I'm on a hunger strike until that illegal, racist, criminal, pig of a president is out of office.
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President Tim Wolfe resigns. Like to say I feel sorry for you but, I don't. You and your ilk have bred and fostered these children's minds over the years. This is the product you helped create and it just bit you in the ***.
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At a University with likely hundreds of blacks going to school for free, some of which had sub-par academic records compared to the average UM applicant:
"This is just a beginning in dismantling systems of oppression in higher education, specifically the UM system," Marshall Allen, a member of the protest group Concerned Student 1950, said."
"This is just a beginning in dismantling systems of oppression in higher education, specifically the UM system," Marshall Allen, a member of the protest group Concerned Student 1950, said."
Systems of oppression? Oh, so, in other words if Lajohnny can't spell or pass a test he should get a passing grade anyway because he is black. If Lakwanda doesn't get passing grades on her exams she should get a final passing grade because she is black. I am glad my employer can see through this **** and doesn't hire these types.
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You knew it was coming,,,
Are Missouri ‘Whiteout’ Football Game Day Shirts Racist?
Shirt pulled?
Black-out shirts are still available
http://bustedcoverage.com/2015/11/09/are-missouri-whiteout-football-game-day-shirts-racist/
Are Missouri ‘Whiteout’ Football Game Day Shirts Racist?
Shirt pulled?
Black-out shirts are still available
http://bustedcoverage.com/2015/11/09/are-missouri-whiteout-football-game-day-shirts-racist/
Good video of the morons at Mizzou in action. Forget Free Speech, we don't give a damn. Forget your personal space, we'll assault you.
For once, I feel for the reporter (likely a Liberal). I'd have lost my cool and swung at a few people. He remains calm. Hats off.
For once, I feel for the reporter (likely a Liberal). I'd have lost my cool and swung at a few people. He remains calm. Hats off.
Ya wanna know what's going on at that college ? Fred and I say our once pathologically masculine country is in transformation, and that's a definite no *******.
Harvard, once a university, now lets students invent odd pronouns to promote gender equity. “He” and “she” represent oppression and lack of inclusion. A Harvard PhD, wrote and said, “It’s not funny anymore.” , no, it isn’t. Things that seemed the obsessions of the occasional lugubrious neurotic are so common that they represent a change in the national character.
What now is the national character? What sort of country is America today? A country of rugged individualism? Land of the free and home of the brave? A nation of the independent and self-reliant?
Let us start with Brave........... “Student wearing Halloween costume prompts Pueblo County school lockdown“ .... “Pueblo County High School was on lockdown for more than an hour Wednesday after authorities say a student was apprehended wearing a trench coat and gas mask.”
Or
Panic strikes school after student says ‘gum’........“A student at Lehman High School reportedly asked for some chewing gum, but another student thought the student said “gun,” KCEN reports.
Rugged? Not even close. Obesity is so common that the Army has trouble finding recruits. Professors complain of the emotional fragility of the young.
Colleg Sttudents Call Police, Seek Counseling After Seeing Mouse” ... Or ... “Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges.”
They cry if they don’t get A’s.
The new gender-neutral Navy. Don’t you feel safer? I do. Not sure of the gender, though.
Psychologists note a surge of narcissism among the young. Students in universities need “safe spaces” where they won’t hear any word or idea that upsets them. Somebody might do a microaggression or commit a racial slur, such as saying “watermelon.”
The United States has become a nation of weak, pampered, easily frightened, helpless milquetoasts who have never caught a fish, fired a gun, chopped a log, hitchhiked across the country, or been in a schoolyard fight. If their cat dies, they call a grief therapist. Everything frightens Americans.
“School District Bans Playing Tag to Ensure the Physical and Emotional Safety of All Students”
The ferocious American hostility to individualism is most virulent in the form of political correctness, which requires that all of us think the same things. The universities are worst, and they are the future. Once, unpopular ideas were argued and freedom of speech respected, however grudgingly. Today we have the pack mind.
