{"id":11350,"date":"2011-09-26T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2013-07-20T08:33:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:33:55","slug":"gorram-purplebelly-censors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/gorram-purplebelly-censors\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorram purplebelly censors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mal Reynolds poster falls victim to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2011\/09\/26\/i-swear-by-my-pretty-floral-bonnet-i-will-censor-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">academic censorship<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Malcolm-Reynolds-You-dont-know-me_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Malcolm Reynolds - You don't know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you\u2019ll be awake. You\u2019ll be facing me. And you\u2019ll be armed.\" width=\"200\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Malcolm-Reynolds-You-dont-know-me_small.jpg 200w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Malcolm-Reynolds-You-dont-know-me_small-86x150.jpg 86w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Dateline: Wisconsin. At the University of Wisconsin-Stout, theater professor James Miller put up a poster on his door with an image of Nathan Fillon in the character of Captain Malcolm Reynolds with one of Mal\u2019s better lines: \u201cYou don\u2019t know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you\u2019ll be awake. You\u2019ll be facing me. And you\u2019ll be armed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a better world, nothing would happen &mdash; except perhaps <em>Firefly<\/em> fans would geek out and people who roll their eyes at geek culture references would roll their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>But this is modern America. In modern America, the Browncoats are people who like to use vigorous figurative language to speak their mind, and they are often outnumbered and outgunned by the Alliance, made up of silly, professionally frightened moral and intellectual weaklings who see expressions of dissent (particularly dissent rendered in vivid figurative terms) as upsetting and potentially all terroristy.<\/p>\n<p>So naturally the campus police at University of Wisconsin-Stout went all Mrs.-Grundy-With-A-Gun-And-A-Badge on Professor Miller. They threatened Prof. Miller with criminal charges for disorderly conduct, taking a page from the cops at Sam Houston state. They also took the poster down. The redoubtable FIRE has the story and has sent the necessary letter asking the University to grow the fuck up and pull its shit together. (That might be kind of a paraphrase by me.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mal Reynolds poster falls victim to academic censorship: Dateline: Wisconsin. At the University of Wisconsin-Stout, theater professor James Miller put up a poster on his door with an image of Nathan Fillon in the character of Captain Malcolm Reynolds with one of Mal\u2019s better lines: \u201cYou don\u2019t know me, son, so let me explain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,79,10,28],"tags":[52,459,921,85,101,684],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-education","category-liberty","category-media","tag-absurd","tag-censorship","tag-firefly","tag-sf","tag-tv","tag-wisconsin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2X4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21195,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions\/21195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}