Why did everyone at the university pussy-foot around the real issue? They couldn't just say that the poster made them feel uncomfortable? That it might have others think about the various campus incidents that have occurred in the US over the past few years? I'm not sure this threat assessment team understands what it's actual job is. I was under the impression it was to assess actual potential threats, like, I don't know, making sure we don't have weapons, or harmful illicit materials in our schools, colleges, universities?
Everyone involved seems so childish trying to cover their asses so they can't be blamed if someone misinterprets the firefly poster and decides the professor wants a shoot out at the OK Corral.
Also, I can't say the professor was in the right either, pretty much flaunting his disapproval at the establishment with a second poster. He's a professor at a university, he should at the very least have been more professional and voiced his concerns to FIRE prior to antagonizing the place that pays him money.