Overt Christianity is almost illegal....“Ten Commandments Removed from State Capitol per Oklahoma Supreme Court”
You are not free to decide what your children are taught in school. If you suggest that Sojourner Truth was not perhaps as important to civilization as Aristotle, your children will be horrified and, if they mention your heresy at school, you will probably have a visit from Child Protective Services.
Strong? America actually wants weaklings........ “Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity”
But in today’s America, any masculinity at all is unhealthy...... “Navy teaching members to combat “Male Privilege”
The United States, in a historical first, has turned the pyramid of civilization upside down. Universities, instead of seeking the qualified, actually look for the unqualified....... “George Washington University Drops SAT/ACT Requirement”.
This latter is needed to open the gates to the “disadvantaged,” meaning the stupid. And it has worked marvelously:......... Forbes: “America’s Millennials Are Among the World’s Least Skilled”.............Specifically, they are short on literacy, numeracy, ability to follow simple orders, poor at solving problems. Oh good.
Scared, fat, weak, fragile, narcissistic, herd-minded, prissy, censorious and, increasingly, ignorant. Deliberately ignorant.
This ménage of middle-school delicates warms a curmudgeon’s heart.
Harvard, once a university, now lets students invent odd pronouns to promote gender equity. “He” and “she” represent oppression and lack of inclusion. A Harvard PhD, wrote and said, “It’s not funny anymore.” , no, it isn’t. Things that seemed the obsessions of the occasional lugubrious neurotic are so common that they represent a change in the national character.
What now is the national character? What sort of country is America today? A country of rugged individualism? Land of the free and home of the brave? A nation of the independent and self-reliant?
Let us start with Brave........... “Student wearing Halloween costume prompts Pueblo County school lockdown“ .... “Pueblo County High School was on lockdown for more than an hour Wednesday after authorities say a student was apprehended wearing a trench coat and gas mask.”
Or
Panic strikes school after student says ‘gum’........“A student at Lehman High School reportedly asked for some chewing gum, but another student thought the student said “gun,” KCEN reports.
Rugged? Not even close. Obesity is so common that the Army has trouble finding recruits. Professors complain of the emotional fragility of the young.
Colleg Sttudents Call Police, Seek Counseling After Seeing Mouse” ... Or ... “Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges.”
They cry if they don’t get A’s.
The new gender-neutral Navy. Don’t you feel safer? I do. Not sure of the gender, though.
Psychologists note a surge of narcissism among the young. Students in universities need “safe spaces” where they won’t hear any word or idea that upsets them. Somebody might do a microaggression or commit a racial slur, such as saying “watermelon.”
The United States has become a nation of weak, pampered, easily frightened, helpless milquetoasts who have never caught a fish, fired a gun, chopped a log, hitchhiked across the country, or been in a schoolyard fight. If their cat dies, they call a grief therapist. Everything frightens Americans.
“School District Bans Playing Tag to Ensure the Physical and Emotional Safety of All Students”
The ferocious American hostility to individualism is most virulent in the form of political correctness, which requires that all of us think the same things. The universities are worst, and they are the future. Once, unpopular ideas were argued and freedom of speech respected, however grudgingly. Today we have the pack mind.
Overt Christianity is almost illegal....“Ten Commandments Removed from State Capitol per Oklahoma Supreme Court”
You are not free to decide what your children are taught in school. If you suggest that Sojourner Truth was not perhaps as important to civilization as Aristotle, your children will be horrified and, if they mention your heresy at school, you will probably have a visit from Child Protective Services.
Strong? America actually wants weaklings........ “Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity”
But in today’s America, any masculinity at all is unhealthy...... “Navy teaching members to combat “Male Privilege”
The United States, in a historical first, has turned the pyramid of civilization upside down. Universities, instead of seeking the qualified, actually look for the unqualified....... “George Washington University Drops SAT/ACT Requirement”.
This latter is needed to open the gates to the “disadvantaged,” meaning the stupid. And it has worked marvelously:......... Forbes: “America’s Millennials Are Among the World’s Least Skilled”.............Specifically, they are short on literacy, numeracy, ability to follow simple orders, poor at solving problems. Oh good.
