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Posted on 11/12/15 at 11:23 am to Baloo
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I was an RA a long, long time ago at LSU, and someone wrote the N word in one of the showers with poop. We didn't take pictures.
you didn't have smart phones and social media either. Just seems to me that some one that is so upset about this that the call the cops might have taken a picture. There was a campus racism "outrage" somewhere a few months ago about how someone had hung nooses in trees. There were pics and it turned out the be some hanging paper lanterns that burned up or got blown apart in the rain or something like that.
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Yeah, I found their demands to be fairly childish. They lead off with "admit your white privilege". Whatever. How about you lead with something substantive?
What's really interesting is the hunger striker that kinda started it is the son of a very wealthy railroad executive. And Chris Rock os wrong, yes, yes i would trade places with a black guy worth 8 figures
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He bungled the PR response, and his job is based on PR and fundraising. Sorry. but it is.
And as soon as the alums were pissed and ready to stop writing checks, well... you don't get to be in charge anymore. Fair or unfair.
I don't know anything about Missouri so maybe the guy needed to go, yeah once the donors turn on your its over (same for an AD, FB coach or BB coach at some schools). But the manner in which this happened and the issues, which boil down to feelings is kind of scary. Mob justice is never good and that's what happened here.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 11:27 am to WalkingTurtles
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Really calls out all the BS going on with the "protesters." And finally brings up the Chicago argument many use in response to #BlackLivesMatter crap. Great read.
The difference between Whitlock and Howard Bryant
Posted on 11/12/15 at 11:30 am to SlowFlowPro
it gets worse
LINK
this professor susequently apologized(!!) and then submitted his resignation...
LINK
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After two men allegedly used the social app Yik Yak to threaten to shoot “any black people” on campus Tuesday night, many professors sent emails telling their students to stay home the next day if they felt unsafe.
Brigham, an associate teaching professor in the university’s Nutrition & Exercise Physiology department, sent a similar email, though his was less gentle in tone. “If you don’t feel safe coming to class, then don’t come to class,” he wrote. “I will be there, and there will be an exam administered in our class. If you give into bullies, they win. The only way bullies are defeated is by standing up to them. If we cancel the exam, they win; if we go through with it, they lose. I know which side I am on. You make your own choice.”
The Maneater reports that several students took their concerns about Brigham’s note to Twitter.
this professor susequently apologized(!!) and then submitted his resignation...
Posted on 11/12/15 at 11:31 am to Baloo
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I'm not reading a Whitlock column, BTW. That guy is the hackiest of hacks. He's a professional troll, and taking anything he says seriously is a dangerous game.
It's a lot better than the Howard Bryant perspective.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 12:41 pm to cgrand
light at the end of the tunnel?
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The professor is 100% right. Show up and take your exam. Racists saying dumb shite on whatever the hell Yik Yak is does not constitute a valid reason for missing an exam. Somebody explain to me how forcing resignations of a new faculty or staff member every day is fixing racism. Yes, you’re in the South, where a lot of people are still racist and shitty. The university president’s job is not to fix racism; his job is to go find money. A professor’s job is not to fix racism; his job is to teach stuff. Speaking as a college student here, college students circa 2015 are the most thin-skinned, butthurt people on the entire planet. You are not being “systematically oppressed” at the university you are voluntarily spending thousands upon thousands of dollars to attend. Move to public housing in Ferguson if you want to experience what actual systemic oppression feels like. Here’s a hint: It doesn’t feel like idiots yelling slurs out a car window. These students have no clue what they’re doing, and they need to get the frick over themselves and go back to class. This is not the revolution. You are not Kent State revolting against Vietnam. You are a bunch of hyper-sensitive children who think the entire world needs to be retooled to ensure that you are treated with kid gloves in everything that you do. I shudder to think what will happen to these kids when they hit the real world and discover that, no, you cannot get random people fired by calling them racists on Twitter.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 12:48 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:Liberation Theology/Philosophy.
create/inflate facts in order to peacock their oppression (to justify their protests to get the attention they seek)
Posted on 11/12/15 at 12:51 pm to cgrand
While I agree with the rest of the quote, let's be honest about this last part...
Recent history shows that yes, you can.
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no, you cannot get random people fired by calling them racists on Twitter.
Recent history shows that yes, you can.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 1:10 pm to Baloo
George Takei and others have shown it is a very real threat, no matter how old or benign it may seem. Twitter and other social media really alligns perfectly with the mob mentality most humans are weak to.
I'll always be weirded out by mob mentality. When I was younger, there was a potential jumper and the police failed to get the people back as far as they should have. The group, almost to a T, started chanting for the guy to jump. Luckily he decided against it, it was so surreal.
I'll always be weirded out by mob mentality. When I was younger, there was a potential jumper and the police failed to get the people back as far as they should have. The group, almost to a T, started chanting for the guy to jump. Luckily he decided against it, it was so surreal.
This post was edited on 11/12/15 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 11/12/15 at 3:41 pm to Jcorye1
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