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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:10 AM Author: Provocative opaque gunner mexican I TA a constitutional law class for undergrads and each week the students have to submit a short essay. This week, we discussed the first amendment and hate speech.
One student wrote: "I disagree that hate speech should be allowed. For example, someone saying they favor conservative economics should be allowed although I disagree with it, but something like saying you think undocumented people should be deported should not be allowed because the lives of these people aren't negotiable and this rhetoric endangers undocumented students who attend colleges as well." |
Date: February 21st, 2018 2:10 AM Author: Gay brunch organic girlfriend AREN'T NEGOTIABLE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450630) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:10 AM Author: Galvanic mint electric furnace tank spin, ratfucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450631) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:11 AM Author: Gay brunch organic girlfriend lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450632) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:11 AM Author: Provocative opaque gunner mexican I have to give feedback. How do I gently point out how deeply flawed this thinking is? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450635) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:19 AM Author: Khaki Big-titted Codepig just call ICE on him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450679) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:58 AM Author: Disrespectful Curious Gas Station Fat Ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451351) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:01 PM Author: fishy dead site (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35457697) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:22 AM Author: orange appetizing chapel son of senegal Formal logic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450689) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:25 AM Author: Claret Up-to-no-good Partner hard to give feedback when it sounds like they're being asked opinion questions.
think about the feels, bro. |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:27 AM Author: Provocative opaque gunner mexican i'll just try to make her consider the slippery slope of such a policy by asking her some questions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450700) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:27 AM Author: beady-eyed field people who are hurt LOL SO IT WAS A WOMAN devastating |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:12 AM Author: swollen hell They dont buy slippery slope arguments because anything is allowed when your opponent is “raciss” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451784) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 8:56 AM Author: Chrome exciting weed whacker Gently ask questions of him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451136) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:30 AM Author: nighttime wine toaster location scribble "they have to go back" in red pen across the first page (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451224) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:45 AM Author: aromatic police squad scourge upon the earth loled (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451623) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:20 PM Author: Khaki Big-titted Codepig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35454384) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:54 AM Author: bright feces church It's conclusory and unsupported. This is a law class, right? You should give basically no points for that sort of response and explain that arguing to limit enumerated rights requires something more than an opinion vaguely mentioning that deporting people isn't "negotiable". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451334) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:02 AM Author: Pink Church Building Blood Rage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451376) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:08 AM Author: Cracking kitchen lol. the student would just complain to the admins that their TA wants to deport all immigrants and it makes her feel unsafe on campus. he'll be fired within days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451396) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:51 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451653) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:04 AM Author: carmine cumskin theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451728) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:50 PM Author: orange appetizing chapel son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35454656) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:02 PM Author: fishy dead site (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35457702) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:57 AM Author: garnet razzle-dazzle piazza how is it flawed? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451343) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:25 AM Author: Balding lay mental disorder do the Jordan Peterson move. "you're argument that the government should have the power to censor and punish viewpoints makes people afraid. if you took your own argument seriously, you would urge that the government could ban your answer." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451504) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:54 AM Author: Arousing range just say her answer is incomplete. its fine that she thinks hate speech shouldn't be protected, but she doesn't define hate speech or say why making anti-immigration statements meets that definition (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451673) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:17 AM Author: tan house yeah, we're dun here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450671) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:18 AM Author: brilliant wonderful library edit wrong thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450674) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:28 AM Author: Provocative opaque gunner mexican ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450704) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:19 AM Author: adventurous useless gaping base on the other hand, i was walking through my campus and a fat kid i'd be certain posted on /r/the_donald asked me to sign his "free speech ball." it was a giant beach ball. i laughed sorry bro and went home. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450682) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:22 AM Author: tan house that made you go home? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450687) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:23 AM Author: adventurous useless gaping base i was already heading home man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450691) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:31 AM Author: Sooty racy whorehouse Did you take his ball before going home? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451226) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:20 AM Author: carmine cumskin theater That is one woke young woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450685) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:25 AM Author: beady-eyed field people who are hurt 180 that you assumed it's a woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35450696) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:33 AM Author: Sooty racy whorehouse I'd ask about abortion speech. Tell her based on what she wrote, you assume that she's pro-choice. But many (as much as half the country) disagrees and feels it's murder. They think the advocation of murder should be outlawed. How do you determine what is free speech and what is hate speech when half the country defines it one way, and half defines it the other way? Should we err on the side of free speech or hate speech? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451233) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:37 AM Author: Exhilarant stage pozpig women have the right to chose. that's non-negotiable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451245) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:39 AM Author: nighttime wine toaster location (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451251) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:41 AM Author: Obsidian Becky if you allow the government to ban murder, what's to stop it from banning eating pork!? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451256) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:42 AM Author: big very tactful school LOL@ thinking this is an effective strategy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451261) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:49 AM Author: Sooty racy whorehouse Well very little is effective against shitlibs. Even when brought face to face with the consequences of their policies they bury their heads in the sand. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451302) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:53 AM Author: Lemon abode Exactly so he needs to point out her illogic, tell her to read On Liberty, and give her a D on that paper.
