Mizzou

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(11-09-2015, 09:17 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Unless I missed it, I am surprised I didn't see a thread.

I didn't hear most of the news until the President of the university system stepped down, but this is what I have gathered:

1. There have been some separate cases of racism around the university that appear unrelated.

2. Students thought the President of the whole university system should do more to address it

3. The football team and others protested, so the President stepped down.

This seems a little silly. I don't know if the President of the whole system needs to address every isolated incident on campus. If someone smeared a shit swastika in the bathroom of my dorms at college, maybe the president of student life at my school would address it, not the president of the Maryland university system.


I couldn't care less about this though, but then I saw this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRlRAyulN4o

The protesters made a camp on the quad and had a circle around it. Student journalists were trying to take photos and were being harassed. Apparently, these people have the right to not have their pictures taken in public spaces... and the right to not let others freely roam on a public space.

The demands they requested were silly and ineffective. There's no proof that the people who reportedly yelled slurs were students or even still attend Mizzou.
The poop swastika is pretty much typical drunk college stuff. Should have passed it off as avant garde art about how the swastika is literal shit. 

Then trying to physically ban the media....that's just stupid and childish. That should be the first flag that something isn't right with all of this. 
I get if there is a safety issue, pushing media back, but this is just stubborn children first finding out that crying a lot gets mommy and daddy to do whatever you want. Colleges starting making debate and controversial speech evil on campuses. They let students ban speakers they didn't like. They made certain opinions punishable. In doing so they have created a new breed of college idiot who thinks not being offended is a right and bad words are assault. This is essentially their own doing. 

PCU was a comedy movie, not a documentary.