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He posted something along the lines of that he has a tree for the protesters if y'all wanna settle it Wild West Style.
 
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Yeah, I saw that after I hit Post. Apparently I was composing my response when he responded.
 
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That's putting it mildly.

As if the irony of someone being digitally lynched for a comment about lynching others wasn't enough, you have a member of those most protected by the 1st Amendment urging that someone else be punished for something they said.
I get that the comment was out of line, but is it really worth ruining someone's life over?
 
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57stratdawg said:
Seems like a slippery slope to start expelling kids over social media post.
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Yeah, it does seem a bit extreme. Is it even any of the University's business what he or any other student posts? I can see the fraternity expelling him, but not so sure about the University. Now if the FBI considers it a terrorist threat, then I could see how they might become involved.
 
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00Dawg said:
As if the irony of someone being digitally lynched for a comment about lynching others wasn't enough, you have a member of those most protected by the 1st Amendment urging that someone else be punished for something they said.
I get that the comment was out of line, but is it really worth ruining someone's life over?
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He has a right to say it. But if it infringes on the constitutional rights of other students to feel safe and be happy then he has to go. Your rights only last until they infringe on the rights of others.
 
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Yeah, ummm....

I don't like what the guy said, but "feel safe and be happy" isn't in the Constitution. You can go with the pursuit of happiness from the Declaration of Independence if you want to, but there's no guarantee of a safe feeling or happiness in either document.
 
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The guy seems like a real idiot, but expelling someone from the university is going too far. I'd have to know the context of the Facebook conversation. Was he only talking about rioters who committed the crimes of murder, attempted murder, assault, battery, criminal damage to property, etc.? Even if so, it's a really stupid comment, but I think it was clearly meant as a (bad) joke. He deserves to be ostracized. However, Shaun King is one pretty big POS. He's a guy that often passively encourages violence on his own social media accounts, so take whatever he says with a grain of salt.

TLDR: We shouldn't be kicking people out of public universities because something they said hurt someone else's feelings, no matter how stupid the comment may be.
 
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I expect this to be met with a "black lives don't matter, unless you play football" riot given their track record of racial insensitivity.
 
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