There are arguments a SCHOLAR could make against hate speech but hers is dogshit |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:55 AM Author: Exhilarant stage pozpig what arguments could such scholar maek (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451338) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2018 12:33 AM Author: Peach Public Bath Philosopher-king no shit. talk about not knowing your enemy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35458358) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:33 AM Author: Obsidian Becky a right of free speech was a dumb idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451234) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:37 AM Author: Exhilarant stage pozpig libs just slowly make every issue non-negotiable into they are an ideological singleton in total control of federal government haha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451244) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:53 AM Author: Glassy rehab Turns out there is "one weird trick" to totalitarian control in a democracy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451663) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:05 AM Author: carmine cumskin theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451736) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:43 AM Author: Lemon abode Man I'd be harassing and exploiting the SHIT out of kollege koed kyooties if I were you. Dad them around and explain how great a woke ally you are, then brutally fuck them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451263) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:48 AM Author: lime love of her life area we don't get to have nice things like free speech in diversity is our strength america (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451288) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:55 AM Author: Lake arrogant theatre alright but you guys are openly advocating for a white ethnostate. history tells us where that leads. these people have a right to be concerned and if supressing your speech is necessary to their survival then how can you expect them not to choose that route? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451337) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:58 AM Author: Exhilarant stage pozpig yea man "we should have immigration laws designed to benefit citizens which are enforced"="advocating for a white ethnostate". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451357) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:01 AM Author: Lake arrogant theatre illegals are just the low hanging fruit. most of your alt right movement is open and honest about the ultimate end game, even if a few of you are too cowardly to say so (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451375) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:03 AM Author: Exhilarant stage pozpig so enforcing immigration laws = alt right. why stop at alt right, why not go all the way to its literally Hitler? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451380) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:45 AM Author: Lake arrogant theatre "low hanging fruit"
https://youtu.be/poqoClsEhR4 |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:59 AM Author: Disrespectful Curious Gas Station Fat Ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451360) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 9:59 AM Author: Cracking kitchen weak flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451365) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:06 AM Author: garnet razzle-dazzle piazza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451394) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:13 AM Author: swollen hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451788) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:24 AM Author: Histrionic bisexual plaza History also tells us where non-white majority rule leads. The preservation of the white majority is essential to its survival (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451494) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:24 AM Author: Disrespectful Curious Gas Station Fat Ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451498) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:33 AM Author: brass elastic band foreskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451551) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:47 AM Author: Lake arrogant theatre what is the alt right's best example of a white society that lost its power and got genocided by non-whites as a result? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451638) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:15 AM Author: swollen hell The type of people that libs want to make the new majoriry are from africa and south america.
