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The offensive posts included remarks about which women the men would like to have Ghomeshi-sex with (or “hate-sex,” as the former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi and accused serial sexual assaulter is alleged to have called it), a picture of a woman in a bikini with a caption that said “Bang until stress is relieved or unconscious (girl),” jokes about using chloroform on women and odes to the power of the penis “to wean and convert lesbians and virgins into useful, productive members of society,” such as housekeepers and babysitters.

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My own so-far private thoughts went immediately to David Studer, the petit chou who is the CBC’s director of journalistic standards and practices, and whose sensitivities have been almost continuously under assault, what with Mr. Ghomeshi’s travails, these dentist goofs appropriating the phrase Mr. Ghomeshi made famous and then of course the whole business of whether CBC should reprint those awful cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, which got the Charlie Hebdo people so dead.

The pain never ends, when you are a caring and concerned fellow like Mr. Studer.

But I digress.

There were apparently 13 members of the loathsome Facebook group, and they have already been sorely whacked.

They have been suspended from clinical activities, which if made permanent could mean they won’t graduate, and that decision will be made by the ominous sounding Faculty of Dentistry Academic Standards Class Committee, a group of fourth-year course directors who recommend students for graduation; they have been suspended from attending the actual school, and as classes resumed Monday were off at some remote location; there’s an external investigation underway at the university as well as a “restorative justice” process, which involves 12 of the 13 offenders and 14 “affected” female students and which will no doubt involve much breast-beating and weeping, and a strategic initiative on “diversity and inclusiveness”.