Petition to Fire NYC Professor Accused of Sleeping During Anti-Racist Meeting Gathers 2,000 Signatures

Newsweek ^ | July 15, 2020 | Jocelyn Grzeszczak

[C19fan]

Nearly 2,000 people called for the termination of a New York City professor after she reportedly fell asleep during an anti-racist meeting held on Zoom. Patricia Simon, a theater arts associate professor at Marymount Manhattan College, is facing requests for her removal after a June 29 Zoom meeting to discuss the adoption of an "anti-racist framework."

[C19fan]

Reminds me of attendees at one of Stalin's speech being condemned for not clapping long enough.

[Texan Tory]

“Reminds me of attendees at one of Stalin’s speech being condemned for not clapping long enough.”

Or the mourners for the Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il in North Korea, that got in trouble for not crying hard enough when he died.

[mware]

It is said they were so afraid to stop clapping that Stalin would signal them when to stop.

[Skywise]

Always turn your camera OFF.

Also I muted my company’s struggle session while insuring I had shown attendance.

[Brian Griffin]

Cultural Revolution USA

[4yearlurker]

Yes. I’ve read that too. No one in the audience wanted to be the first one to stop clapping.

[Brian Griffin]

Hillary Clinton’s failures to get her healthcare program enacted, to win the Democratic race against Obama and to become President in 2017 were all due to her vindictiveness.

[Mouton]

The most popular majors at Marymount Manhattan College include: Visual and Performing Arts; Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Psychology; and English Language and Literature/Letters.

IOW, pay 35K+ a year to become an uninformed singing waitress or unpaid reporterette.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“You’ll sit there and take our criticism, and you’ll like it.”

Especially, if you don’t have tenure.

[chuckee]

Reminds me of required employee attendance at annual corporate sexual harassment lectures run for liability purposes. Staying awake is quite a challenge. But, only your body, not mind, need be present. So,unlike the professor, no one gets fired for catching a few zs

[bray]

They would draw eyes on their eyelids to not get caught sleeping during Stalin’s speeches.

[Paladin2]

Hay, Hey!

Ho’, Ho!

Tenure has got to go....

[C19fan]

Stalin has buzzers installed on the rostrum. He would push the button when he felt he had enough adulation. You can hear him buzzing on videos of his speeches.

[SES1066]

Time to test the intelligentsia with that good petition to ban that very dangerous substance, Dihydrogen monoxide, the killer of so many people year after year?

How many signatures would that get, especially if you say Trump ingests it daily!

[C19fan]

One can go the Clockwork Orange route to keep the eyes open.

[StAntKnee]

Now do Ruth Ginsburg at a State of the Union address.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Administrators will at some point decide just who is in charge. Them or the mob. If they don’t, the mob will come at them soon.

This goes for every business or organization.

Once you turn control over to the mob you may as well quit and go home because you will be next.

[moovova]

What was the count on the vote to fire RGB?

[edwinland]

Here is one vignette from those years as it actually occurred. A district Party conference was under way in Moscow Province. It was presided over by a new secretary of the District Party Committee, replacing one recently arrested. At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference at every mention of his name). The small hall echoed with "stormy applause, rising to an ovation." For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, the "stormy applause, rising to an ovation," continued. But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who really adored Stalin. However, who would dare be the first to stop? The secretary of the District Party Committee could have done it. He was standing on the platform, and it was he who had just called for the ovation. But he was a newcomer. He had taken the place of a man who'd been arrested. He was afraid! After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching to see who quit first!

And in that obscure, small hall, unknown to the Leader, the applause went on — six, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldn't stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly — but up there with the presidium where everyone could see them? The director of the local paper factory, an independent and strong-minded man, stood with the presidium. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation, he still kept on applauding! Nine minutes! Ten! In anguish he watched the secretary of the District Party Committee, but the latter dared not stop. Insanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers! And even then those who were left would not falter. . . . Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved! The squirrel had been smart enough to jump off his revolving wheel.

That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them. That same night the factory director was arrested. They easily pasted ten years on him on the pretext of something quite different. But after he had signed Form 206, the final document of the interrogation, his interrogator reminded him:

"Don't ever be the first to stop applauding!"

[Told me by N. G ko.]

https://archive.org/stream/AleksandrSolzhenitsynTheGulagArchipelago/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn_The_Gulag_Archipelago_djvu.txt

[minnesota_bound]

In Korea if you are not sad enough when one of the dictators dies then you are killed.