No, the KKK Is Not Invading Mizzou
Racism and rumors at the University of Missouri
Payton Head, the University of Missouri's student body president, posted on Facebook that the KKK had come to campus, and black students were advised to stay indoors, away from windows. He claimed he was working with the campus police department, state troopers, and the National Guard to address the active threat.
The warning was unnecessary, false, and eventually retracted. Head later copped to circulating a baseless rumor, according to The Blaze:
I'm sorry about the misinformation that I have shared through social media. In a state of alarm, I was concerned for all students of the University of Missouri and wanted to ensure that everyone was safe. I received and shared information from multiple incorrect sources, which I deeply regret. The last thing needed is to incite more fear in the hearts of our community. In the future, please receive emergency updates from MUalert.missouri.edu or @MUalert on Twitter ONLY.
While there certainly seem to be some genuine occurrences of racial animus on campus yesterday—as well as an actual threat of violence, made by a non-student who was 100 miles away and quickly apprehended—the situation at Mizzou is beginning to exhibit qualities of a moral panic. In some cases, it's difficult to sort out the rumors from the actual instances of racism; no one wants to seem skeptical of, or indifferent to, acts of intolerance against minorities, who shouldn't have some unreasonable burden to prove their pain is valid. At the same time, false rumors are circulated on the internet constantly, and journalists have an obligation not to become ensnared by them. (One of the incidents that kicked off the protest against President Tim Wolfe in the first place seems increasingly dubious.)
Meanwhile, a professor was widely ridiculed for refusing to cancel classes for black students who feel unsafe, but his full statement on the matter hardly seems offensive:
Like are you kidding me. pic.twitter.com/8tt10RiBDy
— JJ not Jay-Jay (@nugget2times) November 11, 2015
I don't know whether Mizzou professors should have cancelled classes. But let's not worry too seriously about a possible KKK invasion of the campus.
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Payton Head, the University of Missouri’s student body president, posted on Facebook that the KKK had come to campus, and black students were advised to stay indoors, away from windows.
So I guess we’re no longer talking about generalities?
He claimed he was working with the campus police department, state troopers, and the National Guard to address the active threat.
that’s the overt lie that can’t be explained away as “I received and shared information from multiple incorrect sources,”
He’s a lying sack of shit. The perfect student body president for U of M.
It’s not a lie if you believe it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqfgOlm-w2U
Indeed, nothing is ever a lie, nor a joke, even in poor taste, if you believe it, and in this regard we should make it clear that the injection of inappropriately deadpan satire or “parody” into the current situation at U of M would be grounds for immediately calling in the police to reestablish order on campus. Compare the excellent precedent set by NYU officials, diligently acting together with Manhattan prosecutors in America’s leading criminal satire case, documented at:
http://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/
They threatened to pull a Number 6 on them.
Rape, murder, arson and rape.
“You said ‘rape’ twice.”
STEVE SMITH LIKE…YADA-YADA-YADA
Is that three Numbers 2s?
It’s worth noting that Payton Head is also responsible for one of the three allegations (none of which have thus far been supported by ANY sort of evidence whatsoever) that lead to this whole exercise in insanity.
“the situation at Mizzou is beginning to exhibit qualities of a moral panic. “
In the same sense that the Titanic is beginning to show signs of losing buoyancy
Or the Challenger suffering a lift malfunction.
More like an “uncontrolled thermal event”, as we say in the auto bidness….
Anomalous fuel ignition away from nozzle.
O-ring kinetic action.
sounds kinky.
Undesirable air-ground interface.
Or Fort Hood suffering from “workplace violence.”
Obviously a major malfunction.
In the same sense Belle Knox is beginning to show signs of a wardrobe malfunction.
In the same sense that Ave Vigoda is beginning to lose the bloom of youth
In the same sense that Haiti’s economic-development is showing signs of underperformance
Even if it were true, what is anyone supposed to do about it? Whatever is left of the KKK these days doesn’t seem to go around shooting black students who get too close to their windows. Barring actual violence, they are just another group with the same rights to expression and assembly as anyone else.
Yeah, but – RACIST! And stuff.
Liberals expect the KKK to behave according to liberal beliefs about racist, not according to KKK beliefs about race.
The mind control powers that are emitted from guns are put there by the KKK, so EVERY school shooting is a KKK murder. Gosh!
I think it’s pretty safe to assume all that’s left of the KKK is a bunch of federal agents spying on each other. And maybe an SPLC fundraiser or two.
Didn’t you get the memo that words can literally injure people now?
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can traumatize me.”
–Something I actually read on a website attempting to explain this stuff.
Did someone forget to change his sock handle again?
We need a better class of trolls around here.
Nah, Tony’s actually been quite consistent on this. He gives the board (and libertarians in general) grief for know-nothingism when it whines about intersectionality, microagressions, and other SJW-studies jargon but has been nothing but derisive towards the campus speech police.
I think he’s mad someone has raised the “Full Retard”-bar so high. He used to be a contender!
agree with Tony again.
Perhaps the students at mizzou think that speech isn’t inherently different from any other action.
Combined with the idea that it’s perfectly reasonable and legitimate for democracy to regulate actions that are deemed vile and discriminatory, and you get…”shut up or else”.
