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University cancels professor over use of word

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  • #92
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh you’re talking about Coca Cola.


  • #93
    Yellow_Fern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭Yellow_Fern


    mikhail wrote: »
    Nice editorial slant there.

    Coke is still banned by the student union there since a referendum around 15 years ago, as are Nestle products since the mid-nineties. The Nestle thing was about giving free samples of baby formula to women in developing countries for just long enough for their breast milk to dry up. The Coke thing was about two workers' union reps at a bottling plant in Colombia being murdered. I'm not a fan of the tactics nor the open-ended nature of the bans, but they weren't exactly over trifling things.
    mikhail wrote: »
    The forced out a Student Union President who was elected promising her pro-life views would have no impact on her duties, and who promptly blocked the routine publication of abortion information in the annual freshers’ magazine. Whatever someone's political beliefs, "Politician breaks campaign promise, is recalled", should be welcome outside of dictatorships.
    Potentially illegal information. The lefty radicals get to decide what drinks and music we we are allowed to buy and listen to but conservatives can't even err on the side of the law of the land by not publishing potentially illegal information. Since how long have the conservatives been the fun ones.


  • #94
    Achebe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭Achebe


    Yellow_Fern wrote: »
    It is not as bad but there is all sort of crazies. UCD student union banned coke on campus for a decade or so due to some alleged links to militias. They also forced out a president for the crime of being prolife.

    Alleged? Coke financed paramilitary death squads in Colombia for years. There's little doubt about that.


  • #95
    Yellow_Fern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭Yellow_Fern


    Achebe wrote: »
    Alleged? Coke financed paramilitary death squads in Colombia for years. There's little doubt about that.
    Quite a lot of doubt and also it is links with the contracted bottlers, not Coca-Cola. Totally different entities and certainly not the company that would be profiting from Dublin coke.


  • #96
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,195 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Achebe wrote: »
    Alleged? Coke financed paramilitary death squads in Colombia for years. There's little doubt about that.

    Quite possible that young naive left-wing students acting silly got their cokes mixed up!!


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  • #97
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    blanch152 wrote: »
    Quite possible that young naive left-wing students acting silly got their cokes mixed up!!

    Won't stop them wearing Adidas, or using their iPhone (slave labor).


  • #98
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Bowie wrote: »
    Context is key. I find there's as much if not more backlash then actual issues. The wanting to be outraged at the alleged permanently outraged.

    The outrage industrial complex.


  • #99
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Pedro Moldy Sentry wrote: »
    What's the N word?

    A holy word that you can't speak out loud in case you curse yourself.

    Like J-h-v-h.


  • #100
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    topper75 wrote: »
    A holy word that you can't speak out loud in case you curse yourself.

    Like J-h-v-h.

    I only said that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!!!


  • #101
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    I only said that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!!!

    Great scene.

    Kind of telling for this context - what happens the guy presiding over the stoning.


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  • #102
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    topper75 wrote: »
    Great scene.

    Kind of telling for this context - what happens the guy presiding over the stoning.

    Exactly!! Now, are there any women here ??? 🀣


  • #103
    Achebe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭Achebe


    blanch152 wrote: »
    Quite possible that young naive left-wing students acting silly got their cokes mixed up!!

    Colombian fascists get their money from both.


  • #104
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    I only said that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!!!
    You're only making things worse for yourself!


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