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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: 4, Interesting) by Bot on Friday July 28 2017, @03:53PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Friday July 28 2017, @03:53PM (#545817) Journal

    You are a carbon based life form, result of millennia of pillage rape violence with a peppering of love and a lot of hard work. You may or may not deserve to die. But you eventually will. Any moral judgement upon people you did not even meet is irrational.

    But the topic here is more like: under which conditions a facebook post is reason for termination.

    You teach atheism in soviet russia to a beowulf cluster of young students, you post about the wonderful miracles of the apostles in the official school's feed, you get instafired without even needing a piece of paper. Because you are a hypocrite.

    You live in a free country, you post from your own page that hitler did nothing wrong, you are entitled to your own opinion and you deserve a barrage of ironic or angry replies and some commie keying your car. If you catch the commie in the act, though, you can kick him in the balls and post the resulting pic too.

    Corollary, there are few free countries around.

    Each one is free to speak his mind and pay the social/practical consequences of his speeches.

    You want to tell me Islam is the best religion ever? 0r that the white race must be defended? all right, duly noted. You want to pray with the ass up, or meet up with your fellow antifa to celebrate the Che's birthday? why not.

    But, you want to make me stop showing a crucifix that has been on the wall for centuries? you just declared war on my roots and tradition and hypocritically want to change the very system who is letting you stay here. And war rules are quite different from peacetime rules so, watch your back because you are an illegal soldier, entering without uniform, and the geneva convention does not apply.

    Anybody who does not agree with the above is a jerk, BTW.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Gaaark on Friday July 28 2017, @05:34PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday July 28 2017, @05:34PM (#545876) Journal

    I believe in free speech too, but i definitely would not post something stupid on facebook (ANOTHER reason why i am NOT on facebook, lol) because of family:
    --my opinions should not worry my employer: what i think is not (necessarily) the thoughts of my employer and should not have any bearing on them (unless you are the CEO, maybe)
    --my opinions CAN be a burden on my family, though. What i say CAN reflect on them because there is a much more immediate relationship.

    That said, there IS a game you gotta play: you say something nasty, SOMEONE WILL GET THEIR PANTIES IN AN UPROAR and there MAY be consequences.

    Here, i feel i can say what i feel, because of pseudo-anonymity and i'm doubting my employer reads soylentnews (barely can work his work computer), but i would not post stupidity on facebook/faceplant: you are just INVITING panty uproar.

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