Yeah, thoughts come next… You were*thinking* hateful thoughts! Off to the gulag!
These people probably don’t buy the figures published by the FBI on Klan membership. I imagine they believe there’s a hidden majority of white southerners who morally or actively support Klan activity or similar.
But say you think there’s a hidden majority of Muslims who morally or actively support terrorist activity or similar, and you’re a racist.
I read in the Yale Herald that the poop swastika was something that happened over a year ago. Not a recent event.
The thing with that is that the photo some people have produced that is allegedly of the October 2015 poop swastika at Mizzou was taken over a year ago. But not, I don’t think, at Mizzou.
So there’s a poopswastika epidemic sweeping America!!!??
PANIC, EVERYONE!!!!
Just wait until they figure out how to turn poopswastika into the latest scary drug!
Poop swastikas are nothing compared to the threat of dysentery spread via poop swastikas.
As I said in the AM links there is a second shitter.
You and your crazy crapspirassies!
That’s why I never walk bare-foot across grassy knolls.
I can just see the next fundraising letter from the SLPC with a map of the US with little poopswastikas dotting the country where these alleged instances have occurred.
My God, Its a Serial Poop-Nazi? HE TRANSFERRED?!
NO POOP FOR YOU!
+1 Hakenscheisse
Sehr gut!
Swastikaka
I believe the proper term is swashitska.
Also = i’ve seen conflicting descriptions – is this guy “Payton Head” the student body president… or president of the grad school student association?…
You’re just surprised a black man can be president, aren’t you. And in this day and age especially. Unbelievable.
I mean, it’s 2015. I just can’t even.
GILMORE? is just sooo problematic.
also troubling and concerning
[downtwinkles at GILMORE]
(begins penning vociferous apology blaming society for making me this way)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbLDZwb9w
President of the Executive Cabinet of the Missouri Students Association, which is “the recognized undergraduate student government at the University of Missouri”.
Well…
…You can just tell its a school overwhelmed by Racism by the composition of its Student Government
no one wants to seem skeptical of, or indifferent to, acts of intolerance against minorities,
I more than seem skeptical, I am skeptical, as we all should be given how many of these panics are outright frauds or vastly overstated. But I’m not indifferent to real events when they do occur.
+SAE, – Oberlin
I’m 100% skeptical because the NAMs on campuses who flip out over this kind of nonsense are a bunch of liars and crybabies. And I’m indifferent to the “real events”, rare as they are, because the “real events” are damned trivial: someone yelled from a passing truck (maybe, probably not)….wow.
He warned the black students to stay away from windows. How patronizing, condescending, and fraidy-cat!
The best thing to do if the KKK shows up is for EVERYONE to get out there and jeer at them. Whites to show they don’t agree, non-whites to show they aren’t afraid. Staying indoors is the worst possible reaction. Even just going about normal business and utterly ignoring them is better.
But for this clown to think he has to tell the blacks how to react is just pathetic. Fucking nanny.
That’s what I keep saying. All of this fear and weeping and freaking out at stupid, deliberate provocation (assuming any of the reported incidents even happened) is just giving asshole racists what they want. They are developing this complete fucking fantasy that they are under siege or something. You’d think we were one step away from reinstituting slavery from the way some people are behaving.
CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE
“. You’d think we were one step away from reinstituting slavery from the way some people are behaving.”
…””Why, you’d think someone had massacred an entire indian village the way…. Arrrghk!!!”
(covered in barrage of Yale-Spit)
If it weren’t for public accommodation laws, only whites would be allowed to stay in hotels. /Tony
And this might happened.
WHATEVER! WHEN ARE WE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES, LIKE COFFEE CUPS AT STARBUCKS???
#WWJD
I can honestly say I have no idea what people were pissed off about.
Everybody must be pandered to or offense will be taken.
At least they weren’t poo’d off.
I think people are not pissed about the cups. Atheists are building their own boogeyman
It’s a good thing the KKK wear hoods cuz there are probably some black dudes or chicks under them.
+Chappelle
“…no one wants to seem skeptical of, or indifferent to, acts of intolerance against minorities, who shouldn’t have some unreasonable burden to prove their pain is valid.”
This unreasonable burden you speak of, does it mean that completely unsubstantiated and unevidenced claims of marauding white guys in pickup trucks yelling racial epithets on campus should just be taken at face value?
+ puttin’ ya’ll BACK in chains
That whole statement is just a festival of category errors.
Pain is subjective, internal, unverifiable. No one can prove or disprove that someone else’s pain “valid”.
What does need validation is that, if you are asking us to take action in the real world because of your pain, whether your pain has any basis in the real world.
The warning was unnecessary, false, and eventually retracted
It was career day and the KKKochtopus had set up a booth. Easy mistake to make.
The Obama Youth is getting more delusional by the day.
Is there even a photo of the poop swastika or video of the racial slurs being yelled at the student body president?
If only our youth carried devices that could take pictures and record video, plus send it out for the world to see.
There is no picture, but students who support the outrage theater took one in existence for years and tried to pass it off as relating to the Missouri event.
Naje Davenport?
The #PoopTruth is out there!
(One of the incidents that kicked off the protest against President Tim Wolfe in the first place seems increasingly dubious.)
