What's Going on at University of Missouri?

The blacks at Cornell telling the whites they can't protest FOR the blacks?, well there is nothing to say.
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Maybe I'm too cynical, but I'm thinking some folks may be organizing protests for the EXPERIENCE of organizing protests. Those with interests in politics, organization-building, visibility...can get exposure. And probably learn something too. My guess is the woman exposed by Cavuto, even the prof and students at Missouri, are a lot smarter this morning because of what they learned in crucible. We forget sometimes that college is about learning and not all learning is in the classroom. Maybe the experience was different for others, but the first year I was applying what I learned in college, I learned a hell of a lot of professional/people skills -- sometimes by making overeager mistakes..
 
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Just when I thought I had seen it all. My, oh my.
This is from the Drudge Report today, and some of the worst tweets didn't even show up when I moved the article here. I. just. can't.

Mizzou Campus Activists and Black Lives Matter Complain About Paris Stealing the Spotlight


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The Associated Press
by Milo Yiannopoulos14 Nov 201516,438

Campus activists in America showed their true faces during an international tragedy last night: they are the selfish, spoiled children we always knew they were.
Black Lives Matter and Mizzou protesters responded to the murder of scores of people in Paris at the hands of Islamic extremists by complaining about losing the spotlight and saying their “struggles” were being “erased.” Their struggles, remember, consist of a poop swastika of unknown provenance and unsubstantiated claims of racially-charged remarks somewhere near Missouri’s campus.

So debased has the language on American campuses become that these incidents, which many observers believe to be hoaxes, just like previous campus scandals celebrated by progressive media, are being referred to as “terrorism” and a “tragedy” by moronic 20-year-olds who have never been told, “No.”



Such a reaction is understandable, if grimly hilarious. These kids been raised by indulgent parents, instructed by professors racked with middle-class white guilt who secretly hate themselves and western culture, and promoted by a sympathetic media which bends over backwards to put them in the best light and paper over their tantrums.



This is the same media hesitant to call Paris an act of Islamic terrorism for hours, despite shouts of “Allahu akbar.” The product of their pandering to the politics of grievance and offence-taking is a generation of students who, faced with the horror of a terrorist attack killing hundreds, respond with: “But what about me?”



Campus activists and Black Lives Matter protesters shame themselves any time they are forced to go off-script. Normally, their messaging is carefully controlled. They parrot a narrative created by progressive media and reinforced via well-funded spokespeople and professional agitators. Left to their own devices, however, they fall to pieces.



Ergo, the head-scratching spectacle of hundreds of college crybullies cast adrift from the pronouncements of Salon columnists and left to complain aloud that their grievances were playing second fiddle to innocent French citizens being mowed down by jihadist maniacs.

Even Black Lives Matter’s notional leaders, often more judicious in their timing and wording, got in on the act.



Black Lives Matter and Mizzou tweets fell broadly into two categories of stupid last night:

  • Paris and Mizzou are equivalent: both represent “terrorism.” (This is the message from Black Lives Matter.)
  • White people are “erasing black lives” by focusing on Paris. (This is the language of the racial grievance-fuelled campus social justice movement.)



There was, of course, a huge backlash not just from conservatives but from most decent observers. It fell on deaf ears, with many of the most preposterous tweets being hastily deleted.

Honestly, I don't know what to think. This must've been conspiracy 2 detract from #BlackLivesMatter #Mizzou #StopWar pic.twitter.com/qe1FCPZ6fB

— Elena Lau (@iLoveLaurynHill) November 14, 2015



One situation to another. If actions hadn't been taken #Mizzou could have easily turned into a mass slaughtering.

— Rhea (@RheaButter) November 14, 2015





Those of you using #Paris as an "example" to shove into the face of black folks, expecially those at #Mizzou right now, kindly **** off.

