Missouri/Yale protests

[Famous Mortimer]

I'm surprised there's no discussion of this already. Are people just burnt out from discussion Black Lives Matter? Even though posters will probably fall along the same lines they always do, I still think this topic calls for discussion. It's a huge news story and who knows? Maybe some posters will surprise us with home they come down.

I won't though. I think the protests are either massively overplayed or totally unwarranted. With regards to Missouri, apparently the whole thing started because someone used poop to draw a swastika on a Black dorm. That's obviously really bad. I don't see why the president had to resign over that though. It's not like he said it was good. Nobody wanted Obama to resign because Charleston happened when he was in office. Later, you had a guy making anonymous threats on social media. Also obviously bad but the guy was found and arrested for them. That there is literal proof that racism, at least in this case, isn't systematic. The system literally put a person in jail for being violently racist (as they should).

Yale seems even weirder, because it seems like there's even less reason for them to be upset. The incidents there started when someone wrote an e-mail telling people not to wear offensive Halloween costumes (I'm sure it was pretty groan worthy although I would have just deleted it) and then someone wrote a response telling people to stop being babies (also I think pretty groan worthy but again nothing to get upset over). Then the whole campus started going crazy over a claimed culture of racism on campus. There were claims that a sorority party had turned away Black girls. Then it turned out the sorority (of course) had Black members and Black people were actually at the party. The activists then turned around and said it didn't matter if the party story was real or not, it was symbolic of institutional racism. As far as I can tell though, it was the only example they had of institutional racism. They've apparently been holding giant meetings where students go on for hours and hours about all the examples of discrimination they have faced. Predictably though, none of these examples were offered to the media or consisted of micro aggressions like being asked if they needed help finding anything. They expect that people should just automatically accept any claim of racism, because that's what they're taught to do in their social science classes.

Now I'm seeing a movement on Facebook for Blacks to boycott "PWIs" (that's Predominantly White Institutions ie normal colleges) in favor of Historic Black Colleges. So now we see the intersectionalist movement reaching the end goal it was already headed to, calling for voluntary re-segregation.

On the other hand, apparently the main goal of a boycott would be to punish PWIs (again, for what?) by denying them Black students for their football teams. If such a movement does gain traction and ends up causing the collapse of the college football system, well then at least one good thing will have come about as a result of all this.

[Famous Mortimer]

All I know is that pc is really out of control; it's getting to where honest hardworking Americans can't even deface property with nazi imagery or send out racist death threats anymore without a bunch of sensitive SJWs whining about it!

The person who made the death threats was arrested. Again, that proves the system is not racist and is working as it should.

Again, the swastika was bad but what does that have to do with the president of university?

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If I'm leaving out parts of the story, offer up those parts of the story.

[Famous Mortimer]

If I'm leaving out parts of the story, offer up those parts of the story.

It's your thread.  You should have posted a reliable source or sources and quotes that back up what you are saying.  It's not our job to do your research for you.  If you think that everything was just peachy at this university and then one swastika went up and the next day students demanded the system president resign you are delusional.  It's up to you to prove you aren't.  How is that my job?

"It's not my job to educate you!" the last refuge of someone who has no argument.

[Famous Mortimer]

"I'm posting on a politics message board! I don't have time to discuss politics!"

[Famous Mortimer]

The Yale incident is a long time coming. It's not just the e-mail, but a series of minor (and moderate) incidents against both minorities and women that have been building for months if not years. Honestly, though, my only observation is that my school (UW) hasn't seen any protests. We're definitely better than a lot of schools in terms of systemic racism and sexism, but everyone knows it's still there. And yet, as far as I know there haven't been any protests or strikes, just a few Facebook postings that have gone around.

Can you give concrete examples.

[Famous Mortimer]

If the University of Missouri newspaper published a cartoon like that, that would be a reason for the president to resign.

A cartoon like that just existing though, is not.