University of Missouri Football Strike

[PiKA2001]

Sally Kohn comes to the defense of the shrieking Yale student. I was always on the fence when it came to Kohn, but after reading this I think she's an idiot.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/opinio...sts/index.html

[Kevin]

And just to confirm, if you were on the fence, there are apparently some idiot students at Mizzou behind these protests.

http://www.barstoolsports.com/barsto...ion-than-them/

Yes... the Paris coverage is being used as an excuse by the media not to cover your kerfuffle... morons. I really hope this is just satire.

[DubaiSis]

For those who don't understand all the hubbub about Mizzou, this article might explain it a bit. It does read a bit like someone's thesis, but at least it is fully documented and comes with graphics

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b08cda3488f34d

In short, Missouri is a whole different place and comparing it to your typical northern (or southern) school with similar diversity concentrations is not going to explain the racial tension. And assuming the black situation at Mizzou is the same as at similar regional schools like Illinois, Tennessee or Arkansas (all reasonably close and similarly sized) is going to make you think this is all much ado about nothing.

[Kevin]

Shutting out dissenting views in the manner suggested and refusing to have a dialog is itself a form of oppression. Oppression does not justify oppression. And when you have little things like Constitutional Rights dangling in the background, you can either accept that occasionally you will be offended or you can accept that there need to be resources available to help people, on their own, maybe with a little help be decent to each other.

[LAblondeGPhi]

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[LAblondeGPhi]

^^^ What on earth??

I posted this in the GoodShop thread, NOT this thread.

What happened???

Also - I don't have an edit button to that post, so I can't change anything about it.