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'Game of Thrones' Shirt Suspension: NJ Professor Punished for Pic
Newsmax ^ | Friday, 18 Apr 2014 06:24 PM | Ken Mandel

Posted on 04/19/2014 3:14:43 AM PDT by Hugin

A New Jersey college professor says he was suspended for posting online a photo of his daughter wearing a "Game of Thrones" T-shirt with a "threatening" quote on it.

Francis Schmidt, an art and 3-D animation professor at Bergen Community College in northern New Jersey, told The Record he posted the picture of his 7-year-old daughter Jan. 12 wearing a T-shirt with the "Game of Thrones" quote, "I will take what is mine with fire and blood."...

...A day after posting the photo, Schmidt told The Record that he was questioned as to whether the photo was a threat against the dean. Despite his explanation, Schmidt said he was suspended without pay for eight days and ordered to see a psychiatrist before he would be allowed back on campus.

When Schmidt asked the officials why they thought the quote was threatening, one said, "'when you see the word fire, then someone shows up with an AK-47 here shooting everybody,'" he told the paper.

"I had no idea what to say to that," Schmidt added. "For God's sake, I'm a middle-aged art professor. I don't own any firearms."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; gameofthrones; newjersey; schools; speech
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To: Enterprise

Just a wild guess, but I’m thinking the collars and cuffs don’t match.


21 posted on 04/19/2014 3:57:15 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Hugin
Yup....

It’s an excellent show for adults, but it’s chock full of nudity, orgies, and very graphic butchery.

and incest... so many wrongs...

22 posted on 04/19/2014 4:01:27 AM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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To: Hugin
"I'm a middle-aged art professor. I don't own any firearms."

With zero parenting skills (who would let a 7 year old watch that crap)

Not to mention a cowardly troglodyte ie "I don't own any firearms"

23 posted on 04/19/2014 4:05:56 AM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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To: Hugin

This thread makes me so not miss television.


24 posted on 04/19/2014 4:07:14 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Hugin
When Schmidt asked the officials why they thought the quote was threatening, one said, "'when you see the word fire, then someone shows up with an AK-47 here shooting everybody,'" he told the paper.

That college administrator must be on drugs. (And if not, he/she needs to be.)

25 posted on 04/19/2014 4:07:27 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Hugin

New Jersey Obama voters — all.


26 posted on 04/19/2014 4:09:39 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Hugin

If the little girl had worn a shirt with the words “ my two mommies make love in the livingroom while I watch” no one would have said anything.


27 posted on 04/19/2014 4:12:15 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: Hugin

How did we Americans ever conquer the wilderness, settle the west, and win World Wars I and II????


28 posted on 04/19/2014 4:25:57 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Jonty30

Never watched one either but the world is filled with immorality. One can’t pretend it’s not so.


29 posted on 04/19/2014 4:27:34 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Hugin

It does make me wonder, who lets a 7 year old watch that show. It’s an excellent show for adults, but it’s chock full of nudity, orgies, and very graphic butchery.””

How do you know he let’s his daughter watch the show?


30 posted on 04/19/2014 4:29:25 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: raybbr
How do you know he let’s his daughter watch the show?

I don't know, but it seems likely if she has a t-shirt of the character it's because she's a fan. I suppose it's possible she just liked the shirt.

31 posted on 04/19/2014 4:33:46 AM PDT by Hugin
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To: Hugin

“It does make me wonder, who lets a 7 year old watch that show”

Where does it say she ever watched it?


32 posted on 04/19/2014 4:36:08 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: Hugin
In another article:
But Schmidt, a tenured professor, believes it was retaliation for a grievance he filed after being denied a sabbatical about two months prior to the incident.

“This was payback because I filed a grievance,” he said.

The college is having union issues.
33 posted on 04/19/2014 4:53:34 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Hugin
He tried to explain that the quote was from “Game of Thrones,” but the officials claimed they didn’t know the show, Schmidt said.
So an official from Human Resources went into the hallway and asked the secretaries if any of them had heard of the series and one came forward and confirmed that the quote was from the show, Schmidt said.

Schmidt told The Record he believes the suspension may have been retaliation for a previous grievance he filed with the college prior to the incident.
The school has also been embroiled in labor negotiations.

34 posted on 04/19/2014 5:00:35 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: SERE_DOC

>>who would let a 7 year old watch that crap

I can’t find any statement at all that the kid watched the show - ever. Can you direct me to it?


35 posted on 04/19/2014 5:02:04 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Just a wild guess, but I’m thinking the collars and cuffs don’t match.

Correct but she is quite lovely as a brunette as well.


36 posted on 04/19/2014 5:10:42 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Yes, indeed.


37 posted on 04/19/2014 5:16:37 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Hugin
"For God's sake, I'm a middle-aged art professor. I don't own any firearms."

Maybe but he's not very smart. He just told every crook out there that he's an easy target.

38 posted on 04/19/2014 5:20:46 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: Hugin
When Schmidt asked the officials why they thought the quote was threatening, one said, "'when you see the word fire, then someone shows up with an AK-47 here shooting everybody,'" he told the paper.

Really? Who would even make the link from that t-shirt? This 'officials' response did 100 times more to plant that idea or link than any t-shirt.

39 posted on 04/19/2014 5:22:29 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Jack Hammer
How did we Americans ever conquer the wilderness, settle the west, and win World Wars I and II????

Simple. We used to censure, ridicule and ostracize these types of nitwits when they had the temerity to open their mouths and spew their drivel. Some were committed, some were 'excised'.

40 posted on 04/19/2014 5:26:32 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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