re: LOL! Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

Triggered.

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You racist piece of shite, you assume I am white because I do not follow your narrative.

Racist

Racist

Well, I know you and I know where you stand.

I know you are moderate enough in your own mind.

Enough to know that what I typed shouldn't have elicited a response.

Dare I say, triggered?

I wasn't focusing on you in particular, because believe it or not, I respect your views. I don't agree with them, but you seem like a well educated fellow, and that counts for something in my book when it comes to shite like this.

I was just commenting on the nature of those that tend to side on your point of view.

The constitution is as holy as the bible, but when it comes to things they disagree with, they become very authoritarian.

Which seems like fascism to me, but what do I know. I'm just a dumb libtard.

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Freedom of Speech, as long as it doesn't piss me off.

Freedom to Assemble, as long as it doesn't piss me off.

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You're absolutely right - they can say whatever they want to say, and assemble as they so choose, or not. But it works both ways - the right to not be offended is nowhere in the constitution. When I hear something that offends, me I exercise my right to turn the channel, change the station, exit the conversation or in some other way stop following along. No one has to believe just like me, and vice versa.

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These guys can do whatever the frick they want. If they're wrong, they'll learn a valuable lesson. If they're right, they affect change.

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Absolutely. They can choose to do whatever they want. However, if they do not fulfill their obligation to play football for the University, for which they have a very nice scholarship, the University is not obligated to continue providing those benefits. That may be the most valuable lesson they could learn. Who blinks first?

Unless something more breaks than we have heard so far, which honestly seems like 3 pretty minor incidents plus some BLM activism on campus.... There are going to be some VERY pissed off fans and boosters. If this goes on more than a few days, there could be fireworks around TSF and scholarship benefits for these players.

No worries.

I think they will learn some immensely valuable lessons. And the first one will be that money runs everything. Not white/black. Not wrong/right. Not good/evil. Money. And they'll blink. And the administration will help them so it doesn't look like they're blinking because the administration has a vested interest in not being portrayed as racist and because they understand these political games and how to give and take with protest groups. This ain't the first protest rodeo the university has been to.

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I think they will learn some immensely valuable lessons. And the first one will be that money runs everything. Not white/black. Not wrong/right. Not good/evil. Money. And they'll blink.

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Ding, ding, ding...

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This ain't the first protest rodeo the university has been to.

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Nope. BUT, to my knowledge, this is the first win of this nature for the BLM movement (and you know they are running this, and that they're very well funded.) They have to be salivating that they got a football team, high profile, to walk out and strike over relatively minor stuff. Big win for them. The social media and overall publicity will be crazy. So, in a sense, it's uncharted territory for the University too.

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All of our black players are not going to participate in any football activities until...well, I don't know when.

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I think this might actually represent an upgrade at wide receiver.

Well, it might have been tone deaf, but could have been worse. It was also an question he probably couldn't have answered properly, or well enough, for the audience. They were looking for the faux paus, and he gave it to them.

That faux paus may have signed his pink slip though.

I'll ask again? What are they risking? They are 4-5. The season is and has been tanked. So it's not that. Public ridicule? I've seen nothing but hero treatment for these guys. Do you really think that any white authority figure would denounce a black racial movement in this day and age? I mean ever? frick no. They'd get the racist kiss of death. The only politically acceptable reaction to something like this is for a white person to show the appropriate level of white guilt. That's it.

So again, what exactly are they risking? Disenfranchised black youth are the most popular, protected and sympathized with group in our country at this point.

Once again, I'm in Sicily, so I don't have all the current facts.

But we went from wanting the Chancellor fired, to wanting the President fired? Is the President one of the Chancellor's guys?

This whole strike is over the President telling some black people that they are starting a fire where there is none?

I agree with him if that's what he meant in that video.

Most of these African Americans are receiving free or heavily subsidized educations because they are...........black. Not because they are smarter than everyone else on campus, but because they are black. Racism is good, when they benefit.

Why are the football players involved in this? Are they all part of this black organization that had the N word said to them?

It's unbelievable what I'm hearing right now, they are making Mizzou out to be the HQ of the KKK because of two isolated incidents?

I'll say this, racism exists everywhere in the world. I've seen it here in Sicily, I've seen it all over the States, I've seen it all over the world. Northern Italians don't like Sicilians, Bosnians hate Serbians, Russians hate everyone who is not Russian, Light skinned blacks hate dark skinned blacks, on and on it goes.

Social media is destroying America because most people are too lazy or too stupid to wait for the facts or find them themselves. Instant outrage and overreaction does nothing but destroy the credibility of anyone involved.