The incident with the student government president being called an N from a passing pickup is also highly dubious. The incident that isn’t dubious was a drunken student making racial comments to a group of practicing performers, although no report I’ve seen describes what he actually said. So instead of a series of racial incidents there was one incident of unknown seriousness for which the person responsible is reportedly being expelled.
Once you understand the circumstances the claim that there is some sort of deficient response to racial incidents is obviously wrong. It’s too bad Wolfe didn’t hang on for a few weeks and cause their football team to self-destruct.
“Once you understand the circumstances the claim that there is some sort of deficient response to racial incidents is obviously wrong”
Even if all of these “incidents” were true and well-substantiated…. they STILL wouldn’t amount to any kind of ‘pervasive race-problems’ that would demand urgent, decisive action by public university administration.
unless, “Drunk guys say racist shit, and there’s a swastika in one of the toilets” is supposed to be understood as something that a school of 35,000 is unable to cope with without candle-light vigils & suspension of classes so that students can seek psychological counseling.
That’s what is really nuts here. Even if you accept all of the stories at face value, it’s still pretty much a whole bunch of nothing. If students were responsible for any of the “incidents”, then maybe they should be punished by the school. Otherwise it’s just some (constitutionally protected) ugly words and perhaps some extremely minor vandalism.
Man, I ought to start counseling for these fragile children. I could make a fortune, and, apparently, never run out of clients. Hundred dollars an hour, the Feds would pay for it, and I could retire in months. Of course, I’d have to listen to all that whining.
Teh BOOGEYMAN!!! is comin’ to git you!!
ps, Sonny. The joke is in your hand you.
Are there ten brave men/women/gendernuwts to protect the pansies of Mizzou?
Stand ye Men of Harlech!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ft371DLlo
OK, which one of you is a professor at the University of Missouri?
In a state of alarm, I was concerned for all students of the University of Missouri and wanted to ensure that everyone was safe.
Goatfucking Jesus, this is pathetic.
All those lives in places like Normandy Beach, and the Battle of the Bulge- WASTED.
+10^6
If any of these children were forced to deal with real oppression or real aggression instead if this fairy dust shit that sends them into curl up in fetal position mode, they’d melt away like the insubstantial snowflakes that they are.
There is no reason to cancel classes. At all. Mizzou is currently facing nothing more than the potential existence of a few people who have an unapproved opinion.
This would not even merit a story if it weren’t for the hystronics that ensued.
They might be recruiting.
Chewing gum on line, eh???
Nuffim’, eh?
How dare that professor not cancel class? Poor little JJ, forced to make a choice.
It’s like he thinks the point of college is to learn, not to wet yourself with outrage
But is the professor cancels classes then the students can then demand a passing grade since it would be unfare to fail them since they did not get all the classes they were suppose to get.
“”‘But if””’
Coming soon to a campus near you.
It’s going to be like a giant derp bomb with derp fallout spreading everywhere. It’s gonna be derpfuckingtastic.
The KKK will be appearing everywhere, suddenly, out of nowhere. They’ll be like magic, they’re everywhere! White hood sightings on the increase! Look, there went a bunch of them in the back of a pickup truck, with rebel flags on it! Close the schools! Close the schools!
I saw a bunch of short KKK on Halloween, they claimed they were ghosts but I knew better
so many microaggressions!!!
To be honest, and maybe this is wishful thinking more than anything else, I don’t think that’s true. After years of intense efforts to promote extreme racial and sexual sensitivity, they’ve managed to knock the block off a few administrators, cannibalize their own ranks, make any students not in the social justice clique very wary of dealing with them, and generally piss off the rest of the country. I think we’re seeing the high-water mark of their movement, but the shine’s certainly coming off. And in a way that’s a shame: as absurd and repugnant as it is for us, it’s a backlash against an institution we’ve come to despise and its obnoxious socialist aspirants. We’re watching the breeding grounds for anti-capitalist thought being eaten from the inside out, but the universities will outlive the festering social justice infection.
I don’t think we’re even close to the peak of this. They are extremely emboldened right now and they’re smelling blood. It gets worse from here, much worse. All of this is great for the liberty movement of course. Our foes proving to the entire world that they are not to be taken seriously? What’s better than that? And we don’t have to do anything, just get the popcorn and beer, sit back and watch them self destruct.
Exactly,
Just like with any bully, they’re going to keep doing so until someone punches them in the nose (or hopefully, kicks them in the balls).
Whenever we think they’ve hit full idiot, they prove God has been hard at work creating better idiots.
*SIGH*!!
I think we’re seeing the high-water mark of their movement,
I keep saying that, and the water keeps rising, because the instigators are never punished, and frequently rewarded.
The water will begin to recede when the proggy SJW instigators are punished, and not before.
Look, these people aren’t serious anti-capitalists. They fight for the right of bourgeois liberals to never feel uncomfortable. Of course, they would probably say they don’t like capitalism, but that’s only because they understand that that is part of a general leftist platform of views. Don’t lump all people who oppose capitalism with these idiots.
Professors actually expect students to go to class and take exams? SMH
How the hell can they go to class with this KKK invasion?
Well, the KKK dress in white sheets like ghosts, right?
And you can’t always see ghosts, even when they’re there, right?
