re: Auburn professor doesn’t know if he can say the War in “War Eagle”

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I don’t remotely care about his sexual orientation and of course nobody should be railing against the guy for that.

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The larger issue is his defending his outright ignorance about the institution he works for. Everyone says something a bit off or makes a wrong step. It's simple human nature to error. However his subsequent remarks (the later tweet in particular) shows an extreme lack of professionalism and that's a bad look for those programs under his control and guidance.


eta: For instance how many of your favorite athletes signed with the University of Auburn?

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I don’t remotely care about his sexual orientation and of course nobody should be railing against the guy for that.

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I know that. I was referring to the “platform to where he can easily claim persecution” aspect. He has been railed by some on Twitter and that’s probably what he wanted. Of course he was probably not railed any harder than what his bf does to him, but I digress.

catch these hands fam

This world is becoming a joke.

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People like this are why tuition is through the roof.

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We are paying Steven Leath $1.5 mil a year to not be our school president.

I don't think the PHD only making $50-60k is why Auburn can't keep costs down.

Auburn KA’s are notoriously racist

From Goldberg's Cornell faculty bio...

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He is currently revising his dissertation into his first book, Abolition Time: Slavery’s Afterlife and the Excessive Present in Law, Literature, and Performance. The project argues that a temporality of an “excessive present” which collapses past, present, and future into the moment of the now enacts possibilities for thinking and practicing a politics of abolition that reaches towards both abstract concepts of freedom and concrete visions such as the end of prisons.

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He has built a career on nonsensical, unrealistic expectations for treatment of the black race. He equates prison to slavery, makes excuses... Bla bla bla.

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I think the justice/prison system is in need of some very serious reform.

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Clearly. The justice system needs to adjust with the times. That hasn't always been the case. Habitual offender laws/sentences are tricky and get a lot of flack.

Nobody should do life in prison for marijuana possession. But if that same individual has 8-9 other felonies over his "career" then yes, at a certain point, he just needs to be locked up forever.

Being soft on crime creates lawlessness amongst law abiding citizens. If there is no real punishment for Andre or Alan breaking in my house then he might come break in again next week. Then I have to kill him and enter the criminal justice system myself.

There is no magic pill to fix the criminal justice system. Jail/prison doesn't really deter thugs because they get to hang out with other thugs all day. You can get phones, drugs, etc. in prison. So they get basically all they need with exception to women, but I have witnessed... Lock em up together long enough and they just start having sex with each other.

The old way of chopping off a hand for theft, execution for murder, etc. is probably your best answer to deter crime. Unfortunately, in 2020 being sentenced to prison for a crime is the same as being enslaved against your will and forced to do hard labor.

The bubble behind “universities” is going to pop eventually. Incurring extra debt to take useless classes that offer no value to the student in terms of finding a job and no value to the world in terms of what skill sets the class imparts upon those taking it doesn’t make a lot of financial sense. I know I would have been just fine taking my in major classes and the relevant prerequisites. Shaved at least a year off my schooling and wasted less of my time.

I’ll admit in my zeal I used the word “no” where I should have placed “relatively little”. If one ascribes a benefit to being well rounded, and I’ll admit that that there is one, with the current situation we find ourselves in regarding student debt, the cost-benefit analysis would still point towards finding a different avenue than a formal education for the more general studies. It’s just becoming, in my opinion, way too costly from a time and money perspective to engage in those pursuits during your college education. I think on that point we may find some degree of common ground.

But I’m the kind of guy that would have rather read up on Kantian ethics on my own outside of class than using a three hour time slot being forced to take Intro to Ethics.

My reading list has unfortunately gotten quite a bit longer than I wanted it to ever get, but I’ll see if I can work Range in at some point.