re: Holyshite- spike Lee doing the Mozzou boycot 30 for 30...we joked about it

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Good I'd like to get a different perspective of what is happening at Mizzou. Not just you guys condemning and judging people without full knowledge of all the facts. I might agree with most of you after I watch but no one deserves to go to school in a hostile environment.

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I grew up in CoMo so I tend to take these sorts of comments VERY personally.

It is NOT a hostile environment any more so than any other college campus or college town in America is for anybody. No way. No more so than Tuscaloosa or Athens or CS or Ann Arbor or Boulder or Syracuse etc.

At any of those places you can find individual instances of people acting stupid or badly - see the A&M incident toward visiting black students just recently. But it wasn't representative of A&M or the community as a whole and they responded the right way to make that clear. Likewise, I can tell you flat out and unquestionably in living in Columbia MO for 18 years that "poop swastikas" and the like are NOT at all representative of the tone or daily goings on at the University or the town.

This is where the CS1950 movement totally failed. They had a chance to have a national discussion about these issues, but instead they have just kept so narrowly focused on Mizzou alone and their own little list of demands (some of which are unconstitutional) that they are causing outsiders who have never even been on campus to perceive *Mizzou* as a "hostile" environment of some sort rather than pulling back and saying "hey, since that university and town are so normal, this is something that could happen anywhere, even in my town, what would I think if it happened here? What can I do to make sure it doesn't?" etc.

Perfect example is CS1950 getting the student body president to fabricate reports one night that the "KKK was confirmed to be on campus" and sending the whole student body and town into a panic. It was quickly proven false, but the damage of the lie was done. And it really does hurt. In 18 years there, I never, ever, ever heard of or encountered the freaking KKK in town doing anything. Ever. It's just not what the University and the town are. It's your standard laid back relatively liberal college town. Nothing more, nothing less.