Therefore, the ghost KKK is actually where, and your whiteness doesn’t allow you to see them.
The ghost KKK actually “were there”. Check your grammar privilege.
Head is absolutely correct. The poopstika was obviously the work of the Ku Krap Klan.
Poop Swastika.
I’m still not sure it passes the sniff test.
I wouldn’t want to sniff it.
TROLLALICIOUS
Am I missing something or is this whole thing just an extension of the same baseless racialism and sexism that has been peddled by the far left on campuses for my entire lifetime? And if so, it seems rather disturbing that this nonsense has gained any traction whatsoever. Can someone explain to me what the fuck these people are actually complaining about and how they have been victimized? If this whole mess can be boiled down to “micro aggressions” and “because feelz” then it confirms a rather large segment of our population is intellectually bankrupt and emotionally retarded.
They’re approaching peak derp. Peak derp cannot be obtained, but when one comes close enough, batshit insanity ensues. That’s where we are right now.
We’re experiencing a deep singularity.
They’re not claiming it’s about microaggressions, they’re making claims about a pretty hostile environment. It’s just that none of those claims seem to be substantiated.
comment above
Even if these very-few things they cite were true, they don’t appear to amount to anything other than the low-level-background-noise of a diverse community where there’s bound to be a few racist douchebags lurking on the fringe. It does not an “Unsafe Space”-make by a long shot.
I made this same point the other day =
if you think the Missouri student’s claims have any rational merit, then you’d have to equally believe that H&R commentors had some right to demand that Nick & Matt be fired from their editorial-positions because of that one guy “American” who used to show up and say racist shit once a month.
Its absurd.
“Am I missing something or is this whole thing just an extension of the same baseless racialism and sexism that has been peddled by the far left on campuses for my entire lifetime? And if so, it seems rather disturbing that this nonsense has gained any traction whatsoever.”
When the baby-boomers were inflicting this shit on their elders, it was different.
This time, the baby-boomers are in charge–not their more conservative elders.
It’s like the baby-boomers raised a generation of conformist Red Guard, who are now launching a Cultural Revolution. They’re using public apologies, public humiliation, and they’re successfully making administrators lose their jobs. The police are helping them identify and intimidate people for speech “crimes”.
Yeah, I think it’s different this time.
All that “What about the children” bullshit we complained about for so long, that’s all coming home to roost. The anti-bullying, etc.–they’re taking that with them into adulthood. These are not children who want to be treated like adults. These are adults who want to be treated like children–and want the rest of us to be treated like bullies by the authorities. That’s different.
Well thinking that cops are on their side is a foolishness that is almost beyond parody. The cops are on the side of the COPS and no one else. We all know that. The cops are looking for an opportunity to break some heads. And guess whose heads that will be? The foolish students, that’s who.
Would I be kicked out of the group if I secretly rooted for the cops in this case?
PS: I’ll bring the popcorn, who has the beer?
My inner conservative sees these student events and thinks, “There’s nothing here that couldn’t be solved by a cavalry charge.” 🙁
…spanking…
And then the oral sex?
These people are not serious Marxists in any sense of the word. Maybe you can use the term “cultural marxism”, and that might be fair, but look these are the same people that will chastise a Marxist for being an “economic reductionist” and for focusing too much on the plight of poor people in general and not catering solely to the interests of a narrowly defined hierarchy of pet victims.
Am I missing something or is this whole thing just an extension of the same baseless racialism and sexism that has been peddled by the far left on campuses for my entire lifetime? […] If this whole mess can be boiled down to “micro aggressions” and “because feelz” then it confirms a rather large segment of our population is intellectually bankrupt and emotionally retarded.
No, you’re not missing anything. That sums it up about right.
I don’t see “moral panic” at all. I see lemmings rushing toward the precipice.
The lofty pinnacles of Moral High Ground Mtns stand far above the common plains of Sense, and once such peaks have been attained, one is above such things. Literally.
It is alleged that such headlong rushings off precipices will result in the lemmings not smashing their heads forcefully into Sense below, but in fact hurtling off into low-earth orbit.
What is this horseshit about minorities “shouldn’t have some unreasonable burden to prove their pain is valid?” Since when is anyone entitled to have their supposed pain “validated?” The question is whether one person owes a duty of care or conduct to a fellow human being which has been violated, whether any cognizable harm resulted, and what the remedy for that harm should be. Nobody is entitled to have their subjective “pain” be deemed “valid” simply for validation’s sake.
If a student, minority or otherwise, is denied a right, benefit or entitlement to which he or she is entitled, he or she should receive redress. But there is absolutely no reason why someone who subjectively feels some general, unspecified “pain” is entitled to have that feeling “validated.” Particularly when the person demanding validation is the sole judge as to whether he or she has been “offended.”
Demanding validation – exactly. They want to be treated like something special. Many years ago, one of my buddies had an apartment. The group who hung out were all in college so we were around 21 years old. This very cute 16-year-old girl found her way over. We knew that getting involved with her could be trouble. One day she got mad at us because we treated her like anyone else who came around and not like she felt a very cute 16-year-old girl should be treated.
Well put, i agree 100%
My reality is valid because feelings. This is their actual argument.