— dwight shrute (@dianelyssa) November 14, 2015



Meanwhile, satirical cartoonists lampooning the protesters are being censored by Facebook for “violating community standards”…



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As a multiethnic brown person, I'm so confused on what privilege is and is not.

Aren't these Mizzou kids in...you know...COLLEGE?

Does social media provide a window into what people, e.g. our diversity program intern, are really thinking or is it something that just turns on the stupid in impressionable but otherwise normal people?
 
Hollandtx said:
Just when I thought I had seen it all. My, oh my.
This is from the Drudge Report today, and some of the worst tweets didn't even show up when I moved the article here. I. just. can't.

Mizzou Campus Activists and Black Lives Matter Complain About Paris Stealing the Spotlight


ap_ap-photo1005-wi-640x423.jpg

The Associated Press
by Milo Yiannopoulos14 Nov 201516,438

Campus activists in America showed their true faces during an international tragedy last night: they are the selfish, spoiled children we always knew they were.
Black Lives Matter and Mizzou protesters responded to the murder of scores of people in Paris at the hands of Islamic extremists by complaining about losing the spotlight and saying their “struggles” were being “erased.” Their struggles, remember, consist of a poop swastika of unknown provenance and unsubstantiated claims of racially-charged remarks somewhere near Missouri’s campus.

So debased has the language on American campuses become that these incidents, which many observers believe to be hoaxes, just like previous campus scandals celebrated by progressive media, are being referred to as “terrorism” and a “tragedy” by moronic 20-year-olds who have never been told, “No.”



Such a reaction is understandable, if grimly hilarious. These kids been raised by indulgent parents, instructed by professors racked with middle-class white guilt who secretly hate themselves and western culture, and promoted by a sympathetic media which bends over backwards to put them in the best light and paper over their tantrums.



This is the same media hesitant to call Paris an act of Islamic terrorism for hours, despite shouts of “Allahu akbar.” The product of their pandering to the politics of grievance and offence-taking is a generation of students who, faced with the horror of a terrorist attack killing hundreds, respond with: “But what about me?”



Campus activists and Black Lives Matter protesters shame themselves any time they are forced to go off-script. Normally, their messaging is carefully controlled. They parrot a narrative created by progressive media and reinforced via well-funded spokespeople and professional agitators. Left to their own devices, however, they fall to pieces.



Ergo, the head-scratching spectacle of hundreds of college crybullies cast adrift from the pronouncements of Salon columnists and left to complain aloud that their grievances were playing second fiddle to innocent French citizens being mowed down by jihadist maniacs.

Even Black Lives Matter’s notional leaders, often more judicious in their timing and wording, got in on the act.



Black Lives Matter and Mizzou tweets fell broadly into two categories of stupid last night:

  • Paris and Mizzou are equivalent: both represent “terrorism.” (This is the message from Black Lives Matter.)
  • White people are “erasing black lives” by focusing on Paris. (This is the language of the racial grievance-fuelled campus social justice movement.)



There was, of course, a huge backlash not just from conservatives but from most decent observers. It fell on deaf ears, with many of the most preposterous tweets being hastily deleted.

Honestly, I don't know what to think. This must've been conspiracy 2 detract from #BlackLivesMatter #Mizzou #StopWar pic.twitter.com/qe1FCPZ6fB

— Elena Lau (@iLoveLaurynHill) November 14, 2015



One situation to another. If actions hadn't been taken #Mizzou could have easily turned into a mass slaughtering.

— Rhea (@RheaButter) November 14, 2015





Those of you using #Paris as an "example" to shove into the face of black folks, expecially those at #Mizzou right now, kindly **** off.

— dwight shrute (@dianelyssa) November 14, 2015



Meanwhile, satirical cartoonists lampooning the protesters are being censored by Facebook for “violating community standards”…



Follow Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) on Twitter and Facebook, or write to him at [email protected]. Android users can download Milo Alert! to be notified about new articles when they are published.

