Comment by roel_v | Hacker News Reader

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Stop spreading misinformation. THE COURT CASE IS LINKED IN TFA, and I linked it again (from another source) above. The article does say that she was an instructor. Not a tenured professor but the person she had the relationship with was her student. All of this is described in the unhinged 300+ page document she wrote where she herself documented in cringy detail how their "relationship" unfolded (WHICH IS PART OF THE COURT CASE).

Just because two people are adults doesn't make a relationship between them not dodgy; think about how bad it is for a doctor to date a patient. The situation here isn't quite as bad (well, if you start stalking a former student after they break up with you, I guess one could also argue that this case is much worse than some other situations where everything unfolds amicably), but still, relationships between people in power and those over whom the power is wielded are not just socially frowned upon, they are recognized as Bad News (if not always strictly illegal) for a long time now.

I'm not sure why you're so insistent on defending if not a sexual predator then at least someone with highly questionable judgement. And again, maybe all of this has little to do with the whistleblower stuff, but there is no question about whether or not it's true that she had an inappropriate extramartial affair with a student, stalked him after he tried to end it and was fired over the whole ordeal.

An instructor is not a professor. When I was in junior high, high school, and at college, I taught a lecture or two regularly. I was no teacher or professor, but I was a lecturer / instructor, while I was going to school. It says nothing.

>THE COURT CASE IS LINKED IN TFA

If you look at the court case the only thing in it that is not hearsay is a dented bumper. Furthermore, she was dismissed. Because of a lack of evidence it never would have held a candle in court because it was all hearsay.

This is the problem with articles like this. They defame people, and the average person who has no legal background eats it up as the wholesale truth.

>I'm not sure why you're so insistent on defending if not a sexual predator then at least someone with highly questionable judgement.

Woo.. there is nothing in there that says she is a sexual predator.

>And again, maybe all of this has little to do with the whistleblower stuff, but there is no question about whether or not it's true that she had an inappropriate extramartial affair with a student, stalked him after he tried to end it and was fired over the whole ordeal.

It has nothing to do with the whistleblower stuff. It has to do with how garbage the article is. Falling for it is embarrassing. The fact that articles like these today are legal, is a sad state of affairs. In the US up until the 80s, articles like these would be against the law for hopefully obvious reason.

Look man, I was an instructor at a research university. At no point did I think it was OK to fuck my students. At no point did I think it was OK if my TA fucked our students. In fact, not only did I not think it was OK, it was pretty clearly relayed to me that it was not OK per the university's employee guidelines. I was told to not even let a student close the door during office hours "just in case."

The line that's crossed isn't about the title someone has but the power structure in place. Any teacher/student romantic or sexual relationship is verboten at every educational institution because of power dynamics. If what she's alleged to have done is not sexual misconduct then why the fuck was everyone so mad about Harvey Weinstein?

Not sure if you're just trolling now... It's the same as 'arguing' with an anti-vaxxer at this point.

I'm not going to go into detail on the power relationship here. If you're going to deny that a university instructor and a student have a power disbalance between them, and that sexual relationships between them are usually illegal but certainly pretty much always inappropriate and against all policies, I'm not sure what to say anymore.

I linked AN ACTUAL POLICE AFFIDAVID that confirms that this woman not only wrote a lengthy document on their affair, but also how she posted that online, wrote the victim's job about it in an attempt to hurt him, and posted the victim's naked pictures online (among other things). I'm not sure what sort of evidence you would consider valid short of you being there watching it happen. And this is just the AFFIDAVID, there is a lot more out there, easily verifyable from various sources. But maybe someone should call the Tallahassee Police Department, ask for Kameron O'Hara, and verify that he actually wrote the affidavid, as you seem to think that someone forged this whole document including forging the name and signature of an actual office of the TPD (which he is, that's easily verified with a single Google search)?

"and the average person who has no legal background eats it up as the wholesale truth."

That's rather rich considering that between you and me, I suspect there is only one person with a law degree, and it's not you.

If all of this is 'hearsay' and 'made up', where did the mugshots in the OP come from? Let me guess, it's all deep fakes set up by the Cabal, as a pre-emptive move to discredit her in case she would go on 2 years later to become a whistle blower for a virus outbreak nobody knew would happen for at least 6 more months? Please.

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