^RACIST^
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“No one wants to seem skeptical of, or indifferent to, acts of intolerance against minorities, who shouldn’t have some unreasonable burden to prove their pain is valid.”
There is nothing wrong with hoping that the incidents of racism didn’t really happen.
And we’d have to forget a number of incidents over the years in which people (maybe well intentioned!) manufactured racist incidents that didn’t really happen to generate sympathy, political support, etc.
From Tawana Brawley to Crystal Magnum and the Duke lacrosse team, people sometimes make up stuff for various reasons. There was also the lady that called in claiming to be an under age bride at the YFZ ranch. It was a hoax!
http://www.chron.com/life/hous…..773986.php
The police went in, seized all those people’s children and sent dozens of children into foster care–and they never found any evidence of any wrongdoing.
There’s nothing wrong with hesitating before jumping on these bandwagons.
I’m skeptical. The alternative is to believe that modern college campuses have more racists than 1950s Birmingham.
And Rape-ier than a concentration camp.
The ghost of Bull Conner and his armored car should be along any minute.
Being skeptical and indifferent to alleged acts of intolerance against LEFTIST minorities is currently the only rational response. It’s been proven time and time again that lefties will make up events out of whole cloth that advance their narrative.
Don’t they teach Aesop’s Fables anymore? Someone should explain ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ to them.
And the story of the shit swastika sounds absurd.
If neo-Nazis were going to make a swastika on campus, it seems unlikely they would make it out of shit. They like the swastika! You don’t make things you like out of shit. When an artist made the Virgin Mary out of shit, it upset people who care about the Virgin Mary. When an artist made the Piss Christ, it upset people who care about Jesus. It wasn’t religious people who made those objects. If neo-Nazis were going to make something out of shit, they might have made a Star of David or something they hate. It just sounds like something a hoaxer would imagine a neo-Nazi would do–rather than something a neo-Nazi would actually do.
And I hope it is a hoax. I’d like to believe that such an incident never happened because I’d like to believe people aren’t so mean and racist. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
What’s wrong is going after people’s freedom of speech and/or accusing them of thought “crime” for using their critical thinking skills at a temple of knowledge. And anybody that can easily be so manipulated into descending to that level of stupidity should be called out and ashamed of themselves. Stupidity like that is why we invaded Iraq.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com…..iraq_x.htm
For some reason, whenever I read a Ken Shultz post, I think of Captain Kangaroo.
My original post was going to be a response to Robby’s suggestion that minorities shouldn’t have to justify how they feel.
My post was going to be about how everybody can feel however they want, and speaking from experience, punching neo-Nazis in the face feels better than anything.
Maybe you mean punk rawk Captain Kangaroo like punk rawk Kenny Rogers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIpM8-RCPs
The other thing that leaves me wondering is whether the perpetrators produced the poop on site or imported it from another location. That’s a real head scratcher.
The shit swastika, even it even truly happened at all, was almost certainly by some lowlife Weigelian left-wing guttersnipe. That’s how these Alinskyite cretins roll.
Rusty, that photo is triggering
They have to have drama to replace the drama they had in high school.
When and how did all of these pampered gringo youth turn into a parade of drama queens?
Was it reality TV? Or before?
Then there’s this story, in which a black art student put up “Whites Only” and “Coloreds Only” signs around campus–as part of an art project.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..10edf70c5e
It is never a bad idea to use your critical thinking skills.
Never.
That story was from a couple of months ago!
Not ancient history.
People do this shit for various reasons–and the closer you get to a college campus, the more various the reasons.
This reminds me of that Phillip K Dick novel set in an alternate reality where the poopNazis won WWII: The Man in the Handicapped Stall.
I prefer the prequel: The Man in the Snappy Rascal.
Harlan Ellison wrote one entitled, I Have to Poop, and I Must Scream.
We mustn’t forget Kurt Vonnegut’s classic Mother Nightsoil, or Philip Roth’s The Plop Against America.
?..I Have to Poop, and I Must Scream?.needs more fiber!
Hmm, now that I think about it, The Man on the High Throne might be funnier.
I guess, if you’re gonna lie, lie big. Claiming that you’re working with the National Guard? How do you expect to get away with that?
Will this be as thoroughly investigated as Ben Carson’s de facto scholarship offer to West Point?
He should have added the Seal A Team.
They’re living in a bubble. Of course they think they’ll get away with it. They have no concept of the real world. They truly believe right now that they are all powerful. It’s what they’ve been taught to believe, and no one has ever smacked them in the head with the reality stick, yet.
The authority of student body presidents has gone up considerably, I guess.
What number do you dial for the National Guard’s Report Racism Hotline?
Do they send in a recon team first? Or do troop carriers immediately deploy?
What is that call-up like? “Sorry to drag you away from your life and family and insist that you fulfill your military obligation right now, but some child in Missouri got his widdle feewings hurt.”
You’re assuming the guy is sane. He sounds like another Vester Flanagan waiting to happen.
I’m increasingly convinced this entire episode is a false flag operation created by NPR correspondents.
NPR correspondents don’t make things up, they are true believers
They wait until others make things up and then hype it to the max. When and if its proved false, they move on to the next hype.
…and never mention the falsehood.
There’s a NPR swastika voice?
NO POOP FOR YOU!!! NEXT!
