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posted by martyb on Friday July 28 2017, @02:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the karma-gonna-get-ya dept.

The University of Delaware is cutting ties with a part-time professor who provoked a controversial firestorm for saying North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier "deserved" to die.

The Newark school said it will not re-hire Katherine Dettwyler, the adjunct faculty member who blasted the 22-year-old student as "young, white, rich, clueless" in a since-deleted Facebook post Tuesday.

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The school's statement (pdf):

The comments of Katherine Dettwyler do not reflect the values or position of the University of Delaware. We condemn any and all messages that endorse hatred and convey insensitivity toward a tragic event such as the one that Otto Warmbier and his family suffered.

The University of Delaware values respect and civility and we are committed to global education and study abroad; therefore, we find these comments particularly distressing and inconsistent with our values. Our sympathies are with the Warmbier family.

Also at; CBS News.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 28 2017, @03:30PM (6 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday July 28 2017, @03:30PM (#545804) Journal

    This is no different than a trip to Mexico or Columbia, or America while Brown. You stir up shit and there is a high chance you'll return home in a bodybag.

    I would say 'America while anything' in the wake of that Australian woman getting murdered by police when she called 911 to report a rape [reuters.com].

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @03:51PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @03:51PM (#545816)

    I would say 'America while anything' in the wake of that Australian woman getting murdered by police when she called 911 to report a rape

    She was shot by a trigger happy Somolian, lot of which are infesting parts of Minnesota due to the PC idiots' immigration circus. Read the papers. Lots of them have bugged out to fight for ISIS. It might have been a "get whitey" moment or just a "get even for a perceived racial injustice" event.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @03:57PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @03:57PM (#545820)

      Of course. This is one of the many tactics of copsuckers to redirect the blame elsewhere. Just change the topic to where the cop came from/what race they are so that we don't need to admit that the police are in dire need of reform!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:08PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:08PM (#545826)

        Of course. This is one of the many tactics of copsuckers to redirect the blame elsewhere. Just change the topic to where the cop came from/what race they are so that we don't need to admit that the police are in dire need of reform!

        You must admit that the shooting of an gorgeous, unarmed, blonde, white woman calling for help is an rare anomaly even among the worst Police Departments. Therefore this is an outlier event. As an outlier, other causes must be considered. This was a black on white shooting.

        There are only two possible causes, deliberate or accidental. If accidental, the Somali cop was a totally incompetent and trigger happy idiot for firing on a woman who could never be considered a threat, which reflects on his community and the people who hired him. (PC hire?) If deliberate, why would he shoot an unarmed white woman? I gave a couple of possibilities...

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @05:53AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @05:53AM (#546157)

          Here I was worried that my rationalizations were twisted from time to time. I am in awe.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:31PM (#545840)

      In SimNation it's all about the Simoleons. Don't visit unless you're flush.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @01:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @01:21AM (#546507)

      > She was shot by a trigger happy [moslem] Somolian

      FTFY

      The quota-hire cop enforced strict moslem rules in his own household. The chances that he will afford any respect at all to an unaccompanied, non-moslem, woman who is out at night in her pyjamas approaches 0%. What happened there wasn't police violence, it was a religiously motivated hate crime.