Please point to a functional country on either of those continents. |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:50 PM Author: Flushed Step-uncle's House Chile/Colombia to a lesser extent
lol South Africa during apartheid |
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Date: February 22nd, 2018 8:01 AM Author: swollen hell Phenomenal poast moniker synergy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35459241) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:50 PM Author: aqua station Haiti
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Sarth Effrica |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:13 AM Author: swollen hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451791) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:49 PM Author: Razzle Generalized Bond yfwgi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35454653) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:11 AM Author: yapping incel I agree with with your student's point of view. Saying "go back home" etc. should probably not be allowed. Europe has similar types of laws to protect Jewish sentiments and they seem to be doing just fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451414) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:16 AM Author: Disrespectful Curious Gas Station Fat Ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451440) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:19 AM Author: Zippy senate cuck Go back home, faggot. gtfo. |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:28 AM Author: yapping incel haha. stew. stew in that anger. there are only two possible outcomes of your mental illess. your anger will ultimately completely take over your mind and incapacitate you OR you will go on a shooting spree as white men are prone to. either way it is going to be lulzy.
me? i came here on h1b. replaced the white guy that trained me. making 6 figs. 3 mud kids. life is chill. no plans to leave. |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:41 AM Author: adventurous useless gaping base you have to go back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451600) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:44 AM Author: Black low-t regret Hello exception, meet rule
http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/angry-muslims.jpg |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:46 AM Author: carmine cumskin theater shooting sprees are lulzy? Get help pradeep (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451632) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:47 AM Author: Zippy senate cuck go home and make your shithole turd country Great Again. stop leeching off of the white man. have you no shame. |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:54 AM Author: yapping incel none whatsoever. life is short. why would i spend that short life making my turd country great again? makes no sense. i'd rather live here which, for the most part, is nice.
but here's some good news for you. i will eventually go back. at retirement. ah retiring in low COL turd world with my American savings AND SS income - unghhhhh... but my kids will still be here. taking your kids jobs. oh wait, you don't have kids do you? ofcourse not. you don't even have a gf. hahahahahahahahahaha. stew stew stew! |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:55 AM Author: garnet razzle-dazzle piazza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451675) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:48 AM Author: nighttime wine toaster location this schtick could be significantly more effective than julia if u play it right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451642) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:48 AM Author: garnet razzle-dazzle piazza 180
ljl @ all of the virgin fags ITT MAF that some dude with a little extra melanin is LITERALLY achieving the American dream
can you fuck my girlfriend btw? |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:51 AM Author: brindle trailer park marketing idea OUT OUT OUT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451649) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:05 AM Author: Lake arrogant theatre ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451734) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:10 AM Author: Disrespectful Curious Gas Station Fat Ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35451768) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 3:15 PM Author: outnumbered flesh juggernaut preventive strike holy shit this was a ruthless pwnage
PWN PWN PWN |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:21 PM Author: Titillating cruise ship travel guidebook flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35454404) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:36 PM Author: milky antidepressant drug parlor LMAO why am I not up by 50 points you might ask??!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35457945) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:25 PM Author: Swashbuckling milk The American experiment has failed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35454442) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:45 PM Author: green stage pisswyrm you can't really respond to that with reason, since the position itself is not based on reason. it's based on a more primitive sort of emotion, with the weakly-reasoned justification coming afterwards. you can attack the reasoning easily enough, but the emotion is what matters, and you can't change that very easily. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35454612) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:11 PM Author: Diverse locale alpha in all fairness maybe it was a dumb idea to found a nation in which roughly 50% of the country has irreconcilable differences of fundamental values with you, and may try to impose them by force on them if you break the uneasy truce to not use the government to enforce your values on them when you're in power (or maybe they'll just do it anyway when they get the chance even if you are too principled to do it to them) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35457784) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:15 PM Author: Swashbuckling milk We didn't found it that way. This could never have happened the way our federal system was designed. The way we govern now, however, bears little resemblance to the original plan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35457821) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:40 PM Author: Shimmering gay wizard much less scary than most of the views of low iq shitcons on xo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35457971) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:43 PM Author: Galvanic mint electric furnace tank spin, ratfucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35457985) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:46 PM Author: Shimmering gay wizard me: prestigious lower ivy postdoc you: pretend to be albanian landlord in parents basement |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:55 PM Author: Splenetic market heh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35458051) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:58 PM Author: Galvanic mint electric furnace tank spin, ratfucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35458081) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2018 12:08 AM Author: Splenetic market This "clean white glory of truth" poster is a recent interloper from another board who got an account in rach's alts giveaway.
