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11-17-2015, 05:36 PM
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First, huge props for the Body Snatchers reference. I love that movie.  I give big props to the original, but it shows its age a bit, while the 1970s one is still terrifying.Gawker ran a long and excellent piece on Yale today, which explains better than I did the long simmering things. It even makes reference to the idea of privileged Yale students suffering discrimination- as it points out, you can't see that a person went to Yale from a distance, but you can see their skin color. http://jezebel.com/we-need-yale-to-c...s-o-1742070334 Highlight: "In the sphere of the media, the Yale narrative has since been jumbled, politicized and churned into essays on oversensitivity and the merits of free speech. In some cases, student activists have been reduced to being called privileged millennials; there’s been a stunning lack of empathy that perhaps stems from a lack of knowledge that the burden of living with institutionalized racism is legitimate and real. It’s true that college students are melodramatic, and it’s also true that the world is a racist place. Questions come up at the intersection, inevitably: were these students overdramatizing their experiences? Did they, in a selfish but earnest way, just want to feel part of something bigger? Was there validity to criticism of their tactics as over-policing campus freedom? That type of trivialization is instinctual. It’s also possible to debate the various levels of intent without discrediting the students’ concerns. But what I found impossible to ignore—and what so many reports did ignore—was the aura of grief at Yale and Mizzou. What’s happening at these schools, as well as many more to come, is the sound of systematic ostracism that had formerly operated covertly being unable to do so anymore. Animosity has boiled for centuries at Yale, a university with a 72 percent white student body, 20 percent Asian, 9 percent black and 9 percent Latino (all according to 2014-15 stats). Small moments evolved into movements that lump into an even larger Black Lives Matter umbrella—this era’s echoing civil rights crusade."
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11-19-2015, 08:40 AM
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NBC exec's 'illegals' remark angers Hispanic lawmakers
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/1...igrants-216041 More hurt over calling illegals, "illegals."
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11-19-2015, 09:11 AM
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And YOU are a racist if you dare make the distinction too, by the way.
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11-20-2015, 08:58 AM
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11-20-2015, 09:00 AM
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Student who posted ‘I’m going to shoot every black person I can on campus’ is . . .
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25157/
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11-20-2015, 09:04 AM
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do we take down the american flag? every statue of every president ever? how far to go? will this be a new cromwellian puritan wave with all icons removed and smashed? some like to take things to extremes, i can't stand that.
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11-24-2015, 06:57 AM
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Campus zealots hound student out of lectures and bars with shouts of 'rapist' after he dared to question the effectiveness of rape 'consent workshops'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...workshops.html No "safe space" for him, I guess. Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM
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