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Boston University president says students were trying to “cancel” commencement speaker Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/a-lesson-from-150th-commencement-at-bu/
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Dammit Phil now I gotta write about this
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The year I graduated, they had Les Moonves in to speak...
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I just CANNOT with the endless commencement speaker shit. All commencement speakers should have to agree to do a town hall with students where they will take questions. If you won't do that, no honorary degree, nice lunch, big check.
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I'm sure every one of of them would swear that they just wanted to be there for the students. Okay, be here for the students.
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Fast-forward to every graduating class of 2028 being addressed by a hologram of Tom Hanks
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"Appallingly coarse and deliberately abusive" is some next level pearl clutching
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Pretty telling that they can't say "incorrect" or "wrong". Pure tone policing because the message is dead on and they know it; they're just mad it was made directly and forcefully.
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I mean, yes & good on them for doing so. David Zaslav, even by the measures of stock-market capitalism (let alone given any consideration of artistic integrity & actual ethics) is awful at his job. Students shouldn't be the only ones trying to cancel him: so too should DiscoWarner's shareholders.
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they are not the only ones tbh phil lol
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Wait, isn't all Big Media run by "woke capitalists"? What were they protesting?
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First amendment protected free speech at a university? Well I never !
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oh president dumb bitch has thoughts
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