Mizzou Tigers (official thread)

[alexhortdog95]

No doubt this has already moved beyond black/white.

The social justice mobs are truly multicultural. It's ironic, but scary, that they are willing to become what they are fighting against to deliver "justice."

Point Blank - racism in the back woods of most states? Shouldn't happen, does happen.
Point Blank - racism on the college campuses large schools in this country? Shouldn't happen, period.

Universities are supposed to be institutions of HIGHER LEARNING. If people want to continue to have that back woods hick/militant Black Panther mentality, go to community college.

ALSO:

If you as a person (not you, Jax, just 'you' as a generalization) are a person that does not have the power to empathize with an individual's situation, it's best for you to stay out of the fight.

As a college educated African-American male (I'm rare in this day and age), I've been where these kids have been. I grew up in a different time, and I'm wiser in years than many of them are. Have I been racially profiled, called racial slurs to my face? I live in Omaha, Nebraska. I don't have enough fingers to count the number of times it has happened.



It does seem, however, that our society has kicked it from 3rd back into reverse over the last 8 - 10 years.

 

[BigWoof31]

Hopefully when that day happens the Universe corrects itself and all those kids with 9 on the ACT end up flipping burgers instead of being on the cover of Sports Illustrated wearing a college uniform.

Amen Muck. I know of alot of walk-ons that would love to play Between the Hedges. I'd hope that this would be a lesson in "actions have consequences"

 

[BigWoof31]

http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/09...-professor-whos-trying-to-ban-media-coverage/

Meet The Mizzou Media Professor Who’s Trying To Ban Media Coverage

NOVEMBER 9, 2015 By Sean Davis

After desperately trying to gin up media coverage of student protests at the University of Missouri, one of the school’s media professors is nowfuriously trying to “muscle” the press off campus to prevent them from covering student protests that rapidly spiraled out of control Monday.

Mizzou president Timothy Wolfe announced his resignation on Monday after members of the school’s 4-5 football team announced they wouldboycott team activities unless the school acceded to certain demands surrounding racial equality. Unsurprisingly, Wolfe’s resignation did little to quell the mob.

On Monday afternoon, activists who had demanded Wolfe’s resignation abruptly demanded that media stop covering their activities on the public campus of the taxpayer-funded university. At the center of those demands was Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media within Mizzou’s communications department.

In the video below, you can see Click ask for “muscle” to help her bully a Mizzou student into not covering the ongoing mob protests:

Cont'd ...

As an employee of the state, she should be instantly terminated. This is unbelievable

 

[alexhortdog95]

As an employee of the state, she should be instantly terminated. This is unbelievable

I think she should get an award...

Tim Tai, a student photographer on freelance assignment for ESPN, was trying to take photos of a small tent city that protesters had created on a campus quad. Concerned Student 1950, an activist group that formed to push for increased awareness and action around racial issues on campus, did not want reporters near the encampment.

She should have bust him straight in his grill

 

[matcar]

She makes me weep for the future academia. She has written at least four papers about Twilight.

And people wonder why I've never bothered to turn in my PhD Dissertation.

I hate to admit it, but I immediately hate those two women in the full video after watching it. Almost rage when I watch those fools trample over the very freedom they are claiming for themselves. Shirley at the head of the University must go, these two should be relieved of duty as well.

 

[Dryden]

Usually you and I agree, Max, but to single out only the African-American students on your comment above on this is beneath you, my friend.
This was a multi-cultural protest. There were both Black and White students and facility members protesting for these changes.

Yes, what is going on at MU is a true multi-cultural issue.

Mr. Hankey isn't drawing poopstikas in co-ed residence halls to intimidate blacks. That's a hate-symbol targeting a different group of students.

 

[matcar]

No doubt this has already moved beyond black/white.

The social justice mobs are truly multicultural. It's ironic, but scary, that they are willing to become what they are fighting against to deliver "justice."

Just in time for a Star Wars movie...a nod to Vader.

 

[alexhortdog95]

I hate to admit it, but I immediately hate those two women in the full video after watching it. Almost rage when I watch those fools trample over the very freedom they are claiming for themselves. Shirley at the head of the University must go, these two should be relieved of duty as well.

