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Redditors celebrate female scientist being fired, hope her career is ruined (archive.is)
posted 5 years ago by altmehere 5 years ago by altmehere +53 / -0
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– AntonioOfVenice 26 points 5 years ago +26 / -0

The story sounds made up. The department head sounded like too much of a cartoon villain, at least from our perspective. From their perspective, they probably regard him as 'badass' or whatever.

However, no one with more than two braincells would worsen a situation like that by saying that sort of thing out loud.

The interesting thing is the reaction of Redditards. And I say that as someone who wore masks before they were legally mandated, just out of an abundance of caution. They want you to obey. Probably in February 2020, they would have screamed at people that they should not wear masks, because the authorities had ordered it so.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 27 points 5 years ago +27 / -0

Hold on. Just hold on a second. Here we have a story with:

-An antagonist who embodies everything Reddit does not like
-The antagonist going TOTALLY CRAZY AND NUTS for absolutely no reason
-The antagonist delivering several lines that you almost never hear in real life but hear in 100% of Very Real Social Media Stories
-An important person with many titles (so you know they're important and smart) walking into the room and delivering a lengthy smackdown monologue
-The antagonist instantly admitting that the Reddit-approved way of thinking is correct and begging for mercy from her enlightened and rational betters

And you think it's fake? Please, I haven't seen something so genuine since Einstein gave me that hundred dollar bill. I think you need to be more open-minded.

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– BandageBandolier 25 points 5 years ago +25 / -0

The whole chain of events makes no bloody sense at all. She goes from demanding to be maskless to self-identifying as "brainwashed by social media" with zero intermediary steps as soon as she's challenged by big strong scienceman? Sounds like NPC fanfic to me.

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– deleted 14 points 5 years ago +14 / -0
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– Homopratensis2 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

Very fake. Nobody would ever confront a crying young female that way IRL.

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– reidj 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

Mostly likely these are the same people who (rightly) laughed at the story about the Christian veteran owning the atheist college professor on the existence of God. Amazing how their skepticism disappears when the story is something they agree with.

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