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Public university suspends student for calling another student’s legs ‘bleached hams’
A university inside the suburban sprawl of northeastern New Jersey has suspended a student for comparing another student’s legs to “a pair of bleached hams” in a YouTube comment, reports CBS New York.
School officials at Montclair State University allegedly determined that Joseph Aziz, a 26-year-old graduate student, violated the school’s student code when he published the derogatory comment.
The history of the fracas dates back to August, when Aziz showed up at a campus speech by Republican Steve Lonegan along with other members of Young Americans for Liberty, which describes itself as the school’s largest political organization.
The female student who was the subject of Aziz’s mockery also attended the speech along with a male companion, reports NJ.com. The male companion heckled Lonegan during his speech.
Someone apparently videotaped the episode and put it on YouTube. Aziz commented twice under the video. The comments allegedly called attention to the weight of both the heckler and the female student.
YouTube has since deleted the video and its comments.
“The initial comments were in poor taste and I regret making them,” Aziz told NJ.com. “I was frustrated with what I perceived as an attack on the speaker whose appearance my group sponsored.”
Such would have concluded one of millions of wonderfully insignificant instances of free speech in the United States but for the fact that someone later reported Aziz’s comments to the taxpayer-funded university.
Diann
January 18th, 2013
Oh, my gosh. I think I know this guy.
Claudia
January 18th, 2013
Oh, for crying out loud. This country is full of childish imbeciles.
No offense to regular imbeciles intended. Please don’t suspend me!
norman einstein
January 18th, 2013
What is this? Kindergarten? He was suspended?
Actually, I think it was rather a creative comment.
Better than “you’re fat and your mother dresses you funny.”
FFS…people need to grow the hell up.
Tim
January 18th, 2013
Republicans named “Lonegan” and “Aziz?”
Will miracles never cease?
Carlos The Jackal
January 18th, 2013
I think the question on everyone’s mind here is, well, did her legs look like bleached hams?
And if so, I fail to see the problem.
thirdtwin
January 18th, 2013
Here we are, right back where we were 20 years ago with the “water buffaloes”.
http://articles.philly.com/1993-05-13/news/25962066_1_water-buffalo-insult-sisters
hanoverfist
January 18th, 2013
Need a picture to decide this one…..
Anonymous
January 18th, 2013
The school is teaching the death of freedom of speech.
thirdtwin
January 18th, 2013
@Hanoverfist…
Nah, I’m good with my imagination. What I would like to know are the names of the hecklers, what they shouted at Lonegan and what Lonegan was speaking about that got them so enraged. Islamofascism? Illegal Immigration?
John F.
January 18th, 2013
So, it’s a-ok to stifle free speech with childish heckling, but it’s over the PC line to make “sophomoric” (but hi-larious and likely true) remarks about speech-stifling leftists.
Uh, I get it now. Thanks, higher ed bureaucrats!
RosalindJ
January 18th, 2013
He was issued a restraining order (no-contact)? Are you freaking kidding me?
Infantilize U. We’ll keep your children children forever because they’re special and precious, but it’ll cost you your house. And your children will never get jobs where they’ll earn enough to assist you in your dotage. So it’s Soylent Green for you!
/rant Sorry – I derailed my own comment. Absolute disgust with morons does that to me some days.
RosalindJ
January 18th, 2013
After reading the entire article (it gets better), I’ve decided my circle of rant makes me look like a genius compared what Montclair State did.
conservative cowgirl
January 18th, 2013
That undeserved restraining order will affect his ability to arm himself. Two amendments for the price of one.
reddecaesari
January 18th, 2013
we all know some woman whose legs could be described as hams. bleached or blackened.
KF
January 18th, 2013
Actress Lena Dunham (who compared voting for 0bama to loosing ones virginity in a repulsive campaign ad last year) had someone say her arms “looked like tattooed ham hocks” at the Golden Globe awards recently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Dunham (see picture attched to wiki article, her arms do look like tattooed hams. Very very poorly tattooed hams)
Porky Chrisie
January 18th, 2013
All this talk about ham like it’s a bad thing.
Isn’t disparaging good food some type of hate speech?
Carlos The Jackal
January 18th, 2013
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and surmise that she probably wasn’t a muslim?