to see how hollow this all is as you recount it is remarkable.

Clarify: 0 of 4 are punishment from a university *for political speech*. Incredibly, you included Mehler in your 3 of 4 despite it having nothing to do with politics.

0 of 4 are examples of punishment by a university, which is what you were supposedly giving examples of. You keep moving the goalposts & pretending not to. If receiving any kind of threat is "silencing," then silencing from the right is probably more common than from the left.

Btw, the first is my favorite. A prof tells his students to F themselves, he doesn't care about them because he's retiring, & that he's going to randomly assign grades! When the uni decides maybe he shouldn't teach, the right swoops in & invents a "silencing" narrative. On & on.

Hey, thanks for proving my point! One person punished for swearing (not politics), a journal deciding not to publish an article (like all journals do), one case of being accused of something (ok?), & one petition that went nowhere. Moral panic.

If by "threat" you mean a random undergrad makes a formal complaint and the university clears them, then more than a handful now qualify. Even then, it's not "nearly all" and we're moving the goalposts quite dramatically.