Read More Stories About:
National Security, ISIS, Tech, Black Lives Matter, Missouri, Social Justice, Paris attacks, Mizzou
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The big question for me is how long Trudy has been trying to work the word "decontextualization" into a sentence.
 
Wait are they saying the poop nazi attack on the bathroom wall is just as bad as what happened in Paris? Wow!
 
I will say this - some of those responses were very likely brought upon by people going to #blacklivesmatter and saying "see, these people have REAL problems". Some of the comments along the lines of "we can be angry about both things" seem to be more about people who are in fact trying to use Paris to delegitimize the BLM movement.

But clearly many of them have no problem creating some bizarre equivalency, not to mention claiming that the media hasn't been covering their issues. That last part blows me away. It's like the little kid jumping up and down in front of the parent saying "YOU'RE NOT WATCHING ME!!!!"
 
ProdigalHorn said:
I will say this - some of those responses were very likely brought upon by people going to #blacklivesmatter and saying "see, these people have REAL problems". Some of the comments along the lines of "we can be angry about both things" seem to be more about people who are in fact trying to use Paris to delegitimize the BLM movement.

But clearly many of them have no problem creating some bizarre equivalency, not to mention claiming that the media hasn't been covering their issues. That last part blows me away. It's like the little kid jumping up and down in front of the parent saying "YOU'RE NOT WATCHING ME!!!!"
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Yeah, the twitter screenshots are clearly taken out of context. But, it is pretty funny to watch them panic about losing the spotlight as soon as some "real news" happens. I also find it hilarious that these people are now attacking quite a few universities. These are some of the most liberal places in the US.....good luck adjusting to the real world where not everybody will think like you.
 
Clearly some of those people need a dose of reality and perspective. Then again, I'd argue the same to anyone who chose the Paris attacks to tout criticisms against the Mizzou protesters. It's abhorrent that anyone would try to leverage the Paris terrorist attacks to push their own political agenda. There simply is not correlation between the 2 incidents in scale or importance.
 
So if my house burst into flames, the family Monopoly Game entering it's third hour would be decontextualized when we quit the game, grabbed favorite possessions and ran out the door?" I'm not sure I'm using the term right. What do you think Deez? I'm sure, given the callousness of my opponents, (all WASPs) nobody would give a rip that I had a hotel on Boardwalk.
 
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Then again, I'd argue the same to anyone who chose the Paris attacks to tout criticisms against the Mizzou protesters.
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I agree. But honestly, people are just sick and tired of these spoiled college kids. I think it's just a natural emotional response to something/somebody that becomes really annoying.
 
Recently a bunch of black lives matter idiots went into the Dartmouth library and harassed white people, calling them names such as "white *****". The group was unapologetic, citing that their harassment is only a fraction of what black people go through. Not surprisingly, they got a lot of outside criticism, mostly from conservative places. The university has now apologized TO the blm protesters. It is unconscionable to me that an institution of higher learning, and one of the best at that, would allow such harassment of their students based on race. What an absolute disgrace.

Prediction: some blm jackasses are going to take this way too far on camera (possibly violence) and all of these people that have been sympathetic are going to pretend they had nothing to do with them.
 
Idiots gonna idiot. It doesn't matter what race they are. If only everything was free and you could go to free school forever. Shouldn't protesting pay 15$ per hour as well?
 
Larry T Spider said:
Recently a bunch of black lives matter idiots went into the Dartmouth library and harassed white people, calling them names such as "white *****". The group was unapologetic, citing that their harassment is only a fraction of what black people go through. Not surprisingly, they got a lot of outside criticism, mostly from conservative places. The university has now apologized TO the blm protesters. It is unconscionable to me that an institution of higher learning, and one of the best at that, would allow such harassment of their students based on race. What an absolute disgrace.

