Posted on 12/10/2014 7:22:38 AM PST by Lonely Bull
BERKELEY (CBS SF) – A lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley who posted a tweet offering extra time on an assignment to students injured during anti-police brutality protests has received numerous threats, prompting her to delete her Twitter account.
Kaya Oakes, an author who teaches writing at the university, tweeted Sunday, “If any of my #Berkeley students were teargassed, batoned or shot w/rubber bullets last night, you can have an extension on your essay.”
Since then, Oakes and her colleagues at the university have received complaints and threats.
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What if they were shot with genuine bullets... chintzy.
Complaints I can see. But threats, that’s nuts. Even though this is Berserkeley.
Just saw this!! LOL
UCSD Students Protest Eviction of Campus Che Guevara Cafe for Failing to Pay Rent
What, they didn’t fundraise for the joint or something if they though it was so blinking cool?
Students who cared more about their grades than “social justice” would have skipped rioting and written their essays.
Lecturer Oakes is a real piece of work!
Kaya Oakes, M.F.A. Lecturer.
Kaya Oakes
Office Hours: MW 11-12 a.m.
Place:
Phone:
Email: kaya_o@berkeley.edu
Kaya Oakes is the author of a memoir, Radical Reinvention (Counterpoint Press, 2012); a social science book of nonfiction, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture (Henry Holt, 2009; San Francisco Chronicle notable book, 2009), and a poetry collection, Telegraph (Pavement Saw Press, 2007; Transcontinental Poetry Prize). At Berkeley, she was the recipient of an innovation grant and a faculty fellowship from the Mellon Faculty Institute for Undergraduate Research. A working journalist and creative nonfiction writer since elementary school, Kaya’s essays have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in nonfiction, and her poems have received awards from the Academy of American Poets. Her books and essays are taught in creative writing and composition courses at numerous universities, and she is a frequent speaker on the intersections of spirituality, feminism, and popular culture. She joined the CWP faculty in 1999.
Threats, at least genuine ones, seem unlikely in this intance. Given the people involved, I think it’s possible that the prof or campus protestors fabricated or staged the so called “threats” (i.e., in the latter case, the prof would not be aware of the student faking threats to portray ongoing white oppresion). That or someone certifiably insane.
Complaints, I can see. Threats? If genuine, those making the threats need to be held to account. That’s no better behavior when Spike Lee tried to publish Zimmerman’s home address.
Assuming of course, the threats weren’t plants, which is always a possibility.
Sounds like “protests” to me....
I guess those students who actually studied but would like to have more time are out of luck.
Fear not the media will keep the anti-police gig going at full speed.
Its unbelievable that this individual is able to feed herself despite producing nothing of intrinsic value to society.
Rather, she appears to produce only division and general claptrap, appealing to the weak-minded who then disgorge a portion of whatever wealth they have, transferring it to this imbecile.
That there is a market for such stupidity in society is telling. Modern society is so efficient that it allows idiots like this too much free time, and rather than being out in the fields living by the sweat of their brow, these idiots subsequently have excess time to vent their ignorance and corrode civil society.
Maybe this is the most awful doggerel, but politically correct so it gets plaudits.
The arts have long been held to uplift the mind of society, and have been richly rewarded once they became practical.
The difficulty here is not the medium, but the message.
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