Get your Rashomon on
Aaron thinks this confrontation between a law professor and student protestors warrants an exercise in ideological self-reflection, but I don’t know. It seems to me more like an undergraduate film project designed to lure a wretched — though utterly harmless — beast from its natural environs so that the entire world might point and laugh at it.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to see the final cut of Concern Troll: The Movie.
Because the alternative is he’s just an asshole who doesn’t know what “antagonist” means.
Somebody needs to pitch this to a network.
It’s 75% Larry David, 25% “Always Sunny…” and 100% hilarious!
I actually felt sorry for the old guy.. he’s clearly got a character defect of some sort, and I hope he seeks the therapy he clearly needs.
There have been days in the nearly two years since I graduated law school, and have yet to secure full-time work as an attorney that I fear I would not have been able to control myself in such a situation. Granted, I don’t really know what was happening right before the clip started. A fair bit of the context is lost on me. That said, there a few of my former professors whom I don’t care for very much. And I cannot imagine how angry I would become if one openly taunted me in that manner.
I respect the heck out of the tall guy who stood in front of the professor when he was trying to intimidate the girl.. and didn’t simply push him away from the situation.
Although, to be fair, the guy’s the wrong side of 60.. it’s one thing to get amped up to fight, it’s another when it’s grampa off his meds.
Now fired, it seems.
Yeah, losing your temper, shoving a student, and taking another student’s phone – all while approximately half the student body is recording the event – probably fits the definition of Career Limiting Maneuvers.
Well, certainly not a tenured asshole.
You’re right. I heard a different set of details earlier today. The post has been corrected.
Oh, hell–this guy’s just an adjunct? Shouldn’t he be on the other side of this issue?
Adjuncts at law schools are usually retired or practicing attorneys who teach a course in their specialty; teaching is a sideline, not the rent money. Olmstead has a real estate law practice.
What strikes me is the demand that ones personal space be respected while pushing shoving and mauling those around you.
I see that a lot from authoritarians.
I don’t know – it seems to me he was making a basic blue-collar point – you better be prepared to stand up to physical aggression or your cause is going to fail. Asshole, but asshole making a point!
So?
That basic blue-collar point of total aggression is one of pure stupidity and hyper-masculinity. Like getting drunk and having a fight in a bar- or to move waaay down on the social scale- joining a gang and picking up a gun.
Guerrilla theater is designed to improve understanding. The only way they could have been more successful is if that gasbag had pulled out a taser.
I’m not certain that I’d want to toss around phrases like “to move waaay down on the social scale” in that context. Do you mean perhaps, socioeconomic scale, to a group with even scarcer resources?
The adjunct was inappropriate. Should be adjuncting in some other context.