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My first post in this thread started off by saying racism is racism. I went on to say there’s no such thing as reverse racism, acknowledging that a black guy said these things. So, I did call a spade a spade.
I never referenced a % of supporters of the cival war, but the cival war was in fact led by southerners supporting slavery. That is fact is the heritage/culture is southern based. Just stated a fact so I disagree your take that I’m with overstating a %.
As to your third point in “vaguely painting oppression isnt going to get us anywhere as a society”, neither is ignoring it, clearly. It’s still the Genesis of what’s going on here, which is also a fact. So if you have an go between a wide brush statement that I made “oppression is oppression” vs. ignoring it on message board, I’d go for that.
I agree that UGA should take action and I’m willing to pause to see how it plays out.
This is the difference between sasser and the TA. Sasser said the N-word at a football game which is a public, university sanctioned event with students. Another student that heard him say it reported the event to the OEO which found he violated equal opportunity rules. I believe he was dismissed from the team and not the university. The TA has yet to be reported to the OEO for something he did while teaching so he can't be investigated for violating equal opportunity rules. He made these statements in a private capacity which gives him 1st amendment protections that include hate speech. The on campus thing you are referring to was a club meeting of some sort. Clubs can rent rooms on campus but they are private events. UGA is a government organization and they have to follow the constitution. As soon as he says something like that while teaching he's gone, but firing him without that event would be illegal.
That doesn’t matter, there’s been a many of female and male teachers get fired for sexual misconduct at their house in their own time with a student. You can spin this any way you want but the bottoms line is, if it were the other way around and he was not a minority, he’d be gone
Thanks for sharing this...got a link to the vid?
"I never referenced a % of supporters of the cival war, but the cival war was in fact led by southerners supporting slavery. That is fact is the heritage/culture is southern based. Just stated a fact so I disagree your take that I’m with overstating a %."... Because Southerners owned slaves a little longer than Northerners, Southerners are this day in age being raised more racist 200 years later? Either way, you called it the elephant in the room. I'm taking that as the big chunk of the issue no one is addressing, when it's a very small percent of the issue.
"As to your third point in “vaguely painting oppression isn't going to get us anywhere as a society”, neither is ignoring it, clearly."... I'm not ignoring racism, I said it needs to be called out and dealt with on an individual basis. Ta-da, there's your solution. Let's treat the small percentage of racists in this country on their own, and not paint them as some overpowering majority when they are in the minority.
Also, since the south seems to be the main issue for you, you might want to read this article... https://www.theroot.com/is-the-south-more-racist-than-other-parts-of-the-us-1820893655
At least we agree racism exists and is a terrible thing. But according to the stats/article above, it's less racist than the rest of the country.
Make readers? Yeah, you can't have sex with students you teach. That's a rule anywhere you go. Sexual misconduct as in breaking the law is also a fireable offense. Not sure how that relates to the 1st amendment. It's not spin that's just the law and rules. Sasser broke the rules and was punished. No one has shown that the TA broke the rules. You can disagree with him all you want but firing him would be illegal and a clear violation of the 1st amendment.
Club meeting on campus. Not during a lecture
Open the door... enter double standard. What a pathetic response. I could see this happening at Duke, Cal, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, you name the institution, but not UGA. Apparently, even UGA isn't immune from the Political Correctness Virus!
I’ll conclude the back and forth with, we agree racism sux and it has no place anywhere. It does exist and should be addressed as it arises.
It's all good.
1. The south fought the cival war, that’s the basis of me saying it’s southern.
a. Living in the past my friend. That article addresses those living in the past. And the south has the crazy racists, those that shoot up a churches, which spreads the stigma of it being wildly racist. Outside the south they are in the closet racists and just won't give you a job or equal education.
3. I’ll read the article. At first glance this isn’t an accredited entity so it’s no different than me reading news on the message board.
a. It's listing stats/ratios, those are simply facts.
What rule did he break? Just curious, not defending him at all and think he was wrong for saying it..... but what rule?
There's probably something in UGA's Code of Conduct book that covers this type of racist rhetoric.
He violated the non-discrimination and harassment policy. It affected him and not the TA because it took place during the football game which is a university activity and subject to university rules. This is from the OEO, "The University of Georgia (“the University”) is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for living, work and study. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, University System of Georgia policy, and University policy, the University prohibits harassment of or discrimination against any person because of race, color, sex (including sexual harassment and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity or national origin, religion, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status by any member of the University Community (as defined below) on campus, in connection with a University program or activity, or in a manner that creates a hostile environment for any member of the University Community. Incidents of harassment and discrimination will be met with appropriate disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal or expulsion from the University."
https://eoo.uga.edu/policies/non-discrimination-anti-harassment-policy
WSB has picked up the story and it’ll be on the news at 5 tonight in case anyone wants to check it out.
So he broke this rule, yes.. but the other didn’t ? From what I read, I’d have to say yes he did