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The author of the blog post has an "interesting" past: https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/12/lecturer-suspended-after-comparing-abortions-to-sex-with-dead-people-8032

The author of the blog post has an "interesting" past: https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/12/lecturer-suspended-after-comparing-abortions-to-sex-with-dead-people-8032570/ https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/12/lecturer-suspended-after-comp... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6278739/Southampton-University-lecturer-boasted-online-stealing-self-checkouts-taking-ECSTASY.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6278739/Southampton... https://www.wessexscene.co.uk/opinion/2019/09/09/i-wish-this-was-satire-justin-murphy-former-southampton-lecturer-part-1/ https://www.wessexscene.co.uk/opinion/2019/09/09/i-wish-this... https://www.wessexscene.co.uk/opinion/2019/09/12/i-wish-this-was-satire-justin-murphy-former-southampton-lecturer-part-2/ https://www.wessexscene.co.uk/opinion/2019/09/12/i-wish-this... Their publication record isn't especially strong either: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1dhhMPkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1dhhMPkAAAAJ&hl=en... I'm not sure I'd want to attend a "Liberal Arts College" by a self-confessed thief who resigned after being suspended as a lecturer.

dmos62 5y ago
> I'm not sure I'd want to attend a "Liberal Arts College" by a self-confessed thief I don't know. I appreciate honesty. Give me an honest thief over a self-censuring conformist. I'm not making judgments about the post author, but about being a self-confessed thief.
- aiscapehumanity 5y ago
  And that's how you end up with kleptocrats
  - dmos62 5y ago
    I think you'd find it hard to find an honest kleptocrat.
mrslave 5y ago
I'm starting to believe this is performance art in the tradition of Joaquin Phoenix's transformation into rap musician. At least some of his provocative "not provocative" (his words) Tweets are political satire. This is not a comment on quality or appropriateness.
Chris2048 5y ago
This is the classic headline of "Guy compared <good thing> to <bad thing>" but when you look closer, what they did is employ a metaphor (or Devil's advocate).
rchaud 5y ago
I'm trying to imagine the life of a student whose thesis advisor is a guy that makes Youtube videos titled "The Ethics of Shoplifting feat. Xenogothic".
ativzzz 5y ago
You can disagree with what he says, but I think he makes a fair point. From the first article, > ‘Academia doesn’t need more polite bureaucrats. Academia needs smart people who are weird enough to be real and tell the truth, about the little things as much as the big things.’ > In a blog, Dr Murphy, who brands himself a ‘highly skilled’ intellectual, said: ‘What I am doing is simple. I am just thinking and saying whatever I feel like.’ > He added: ‘I want to enjoy the right to make mistakes, to be rude, to occasionally overshoot and occasionally undershoot, perhaps even wildly.’ > He also said: ‘If my bosses think that any of this is inconsistent with my employment, then I will just infer that their employment is inconsistent with a real intellectual life. Yes, there is a difference between honest, intelligent thought and absurdist nonsense that offends people, but the line separating the two can be incredibly narrow, or sometimes nonexistant. There is, and has always been room in society for those who say things that irritate or inflame other people, even at the cost of society belittling or dismissing them (or in modern times, cancelling them).

dmos62 5y ago

> I'm not sure I'd want to attend a "Liberal Arts College" by a self-confessed thief I don't know. I appreciate honesty. Give me an honest thief over a self-censuring conformist. I'm not making judgments about the post author, but about being a self-confessed thief.

aiscapehumanity 5y ago
And that's how you end up with kleptocrats
- dmos62 5y ago
  I think you'd find it hard to find an honest kleptocrat.

mrslave 5y ago

I'm starting to believe this is performance art in the tradition of Joaquin Phoenix's transformation into rap musician. At least some of his provocative "not provocative" (his words) Tweets are political satire. This is not a comment on quality or appropriateness.

Chris2048 5y ago

This is the classic headline of "Guy compared <good thing> to <bad thing>" but when you look closer, what they did is employ a metaphor (or Devil's advocate).

rchaud 5y ago

I'm trying to imagine the life of a student whose thesis advisor is a guy that makes Youtube videos titled "The Ethics of Shoplifting feat. Xenogothic".

ativzzz 5y ago

You can disagree with what he says, but I think he makes a fair point. From the first article, > ‘Academia doesn’t need more polite bureaucrats. Academia needs smart people who are weird enough to be real and tell the truth, about the little things as much as the big things.’ > In a blog, Dr Murphy, who brands himself a ‘highly skilled’ intellectual, said: ‘What I am doing is simple. I am just thinking and saying whatever I feel like.’ > He added: ‘I want to enjoy the right to make mistakes, to be rude, to occasionally overshoot and occasionally undershoot, perhaps even wildly.’ > He also said: ‘If my bosses think that any of this is inconsistent with my employment, then I will just infer that their employment is inconsistent with a real intellectual life. Yes, there is a difference between honest, intelligent thought and absurdist nonsense that offends people, but the line separating the two can be incredibly narrow, or sometimes nonexistant. There is, and has always been room in society for those who say things that irritate or inflame other people, even at the cost of society belittling or dismissing them (or in modern times, cancelling them).