“Confirming yet again that the halls of academia are no place for interpreting things, a New Jersey professor was suspended over a Game Of Thrones T-shirt whose tagline—the Daenerys Targaryen quote, “I Will Take What Is Mine With Fire & Blood”—was interpreted by his colleague as a threat. The incident came about after Francis Schmidt, who teaches art and animation at Bergen Community College, posted a photo of his daughter doing a yoga pose in the shirt to his Google+ account, where it was seen by the people who actually use Google+, such as easily riled deans. Said dean reportedly called for an emergency meeting, concerned that this small, unsettlingly agile girl in a T-shirt was Schmidt’s way of announcing his intention to claim all the spoils a New Jersey community college has to offer, by force if necessary.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Sean O’Neal / Onion A.V. Club:
http://www.avclub.com/article/professor-suspended-game-thrones-shirt-threatened–203579
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It is pitiful to see that some things and people never change. Hmmm, I just noticed it seems to be very difficult to get the particular cowardly Deans name. … But she is still the same bitch she always was.