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It's a news article headline; I don't think anyone clicked on the link with the expectation that the professors would be literally arming themselves or somethin

• perl4ever 6y ago
  I would tend to agree with the parent comment - while they may not be engaging in armed revolt nor are expected to, it seems to me that the line between revolting and not revolting is when you draw the proverbial line in the sand. When you say, "we are committed to working with...blah blah blah" you haven't revolted yet. Revolt doesn't require violence or anger but it does require saying "I/we are not going to do this thing we are being compelled to, period". Saying "we disagree strongly" is not making an ultimatum. They might be implying that they are considering revolting, though. If I were working there, I would think it better to be more blunt. I bet in private, people are.
  • adamsea 6y ago
    Sure, I could see that. But it’s a newspaper headline. It’s not the title of a scientific paper. And since we can’t devise repeatable experiments for the truth or falsehood of news articles (though I give it 50/50 odds someone might post a comment now proposing how we could ;) ) news articles cannot have the same kind of confidence that scientific papers have. As revolting as that idea may be ;)