Related thread about an /r/CanadaPolitics post from a few days ago: http://np.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/2rhzy6/dentistry_students_suspended_for_joking_about/
Background: Last month, a bunch of screenshots were released from a private facebook group for the male students of the fourth year dentistry class at Dalhousie University, located in Nova Scotia, Canada. The screenshots were of posts of the students making rape jokes, including a poll asking which of their female classmates they'd most like to "hatefuck". Unsurprisingly, this has caused a lot of upset in the local community. The first response from Dalhouse was to start a restorative justice program, then they suspended the students involved from attending clinical duties (which could cause them to not to graduate), and just yesterday it was announced they wouldn't be able to attend classes with their fellow classmates.
To make matters worse, this incident comes one year after the "SMU Rape Chant". An incident which take place at a university located a few blocks away from Dalhousie, where it was discovered that during frosh week students were singing a chant which contains the phrases "U is for Underage, N is for No Consent". Obviously this caused a lot of upset at the time as well, and is still very fresh in peoples mind. In fact, the university is still working on implementing a 20 recommendations put forward by a third party investigation of the issue. As you can imagine, with the Dalhousie incident happening only a year after the SMU one, it's made the communities reaction to this incident filled with even more upset.
Okay, so, with that background out of the way, onto some Drama!
First stop, /r/halifax:
Most users in this thread are pleased with the latest response from Dalhouse, but norse_of_60 is not, and is getting downvoted all over the thread.
Popping on over to another thread from 3 days ago, we run into some more drama pretty quickly. The second-to-top comment has not one, not two, but three downvoted comment chains. Scrolling further down, we stumble onto an argument about clickbait and using charged language to cause hysteria. Just below that is another downvoted post from weyland_ind which has users debating how/if the students should be punished. The next chain starts off with nsups comparing the dentistry incident to a hypothetical example of students joking about drugging and raping students, and the thread closes off with an argument about the difference between posting things in a public space versus a private space.
That's enough of /r/halifax for now, let's move on to /r/CanadaPolitics! Plenty of threads about this over there, should be plent - annnnnd they're all being pretty level headed and nice to each other, and the mods are deleting things which aren't. Zeus damn it. Oh well, I'm sure we can count on /r/canada to provide us with some more drama!
Let's start by taking a look at a user who seems to think he's perfect has never said anything stupid or inappropriate, and then stop by looking at this downvoted comment by sinsyder-:
I hope those disgusting scumbags never work in the field or any professional field for that matter.
Wow. What a disaster life must be on campus these days. I would just lock myself in my room and not even speak or look at a female student. You could probably be expelled for offering to buy a female student a drink if the media and activists put enough spin on it.
Now let's continue our journey into the snowish hell that is /r/canada. This thread is small, but has some good drama. The first drama chain is an argument about whether or not the students intended to rape anyone and what their punishment should be, and the second one is about thought police, free speech, and kind of jokes your friends make.
I've got time for one more time stop on this adventure before I need to out and buy grocery's, so let's make it a good one. This thread gets into the drama right away, in a comment chain which starts with the following:
It was not "The internet" it was a private conversation in a private facebook group that jokes were taken out of context.
Should everything you have ever said be taken apart by the braying mob to be examined for an offending statement ?
This is why they are called FemiNazis
The next comment chain has people discussing whether or not hatefucking is the same as rape. Over here we have users arguing about whether or not thencaapawardgoesto analogy makes any sense. Next up we have a lengthy exchange between raven0usvampire and ur_a_idiet, about who is an idiot, how stupid are kids, when is someone considered an adult... and it's really mostly just them insulting each other for 30 comments.
We've got two nice long comment chains going on under this parent comment. The first one is here, and the next one is here and starts with this:
I dare you to find me 1 male in this entire world who has never said anything racist or sexist.
Therefore by that regard, no one is qualified to be Doctors or Dentists.
Okay, so I'm really hungry right now, so I'm going to just finish up with a downvoted post with 109 children:
What an absolute fucking joke. This is a blatant affront to freedom of expression for these young adults. It seems as if universities are no longer centres of learning, but leftist SJW paradises where faculty can play fast and loose with reason.
This last thread still has a lot of drama going on, and I'd love to go through the whole thing for you guys, but I really need to head off. I'll update this thread again later today when/if I have the time, because there is a bunch of drama all over Reddit about this. In fact, I might try and track down some of the drama about SMU Rape Chant last year and add it in as a !!!SPECIAL BONUS ROUND!!! No promises, though.
P.S.: I didn't include as many quotes as I was planning to, since it would have just been way too much work. If I only went through 2 or 3 threads I would have been able to include more quotes in the post itself, to save you folks the trouble of needing to go into the comments chains yourselves to see the best parts. So what would you folks prefer for my future posts: More quotes, but less links to drama OR Less quotes, but more links to drama?
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