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University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @05:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @05:17PM (#545870)

    You make a good point!

    If I owned a company and you were my employee, and said something nasty, I'd have every right to fire your ass, thanks to right-to-work laws. And I'd do so gladly; I wouldn't want nasty people working for me.

    This, I think is the crux of it all but it does show a difference between you and the UD: you don't want nasty people/dickheads working for you because dickheads are dicks. I think that's fair. The UD doesn't want to associate with that individual because it would hamper their fund-raising efforts, not because the person is a nasty.
    Once again, consequences are imposed because of financials, not because of common decency. I'm ok with the latter, not with the former.