Scared, fat, weak, fragile, narcissistic, herd-minded, prissy, censorious and, increasingly, ignorant. Deliberately ignorant.
This ménage of middle-school delicates warms a curmudgeon’s heart.
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White Racism at Mizzou and Berkeley: Racial Hoaxes of the Week
A mediocre team of subliterate football players is now running the University of Missouri. Maybe no one will notice the difference.
The takeover occurred over the last week, when members of the sub .500 football team joined black activists in demanding the university president resign. They insisted there was lots and lots of white racism on the campus -- and the president's white privilege made him blind to see it -- or do anything about it.
Lots of white students joined in, admitting they too were guilty of white racism. And because they could not quite figure out what it was, it had to be subconscious.
So the president had to go.
And he did, leaving behind a plea for "more diversity."
The real story on and around the Mizzou campus is just the opposite of the fairy tale these Black Lives Matter wannabes would have us believe: Crime and violence in Columbia, Missouri is a big problem -- and it's a black thing.
Just two weeks ago, a local TV station documented all the violence that exists just off campus -- with dozens of assaults and robberies in the space of just a few months in this small college town.
Some of the assaults were on a hiking and biking trail popular with students. Others episodes of violence were in the downtown area that surrounds the campus.
The reporter did not say what is easily found out in public records at the city police and campus police web sites: the predators are overwhelmingly black. The victims are not.
http://www.americanthinker.com/arti...u_and_berkeley_racial_hoaxes_of_the_week.html
A mediocre team of subliterate football players is now running the University of Missouri. Maybe no one will notice the difference.
The takeover occurred over the last week, when members of the sub .500 football team joined black activists in demanding the university president resign. They insisted there was lots and lots of white racism on the campus -- and the president's white privilege made him blind to see it -- or do anything about it.
Lots of white students joined in, admitting they too were guilty of white racism. And because they could not quite figure out what it was, it had to be subconscious.
So the president had to go.
And he did, leaving behind a plea for "more diversity."
The real story on and around the Mizzou campus is just the opposite of the fairy tale these Black Lives Matter wannabes would have us believe: Crime and violence in Columbia, Missouri is a big problem -- and it's a black thing.
Just two weeks ago, a local TV station documented all the violence that exists just off campus -- with dozens of assaults and robberies in the space of just a few months in this small college town.
Some of the assaults were on a hiking and biking trail popular with students. Others episodes of violence were in the downtown area that surrounds the campus.
The reporter did not say what is easily found out in public records at the city police and campus police web sites: the predators are overwhelmingly black. The victims are not.
http://www.americanthinker.com/arti...u_and_berkeley_racial_hoaxes_of_the_week.html
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I am really over all of this race horseshit. SICK of IT! I'm sick of all the thin skinned ******* ruining the country. This next generation is a bunch of self adsorbed entitled weaklings. For gods sake just let the race stuff die. It's pathetic.
It's an old saying from Ann Landers, but "If you think your teachers are hard, just wait until you have a boss."
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Somewhere along they way we decided that victims should be empowered, and to be a victim, you need only claim to be a victim. This is the result.
But sadly fully expected.
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Ha! The vacuous, vapid vagina owner in the sunglasses and grey vest is a perfesser. Her chosen field? Ready? MEDIA! Ya can't make this **** up.
Oh suuuurrrrrrre.....turn it around and tell he truth. They're just acting out on account of your wp.
It was dying.........until the current WH resident performed life saving cpr (civil polarity revival) and brought it back from the brink.
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You are right on the money Rod, and this new world collegiate outlook is rampant in 'Murica and our White House interloper with his partner in crime had a big hand in it.
Students at Yale are protesting faculty members who had the nerve to suggest that people should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes, even if some people find them offensive. The editorial board writes that “elite colleges are turning out ostensible leaders who seem to have no idea why America’s Founders risked extreme discomfort—that is, death—for the right to speak freely.”
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Somebody on Twitter is calling on #NationalOffendaCollegeStudentDay. Some of these tweets are classic.