All the racism that isn’t happening. This is the predictable result of the victim industry. When no bad guys can be found, they have to be invented.
That guy who made a “threat” 100 miles away is called a troll. The folks who told Payton Head to watch out for KKK are trolls. These fucksticks are not motivated by genuine racial animus, but because they get a kick out of sending these weenies into a panic. And the reaction was priceless, as expected.
Let’s think about the poopstika, for a second, and assume it was real. What kind of person can you envision who would create such a thing? A roided, tattooed skinhead who just really hates the blacks and happens to be a college student? Or a hoodie wearing stoner having a giggle with his fucktard buddies? The default assumption is astounding, but the victim narrative demands it.
Agree, and it’s quite obvious.
I’ve been white almost my whole life. In theory all these racists should be so pervasive I run into them constantly. Being that so many people must be racist they should be able to confide this in me since chances are good I’m also racist. At least some should have tried.
But the number of actual racists I’ve met is incredibly close to zero, and outnumbered by the people who see racism where none exist by about 100 to 1, if not more.
Whenever I hear these claims of pervasive race issues I think they’re by default BS. I lived all over the U.S. and I’ve never seen this culture that people feel is so pervasive. It’s really no different than saying we’re surrounded by witches or devil worshipers where all the incidents typically were hoaxes.
I’ve seen it. But it was a hell of a long time ago in the rural south. These days? Very rare, when you would think, if you believe these college students, that we have suddenly been transported back to the days of racial segregation.
I’ve both seen it and been the victim of it, but that was a couple decades ago and in rust-belt town where racism was (is?) pretty bad on all sides.
Well, I could have said I’ve seen it recently also, but you will see that if you’re whitey and go into the wrong neighborhood in Balmer. It doesn’t get much more racist than that. But that doesn’t count right? Outside of that, I really don’t see it these days, except for on message boards.
I suspect things have not gotten any better in places like Buffalo or Rochester – they are slowly spiraling down the drain. The economy is shit, crime remains through the roof, there is a lot of mistrust and little contact between “the races”. By which I mean you could live there and go years without even seeing a black or white person respectively. Knock on wood, but I have not seen or experienced anything similar in 20 years in NYC.
“Go ahead. Toss it in the water and see what bites.”
JJ seems to make poor choices. I’m sure that will all work out for him, as he goes through life.
Does anyone have a timeline of this? The steady stream of bullshit from both sides (Nazis! KKK! Thoughtcrime!! PC!) has buried everything that actually may have happened.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/09/…..-timeline/
Feelin’ Danka.
I am now convinced the human race is doomed.
I think its important to note the way the Washington Post went out of its way to Narrative-Pump on this particular story, just as it was blowing up…
…basically, throwing everything possible it could find into a stew that somehow provided the semblance of rationality to the whole thing.
Forget that the writer doesn’t bother to ever question the factual-shakiness of the actual individual ‘racial incidents’ – its the way they’re layered in carefully, one at a time, while dwelling at length on entirely separate issues like Missouri’s history as a slave-state, the significance of Ferguson, or a raft of other exaggerated incidents that have occurred elsewhere in the country (“Blackface parties”? really) ….as though this collage of grievance should somehow explain why *this University*, and none others in the region, suffers from such particular ‘racial’ strife…
Its pure propaganda-pumping. Which, as i understand it, is actually the job of some people’s blogging careers… but its really starting to cross the line where this sort of thing is seen as a REPLACEMENT for actual News Reporting.
It’s getting the scoop, getting the webzone hits and what not – the choice between “boring and true” and “exciting bullshit” has always been pretty easy. I’m getting less optimistic that people can adapt to the new journalism before more crap like this gets out of control.
“If you give in to the bullies, they win.”
B-but… THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS!
Suggesting that someone stand up for himself, turn the other cheek, develop a thick skin, or do anything other than demand an end to free speech is dismissive of his FEELZ, invalidates his experiences and, of course, is racist.
Drug Warrior Chuck Schumer targets caffeinated peanut butter. No, I’m not making this up.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/11…..utter.html
I’m holding out for caffeinated bacon.
I’m holding out for baconated grapefruit.
That sounds pretty good, minus the grapefruit part.
If you don’t like that, try some Archduke Chocula.
I don’t like that you’re talking about ‘chocolate duke’ in a poo-swastika thread. I don’t feel like i have a lot of outs here.
Why are they taking a holiday when there’s a national caffeinated peanut butter crisis?! Heads better roll after this colossal gaffe.
If there is one thing Chuck knows about it, it is how to be healthy.
That fabulous rainbow flag whistle really accentuates his cleavage. Two snaps up!
CAPTION CONTEST!
‘Thank you, You look fabulous, too.’
Looks like it’s about time for dude to invest in a new bra.
Better Living Through Chemicals!!!!!
No, better living through Chuck.
Jesus, look at the twitter exchange re: “JJ-Not-JJ’s” disbelief that his professors aren’t cancelling classes
” Ronnice ?@My_Rare_Being 14h14 hours ago
@nugget2times
what class is this!?
JJ not Jay-Jay ?@nugget2times 14h14 hours ago
@My_Rare_Being
Nutritional Science
Ronnice ?@My_Rare_Being 14h14 hours ago
@nugget2times
Hell no fuck that. Reoort him.
