European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

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European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

Post by DBTrek » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:17 pm

You’ll all be shocked to learn that an offended couple recently videoed a professor telling them to go back to their home country - and the professor has been put on leave.

Let’s take a look at this weeks entry of mass mob justice delivered by media:
College professor who told Asian-Americans to 'go back to your country' is now on leave

A California community college professor who was filmed last week telling an Asian-American couple to "go back to your country" is on leave while the school decides what to do about the incident, her employer said Tuesday.

The video of the woman, identified by the public as Golden West College professor Tarin Olson, went viral after Tony Kao shared it on Facebook Thursday, and now the school finds itself in damage-control mode.

On Monday, Golden West college president Wes Bryan tweeted this from the school's Twitter account: "One person's comments do not define us."

Kao wrote on Facebook last week that he "encountered a bigot and a racist today in our neighborhood in Long Beach.
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... CBS Los Angeles talked to Olson at her home on Sunday after the video went viral. She refused to speak on-camera but told the TV station that her students know she is not a racist.

“I feel my perspective will be twisted if discussing the skewed video, which cut out part of the incident," she said in a statement. "If you would like to have a full normal interview about the displacement of European-Americans then I gladly am available to enlighten the public."

On the Golden West College website, Olson is listed as a professor and career counselor. The school is in Huntington Beach...

...In an email to the Daily Pilot on Monday, Olson wrote that she was "not in a good place emotionally after receiving so many disgusting emails ... for something that wasn't even racist and was then skewed by a guy named Tony who filmed me without my permission."

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-w ... rylink=cpy
More details, and the video, can be found by following the link.

Two observations:
1. Telling strangers to go back to their country is a shitty thing to do.
2. Filming strangers saying shitty things so you can punish them in the media, is a shitty thing to do.

No heroes in this story, from my perspective.
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Re: European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

Post by Montegriffo » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:20 pm

Along similar lines.
Two men arested after racist chants recorded at Nottingham University.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no ... e-43328566
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Re: European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

Post by DBTrek » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:47 pm

Ehhhhhh - not sure two yokels chanting “we hate the blacks” is as nuanced as a video that picks up the very end of a discussion where one person is telling two other individuals they need to go back home.

One example seems a little more ambiguous than the other.
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Post by Viktorthepirate » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:48 pm

Montegriffo wrote:Along similar lines.
Two men arested after racist chants recorded at Nottingham University.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no ... e-43328566
Arrested?

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Re: European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

Post by Montegriffo » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:56 pm

Viktorthepirate wrote:
Montegriffo wrote:Along similar lines.
Two men arested after racist chants recorded at Nottingham University.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no ... e-43328566
Arrested?
Yes.
Fair enough if you ask me. Small fine and a criminal record should make sure they don't do it again.
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Re: European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

Post by DBTrek » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:57 pm

Montegriffo wrote:
Yes.
Fair enough if you ask me. Small fine and a criminal record should make sure they don't do it again.
They don’t do what again? Hate the blacks, or vocalize their hatred of blacks?
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Re: European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

Post by Viktorthepirate » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:58 pm

Montegriffo wrote:
Viktorthepirate wrote:
Montegriffo wrote:Along similar lines.
Two men arested after racist chants recorded at Nottingham University.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no ... e-43328566
Arrested?
Yes.
Fair enough if you ask me. Small fine and a criminal record should make sure they don't do it again.
I imagine if they do it again they get a stiffer punishment.

You think people should be locked in cages for this?

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Re: European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

Post by Montegriffo » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:59 pm

DBTrek wrote:
Montegriffo wrote:
Yes.
Fair enough if you ask me. Small fine and a criminal record should make sure they don't do it again.
They don’t do what again? Hate the blacks, or vocalize their hatred of blacks?
Intimidate a black girl in her University dorm.
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Re: European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

Post by Montegriffo » Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:01 pm

Viktorthepirate wrote:
Montegriffo wrote:
Viktorthepirate wrote:
Arrested?
Yes.
Fair enough if you ask me. Small fine and a criminal record should make sure they don't do it again.
I imagine if they do it again they get a stiffer punishment.

You think people should be locked in cages for this?
I think that's unlikely for a non-violent incident. Happy for them to get a fine or better still some compulsory work in the community.
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Re: European displacement prof, or shamed racist?

Post by Viktorthepirate » Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:04 pm

Montegriffo wrote:
Viktorthepirate wrote:
Montegriffo wrote:
Yes.
Fair enough if you ask me. Small fine and a criminal record should make sure they don't do it again.
I imagine if they do it again they get a stiffer punishment.

You think people should be locked in cages for this?
I think that's unlikely for a non-violent incident. Happy for them to get a fine or better still some compulsory work in the community.
In the US we have people being jailed when they can't afford fines.

What happens in the U.K. when they can't pay the fine?

What happens when a poor person is racist? What if they are racist multiple times?

They will go in a cage I think.