[cwwc]

I so often wonder with pieces like this: what am I missing? I mean, it’s hard to believe this was so one-sided and that he was a little angel through it all.

It could be, I suppose. And I am outraged if it is. But the question that keeps nagging me... is it?

[rincebrain]

It's perfectly possible that he was an obnoxious asshole in various ways through it all _and_ they were unreasonable in responding to him.

It's also quite possible for a university to act completely unreasonably in a conspiratorial way based on a culture of believing they don't need to obey the laws or statutes. (My university had a famous scandal a number of years ago where the person in charge of handling student sexual assault allegations simultaneously acknowledged in writing the legal obligation to report cases of possible danger to the community publicly (the allegation was of a group committing sexual assault regularly at parties) and that they weren't going to do it, after years of a reputation of covering up anyone foolish enough to report it to them, and said writing got leaked to the press. ...despite the massive public fallout from this at the time, the institutional result was to found a new org to handle sexual assault cases...and put the aforementioned official as the head of it.)

[gerikson]

I googled "UVA microaggression" and found this Reddit thread that discusses it

https://www.reddit.com/r/UVA/comments/ab1dy7/university_of_v...

My take is it that the plaintiff is a troll.

[thinkingemote]

The judges ruling (allowing the trial to go ahead) says that the university claims that he made threats on web forums. They have never provided the proof to him or the judge.

These alleged threats were the basis for the banning from campus, but not the suspension. The claim is that they have been made after the suspension. A lawsuit should bring these into the air.

[DanBC]

Listening to his questions, and the way he's asking them, he's clearly trying to provoke.

"isn't it out of my control what hurts somebody? I can punch the air, and if that makes somebody mad it's not really my problem or my fault, but if I punch them in the face and it directly hurts them I've incited at them, it's completely different"

"Where are you getting this basis from? How are you studying this, how are you gathering evidence and making presentations on it?"

There are ways to ask guests for more information about their methodology, and he failed.

Also, his core point -- there's no difference between microaggressions and unintentional rudeness -- is fucking stupid. So what if there's no difference? Changing the name from micro-aggression to unintentional rudeness doesn't change anything about how we respond when they happen.

[layoutIfNeeded]

Think about how your comment would sit if it was made on a sexual assault case.