- Your family secretly wishes you would go to a friend's house for Thanksgiving
- Your earning potential is inversely proportional to the number of words in the title of your "degree".
- Dragging your bedding around campus with you makes you look like Linus, not Rosa Parks.
- You live in the most prosperous country on Earth; you are *literally* the 1%
- Your electrician will make more than you after graduation - and deserve it.
- If you need to have a PhD to understand why something is racist, it isn't.
- You're expected to pay back your student loans
- These guys are your age and worth more than you.
- Your family secretly wishes you would go to a friend's house for Thanksgiving
- Your earning potential is inversely proportional to the number of words in the title of your "degree".
- Dragging your bedding around campus with you makes you look like Linus, not Rosa Parks.
- You live in the most prosperous country on Earth; you are *literally* the 1%
- Your electrician will make more than you after graduation - and deserve it.
- If you need to have a PhD to understand why something is racist, it isn't.
- You're expected to pay back your student loans
- These guys are your age and worth more than you.
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http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...er-strike-raises-fascinating-questions-110815
Mizzou Player Strike Raises Fascinating Questions
By Clay Travis
Nov 8, 2015 at 8:57p ET
The University of Missouri's football players are on strike. (It's refreshing to see the defense and special teams joining the offense, which hasn't shown up all season, on strike. Great team unity).
Why are Mizzou players on strike?
Because of two instances of racial slurs on campus, a poop swastika -- seriously, it's like "South Park" is writing a campus satire -- graduate student health issues, and a lack of action from University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe. Why Wolfe? Because presumably it is now the university president's job to make sure that no one ever says anything offensive to anyone on campus via spoken or written word, or poop hate symbols. (I haven't Googled it, but couldn't the poop swastika actually be a meta commentary ridiculing the swastika? Like, I'm sure that has been featured in a Brooklyn art show at some point in the past ten years. Think about it, if someone made a poop Alabama logo at Auburn, would you immediately think it was endorsing Alabama? Or the exact opposite? But I digress).
Anyway, activists are demanding that Wolfe step down after announcing his white privilege in a public forum. (Isn't announcing your white privilege at a public forum just more evidence of white privilege? Why are people there to see you denounce your white privilege? Because you have the power to call a press conference thanks to your white privilege. By the way, if I were a rapper, I would totally name myself "White Privilege." Game. Over.)
So there's a hunger strike and some people camping out and now the Missouri football team has decided it won't play unless the president steps down.
Again, this is all real.
The football team's protest is a natural outgrowth of social media trends on college campuses. These days it's very popular to protest things that everyone is already opposed to. ("Bro, your micro aggressions against my anti-slavery petition will not stand.") But the protest really takes off when you find a villain and charge him with the root cause of the issues at hand. Enter President Wolfe, an aloof middle-aged white man who is the perfect villain for a campus crusade against racism. Even if, you know, he isn't racist or involved in any of the actions on campus that people are protesting.
So you've got your villain, what comes next?
You demand his firing.
Because it's not a real bona fide campus protest unless someone gets fired. The mob needs a head to parade around. "You know how much we fought racism at Mizzou? We replaced one middle-aged white dude with another middle aged white dude. Eracism, *****!"
I don't think it's going to cure campus racism if Wolfe steps down. But everyone knows that it's impossible to have political views in our modern social media era unless there's an evil person to blame. The mob rapidly sweeps across campus life until it envelops the football team too. Honestly, the biggest surprise here is that it's taken this long for college athletes to get involved in dumb campus protests.
Even though this Missouri football protest is patently absurd and unlikely to change anything, it's simultaneously fascinating to me at the same time.
Why?
Because of what it might represent in the future.
Let's dive in and discuss five big issues at play here.
1. Mizzou's players are striking.
I happen to think they're striking for a dumb reason. But what if they were striking to be paid to play football? I might well support that. These players make millions for their universities. What would happen if one team's strike spread across college football and on one Saturday no one played any games? What happens then? Think of the billions of dollars at stake for the universities and their television partners. If they unite, the players have the power here.
