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Mizzou Tigers (official thread)

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alexhortdog95 said:
Now, here's where I take exception with the kids....this "board of color" 'requirement'...this one sticks in my craw....
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Our office near Philadelphia does work for the City of Philadelphia. In order to actually get the contracts for Philadelphia, a certain percentage of a company's employees need to be minorities. So what does that office do? They go out and specifically find minorities to pay so that they can bid on these projects. I think they TRY to find people who deal in this line of work who are minorities, but it's very much NOT diverse. (We have maybe 15 in our department - no women, one Hispanic, and that's it. I've met very few women who do this work, and few blacks. I don't have an answer why.) So they hire kids in college looking for a co-op job. They're not even kids who know what we're doing. The only requirement is that they're minorities. In fact, take it a step further: that office goes to another company requesting minorities to come back to work for them. So Company A goes to Company B, asking for minorities who work for Company B so that Company A can get these projects. I'm sure Company B isn't doing this for free.

Anyway, the kids they had working there when I visited were good kids. I just got the feeling that they knew they were only there as token minorities.
 
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Not really sure how relevant it is, if at all, but supposedly the hunger strike student comes from money. Like, dad is a high up exec worth $20M. Now I know that shouldn't make a difference for what he's fighting for, but for some reason it makes you feel slightly odd about someone demanding white people to acknowledge their "privilege" when he grew up with a near infinite amount of privilege as 99.999% of the world's population. Now I know that there's truth to the idea of white privilege (I personally feel that it is exaggerated in the year 2015, but do not deny it still exists particularly in the south), but a $20M black man has supremely more "privilege" than a poor, or even middle class, white man. But, again, I'm not sure it should take am anything away from what he's trying to stand for. But thought it was at least interesting.
 
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UpNorth_Buckeye said:
Not really sure how relevant it is, if at all, but supposedly the hunger strike student comes from money. Like, dad is a high up exec worth $20M. Now I know that shouldn't make a difference for what he's fighting for, but for some reason it makes you feel slightly odd about someone demanding white people to acknowledge their "privilege" when he grew up with a near infinite amount of privilege as 99.999% of the world's population. Now I know that there's truth to the idea of white privilege (I personally feel that it is exaggerated in the year 2015, but do not deny it still exists particularly in the south), but a $20M black man has supremely more "privilege" than a poor, or even middle class, white man.
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Different sorts of privilege, those.

Having enough money to buy everything in the store is different from being able to walk in and not be assumed to be a shoplifter.
 
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Then again, at that point there's also the freedom to go somewhere else that isn't going to make those presumptions. I'm a fan of voting with your dollar... it's got me a lot farther than traditional voting between 2 terrible choices.
Part of me wonders how true it is... sounds like the kind of rumor that's easily made up and believed. Such as, seals are endangered and we shouldn't club them b/c they're cute and special ... ofc they're not endangered, and nevermind that it's a more humane method than shooting at animals on ice floes (with decent probability of missing/wounding since both you and target aren't stable) or the bolt gun used on cows (pity they're not as cute as seals and their constantly weeping eyes to protect against salt water)
 
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kujirakira said:
Then again, at that point there's also the freedom to go somewhere else that isn't going to make those presumptions. I'm a fan of voting with your dollar... it's got me a lot farther than traditional voting between 2 terrible choices.
Part of me wonders how true it is... sounds like the kind of rumor that's easily made up and believed. Such as, seals are endangered and we shouldn't club them b/c they're cute and special ... ofc they're not endangered, and nevermind that it's a more humane method than shooting at animals on ice floes (with decent probability of missing/wounding since both you and target aren't stable) or the bolt gun used on cows (pity they're not as cute as seals and their constantly weeping eyes to protect against salt water)
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His father is an executive VP for Union Pacific Railroad & earned $8.4 Million last year.
 
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jlb1705 said:
Different sorts of privilege, those.

Having enough money to buy everything in the store is different from being able to walk in and not be assumed to be a shoplifter.
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Oh, I fully understand they're different privileges. Which is why I said it may not be very relevent, but if you were to ask a poor white man, or probably most middle-class white men, if they would turn in their white privilege card for the super rich privilege card, it's not even a debate. At least not for this white middle-class man.
 
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Dryden said:
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:

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Everybody is resigning at Missouri:

Missouri assistant professor resigns from courtesy appointment after confrontation with journalist

Dean of the Missouri School of Journalism David Kurpius announced Click's resignation on his Twitter account late Tuesday.

Entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/1...to-block-student-reporter-from-taking-photos/
 
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Jagdaddy said:
dated a dark skinned Latina woman
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