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A student was punished for filming professor’s anti-Trump rant. Then came the backlash.
Washington Post ^ | February 25, 2017 | Avi Selk and Peter Holley

Posted on 02/26/2017 8:23:23 AM PST by Leaning Right

When suspending Caleb O’Neil for recording his professor’s rant against then-President-elect Donald Trump, the dean of Orange Coast College said that the punishment should make the student “truly think through your actions and the consequences of those actions.”

But it was the college that rethought its actions — after two weeks of intense criticism that the California school was stifling a conservative student to protect a liberal professor.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: filming; professor; winning
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Liberal professor says Trump’s victory was “an act of terrorism.”
Conservative student records professor's rant.

Conservative student gets suspended.
Conservative student pushes back, college backs down.

Winning.

1 posted on 02/26/2017 8:23:23 AM PST by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

Fire the professor. I had a sociology teacher who did practically nothing but call conservatives racist. Spreading hate is clearly a liberal value, but how does this benefit the students?


2 posted on 02/26/2017 8:26:06 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Leaning Right
So, taking this to the professor's logical liberal conclusion, conservatives failing to vote for Hillary is not only hate but terrorism as well.

Where do these people come from?

3 posted on 02/26/2017 8:32:17 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life ~ Vote!)
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To: Leaning Right

Push liberals down into the hole they came out of.

Then throw in dry ice to suffocate them.


4 posted on 02/26/2017 8:32:24 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Leaning Right
The big problem after this is the student lost all his tuition and book money, a semester lost in getting his degree (which could be a year if the class is required and only offered once a year), bad mark on his record, and is probably blacklisted among the faculty at the college. I would hope there is a MULTI-MILLION dollar settlement after the law suit against the school, professor, faculty, Kalifornia dept. of education, etc., etc., etc.

Go Trump

5 posted on 02/26/2017 8:37:12 AM PST by ProudFossil
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To: ConservativeMind

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Off-label use of CO2.

Still subject to review and further field testing.


6 posted on 02/26/2017 8:45:51 AM PST by ptsal
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To: Leaning Right

60+ years of cultural marxism, anti-tradition, anti-authority, and leftists self-proclaimed calls to “resist,” “protest,” and “question....”

...and one of the few times when their own actions blows back against the liberal orthodoxy in force everywhere in government and academia - and the Left whines like little b**ches

Truly ironic.


7 posted on 02/26/2017 8:47:19 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Leaning Right

Wow. The comments at WP are at least 50/50 pro-Trump or pro-student. Whodathunkit?


8 posted on 02/26/2017 8:47:41 AM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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> The comments at WP are at least 50/50 pro-Trump or pro-student. Whodathunkit? <

Yep. I’m surprised that the Post printed the article in the first place. Maybe the Post’s editor only read the headline, and thought that the “backlash” was directed against the conservative student.


9 posted on 02/26/2017 9:00:02 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: smileyface

I agree .. their wording was unusual.


10 posted on 02/26/2017 9:00:27 AM PST by CyberAnt (Peace Through Strength)
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To: ptsal

I hope that is deleted from the EPA’s coverage soon.

Dry ice was apparently extremely effective in killing rats in their nests.


11 posted on 02/26/2017 9:00:50 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: smileyface

Not me !


12 posted on 02/26/2017 9:02:25 AM PST by whodathunkit (PC is the AR of the left)
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To: Leaning Right

The thing about this story that jumps out at me the most is that any college would have a policy against recording classroom lectures. The whole purpose of classes is for the students to attend and learn and retain the supposed knowledge imparted by the lecturer.

Students relied on note taking for generations, but now most every student has a handy, miniature recording device. Why wouldn’t every student want at least an audio recording to fill in parts of a lecture where their notes might be inadequate? And why would any school object that their students have even better means to learn from lectures?

The only answer I can think of is that the lecturers, and school administrations, do not want recorded, indisputable evidence of what the lecturers said in class.

Maybe the schools should have a policy, not to prohibit recording lectures, but to require lecturers to stick to their course subject and keep personal political opinions out of their lectures.


13 posted on 02/26/2017 9:07:18 AM PST by Will88
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To: Leaning Right

There is usually more to a liberal than what shows on the surface.I don’t know for a fact all this is true, but it seems to be.
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/01/05/trump-hater-california-college-prof-olga-cox-has-a-sex-slave/


14 posted on 02/26/2017 9:08:12 AM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: ProudFossil

I don’t think he lost any tuition or book money. An LA Times article states “The student has been in class during this process and continues to be in class with no interruptions.” No doubt the young man has experienced disruption and now has a cloud over his head when liberal profs see him in class, but he has not missed a semester at OCC.


15 posted on 02/26/2017 9:10:20 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Leaning Right
https://www.cccd.edu/boardoftrustees/Pages/meetourtrustees.aspx
These elected bureaucrats run the school. Hold the threat of recall over there heads unless O'Neil is treated fairly.
16 posted on 02/26/2017 9:10:57 AM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“Dry ice was apparently extremely effective in killing rats in their nests.”

While I’m neither a ‘Rat not do I play one at the voting booth, I can attest to the effects of CO2. I was in the bottom of a 7-story tall cavern working on a hydroelectric turbine when I was overcome by CO2, probably from welding gases, and hauled off to the hospital with my eyes rolled back in my head (or so I was told). CO2, being heavier than air, accumulated in the lowest point of the project.


17 posted on 02/26/2017 9:11:24 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Leaning Right
Attended evening classes at Orange Coast College a number of years ago. At the time I lived in nearby Santa Ana. Orange County had a reputation for being the most conservative county in the greater LA basin area ... which at the time didn't mean that much to me ... I only became politicized when Clinton came along in the early 1990’s. My point ... I'm not surprised that a student attending OCC would record a professor's liberal rant ... good to know there's an element of conservatism still around in that part of the world.
18 posted on 02/26/2017 9:11:28 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: ProudFossil

But the story said the college backed down. If the student is no longer considering a lawsuit, one would assume that he was fully reinstated; i.e., he didn’t lose any of these things. Otherwise, he would still be talking about a lawsuit.

Someone correct me with another news story if I’m mistaken, but that’s what the article appears to be saying.

It’s hilariously ironic that the professor intimidated conservative kids in her classroom, yet freaked out when she was intimidated in real life. You reap what you sow!


19 posted on 02/26/2017 9:11:35 AM PST by lbtbell
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To: Will88

I don’t think the school actually has a rule against recording. I do think that recording without two party permission is against California state law however. I looked at OCC’s student code of conduct that I found online and it did not have any such restriction. That doesn’t mean that what I saw was the complete document of course, however as other posters have stated here before, it has not been unusual for students to record lectures for decades. Maybe since I’ve been in college things have changed, and the increasing litigiousness of society has prompted a change in policy, but I doubt it.


20 posted on 02/26/2017 9:15:57 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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