Calvin ?@aurosan 14h14 hours ago
@nugget2times
this is absolutely disgusting, i’m so sorry, i hope dr. brigham faces consequences for this
@makenaamaher 22m22 minutes ago
@nugget2times he boutta get the worst reviews on http://ratemyprofessor.com
W.E.B. DABois ?@B_Wash5 14h14 hours ago
@nugget2times
Aye, me and some other Mizzou alum would like to have Mr. Brigman’s email. Could you oblige? Also, you should report that.”
Basically – say anything people can potentially interpret in a self-serving way = MOB DEMANDS BLOOD
So Ronnice wants to know what class it was BEFORE suggesting reporting the professor? That seems, um, odd.
If it was something important like Gender Studies, that would be one thing. But the science of nutrition? Bring the pain!
Talk about disgusting…
Oh, i somehow missed one of the most special ones..
” Jessica Lee ?@BusquedaJess 31m31 minutes ago Oakland, CA
@nugget2times Black students failed on this due to the threats should complain to US Dept. of Ed. This violates Title VI of Civil Right Act”
Having class and giving students the responsibility to choose to attend or not is the same as excluding black kids from class.
OH YEAH YOU TELL THAT TO THE INVISIBLE ARMY OF KAMPUS KKK
False. Unless we insulate everyone, particularly minorities, from all discomfort, real or imagined, you are racist.
(and even if we don’t)
Black students failed on this due to the threats
I thought they were being failed because they didn’t take the test.
he boutta get the worst reviews
It boutta get real stupid, real stupid.
Way too late for that.
It boutta get derpfuckingtastic?
Is that betterer?
Here are rate my prof page. Loocharade.ks like the site caught wind of the
http://www.ratemyprofessors.co…..tid=959712
Looks like the site caught wind of the charade, (Sheesh)
Another white man making excuses for another White Plundering.
You know who else invaded places?
This Guy?
That is clearly the player, not an invader. Sheesh.
WHOA
MIND BLOWN
I had totally believed up until this point that “The Space Invader”… was the *spaceship*… and HE was Invading the ALIEN planets in a campaign of imperialist conquest…. OMG I NEED TO DIGEST THIS… Paradigms Shifted….
Orson Welles?
Skrulls, secretly?
WTF is wrong with these people?
And yet, you get stuff like this I spotted on LinkedIn.
http://bit.ly/1MnNjEW
I think it’s a little more problematic than a ‘communication breakdown’, Parr.
Wait… hold on a fucking second. Linkedin has news stories?
After reading that I’m selling my stock.
I can’t believe this isn’t some vast performance art piece and I’m not getting the point. The only possibility that could be worse than that is for all of it to be exactly what it appears to be.
Nice swastika….FOR ME TO POOP ON !
I approve this comment and plan on stealing it for future poopstika conversations.
Bwuhaha, this reminds me of an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. The Clampetts hear a news story about a “surfer invasion” at California beaches. So they grab their shotguns and camp out on the beach to repel the “invasion”. Uncle Jed sees the “invaders” and peers at them through a spyglass; he tells the others that “they’re in funny little boats that don’t have no backs or sides”.
Life imitating art and all that.
Not sure how the warmist cult is going to play this one.
Cold Sun Rising
So you’re saying I should burn more carbon, for Gaia?
Does it ever occur to any of these nitwits that if you’re right, you shouldn’t have to make anything up?
If they are not willing to make up stuff, lots of stuff, then how do you think their movement is going forward? Are they supposed to wait for the real KKK to stage invasions full scale invasions of college campuses? Are they supposed to wait for a real rape epidemic with white frat boys raping coeds in broad daylight?
How gullible are us millenials (I believe I have been re-classified as a millenial, tyvm)?
One of you nerds come up with a “pet rock” app and give me 10% as the idea man. I think we could do well.
Did you get your free healthcare yet?
I’m going to fix what the teacher should have said:
If you give in to bullies whiny pussies, they win.The only way bullies whiny pussies are defeated is by standing up to them. If we cancel the exam life, they win; if we go through with it continue living, they lose. I know which side I’m on. You make your own choice.
Seriously, I hope that we find out in a few weeks that this whoole episode has been an attempt at the Guinness World Record for “Largest Work Of Performance Art In The World”. Because anything short of that will make me wonder if we, as a society, can survive these fucking imbeciles.
Life is sometimes hard, fuckheads. My daughter isn’t even three and she’s got a scar from her chest to below her belly. There are children with debilitating illnesses and injuries. People have REAL FUCKING PROBLEMS that it takes more to overcome than to ignore an offhand remark. Grow the fuck up, join humanity and make something of yourselves. If you don’t want to do that, crawl in a fucking hole and blow your brains out. The world will be better off without you.
Xe should have saved xershelf the trouble and simply pasted the dicks/assholes/pussies rant.
Oh yeah? Well I’m going on a hunger strike until you apologize for being a racist and quit your job!
How do you like them apples?
I like em just fine.
I really do hope these assholes crawl in holes and blow their brains out. I hate each and every one of them. They’re probably going to have an impact on the future education of my kids. And that thought will make me wake up in a cold sweat.