That video is an instance of young people trusting the judgment of someone who's judgment should not be trusted. She helped them get organized, then promptly led them astray.

 

[Mike80]

Amen Muck. I know of alot of walk-ons that would love to play Between the Hedges. I'd hope that this would be a lesson in "actions have consequences"

Won't happen. There's a reason we have a "pussification of America" thread....

 

[Mike80]

Back to Mizzou: of course President Wolfe is a scapegoat. And of course the black students at Mizzou are behaving like recently-empowered bullies. That's unfortunately the only way things can change sometimes. Hope the deep-seated problems (assuming they actually exist beyond the easily-offended few) can be solved by the new administration.

What's that new administration going to look like I wonder? If these protesters don't 100% agree with the choices (remember the "board of color" requirement ), I bet you this continues....spoiled brats are still going to act like spoiled brats, no matter how righteous the cause.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Point Blank - racism in the back woods of most states? Shouldn't happen, does happen.
Point Blank - racism on the college campuses large schools in this country? Shouldn't happen, period.

Universities are supposed to be institutions of HIGHER LEARNING. If people want to continue to have that back woods hick/militant Black Panther mentality, go to community college.

ALSO:

If you as a person (not you, Jax, just 'you' as a generalization) are a person that does not have the power to empathize with an individual's situation, it's best for you to stay out of the fight.

As a college educated African-American male (I'm rare in this day and age), I've been where these kids have been. I grew up in a different time, and I'm wiser in years than many of them are. Have I been racially profiled, called racial slurs to my face? I live in Omaha, Nebraska. I don't have enough fingers to count the number of times it has happened.



It does seem, however, that our society has kicked it from 3rd back into reverse over the last 8 - 10 years.

You only need one finger, Alex.... I'm sure you can guess which one

 

[matcar]

That video is an instance of young people trusting the judgment of someone who's judgment should not be trusted. She helped them get organized, then promptly led them astray.

Well, yeah, young people act without wisdom a lot, so while the young mobs actions were embarrassing-it's pretty much expected. But those two women (and probably other adults we just cannot see) also seem to lack the wisdom to see their own rights trampling mob mentality. They are getting PAID to act like that. Depressing.

 

[MaxBuck]

Unfortunately, the line between racism and overly sensitive people getting upset because their little feelings got hurt is getting blurred, perhaps irrevocably, at Mizzou.

IOW, neither side of this debate is behaving very admirably.

 

[Jagdaddy]

Your complaint about the "schizophrenic" nature of The Atlantic (my personal favorite opinion magazine) is misdirected; The Atlantic includes thought articles from a spectrum of points of view; it aims to educate through providing alternative and opposing viewpoints. That's the big reason I like the mag, because in reading it I feel like I've understood the opinions better of those I disagree with.

If you read back issues of The Atlantic, you'll see that they've presented a number of pieces lamenting the ever-increasing intrusion of political correctness into campus life and, more generally, into society.

Back issues is a key term. The Atlantic used to be what you describe. The last 2-3 years, it's become much more about looking at everything through an "inequality is everywhere" and it's the very biggest problem in the world" narrative. In fairness, what I describe seems to be more pervasive with respect to the online content (follow it one Facebook for a week to see what I mean) than the actual print magazine, which still has some more serious stuff like Fallows American Futures series and Coates' pieces. As far as its complaints about PC: That's the schizophrenia because it comes out occasionally and in contradiction to the constant drip, drip, drip, of the "inequality" meta-narrative.

Here's one sample of the silly crap I'm talking about: http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...zed-american-kitchens/410536/?utm_source=SFFB

FWIW, I asked my wife, who's 5'0" if she'd prefer lower counters and she thought that our current ones were fine. I'm 6'3" and also manage, but I wouldn't mind them a tad higher.

 

[MaxBuck]

What's that new administration going to look like I wonder? If these protesters don't 100% agree with the choices (remember the "board of color" requirement ), I bet you this continues....spoiled brats are still going to act like spoiled brats, no matter how righteous the cause.

Yeah, that's an excellent question. There's a line running somewhere between "an administration that prioritizes education but is aware of its obligation to acknowledge and meet minorities' needs" and "the inmates running the asylum." But I'm not sure the line can be recognized at the current time.