Prediction: some blm jackasses are going to take this way too far on camera (possibly violence) and all of these people that have been sympathetic are going to pretend they had nothing to do with them.
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If a bunch of KKK students stormed a library, found some black students studying and minding their own business, and decided to scream " **** you, dumb n****rs" at them and made the female students cry, I wonder if Dartmouth officials would be apologizing to the KKK. Somehow I doubt it. My guess is that campus security would forcibly remove the KKK protestors, who would be summarily expelled and perhaps charged with a crime.

This **** is why I don't have too much sympathy for the Missouri President who got badgered into resignation. They encourage this kind of garbage by kowtowing to radicals and crazy people, even when they disrupt students who are just trying to learn and study.
 
Larry T Spider said:
Recently a bunch of black lives matter idiots went into the Dartmouth library and harassed white people, calling them names such as "white *****". The group was unapologetic, citing that their harassment is only a fraction of what black people go through. Not surprisingly, they got a lot of outside criticism, mostly from conservative places. The university has now apologized TO the blm protesters. It is unconscionable to me that an institution of higher learning, and one of the best at that, would allow such harassment of their students based on race. What an absolute disgrace.

Prediction: some blm jackasses are going to take this way too far on camera (possibly violence) and all of these people that have been sympathetic are going to pretend they had nothing to do with them.
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If the story happened as written, I'd absolutely agree with the conclusion. It sound too unreal to be true though. There must be more context than some BLM supporters randomly should racial epithets at white college students then getting an apology extended to them by the University. That scenario doesn't pass the smell test.
 
:brickwall:

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) currently on the Senate floor calling for a repeal of the First Amendment
 
After reading the links posted above and a few other sources I've run across over the last day or so, here's my summary:
  • The protests were mostly peaceful and respectful.
  • A few protestors got out of hand, walking through the library and shouting racist epithets at innocent students trying to study. At least one student was pinned to a wall and then yelled at for crying.
  • There is no word on whether the out-of-hand protestors will face disciplinary consequences. (My own editorial comment -- Federal law prohibits schools from disclosing student disciplinary actions. Thus, we will never know unless the students say something, or sue and it comes out in court.)
  • Other protestors distanced themselves from the few who got out of hand.
  • The media reported about the unruly protests, but painted all of the protestors with the same broad brush.
  • The university apologized to the mass of protestors about how they were portrayed in the media.
Yawn.

Before anyone jumps to conclusions, I am not saying I agree with the protestors. In fact, I don't agree with very much of what they say. I just think the media is blowing the "disruption" angle out of proportion.
 
What bothers me it the utter double standard. If this had been white people protesting against black, or any other race, it would be front page news.
It just seems like so much pandering for the media publicity. What exactly are they trying to accomplish?
 
Hollandtx said:
What bothers me it the utter double standard. If this had been white people protesting against black, or any other race, it would be front page news.
It just seems like so much pandering for the media publicity. What exactly are they trying to accomplish?
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The double standard is huge. If one white guy in a protest dropped an n-bomb every one of them would have to answer for it. Nobody would isolate the lone jackass. Hell, I'm not a Tea Partier, but the entire movement gets the racist label because of a much smaller (by percentage) number have allegedly said some racist things.
 
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A protest in a library is neither peaceful nor respectful. There is a huge double standard and that double standard pushes race relations further apart, not closer together.
 
Larry T Spider said:
Why would they hold a protest in a library if they weren't seeking to be disruptive?
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They were looking to be disruptive. In fact, they explicitly said so. It is fair to criticize them for that.

But it is not fair to criticize all of the protestors for things that only a small majority of them did. The Dartmouth apology addressed this point, and I thought it was reasonable.

Of course, it is reasonable to surmise that Dartmouth might not have been quite so quick to apology if the protestors had been white.
 
You are judged often, fair or not, by the company you keep. So, the "nice, peaceful" protesters should indeed be criticized for being involved with the disruptive protesters. Have any of the so-called peaceful protesters stood up and criticized the actions of the few bad apples?
 
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