He is actually mentally ill and has a history of extremely doobsian behavior on other boards, obsessed with finding out personal details about others. DO NOT DIVULGE PERSONAL DETAILS OR THROW-AWAY EMAILS TO THIS POSTER.
http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879317&mc=48&forum_id=2
he has extremely weird fantasies about being, among other things, an albanian landlord, a war hero, a rich dermatologist, tall, specifically being 6'3 230lbs, and some other boring shit
when unrestrained or unmedicated, he spams about them constantly for 18 hrs a day every day -- and started posting about the exact same things here, down to the weirdest details (the same youtube clips, the same fantasy about being a landlord with "1000 units", some others)
he was also banned from the chat there for extremely doobsian behavior, and then he spammed the chat constantly for several days straight out of revenge until it became unusable
all while spamming the board itself for a couple of years
he repeatedly apologized for his spamming, said he couldn't help himself because of his mental illness, begged for help with his mental illness, and then kept spamming, until IP tracked and IP banned repeatedly (VPNs make that more difficult)
this guy is doobs and JJC together, except MUCH more mentally ill
he did this there 18 hrs a day every day for a couple of years
be warned |
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Date: February 22nd, 2018 12:10 AM Author: Galvanic mint electric furnace tank spin, ratfucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35458188) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2018 12:14 AM Author: Diverse locale alpha other than the doxing this guy sounds like a bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35458218) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2018 12:17 AM Author: Splenetic market he’s actually mentally ill and “other than the doxxing” doesn’t really work when this is a core part of his behavior |
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Date: February 22nd, 2018 12:22 AM Author: twisted disturbing ratface This is why sensible people have to be post-politics/post-American. if you're on the right you have to give up on the constitution. you have to give up on liberalism. the left must be destroyed or the country split (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899216&forum_id=2#35458290) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:46 AM Author: pale stimulating institution party of the first part In the college courses I have taught (related to government, law, and local institutions) I've always tried to "depunditify" or cleanse the class of ideology. I tell them right off the bat that this isn't debate class, that their political views won't help them with the coursework, and that the classroom is like a little laboratory and they are the detached scientists. Keep it simple and avoid essay topics that generate political opinions. Honestly, they are terrible writers and researchers so making the essay assignments like book reports is better. They don't need a platform to speak. They need to practice reading, writing, and citing.
If you have class discussions that might turn political, have each person who speaks argue the other side at least once. Keep things light (for instance, sometimes I use photos of myself and siblings from the 90's in my powerpoints and go off on some tangent about the 80's-90's that gets them all laughing).
Some young kids have dumb and radical opinions. I'd say that almost all of the radical SJW and alt-right talk comes straight from online/reddit talking points, and not from other classes or professors. I had one guy (hispanic-white 1st gen from chile, wore a bun, trumpmo but self-described "anarchist" lol) who was spouting stuff that almost had me convinced he posted here. He referenced Evola and once started going off on some tangent about race and iq (dead serious). He wasn't a poster, he was merely repeating the packaged ideology he found online. These kids just spend too much time online where they can bypass the institutional gatekeepers of knowledge and embrace some crap that makes them feel like revolutionaries. They are not bad kids.
On the whole I don't think they are any worse than previous generations. If anything, they seem nicer, better behaved and more understanding of each other than when I went to school. Maybe more child-like. Grading stuff sucked (it's the same fucking thing over and over again, lol). But lecturing and leading class discussions was a lot of fun. |