The schools are obligated to deliver games to the television networks. The schools use those funds to pay for coaches, facilities, and virtually all athletics on college campuses. How many school athletic department budgets could survive without a month of football? What happens if the games can't happen due to player strike?
While I make fun of social media activism because it's often mindnumbingly oversimplified and rooted in a demand that free speech be curtailed, it also would be easy to organize players. What happens if Mizzou fails to take the field on Saturday against BYU? The university owes a million dollars to BYU. They have to pay that fee even if the game doesn't happen. Mizzou also loses out on ticket sales and concessions -- it would have to refund ticket prices and, potentially, donations for all missed games. Moreover, what happens to Mizzou's SEC checks if it doesn't finish the season? Does the SEC dock its revenue share millions of dollars since the majority of the value comes from football games? We just don't know.
Fortunately for the SEC Mizzou's games against Tennessee and Arkansas don't implicate the conference title, but how would the SEC and the playoff committee consider a forfeit due to a player strike? Can you imagine if Tennessee won the SEC East or Arkansas won the SEC West via a Mizzou forfeit?
From a legal perspective this is all fascinating.
2. What can Gary Pinkel do?
He can't do anything, the multi-millionaire coach is powerless here. If he threatens his players and forces them to play, good luck recruiting minority athletes after that stance. The power dynamic is fascinating here -- the players have the power when they unite.
Mizzou stinks this year, so they're probably going to finish 4-8, but what if a team in the college football playoff went on strike? Or let's pretend that Mizzou's players were on a team that was actually good, what if this was last year and Mizzou refused to take the field for the SEC title game? You talk about nervous television executives.
Again, there are billions of dollars at stake in these games. Put simply, the games must go on.
Gary Pinkel will keep issuing a predictable response praising his players and condemning racism. He will be praised for this by sportswriters -- if he's really lucky and no one else changes genders this year he might even get an ESPY for courage! -- but the simple truth is this: it would be infinitely more courageous for Pinkel to say, "I don't think the protest makes any sense and I think these guys should get back to playing football."
But Pinkel would get crushed for this by the media and his recruiting would suffer. Hell, his coaching career might end.
No one has more to lose from this protest and less to gain than Gary Pinkel.
He's probably having several jumbo glasses of wine as we speak. I would be.
3. The sports media will almost universally praise Mizzou players.
Everyone's afraid of being called racist -- especially if you're a white male sportswriter, which is like 90% of all sportswriters in the country -- so the easiest thing to do is write a boilerplate column praising the courage of the players.
After all, what's the payoff in pointing out that a poop swastika isn't actually directed at black football players? Or that racial slurs happen everywhere and are unlikely to be solved by not playing a football game?
No, don't you get it, these guys hate racism more than you and me and everyone else. They hate racism so much they are not going to play a football game -- that they'll probably lose.
That's brave, man.
Look, if not playing football games cured racism, I'd be the first to say don't play football. But this is an absurd protest with absurd demands. The simple truth is this -- the sports media is overwhelmingly liberal white guys. It's easier to praise players than point out that this is the Kony of college football, a millennial-fueled uproar lacking in cogent goals or actionable claims.
Not all strikes are dumb, but this one? This one is very dumb.
#poopswastika
(And just to make it clear, I hate racism and death and cancer and domestic violence and terrorism and center seats in airplanes more than all of you do. I AM MORE OUTRAGED THAN ALL OF YOU COMBINED. And that's not just my white privilege speaking).
4. Predictable anger bubbles up from both sides of the political spectrum.
You'll have the liberal laudatory pieces, mostly written by the mainstream media that praise the players for being willing to "take a stand" and "realize that some things are more important than football" and then you'll have the conservatives demanding an aggressive response to these hippie slackers who want the government to give them things. The conservativse are already asking an interesting question: can't Mizzou just pull these players scholarships if they refuse to play football?
Now the school won't be ballsy enough to do it, but I think the answer is yes. The players are on scholarship specifically to play football, if they choose not to play, for any reason other than physical injury, they aren't fulfilling the obligations of their scholarship. Hence they've breached their scholarship contract and could lose their free ride for school, lodging and meals.
