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Some girls I went to university with were expelled and effectively had their medical careers ruined at 19 because someone (without their knowledge) filmed them
by joenot443 4y ago
Some girls I went to university with were expelled and effectively had their medical careers ruined at 19 because someone (without their knowledge) filmed them singing a Kanye song at a party and not sufficiently self-censoring. They were on track for med school and never came back to formal education, the DEI student group that lobbied the school for their expulsion was certainly happy though. This was back in Ontario where we now consider the province to have a doctor shortage, ironically.
People can be ghouls and will absolutely use frameworks like this to bring down their peers, I’ve witnessed it with my own eyes.
- pannSun 4y agoYour experiences are anecdotal outliers. Their experiences are indicative of wider trends in society. /s
- nonrandomstring 4y agoThe story you tell is a sad case of bullying and victimisation. But before you draw any conclusions from it, do watch "The Lives of Others" and research into what happened in the former East German GDR after the wall fell and the Stasi files were opened. You see, the thing about "witch hunts" is this: It depends who is holding the torch. And time waits for no man. In 1992 the files were incomplete paper records. Today, the actions of those teachers and students who colluded to destroy the lives of the girls are still on a server somewhere, indexable, cross referenceable, timestamped. Waiting. What those bullies had better pray for, is that Dr. Martin Luther King was wrong. Because if the arc of history does tend toward justice....
- joenot443 4y agoI'm reading about the Stasi files and the GDR now, thank you for the suggestion. This a very good way of looking at the topic, I hope you're right.