Thio Li-ann cancels NYU stint after anti gay uproar
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Anti-gay Singapore prof cancels NYU stint after uproar
SINGAPORE — A Singaporean law professor has pulled out of a teaching stint at New York University after her hardline anti-gay views triggered a backlash on campus, school officials said.
Richard Revesz, dean of New York University's law school, said Thio Li-ann had informed him she would not be teaching during the fall semester because of "controversy surrounding her views regarding homosexuality and gay rights."
"She explained that she was disappointed by what she called the atmosphere of hostility by some members of our community towards her views and by the low enrolments in her classes," he said in a statement seen Friday.
Thio -- a former appointed member of parliament and a current professor at the National University of Singapore, which has an exchange programme with NYU -- could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday.
The 41-year-old was due to teach courses on human rights law and constitutionalism in Asia at NYU during the fall semester starting in September.
Singapore's Straits Times said NYU students were outraged after learning that Thio had said in a parliamentary debate in 2007 that repealing a colonial-era law making sex between men a criminal offence "would subvert social morality, the common good and undermine our liberties."
More than 800 members of the NYU community signed a petition against Thio after gay rights activists circulated copies of her speech, it said.
Revesz said he was not aware of the anti-gay speech when NYU made the offer to Thio, and both courses have now been cancelled as a result of her pullout.
In Singapore, sex between men is still a criminal offence punishable by up to two years in prison under a law dating back to British colonial rule, although it is rarely enforced.
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The 41-year-old was due to teach courses on human rights law and constitutionalism in Asia at NYU during the fall semester starting in September.
Thio Li-ann teach human rights law at U.S university?
What sort of bullshit is that?
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why not lol.
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It's a shame that Dr Thio decided to pull out of the stint. Academia should be an open dialogue which encompasses a whole range of views, even the views of academics who do not share the point of view of the general student body.
Diverse points of view, even views which students find disagreeable, would challenge the long held perceptions and perspectives on issues they have held.
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well she can lecture at NTU and SMU what lol.
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Now, that wouldn't be such a bad thing, wouldn't it?
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Thio Li-Ann kena boycotted. Her mother was kena boycotted. Everyone in that family is going to be boycotted.
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Singaporeans should also boycott her lectures locally.
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Yes anus licking running dogs have a future in Singapore but if you stand up against the cursed despot and his "fix the opposition" "cancer in the anus" son, like Dr Chee Soon Juan, they will find ways and means to kick you out as a lecturer in NUS.
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They expect everyone to shut up about their public money grabbing and their gambling "Merrill Lynch" "Shin Corp" etc... losses to foreigners, or else.
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Morning Uncle!!! how are you??!!
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Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Singaporeans should also boycott her lectures locally.
hmmm....no guts or have brain? -
haha, serves her right
i wish we would be more vocal at home, as HZ says
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"She explained that she was disappointed by what she called the atmosphere of hostility by some members of our community towards her views and by the low enrolments in her classes," he said in a statement seen Friday.
Lol. She is the one who start the 'atmosphere of hostility' towards gays, & now when Gay rights members do the same thing to her she felt disappointed.
Serves her right for being insensitive & she deserves to get kicked out.
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Originally posted by Quincey:
It's a shame that Dr Thio decided to pull out of the stint. Academia should be an open dialogue which encompasses a whole range of views, even the views of academics who do not share the point of view of the general student body.
Diverse points of view, even views which students find disagreeable, would challenge the long held perceptions and perspectives on issues they have held.
Academia are also human, bound to have emotion and make mistake too, no big deal. It is not a shame, doctor also make mistake, so are CEO, director and even young boss like me..Today, the world dun view CEO, general, academia or bosses as anything great or special. They have the right to their different point and opinon as any human, afterall, we all got different asses, dun we.
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Originally posted by Ah Chia:
Thio Li-ann teach human rights law at U.S university?
What sort of bullshit is that?
No wonder US economy fell so much...Tio sabotaged -
Originally posted by angel7030:
No wonder US economy fell so much...Tio sabotagedTio liao..
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haha.
obigood ah they.
they wan octracise ppl.
stil xpected to be welcumed wif open arms.
by the way, wat's wif josie lau & her new role in dbs huh?
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Originally posted by Hello Kitty:
haha.
obigood ah they.
they wan octracise ppl.
stil xpected to be welcumed wif open arms.
by the way, wat's wif josie lau & her new role in dbs huh?
how would I know. I neither a reporter or worked at DBS
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u wan cm sian me agn izit.
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Originally posted by Hello Kitty:
u wan cm sian me agn izit.
no no.
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lol
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When one equates intellect with intelligence one is bound to be accidental lah. So logical (she was) to the point of being oblivious to paradoxical nuances of life. Hell's bells are a-ringing.
I sympathize her predicament lah! Empathy - tan koo koo lor
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Tio liao..
Tio how much??