5. Can Mizzou forfeit these games?
If this situation continues to fester the easiest way to handle this would just be to cancel the rest of the season and forfeit the final three games instead of losing them on the field as Mizzou would probably do anyway. But, again, is that legal? Does Mizzou have a contractual obligation to deliver 12 games worth of football content to the SEC and its television partners? Would they be on the hook to make up millions of dollars in damages if they don't?
(The most entertaining aspect of this would be if Mizzou fielded a team of regular students from intramural football to fulfill its contractual obligation. Can you imagine watching this game? This would be incredible. It's like every mailbag question about regular college guys against D1 athletes come to life at once).
The biggest issue is that this Mizzou story doesn't stand alone, it's just part of a larger campus narrative -- we live in a time when many students believe they have a right not to be offended. I disagree, completely. I think the entire purpose of college is to challenge your opinions and examine ideas and beliefs that you may find repugnant. After all, how can you be sure of your own beliefs if you haven't studied the beliefs of others? Also, and this may be shocking to some of you youngsters reading this, but -- TRIGGER WARNING -- sometimes people are going to say mean things to you in life. I know, I know, if you need a safe place to rest after reading that menacing sentence I'd suggest going elsewhere. Outkick will always represent the free speech wing of the free speech party.
And even though this Mizzou football strike is incredibly dumb, the next one may not be.
Because players may not wait for the courts to decide how much money they should get paid, they may strike and make their own rules. And that football strike? Hell, I'd support the objectives of that football strike.
Mizzou Player Strike Raises Fascinating Questions
By Clay Travis
Nov 8, 2015 at 8:57p ET
The University of Missouri's football players are on strike. (It's refreshing to see the defense and special teams joining the offense, which hasn't shown up all season, on strike. Great team unity).
Why are Mizzou players on strike?
Because of two instances of racial slurs on campus, a poop swastika -- seriously, it's like "South Park" is writing a campus satire -- graduate student health issues, and a lack of action from University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe. Why Wolfe? Because presumably it is now the university president's job to make sure that no one ever says anything offensive to anyone on campus via spoken or written word, or poop hate symbols. (I haven't Googled it, but couldn't the poop swastika actually be a meta commentary ridiculing the swastika? Like, I'm sure that has been featured in a Brooklyn art show at some point in the past ten years. Think about it, if someone made a poop Alabama logo at Auburn, would you immediately think it was endorsing Alabama? Or the exact opposite? But I digress).
Anyway, activists are demanding that Wolfe step down after announcing his white privilege in a public forum. (Isn't announcing your white privilege at a public forum just more evidence of white privilege? Why are people there to see you denounce your white privilege? Because you have the power to call a press conference thanks to your white privilege. By the way, if I were a rapper, I would totally name myself "White Privilege." Game. Over.)
So there's a hunger strike and some people camping out and now the Missouri football team has decided it won't play unless the president steps down.
Again, this is all real.
The football team's protest is a natural outgrowth of social media trends on college campuses. These days it's very popular to protest things that everyone is already opposed to. ("Bro, your micro aggressions against my anti-slavery petition will not stand.") But the protest really takes off when you find a villain and charge him with the root cause of the issues at hand. Enter President Wolfe, an aloof middle-aged white man who is the perfect villain for a campus crusade against racism. Even if, you know, he isn't racist or involved in any of the actions on campus that people are protesting.
So you've got your villain, what comes next?
You demand his firing.
Because it's not a real bona fide campus protest unless someone gets fired. The mob needs a head to parade around. "You know how much we fought racism at Mizzou? We replaced one middle-aged white dude with another middle aged white dude. Eracism, *****!"
I don't think it's going to cure campus racism if Wolfe steps down. But everyone knows that it's impossible to have political views in our modern social media era unless there's an evil person to blame. The mob rapidly sweeps across campus life until it envelops the football team too. Honestly, the biggest surprise here is that it's taken this long for college athletes to get involved in dumb campus protests.
Even though this Missouri football protest is patently absurd and unlikely to change anything, it's simultaneously fascinating to me at the same time.
