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Me too. He just became my second favorite college football coach(after UT's Charlie Strong of course). I like how he told those muslims and their liberal apologist to shove it up their ass, that him and his team are still going to watch the movie no matter what.
American Sniper looked like a pretty generic war film to me. Never saw it; had no interest in it. But it looked like any other film that simply rides the coattails of American symbolism where most people are simply to afraid to not proclaim the movie as being 'star spangled awesome' or whatever it is people do with this type of film.
Chris Kyle was a good marksman. That's about it. We can say he saved American lives, but there's no truthful way of knowing that. It's all hypothetical hyper patriotism. He had some views that were... well, let's just say the US military would have to issue a statement saying 'he does not represent the views of the US military' if those views became publicly known (which they didn't because 'freedom'!).
If a group of student wants to protest, that's their right. Their fighting for a cause that they care about, and rather or not you agree with it doesn't change the fact that they can do this. But that's American logic: You're free until you do something I don't like.
Probably the same reason Americans watched Pearl Harbor... which was awful film by the way.
The amazing thing to me is that a university would even consider canceling the film simply because one minority group on campus didn't like it. So what? I don't like volleyball so I guess if I went to that school and found a few friends to go with me and insist that they stop offering that as part of their athletic program they would most certainly stop. Of course not! That's the nice thing about living in America, we are free to participate or not but we are not free to impose our wills on others.
The amazing thing to me is that a university would even consider canceling the film simply because one minority group on campus didn't like it. So what? I don't like volleyball so I guess if I went to that school and found a few friends to go with me and insist that they stop offering that as part of their athletic program they would most certainly stop. Of course not! That's the nice thing about living in America, we are free to participate or not but we are not free to impose our wills on others.
This type of situations has been going on for decades. It happened even before the internet generation. Universities in the US are reactive and not proactive. As one who was politically active (part of the student board) during my time at a University, each and every time one of these situations arose we had to repeat to ourselves "this is not the real world, this is not the real world,...".
If anyone remembers the Moonies, think about how many times they were banned across the US. Now CARP is a normal as frats on University campuses. And there are numerous photos online of the Unification Church leaders and Pres Bush.
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