• @SpaceNoodle
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    421 year ago

    This really highlights the important role that The Onion increasingly plays in today’s world.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    “The whole [academic] enterprise we’re engaged in rests on the ability to have open intellectual exchange about any topic and express our views honestly,” says Josh Dubnau, a neurobiologist at Stony Brook University and one of the letter’s authors. “Nothing he said was repugnant or hateful. There shouldn’t be consequences for minority views in academia.”

    This guy is right, enforced groupthink is incompatible with an earnest effort to engage with reality as it is.

  • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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    -201 year ago

    Reminder. No matter your personal opinions, do not piss off the hands that feed you.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      451 year ago

      Alternatively, stand up for your principles but be prepared for the consequences.

      • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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        -21 year ago

        And the consequences is now a couple weeks of unemployment and struggling to feed their family.

        All of that can be done WITH a job, you know?

        • Doug [he/him]
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          91 year ago

          That’s not necessarily wrong, but it’s a dangerous precedent. How many people throughout history have done terrible things to be able to provide for their family? At what point does it become immoral not to take a stand?

    • FiveOP
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      571 year ago

      Meanwhile, the sidebar:

      A place to share and discuss stories from The Onion, Clickhole, and other satire.

      This article is part of a discussion about an article from The Onion. I think it is on topic for a community that discusses satirical articles and does not violate rules from the sidebar. If you’re a mod, feel free to remove this. If you’re not a mod, feel free to report, but please don’t derail discussion.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        81 year ago

        Your vindication gives me life. Thank you for this.