And someone goes “ooh! I know how this ends!” and shoots him in the spine.
What’s your field, Professor? Sociology? Let’s say “yes.”
IIUC, the point of this bill would not prevent you from writing an Op-Ed piece in which you support (or oppose) a particular policy position, with your thesis based on sociological factors that you are an expert on.
It might direct your university to adopt a policy forbidding you from writing an Op-Ed that essentially states Governor Nathan Deal is a poopy-head who should be removed from office post-haste, and this is a professor of sociology at Georgia State University saying it, so you know it’s true. I don’t know if such a policy would be consistent with your First Amendment protections.
Even if it would, things might get a little more problematic if you were to publish an Op-Ed in which you state, in essence My studies in sociology have provided me with expertise in such sociological factors as (A), (2), (iii), and (Four). As a professor of Sociology at Georgia State, I can confidently assert that Governor Deal’s actions (a) and (10), along with his pursuit of policies (:mad:) and (:rolleyes:) cast serious doubt upon his fitness to serve as the chief executive of this state.
I would just clarify that it was Czahor’s account, not Bush’s account. Pesky pronouns and all that.
Thanks. Now that I re-read that, it is confusing.
Stupidity should be permanent.
Yeah, social media presents some privacy & security concerns, but those Twitter & Facebook histories are fun.
He’ll lose his job for it, blame his firing on the evil feds, and get re-elected by the state’s rights pubbies. Just like he did the last time.
This was the photo ABC News used to illustrate Moore’s actions: http://www.alabamacivilrights.ua.edu/tuscaloosa/photos/wallace_large.jpg
Remember, kids, that if you don’t vote Dem next year, Roy Moore might get on the Supreme Court. :eek:
I wonder how he’d react if someone read this to him on the air?
I’m not sure I’d classify those tweets as anti-gay or anti-woman. Distasteful, yes, but no cause for outrage. I hope there isn’t a push to get him resigned as it could backfire on the Dems.
But the legislation is limiting the speech of newspapers and not of other journalism outlets such as radio or television (and it’s not clear but perhaps other print journalism such as magazines). I’d expect a challenge from newspapers on this one.
Not sure I’d want this “tech genius” to be my IT guy. I wonder if he also deleted his tweets complaining that Bill Gates never sent his 200 bucks.
OK, so you have Czahor, R-Homophobia – we have all seen very well what means – and a PAC called “Ready to Rise”. No hidden message there. Nope. Not at all.
I don’t see the problem; he said “before”.
I don’t really see anything so wrong with those tweets -
A bit off colour sure,
But unless they form part of a larger pattern of behaviour,
Meh -
I certainly know I have made similar jokes -
things like,
What’s the difference between a bitch and a slut,
What did the arts graduate say to the engineering graduate
There is too much scrutiny sometimes such that to succeed in a public life you have to be an emotionless drone
I submit that we can refrain from calling women bitches, sluts, and ugly sluts without descending to dronedom.
Not being a gay man, I think the homophobic tweets are more insulting to straight men, by implying they all do not control the bodily functions in public and assume everyone else is obsessed with their junk as they are. But I will defer to others better qualified on that point.
The free speech slippery slope, of course.
Free speech for everyone! Except … university system employees …
There’s an excluded middle a country mile wide here.
As with any potential scandal, the issue is more the coverup than the crime. He should have left the tweets up and then defended them when the issue came up. It’s tasteless jokes. I’m sure if you look far enough into Al Franken’s history he probably wrote some pretty awful stuff. But it’s comedy, so he gets a pass, and rightfully so. But by removing them, he himself is admitting that the tweets are a problem. And so now they are. I’m not going to bother to defend something he himself won’t stand by.