{"id":57749,"date":"2016-02-26T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57749"},"modified":"2016-02-26T08:42:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T14:42:11","slug":"the-clicking-sound-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57749","title":{"rendered":"The Clicking Sound Of &#8220;Justice&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;must be tempered by the knowledge that the only reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiatribune.com\/news\/education\/turmoil_at_mu\/university-of-missouri-curators-vote-to-fire-melissa-click\/article_4b0ae653-2d61-5f3f-9ede-a129d12f0fd1.html\">this happened<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; University of Missouri professor Melissa &#8220;Poster Child for Moral Constipation&#8221; Click, was fired earlier this week &#8211; was that her little meltdown\u00a0was caught on video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1S3yMzEee18\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Looking at the &#8220;Students&#8221; in this video may be the most deeply depressing thing I&#8217;ve done lately. \u00a0Fascism is alive and well and drinking latte on a thousand university<\/em> campuses)<\/p>\n<p>How many professors out there commit the same, and worse, crimes against free expression and critical inquiry every day, unrecorded and, thanks to the outdated practice of academic tenure, utterly untouchable?<\/p>\n<p>In a just world, every one of those &#8220;students&#8221; will have this video hounding them throughout their &#8220;lives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Question: \u00a0<\/strong>Any bets on whether Click gets hired at one of the Twin Cities&#8217; surplus crop of mediocre colleges?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;must be tempered by the knowledge that the only reason this happened\u00a0&#8211; University of Missouri professor Melissa &#8220;Poster Child for Moral Constipation&#8221; Click, was fired earlier this week &#8211; was that her little meltdown\u00a0was caught on video: (Looking at the &#8220;Students&#8221; in this video may be the most deeply depressing thing I&#8217;ve done lately. \u00a0Fascism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,337,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-privilege","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57749"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57755,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57749\/revisions\/57755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}