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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: 4, Funny) by Grishnakh on Friday July 28 2017, @06:46PM (2 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday July 28 2017, @06:46PM (#545908)

    You beat me to it: jump to a parallel universe, or make your own if possible. Maybe in the future, we can all create our own, personal parallel universes which we can set up however we want. There won't be any Microsoft in my universe.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 28 2017, @10:32PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday July 28 2017, @10:32PM (#546012) Journal

    There won't be any emacs in my universe. I kid! I kid!

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    Washington DC delenda est.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @10:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @10:32PM (#546013)

    Ironically, in your Microsoft-free world you'll get bitten by a mosquito and then die of a disease that was eradicated by the Gates Foundation in this one. A more realistic ideal universe would be systemd-free.