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Brickbats

Brickbat: A Zoom with a View

Charles Oliver | 8.18.2020 4:00 AM

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Stockton University, a public college in New Jersey, has charged doctoral student Robert Dailyda with disruption for a Facebook post that read: "We are a diverse, yet assimilated population from all backgrounds. I believe all must have the same opportunities and I commit to make that a priority. Beyond that, I am done with the leftist agenda of BLM and the white self haters. I have seen it in action in my doctoral classes at Stockton and the general media. I'm not backing down. If we can't get past this, OK, I'm ready to fight to the death for our country and against those that want to take it down." University officials say other students found the post to be "offensive, threatening and concerning." He faces a semester of probation, a $50 fine or community service. The university had also charged Dailyda with discrimination, harassment, hostile environment and harm after he used a photo of President Donald Trump as a Zoom background during a virtual class. The school dropped those charges after the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) protested but is pressing on with the disruption charge.

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  1. IceTrey   5 years ago

    Funny I find BLM offensive, threatening and concerning can I get it cancelled?

    1. Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf   5 years ago

      Marxian academics need canceling too. Anyone praising the philosophy which murdered 100 million people is offensive to the entire planet.

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    2. MoreFreedom   5 years ago

      Given cancel culture, you'd be cancelled for your post, which they'd erase.

      That's the good thing about Trader Joe's just not accepting the complaints of the cancel culture. They're like Joe McCarthy and his blacklisting of Communist sympathizers.

      The difference being McCarthy had government power, while organizations like BLM only have money. And in this case, it's a government subsidized university punishing someone for their political speech; thus, is government subsidized abuse of one's civil right to freedom of speech.

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  2. Adans smith   5 years ago

    The revolution can't be won till the Kulaks are eliminated .

  3. Jerryskids   5 years ago

    Good thing he didn't call the college officials over-sensitive leftists stifling free speech.

  4. Verbum Vincet   5 years ago

    Did anybody click on the link and see the number one trending story, entitled:

    'Affidavit: Pa. man grabbed 12-year-old girl's chest, buttocks in the ocean off Sea Isle City[...]Stephen Gallagher, 60, of Lafayette Hill, has been charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child in the July 12 incident.'

    There's an '(underwater) she-said, he-said' for you! Might make a good Brickbat to be filed under the heading of 'no good deed shall go unpunished.' I guess the next kid drowns...or maybe that's just the foul stench of eternal victimhood emanating from the 'University Commissars' story tainting my thoughts.

    1. Roberta   5 years ago

      Before I get to that, I'm reading the one about the Philadelphia lawyer (really) whose car got towed without notice by police, as is their custom for tree trimming, reported "stolen" (so as to find out where it was left, and avoid parking tickets), then reported and confirm "found", an then in New Jersey she and her passengers were ordered out at gunpoint by their police and...well, just read it.

      How much other stuff in these links is grist for Brickbats?

      1. perlchpr   5 years ago

        I think I see the problem here.

        “This was a complete failure — not on our end — as far as timely information entered and removed which led to the confusion,” he said. “My sergeant on the scene received information from Philly PD, who said, ‘Go ahead. Lock her up. It’s (a) good (arrest).’ My sergeant went the extra yard because she had documentation.”

        Apparently the "public servants" there think going an extra yard is actually a special effort, when the phrase is "going the extra mile"...

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        2. mad.casual   5 years ago

          when the phrase is “going the extra mile“…

          The phrase could be "went the whole nine yards" too but, even in that case it still leaves them 8 yards short of simply going the full distance.

  5. Commenter_XY   5 years ago

    The 'Wrong Think' mentality of Stockton State perfectly reflects the ideals of the People's Republic of NJ. Hell, we don't really have a 2-A right. Now authorities want to do away with 1-A rights as well, by chipping away at it constantly.

    I did not interpret the post as an articulated threat to any person.

    1. Unicorn Abattoir   5 years ago

      Is Stockton the one referred to as "TSC by the sea"? Looks like it's pretty close to Brigantine.

      1. Commenter_XY   5 years ago

        Right in downtown Atlantic City....sometimes referred to as 'Camden By The Sea'.

  6. Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland   5 years ago

    ... And they lost all federal and state funding... Hmmm that's no where in the article, but it should be

    1. Unicorn Abattoir   5 years ago

      Their actions line up well with the opinions of Goldman Sachs executive Phil Murphy. Their state funding probably skyrocketed from this.

  7. Fist of Etiquette   5 years ago

    Last I checked, the First Amendment still guarantees the right of religions to burn heretics.

    1. Rat on a train   5 years ago

      Only if you use carbon-capture technology.

  8. Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland   5 years ago

    "Deputy General Counsel Ellen Bailey, who said the sole basis for the remaining charge is Dailyda’s Facebook post and at least one other person’s comments on his pos"

    Yep he is responsible for other peoples comments on his post. That the equivalent of saying all of the people buttplug responds to are responsive for child porn

    1. mad.casual   5 years ago

      It would be interesting to know why he's any more responsible for their comment than Facebook. And by 'interesting' I mean predictably retarded, biased, and self-contradiction in defense of the status quo.

  9. Rich   5 years ago

    Stockton ... has charged doctoral student Robert Dailyda with disruption

    "Charged with *disruption*"? WTF? Is NJ the UK?

    University officials say other students found the post to be "offensive, threatening and concerning."

    And *other* students found the post to be "innocuous, enlightening, and entertaining."

    1. Unicorn Abattoir   5 years ago

      The UK gave us the Magna Carta. NJ gave us Bon Jovi.

    2. Formerly Cynical Asshole   5 years ago

      Is NJ the UK?

      I'm sure they see the UK as a role model at least.

    3. Dillinger   5 years ago

      Anarchy for the NJ is coming some time and maybe ...

    4. Quo Usque Tandem   5 years ago

      "For some, [hooliganism] was synonymous with crime itself, applicable to all illegal acts. For others, it connoted a particular attitude with which certain crimes were committed, such as extreme cruelty. And there were those for whom hooliganism represented a state of mind, a psychological condition of 'moral insanity' or 'moral nihilism.

      "Rural Crime in Tsarist Russia: The Question of Hooliganism, 1905-1914," author Neil B. Weissman

  10. perlchpr   5 years ago

    “As a public university, Stockton must tread carefully with metaphorical political rhetoric; we hope that this is not the hill Stockton wants to die on,” Greenberg wrote.

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