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...opens door, looks in, closes door laughing hysterically.
By the way, Ms. Click an assistant professor of "mass media" to lend her hand to keep the media from access to a public protest on public property is inexcusable by any standard. How in the future she can ever argue in favor of media access is simply beyond comprehension.
Even these things did happen, is it really evidence of "systematic oppression?" I gotta believe that most white students at Mizzou would think shouting racial slurs at African Americans or drawing a poostika on the bathroom wall were unacceptable, borderline barbaric even, behaviors. So where's the threshold where we can say these are isolated incidents and not institutional racism? Do we have to erase every last single redneck neanderthal from society?
The problem is who gets to decide who and what is a "neanderthal" and a "redneck"?
Problem? First, show proof the swastika was put up by a white student. Too many people have faked hate crimes against themselves for me to blindly believe these accusations anymore. Second, the swastika amounts to vandalism, a minor offense that should be handled by campus police. Third, words amount to freedom of speech. what students say outside the classroom, as long as they aren't threats of violence, is not the school's business. These students are adults and should start behaving like adults. I see and hear things daily that offend me. I don't let those things get to me.
Agree completely. Free speech is free speech, not pick and choose PC speech. This is a state university, and it's blatantly unconstitutional for a state actor to infringe on free speech. The only consequence for unpopular or unliked speech should be being unpopular and unliked.
More manufactured outrage. If I was pres of that school, I would have disbanded that football team and demand the scholarships be rescinded.
They didn't need to disband the team - they just needed to play the next game without the "strikers" - they have plenty of other players who could have taken the field. Granted, the Striking players were probably their best players, but they certainly weren't their only players.
Let them sit out that Televised SEC game if that was their choice. It's not like they were having a great season, it wouldn't have mattered. Giving in to Blackmail or extortion is never a wise thing to do.
Progressives are the descendants of the Nationalist Socialists and Communists regarding free speech...they believe all speech they disagree with should be illegal. Progressives are just as dangerous as their predecessors.
I totally agree with this. And this country is in trouble because of progressives.
I almost want these subversives to escalate their misbehavior. This will start the conflict that much sooner.
And don't worry, there are tens of millions out here just like me!
Because universities are about learning, not sports. We'd probably be better off if college sports culture never developed. Most of the revenue sport athletes are barely literate, and they are forced into "jock majors"; they're certainly not regular students. Some are decent and a few are great, of course. An undergrad degree in a jock major isn't worth a whole lot, and it's certainly not enough to count toward the amount by which a university serves the local black community.
However, bringing an extra degree to a potentially underserved area is a bonus. We just can't say that it's good enough, and thus a black athlete getting a degree shouldn't cost a regular black student a spot.
Lots of excuses there for why one groups success in sports shouldn't have quotas but another groups academics should be capped off and subject to quotas.
Originally Posted by T-310 More manufactured outrage. If I was pres of that school, I would have disbanded that football team and demand the scholarships be rescinded."
and cost them millions. If they simply cancelled Saturday's game, that would have cost them a $1 million contractual penalty.
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