Sunshine
9d ago
Freedom of speech means that the government can't put you in jail for your speech. It doesn't mean your employer can't fire you if the speech you make while representing them as part of your job is damaging to the institution.
If a PR spokesperson for a grocery store dropped an N-bomb on national TV and triggered a political backlash, their employer would have every right to fire them on the spot, freedom of speech or no. Freedom of speech is not the right to keep your job in spite of gross incompetence.
Sunshine
17d ago
I think this is a fine outcome. Getting repeatedly shot is more than enough punishment for ramming a cop with your car, there's no need to additionally send her to prison.
Sunshine
25d ago
Fun fact, the proper translation of the Sixth Commandment is "thou shalt not murder," not "thou shalt not kill." As in, thou shalt not kill anyone outside the accepted bounds of the legal system or war.
Sunshine
27d ago
I think you mean two different things by "grade inflation". On one hand, grade inflation could mean that a worse performance is given the same grade, in the same way that inflation causes the value of currency/grades to decline. On the other hand, grade inflation could mean that everyone is given higher grades, in the same way that inflation causes an increase in the overall supply of currency/grades.
Curving allows an entire class to get worse over time without their grades going down, so it causes the first kind of grade inflation. Curving also prevents a class from all getting A's, so it prevents the second kind of grade inflation.
Sunshine
27d ago
The TA was not trying to apply consistent academic standards to everyone. The TA was punished for failing to apply consistent academic standards to everyone!
This is pure whattaboutism. The topic of discussion is Somali welfare fraud. The President has nothing to do with it. If the President was a clone of Adolf Hitler he would still have nothing to do with it. There is no level of racism in the heart of the President of the United States that would change the ethical calculus to make welfare fraud okay.
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