Why 'seemingly' smart people do such idiotic things ??

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Over 40 years without a "black mark" on her record , and this Professor does not have the practical forethought to realize the potential repercussions of questionable things she says on social media ?

People are just stupid

Florida professor resigns after offensive Facebook comments
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  • 40 years in academia will cause the occasional meltdown, especially when your personal viewpoints are crushed and disallowed by the Ivory Tower's grand regime.

    I'm not saying her actions should be condoned, mind you. I'm just saying it looks like she went on tilt in a very public manner.
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  • Well, considering what she said, and her position, GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!!! I don't know why, but Cracker doesn't phase me one bit. I wonder why she said it. But the fact that she would use a term CONSIDERED pejorative just adds to it. Of course SHE likely won't have it evolve into a hate crime even though a white using a similar term towards blacks, that blacks use towards themselves ALL THE TIME, could cause far worse than what that teacher got, even WITHOUT the "kill yourself" comment.

    STEVE
  • probably driven by her emotions, I guess.
  • Can you hear that? Just faintly, I can hear the insignificant songs of a pair of love birds.
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    • To me...it was music....beautiful music.
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  • SORRY, I had just read a post about:

    Texas Teacher Resigns After

    And I guess I got them mixed up. YEAH, I don't like either group doing it, but my comments still stand.

    Steve
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    This is an interesting related read:

    http://fcmconference.org/img/Cambrid...sciousness.pdf

    Cheers

    -don
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  • I ALMOST posted a video this morning, but I didn't see enough to validate the claim. It concerns two dogs.

    One was sleeping, and twitching as dogs dreaming way do. When it yelped a couple times, the SECOND came up to lie on it, etc... The claim was the second one wanted to wake up the first from a nightmare. Anyway, dogs DO have fear, guilt, ties, etc....

    Steve
  • I'm not sure, did someone actually say that animals don't have feelings? I guess you would have to be a pretty big a-hole to never have a dog happy or excited to see you or sad when you leave.
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      My dog and I have long, complex conversations. He shows annoyance, disdain, agitation, humility, happiness, disapproval and plays a mean game of chess. He also chooses which channel we watch on TV.
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    • My AUNT actually said that about her pet that she loved for so long. I EASILY proved her wrong, as far as I was concerned, with a little ball! The dog OBVIOUSLY showed expectation, joy, spatial logic, anticipation, hesitation, and annoyance. My aunt wouldn't accept it.

      Steve
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  • Steve

    Dogs do talk in their own way. I'm currently dog-sitting my parents pooch and he communicates in different ways for different things.

    When he wants a door opened for him in the house he just sits in front of the door and growls.

    When he wants to go out into the back yard, he sits in front of the door and barks.

    When he wants something to eat he whines.

    When he just wants a back rub he licks my hand.

    All of that may not be talking per se, however it is definitely communicating.
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    • to get back to the OP's topic -

      "seemingly" smart people sometimes do idiotic things because no one is perfect - We all have bad days, we all can have melt-downs - it happens to the best and the worst of us.

      Was she stupid to post what she did on Facebook? - yep -

      but it's no worse that what gets posted in here by some of us sometimes - I know there are lots of things I've posted that I wish I hadn't -
      again, I'm human. I make mistakes - so does everyone else.

      I'm sad for this woman - she obviously had one of those melt-downs - too bad now the media is having a field day with her - but you all know as well as I do that in a few months time no one will remember her name, because everyone will have found someone else to hate on.
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    • Sorry, I thought I covered everything. I meant talk like PEOPLE. Yeah, every animal has a way to communicate that it can do. and dogs can communicate much like human babies can. Don't expect them to talk in chinese or even simple english though. I guess they COULD roughly approximate some english. Even THAT is pushing it though.

      Steve
  • Time and time again, I witness confirmation that people are not uniformly smart (unless designing uniforms is what they do, that is). I know I'm not. I know I've always been careful not to post something on Internet that could come back to haunt me.
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