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Really??So now it has gone from one teachers-aide not allowing one discussion to "opposition viewpoints ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THESE CLASSROOMS"?
I agree with everything here, but if the TA filed a complaint, the University can't just ignore it. They have to follow the established channels.
Really?Now the univerisity is stopping debate and wiping out employment? The MU heirarchy is fascist. They are haters?Get a grip on reality, dude. And if you believe this drivel you wrote, go to your job and do what McAdams did. Then you will be able to start your own blog about how the fascist haters at your company fired you unfairly.
Ah yes, this is an isolated incident. Marquette University and Academia in general promote the free exchange of ideas and this is an outlier.
I don't have tenure at my job. McAdams' does. Look it up if you're unfamiliar with it.You can't debate McAdams' points. So you just want him fired instead. That makes you an a$$hole and a fascist.I'm embarrassed to share a diploma from the same school as a lot of you retards.
Yikes. Sorry this got weird, Mods. In before the lock, I guess.
We all know Marquette has free reign to do what it wants about complaints.Rape by student athletes = free passIndependent blog criticizing the lack of free expression = fire able offense.
Dude - lose the persecution complex.
Reading your argument, I really doubt if you have a diploma. The smart people that I know don't need to go to "That makes you an a$$hole and a fascist".This is simply a man who is trying to hurt the MU brand over his personal politics. There is a history from this gentleman to show this. If you take it upon yourself to hurt your companies brand, you absolutely will be treated worse than McAdams.
I will disgree with you on this Brandx. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't believe McAdams' intent is to hurt MU's brand, in fact, I believe he seeks to improve it as free expression does make for a better university. Where McAdams goes wrong is the modality he chooses for his improvement and this is colored by his personal politics.If the TA prevented a student from expressing their views on gay marriage during a discussion on gay marriage, is that a right or wrong act in your mind? If it is a wrong act, than seeking to correct it is a right act, however the method of redress could also be wrong....as IMHO I think McAdams was
To add to the conversation about whether or not MU unnecessarily escalated this with the suspension, take a look at the link provided by shiloh26 as well as two more links within the comments there.http://marquettewire.org/2014/11/25/tribune/viewpoints/reader-submission-mcadamss-treatment-of-instructor-is-deplorablehttp://dailynous.com/2014/11/22/letter-of-support-for-abbate-from-marquette-dept-chairs/ http://proteviblog.typepad.com/protevi/2014/11/open-letter-in-support-of-cheryl-abbate/comments/Looking at all the people adding their names to these open letters in the comments, it appears to me that MU may have gotten much more pressure on this than I had previously thought. There are large numbers of faculty at Marquette and beyond taking a stand on this. That alone may have warranted a response like this, even without an official complaint filed by the instructor or anyone else on campus.
I will disgree with you on this Brandx. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't believe McAdams' intent is to hurt MU's brand, in fact, I believe he seeks to improve it as free expression does make for a better university. Where McAdams goes wrong is the modality he chooses for his improvement and this is colored by his personal politics.
So... question:The mods on occasion feel the need to lock threads and put people on timeout. Are they, by definition, fascists?
I don't follow, is your opinion that MU had to suspend McAdams because enough people within the academic community wanted him suspended? That's pretty much the opposite of allowing free thoughts to be exchanged. If I can get enough people to agree with me that a viewpoint shouldn't be expressed than I can have that viewpoint suppressed or punished?