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Picasso3

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Those red loving godless freeloading children left out under God.

I know it was added in the 50s.
 

Chanur

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I just wanted to add that Sulkowicz is a whore that traded sex for notoriety. I hope Nungesser wins a 10 digit judgement against Columbia.
 

Haast

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I just wanted to add that Sulkowicz is a whore that traded sex for notoriety.
My guess is the situation isn't that black and white. I'm not convinced the guy did anything wrong (legally speaking), but likely there was a bad interaction between them and she thought she would get back at him by doing a spiteful art project targeting him. And then it blew up in popularity and she felt like it hit the point of no return and she had to run with it. And then she sensationalized it to make a name for herself. I mean, she wants to be an artist and artists need recognition to sell their work. Shitty on her part, but I understand how it could happen and how it then spun out of control.

But Columbia is really the bad guy here. They wronged the shit out of the guy and deserve a fat judgement against them.

They allowed her to harass the shit out of him even after he was cleared of wrongdoing BY THEM. They approved of her mattress project (which targeted him specifically for harassment, unapologetically), they displayed her other art pieces for public viewing which took personal shots at him, they allowed her to drag her mattress across the graduation stage after specifically disallowing it by their own rules. There's probably more I'm missing.

They institutionally failed to protect their own student from a harassment campaign and at least passively approved of it. Pay up, you hypocritical fuckers.
 

Chanur

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We talked about this all before she has not once acted like someone that was raped. She hounded him for weeks if not months to get back together then made a porn video about the instance. Paul is the only victim here.
 

Haast

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We talked about this all before she has not once acted like someone that was raped. She hounded him for weeks if not months to get back together then made a porn video about the instance. Paul is the only victim here.
I'm not saying she's a victim. My point is that Columbia should have the hammer dropped on them. They directly signed off on a harassment campaign against a student that they cleared of wrong doing, and kept giving passive approvals to it over time. Also, between a venerated institution run by highly paid adults vs a 20-year old misguided art student, I expect one of these two to be a lot more responsible with their choices & actions. But Columbia failed massively to be responsible. And it led to direct damages for their own student.

So basically I hope Columbia gets fucked too, but with different reasoning. College kids are dumb and do dumb shit. The institution isn't supposed to signal boost bad behavior and the best lesson for them is financial pain.
 

AngryGerbil

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Haast has it right. In the grand scheme of things it isn't this silly little girl or the others like her that are the true problem. The true problem is educated responsible adults in positions of power who do anything other than scold or at least ignore them. It's like when a 6 year cries and says they want ice cream before bed. You don't engage or bargain with that shit, you shut it down and wait for them to figure out that they don't always get their way. Was it Bisi or Lith or someone else here who said that all of these people's behavior's become perfectly clear as soon as you start looking at them like their eight year olds. That's how they behave and that's how they should be treated. I hope Columbia gets raped over this.
 

Tanoomba

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We talked about this all before she has not once acted like someone that was raped. She hounded him for weeks if not months to get back together then made a porn video about the instance. Paul is the only victim here.
You're confusing "acting like someone who was raped" with "acting how YOU think someone who was raped should act". The way she acted was actually fairly typical of rape victims. They often try to remain cordial, even friendly with the person who raped them. And what you describe as "she hounded him for weeks" was more like two people saying "yeah, we should get together" and neither of them acting on it. None of us knows what happened between those two and it's the height of arrogance to assume otherwise.

Having said that, of course the school should be held accountable for their role in all this. To allow a student to create an art project that explicitly singles out another student for harassment is powerfully irresponsible. Sulkowicz should have either carried out that project as a personal side project (independent of her studies) or her teachers should have advised her on how to modify it to protect the identity of someone the rest of us can't just assume is guilty. I imagine they might have to take a hit for this.
 

Adebisi

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The real talk is that rape is a fucking crime. You go to the police. The school should go to the police. There shouldn't be university rape courts run on faculty feels.
 

Chanur

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The real talk is that rape is a fucking crime. You go to the police. The school should go to the police. There shouldn't be university rape courts run on faculty feels.
Yes absolutely . The fact that the kangaroo court didn't even find him guilty is pretty telling.

Also Tan is completely wrong as usual.