zoogs Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Too often "it's one guy with a mental disorder" is in effect "Nothing to see here, nothing to do here." That's marginalizing. Link to comment
VA Husker Fan Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 That last picture of Fulton Chapel is on the Ole Miss campus, not Missouri. There are no confirmed reports of the KKK on campus nor any shootings. Link to comment
HuskerNBigD Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 That last picture of Fulton Chapel is on the Ole Miss campus, not Missouri. There are no confirmed reports of the KKK on campus nor any shootings. You mean people are lying on social media to spread the fear and narrative, color me surprised. 2 Link to comment
White Flash Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 if orson wells could see us now... Link to comment
HuskerNBigD Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Just gonna drop this guy, right here http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/is-the-entire-mizzou-protest-based-on-lies-111115 Link to comment
It'sNotAFakeID Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Just gonna drop this guy, right here http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/is-the-entire-mizzou-protest-based-on-lies-111115 That's a pretty damning, but entirely fair article. Link to comment
Landlord Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Yeah scratch a lot of that. Seems like tons of fabrications going on all over the place. Which sucks, because I guarantee there are genuine problems at that school like there are at most schools. But nobody will take them seriously with students trying to make stuff up for their cause. 1 Link to comment
White Flash Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Just gonna drop this guy, right here http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/is-the-entire-mizzou-protest-based-on-lies-111115 That's a pretty damning, but entirely fair article. i've been following this somewhat. the whole ordeal looks staged, from start to finish. the prez needs to get his job back, looks like some students need to be expelled, at the least. isn't mizzou a big journalism school? something dirty going on in columbia, more so than usual... Link to comment
zoogs Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 I've no doubt that there are idiots drawn to the drama, but to say the whole thing is a hoax is an extraordinary claim to make. If that's actually the case we'll all have a very different feeling about what went down. It's interesting that there are even rooting interests here, though. Regarding the grad student's wealth, why does that matter? If he, personally can afford it, I promise you that this is not true of every grad student. This restriction of access is real: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article36530685.html This issue has been real, might be ongoing: http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/education/mu-graduate-students-respond-to-loftin-s-health-insurance-guarantee/article_22bc0170-57b2-51c9-ac02-f1a8345054f5.html And so is the racial tension, either subtle or overt, experienced many times over in this country. You'd have to be closing your eyes not to see that. It's not an indictment towards you, personally, nor the vast, vast majority of Americans who are not racist. It's a plea to open your eyes towards the experiences of others whose experiences may be different from yours in ways, big or small, that are easy to take for granted. There are many voices in that conversation; some reasonable, some not. Just listen. Don't dismiss it with one broad, blinders-on stroke of "racism is dead." Link to comment
Moiraine Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 I've no doubt that there are idiots drawn to the drama, but to say the whole thing is a hoax is an extraordinary claim to make. If that's actually the case we'll all have a very different feeling about what went down. It's interesting that there are even rooting interests here, though. Regarding the grad student's wealth, why does that matter? If he, personally can afford it, I promise you that this is not true of every grad student. I obviously know nothing about this kid but I have known of students with rich parents who couldn't get a lot of the financial aid they needed because they were still considered dependent but their parents refused to help them pay for it. So they weren't getting help from home and they weren't getting grants because they came from wealthy families. (That was kind of a big segue and might not even apply here). Link to comment
zoogs Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 That's possible, but I'm sure this was not about whether he personally was able to pay for it. There's a very weird message in that backlash, one of "if it's not your problem, don't fight for it." Well, that's how we get social injustice. Things that aren't most people's problems, and most people not fighting for it. Wanting to shout down the minority in a country built on equal protection and minority protection is troubling. Link to comment
gobiggergoredder Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 if orson wells could see us now... So true, yet no one knows what you are referring to. Another day on the farm. Link to comment
gobiggergoredder Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Lots of really troubling stuff going on down there right now. People being arrested for online threats on Yik-Yak, groups of white students riding around in pickup trucks terrorizing black students, kids getting emails claiming a purge happening today, some professors canceling their classes for student safety, others refusing to cancel their classes and exams despite students claiming to feel unsafe. We are now using Tweets from HoodGirlHailey as news. Fantastic. Link to comment
White Flash Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 if orson wells could see us now... So true, yet no one knows what you are referring to. Another day on the farm. sorry for the typo? welles... Link to comment
gobiggergoredder Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 if orson wells could see us now... So true, yet no one knows what you are referring to. Another day on the farm. sorry for the typo? welles... Wasn't correcting you...saying that it is appropriate reference. 1 Link to comment
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