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Professor in Epstein Files Makes Extremely Awkward Announcement at Start of Class (futurism.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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[–] 108 points 11 months ago (2 children)

-These exchanges, as did many others, took place well after Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to sexually abusing teenage girls as young as 14 years old, and continued up until his arrest in 2019 for child sex trafficking.

Fuck this guy.

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    • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I thought I heard that story before, but it turns out, this is a different guy.
    https://youtu.be/VNLdyWPAz18

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    • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Reminds me of someone.

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    • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    The course evaluations are going to be very interesting.

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    [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    This dude already sucks absent any Epstein connection, and I don't know what annoys me more: that even this might not get his corrupt geriatric ass out of the classroom and the halls of power, or that it's the only thing that might.

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    [–] 32 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    So he basically said "I know I fucked up and no one wants me here but it's my job so let's focus on the material". Didn't look "extremely awkward" to me. I mean, fuck this guy but what do people expect him to do? Kill himself?

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  • [–] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    Lets not forget the part where he asks advice from Epstein on how to romantically approach one of his mentees.

    I don't think he feels any remorse, he is just trying to strategically minimise his losses by giving the appropriate soulless responses. Anyone with a drop of conscience and respect for their students would have permanently resigned from teaching.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know what he feels or thinks. I'm just commenting on the click bait title. What I would be interested in is why he's still allowed to teach at all. Then again, maybe titles like that help direct attention to it and will get us some answers from Harvard?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 11 months ago*

    It is awkward for a prof to be in world news for romantically chasing after a mentee, asking for advice from someone he knew was a convicted sex predator. Then he is expected to lead a lecture. Maybe you've never led a college lecture, but I can assure you from experience that would be a very difficult situation. Maintaining an environment of respect between professor and students is already difficult in normal circumstances

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    I mean it is awkward that he seems to be apologizing for a very serious allegation but his apology sounds not too different from "sorry I was 15 minutes lates to class. welp lets continue". I agree this should have been resolved on the university level but this guy likely brings shit tons of money to the department through his connections and we have all seen with Trump adminstration how board of directors behave when threatened with funding cuts.

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe resign?

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Jobs are kinda hard to come by tbh.

    But if he's in there, perhaps he'll get a job in prison.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Jobs are kinda hard to come by tbh.

    he's a rich white man who was an advisor to clinton and obama. He was also the president of harvard and is (now was) on the board of OpenAI. He is rich with a LOT of connections. He will be fine. He's not gonna have the the same issues we are currently facing in the job market.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Even if he'd never met JE in his life he'd still be an SOB. Not a good dude, not a good economist, should not be teaching at all, and at 70 has every right to retire and just go the fuck away.

    And that's what the fuck he should do.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Yeah, but if want him to fail in a way that makes the rest of his short existence painful and absolutely miserable, and his real punishment would then be "no morphine or even Tylenol".

    That should actually be the default for everyone in there, tbh.

    And maybe live stream their descent into death.

    This shit should be brutal. And they deserve to know there's people out here with popcorn cheering it on.

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    • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    larry was trying to get epstein advice how to pressure someone( afemale professor) to have sex with him.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Its actually hilariously pathetic if you read through it all, at some point even Epstein gets annoyed with it.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    yea, i think it was also the fact that she was UNDER mentorhsip, and epstein was suggesting how to use that against her, power position over someone suborniate, i dont how much it work against her though, she was a daughter of A CCP official, or or backed by the ccp.

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    • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Way to downplay being ok with child sexual abuse and human trafficking.

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I would drop his class just for being on the board of an AI company.

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