# Context, context, context

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-context-context/597381>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 23, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-context-context/597381 "2011-09-23T20:27:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-context-context/597381/1 "2011-09-23T20:27:21Z")

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A college student did not pay attention to the context in which her professor was speaking, and this is what went down:

> **[Toronto Star Story on Misunderstood Anti-Semitism: With Updates.](http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-toronto-star-more-evidence-that.html)**
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> Academic blog where professors vent their misery about students, Deans, and colleagues.

Then she compounded her idiocy by turning herself into a victim:

> **[Yorkflake "Antisemitism" Update: Double Down Edition](http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2011/09/yorkflake-antisemitism-update-double.html)**
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> Academic blog where professors vent their misery about students, Deans, and colleagues.

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Fortunately, I haven’t had anything even close to this situation, but a colleague who once told a student that her paper was filled with barbarisms ran to the dean to complain that the professor had called her a barbarian.

Have you ever said something and had it taken the wrong way and completely out of context?

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-context-context/597381/2 "2011-09-23T20:52:07Z")

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[Last week’s Pit Thread on point](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=624305)

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-context-context/597381/3 "2011-09-23T21:58:08Z")

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Oops. Never mind.