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[–] 194 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I have a lot of questions about different parts of this title that I don't understand, but I support him.

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  • [–] 123 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Marc Tyler Nobleman was supposed to talk to kids about the secret co-creator of Batman, with the aim of inspiring young students in suburban Atlanta’s Forsyth County to research and write.

    Then the school district told him he had to cut a key point from his presentation — that the artist he helped rescue from obscurity had a gay son. Rather than acquiesce, he canceled the last of his talks.

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  • [–] 155 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I want the title of “Batman researcher”

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    World's Greatest Detective Detective.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Feels like they're Robin you by not granting it.

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    Then the school district told him he had to cut a key point from his presentation — that the artist he helped rescue from obscurity had a gay son. Rather than acquiesce, he canceled the last of his talks.

    “We’re long past the point where we should be policing people talking about who they love,” Nobleman said in a telephone interview. “And that’s what I’m hoping will happen in this community.”

    They didn't ask him not to "say 'gay'", as the title all but claims. They asked him to participate in the erasure of a relevant gay person from a story he was teaching to children.

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    [–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He should have let himself be fired. Then he could have brought a lawsuit against the school district over the matter. The school district would have had to demonstrate their reason to fire him on the record. If the researcher received damages for wrongful termination, the taxpayers would know it's their money that is being frivolously spent to support someone's homophobic agenda.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Probably couldn't get them for wrongful termination. At-Will employment is a bitch.

    But he could likely get unemployment for being terminated without cause, which is a different thing.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    he was a one time guest speaker. you don't get to claim unemployment for that. and he chose to cancel, not the school

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    he was a one time guest speaker

    In that case, no reason not to walk.

    I knew he'd quit. I was just clarifying that waiting to be fired from a job isn't useful from a "wrongful termination" standpoint because At-Will Employment means "wrongful termination" doesn't really exist in any state except Montana. But if he had been an employee, he would have had grounds to collect unemployment if terminated without cause.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    a….batman researcher? 🤣

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    Head of the Batman Research Institute at the Harvard School of Comics.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He was the researcher they needed but not the researcher they deserved.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Batman researcher? quit? who was paying him in the first place?

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why was someone from Batman, Turkey even teaching these kids?

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    AKA: World's Greatest Researcher.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He quit researching Batman?

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