https://twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1361916778318815234?s=19

  • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Some people in one of my property law classes did the whole "just playing devil's advocate, it's good to padlock dumpsters full of edible food so that they spoil, rather than let people eat them for free", and I called them disgusting for thinking that.

    'think of the liability issues!' they cry, while ignoring the people dying for food on the streets they use to get to the faculty. Where's the fucking consideration of 'liability' in that situation?

    My prof eventually sent out a classwide email subbing me and saying to be academically respectful of all views, after some people complained about me pointing out how certain attitudes in the class led to the genocide and forced relocation of my people. I told him he would likely have been in favour of those policies at the time.

    Last I heard he failed upwards and teaches at Harvard, lol.

    :kanada: :amerikkka: :kanada:

      • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There was an indigenous student protest where some of the Black Student Association reps spoke(one quarterback people were swooning over, one skinny turtleneck guy trying to rile up the crowd), and after it all died down I went up to the turtleneck guy and asked if he was the one putting up all the Sankara fliers across town.

        Unsurprisingly he was, and we got along great. Apparently, he was a Maoist immigrant and was radicalizing the BSA.

        Once I also saw a collection of people in suits waiting for a train and they had burkina faso pins etc. I asked if they were from there, they said they were a diplomatic envoy coming from a meeting, and I told them how Sankara was a hero to the entire world, and that we needed another as soon as possible. They were overjoyed to find someone in the west talking of Sankara that way.

        :sankara-salute:

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      ‘think of the liability issues

      It's funny that they retreat to this one so often, because last I checked there were literally zero cases in the entire history of the United States where someone who was donated food sued because it was bad. There are a ton of cases against people who give out food brought by the state to prevent them from doing it, though.

      • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, even when that gets pointed out using all the language of the confined system they profess to believe in, suddenly the issue is something else.

        The legal profession and its teaching is such a fucking brainwashing machine that churns out very smooth brains ready to be the privileged pawns of the status quo