Your comment leaves me wondering whether I want to consider "pearls" the right description for the small white prized calcifications sometimes produced in oysters. As John Searle said: "By such means," etc. Best wishes, JDF
From: Dai Heide
Sent: October 16, 2023 5:35 PM
To: James Fleming
Cc: Faculty Forum Mail List
Subject: Re: Intimidation of faculty and students
Some work behind a picket line got disrupted? Consider my pearls clutched.
This is pretty standard stuff, James. I don’t agree that “intimidating” is the right description for the depicted protest, especially in the context
of a campus that is being picketed.
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Dr. Dai Heide
Senior Lecturer
Dept. of Philosophy
Simon Fraser University
On Oct 16, 2023, at 4:28 PM, James Fleming <james_fleming@sfu.ca> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I have just watched a very distressing (tik tok) video apparently showing a group of TSSU strikers invading a lecture hall, doing their best to disrupt the lecture, and aggressively intimidating the faculty member
trying to teach his students. Perhaps others of you have seen this video or will see it; perhaps there are or will be others like it. I assume that actions of the kind shown in the video are illegal, and not only under the Labour Code. I call on TSSU to condemn
and disavow these actions. Sincerely, JDF
Professor, Department of English
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby/Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada.
The truth is an offence, but not a sin.
-- Bob Marley
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