Current Events > Harvard Retracts 10 Offers to Students Who Posted Offensive Memes

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http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/06/harvard-rescinds-offers-over-offensive-memes.html?utm_campaign=select-all&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1


Lmao get rekt
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Guess you can be stupid and still get into Harvard. At least temporarily.
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FrisbeeDude posted...

Lmao get rekt

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Bump
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I wanted to see the image macros that got their offers retracted
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Operating fact here is that this chat group was associated with the official FB page. Not smart
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Everybody knows that anything you say to anybody ever is basically something that fully defines you as a person and should be held up against you at any point indefinitely.
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joe40001 posted...

Everybody knows that anything you say to anybody ever is basically something that fully defines you as a person and should be held up against you at any point indefinitely.

This is a weird position to take
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FrisbeeDude posted...

joe40001 posted...

Everybody knows that anything you say to anybody ever is basically something that fully defines you as a person and should be held up against you at any point indefinitely.

This is a weird position to take

Same guy who had a breakdown over one of his posts getting 11 downvotes on imgur
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FrisbeeDude posted...

joe40001 posted...

Everybody knows that anything you say to anybody ever is basically something that fully defines you as a person and should be held up against you at any point indefinitely.

This is a weird position to take

he was in the other topic arguing about how this is a violation of free speech
basically he is the kind of guy that doesnt understand that freedom of speech is not the same as freedom from consequences
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Fancy pants schools really aren't that impressive anymore (or maybe they never were?). I remember being a kid and thinking they were places for geniuses, but now I know a bunch and they're mostly just regular people in a lot of debt
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yusiko posted...

FrisbeeDude posted...

joe40001 posted...

Everybody knows that anything you say to anybody ever is basically something that fully defines you as a person and should be held up against you at any point indefinitely.

This is a weird position to take

he was in the other topic arguing about how this is a violation of free speech
basically he is the kind of guy that doesnt understand that freedom of speech is not the same as freedom from consequences

First of all here I was clearly being sarcastic. Second of all I made a clear point to talk about "cultural free speech" yes, we can have legal free speech and still have any business say they can fire anybody at any time if you ever post something off-brand on facebook, but culturally that is bullshit, pragmatically that is bullshit.

I'm not dumb on the explicit rules of legal free speech, I'm talking about free speech as a culturally accepted value and how lately people seem all too eager to not give a fuck about it, and those people get 0 sympathy from me when it inevitably comes to bite them in the ass.

Anybody who will criticize somebody else for private conversations taken out of context is logically suggesting that it is fair to judge THEM by the worst thing they have ever said regardless of context. And that is just so painfully stupid.
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In April, university officials sent an email asking students to hand over every offensive meme they had contributed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIrYpikW8AEUg2W.jpg
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