https://twitter.com/MetricButtload/status/768275954250620928
Author Joyce Carol Oates doesn’t care much for guns. And that’s her prerogative. But if you’re gonna make an anti-gun argument and expect to be taken seriously, you’re gonna have to do a lot better than this:
"Concealed carry" almost certainly will result in grade inflation in Texas & other gun states, thus diminishing value of degrees there.
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) August 23, 2016
What. Even. She elaborated. Sort of. We think. It didn’t really clear things up:
large, popular courses with hundreds of students will be particularly affected. out of 350 students it only takes one to be "very unhappy."
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) August 23, 2016
So … professors will give students better grades so they won’t get shot?
Is the idea that teachers will be afraid to give bad grades because BANG BANG BANG?
That's at least three joints.
— Atticus Goldfinch (@AtticusGF) August 24, 2016
Oh, at least.
When I visited Austen to give a reading in capitol building, noted that guns were not allowed in building. but why not, if so safe?
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) August 23, 2016
Tweeters gave Oates an A for creativity. For logic? Well, not so much.
https://twitter.com/KevinNR/status/768241538136629248
I mean, hell, I oppose on-campus carry, but this is just stupid.
— Pliny the Youngest (@thevenaltimes) August 24, 2016
How high are you at any given moment, on a scale of Snoop Dogg to Bob Marley? https://t.co/7aQVnDXaJO
— kilgore trout was in the loop (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/maxwellarm/status/768242741612539905
https://twitter.com/LibertyBelleIII/status/768260139325403136
https://twitter.com/Peetweefish/status/768242619700776960
@KevinNR pic.twitter.com/h9Bo0quwWh
— Robert Harkin (@DoomsdayPicnic) August 24, 2016
Time to fire up the "wtf is this?" Vine dog, guys@KevinNR @pmarca https://t.co/MvluP7eCmv
— T. Greg "Sounds Expensive" Doucette (@greg_doucette) August 24, 2016
.@JoyceCarolOates you know what else diminishes the value of degrees? pic.twitter.com/7WFoJ2ysnn
— Nino (@baldingschemer) August 24, 2016
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