And just to be clear, there is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here they are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to live in my beloved world. Do you maggots understand that?
SIR, YES SIR!
So is there a signal each evening for these infantile twits to look under the bed for monsters?
” In some cases, it’s difficult to sort out the rumors from the actual instances of racism; no one wants to seem skeptical of, or indifferent to, acts of intolerance against minorities, who shouldn’t have some unreasonable burden to prove their pain is valid.”
I read this and thought Rico Suave.
If you’re experiencing “pain” from an unverified allegation, sorry, we should investigate the allegation no matter how much it hurts your feelings, to make sure we’re acting on a true report and not on some BS made up by Dame Rumor or concocted for “social justice” purposes.
“” no one wants to seem skeptical of, or indifferent to, acts of intolerance against minorities, who shouldn’t have some unreasonable burden to prove their pain is valid.”””
These are 2 different things being conflated
” no one wants to seem skeptical of, or indifferent to, acts of intolerance against minorities, “
Of course. However “acts of intolerance against minorities” should first be demonstrated *to actually exist*
“…minorities, who shouldn’t have some unreasonable burden to prove their pain is valid.””
I don’t see how anyone is asking for a different standards between minorities OR “majorities”
No one is being asked to “prove their pain”. Emotions are subjective and a matter of individual perceptions.
the “burden” (if it even deserves to be called that) is merely to apply some rational proportionality between the cited “acts” of bigotry being claimed (and which should at least be first *demonstrated* to have actually happened) and the demands being placed on 3rd parties by the aggrieved parties.
I don’t doubt “some people’s feelings” were very hurt by a poop-swastika. I grant them every right to their hysterical over-reaction and weepy self-flagellation. More Power to Them.
The “Problem” is when they start making DEMANDS ON OTHERS over the stupid fucking Poop Swastika, and insisting its mere existence is sufficient to give them the power to overturn the entire operation of a public university.
*footnote = a poop swastika… whose mere existence has never actually been established to exist in the first place.
The #PoopTruth is out there, GILMORE!
No one is being asked to “prove their pain”. Emotions are subjective and a matter of individual perceptions.
Precisely. These people are idiots.
What I am looking for isn’t that they “prove their pain.” I am looking for them to prove that their pain has some non-insane basis.
What I am looking for isn’t that they “prove their pain.” I am looking for them to prove that their pain has some non-insane basis.
You’re a bigger man than me. Because I’m looking for them to completely fuck off, get over themselves and join the real world where cruelty often exists and nobody is entitled to anything based on feelings.
In some cases, it’s difficult to sort out the rumors from the actual instances of racism; no one wants to seem skeptical of, or indifferent to, acts of intolerance against minorities, who shouldn’t have some unreasonable burden to prove their pain is valid.
I am most certainly skeptical of anything that is not substantiated by evidence, regardless of whether its an “act of intolerance” or a fucking “murder”.
And frankly, I don’t care if their pain is valid or not. Because unless its physical pain (that has been directly inflicted upon them by another person intentionally) or it involves a loss of property through deliberate theft or destruction, THEN THERE IS NO FUCKING CRIME INVOLVED AND ITS NONE OF MY FUCKING BUSINESS.
SUCK. IT. UP. MILLENNIALS. AND. GROW. THICKER. SKIN.
This has gotten ridiculous. Totally fucking ridiculous.
Off-topic, Jonathan Butler, who’s the Mizzou hunger striker, came from a wealthly family from what I read on Gateway Pundit and at Omaha.com.
And one more article from American Thinker. http://www.americanthinker.com….._year.html
the situation at Mizzou is beginning to exhibit qualities of a moral panic
If by “a moral panic” you mean “a lunatic asylum being run by the inmates”, then….yeah.
Columbia, Missouri, home of Mizzou, is about 10 percent Black.
Fifty-six percent of persons arrested in Columbia for aggravated assault are Black. Fifty percent of arrestees for rape are Black. Fifty-nine percent of arrestees for simple assault are Black. Two-thirds of arrestees for robbery are Black. Thirty-nine percent of arrestees for larceny are Black. Forty-seven of arrestees for fraud are Black. One-hundred percent of arrestees for murder are Black. (One murder) Fifty-seven percent of arrestees for arson are Black. (All data 2015 to date.)
The greatest risk to Mizzou’s Black students is almost surely same-race crime.
Re: “One of the incidents that kicked off the protest against President Tim Wolfe in the first place seems increasingly dubious.”
This article should be updated to reflect the fact that the police report has been released publicly and confirms the “poop swastika” incident, as does the janitorial staff of the university. http://thefederalist.com/2015/…..ce-report/
+1 Secret Handshake
*crosses Chatsubo off list of potential hires*
All of those things are bad, Mkkay?
the biggest concern you probably had was an std you privileged shitlord!!!!
Well I got good grades!
Dammit
Glad I refreshed
What about the Dingos?
They ate your baby.
Honor Roll, eh? Good for you. Keep it up through year 12, and i’m sure you can get into a pretty ok provincial college.
*puts Chatsubo on list of potential hires*
Why are you obsessed with me? I think we’re in the danger zone here.
I just enjoy tweaking you, ya weird little fascist.
*hires Chatsubo and immediately promotes him to VP of Advertising*