After allowing thugs to take over campus University of Missouri apps down (generation, racism)
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Yup...the entire school has been tainted by the stain of a few students behaving badly. Reputation matters, and Mizzou's reputation took a big hit. It'll be a while before it recovers what prestige it had.
FWIW, I am a UT-Austin alum. People still bring up Charles Whitman in conversations with me about UT, and that happened well before I was born. This August will make 50 years since he shot and killed 14 people in and from the UT tower.
Not saying that what went down at Mizzou last semester in any way approaches the notoriety of what Whitman did...I'm using it as an example of how a huge news-making event can still color someone's perceptions decades later.
Yeah, I agree. There are some things people don't forget.
This will be the college that had all that "student trouble" for years to come.
Stupid Mizzou administration. Cater to a few individuals and lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition being paid to the school. You'd think all these college educated people would've seen that coming.
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Originally Posted by r small
"Hey, can we get some muscle over here?"
Lol, pretty much. That professor sounded like a mobster with hired...what's the word...oh yeah, thugs.
Calling people "thugs" because they hold different beliefs and have different experiences only makes one look ignorant.
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Originally Posted by Dbones
I'm pretty sure they are being called that due to the way they are/were acting. Like screaming in white people's faces while they are pinned to a wall.
Thug might be too strong a word for a non criminal, but whether it be a word like bully or similar, that group used intimidation to try and make their point. Union thugs needn't bust you in the mouth to keep you from crossing the picket line. However just the fear and intimidation was enough to classify them as thugs.
I guess it would come down to whether the students on the receiving end felt that vocal opposition against this group would have resulted in physical harm. If so, then thug might be an appropriate term. I know as a young college student, if a guy got in my face and started shouting at me, he would either back down, or someone would have gotten hurt.
How likely would members of this group backed off if challenged is the question?
What a sham this Mizzou protest was. The class President (a gay Black man) got elected with only 7% of the students being Black. That's an awful lot of racists who voted for him! The made up story about the KKK being on campus, just a lie he made up and later admitted. The swastika scrawled on the dorm room hallway in feces also a hoax. Never happened. The whole thing was a sham, not one single piece of evidence to support their nonsense.
Thug might be too strong a word for a non criminal, but whether it be a word like bully or similar, that group used intimidation to try and make their point.
Isn't that what laws with penalties for breaking them do?
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Union thugs needn't bust you in the mouth to keep you from crossing the picket line. However just the fear and intimidation was enough to classify them as thugs.
"Turn that phone off or I'll take it from you and arrest you".
" Put that cigarette out or I'll drag you from that car".
They should told the football players to do as they felt was proper in reference to playing, but with the stipulation that if you boycott a game you lose your scholarship. This was a massive fail in leadership.
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