Why?
Because of what it might represent in the future.
Let's dive in and discuss five big issues at play here.
1. Mizzou's players are striking.
I happen to think they're striking for a dumb reason. But what if they were striking to be paid to play football? I might well support that. These players make millions for their universities. What would happen if one team's strike spread across college football and on one Saturday no one played any games? What happens then? Think of the billions of dollars at stake for the universities and their television partners. If they unite, the players have the power here.
The schools are obligated to deliver games to the television networks. The schools use those funds to pay for coaches, facilities, and virtually all athletics on college campuses. How many school athletic department budgets could survive without a month of football? What happens if the games can't happen due to player strike?
While I make fun of social media activism because it's often mindnumbingly oversimplified and rooted in a demand that free speech be curtailed, it also would be easy to organize players. What happens if Mizzou fails to take the field on Saturday against BYU? The university owes a million dollars to BYU. They have to pay that fee even if the game doesn't happen. Mizzou also loses out on ticket sales and concessions -- it would have to refund ticket prices and, potentially, donations for all missed games. Moreover, what happens to Mizzou's SEC checks if it doesn't finish the season? Does the SEC dock its revenue share millions of dollars since the majority of the value comes from football games? We just don't know.
Fortunately for the SEC Mizzou's games against Tennessee and Arkansas don't implicate the conference title, but how would the SEC and the playoff committee consider a forfeit due to a player strike? Can you imagine if Tennessee won the SEC East or Arkansas won the SEC West via a Mizzou forfeit?
From a legal perspective this is all fascinating.
2. What can Gary Pinkel do?
He can't do anything, the multi-millionaire coach is powerless here. If he threatens his players and forces them to play, good luck recruiting minority athletes after that stance. The power dynamic is fascinating here -- the players have the power when they unite.
Mizzou stinks this year, so they're probably going to finish 4-8, but what if a team in the college football playoff went on strike? Or let's pretend that Mizzou's players were on a team that was actually good, what if this was last year and Mizzou refused to take the field for the SEC title game? You talk about nervous television executives.
Again, there are billions of dollars at stake in these games. Put simply, the games must go on.
Gary Pinkel will keep issuing a predictable response praising his players and condemning racism. He will be praised for this by sportswriters -- if he's really lucky and no one else changes genders this year he might even get an ESPY for courage! -- but the simple truth is this: it would be infinitely more courageous for Pinkel to say, "I don't think the protest makes any sense and I think these guys should get back to playing football."
But Pinkel would get crushed for this by the media and his recruiting would suffer. Hell, his coaching career might end.
No one has more to lose from this protest and less to gain than Gary Pinkel.
He's probably having several jumbo glasses of wine as we speak. I would be.
3. The sports media will almost universally praise Mizzou players.
Everyone's afraid of being called racist -- especially if you're a white male sportswriter, which is like 90% of all sportswriters in the country -- so the easiest thing to do is write a boilerplate column praising the courage of the players.
After all, what's the payoff in pointing out that a poop swastika isn't actually directed at black football players? Or that racial slurs happen everywhere and are unlikely to be solved by not playing a football game?
No, don't you get it, these guys hate racism more than you and me and everyone else. They hate racism so much they are not going to play a football game -- that they'll probably lose.
That's brave, man.
Look, if not playing football games cured racism, I'd be the first to say don't play football. But this is an absurd protest with absurd demands. The simple truth is this -- the sports media is overwhelmingly liberal white guys. It's easier to praise players than point out that this is the Kony of college football, a millennial-fueled uproar lacking in cogent goals or actionable claims.
Not all strikes are dumb, but this one? This one is very dumb.
#poopswastika
(And just to make it clear, I hate racism and death and cancer and domestic violence and terrorism and center seats in airplanes more than all of you do. I AM MORE OUTRAGED THAN ALL OF YOU COMBINED. And that's not just my white privilege speaking).
4. Predictable anger bubbles up from both sides of the political spectrum.
You'll have the liberal laudatory pieces, mostly written by the mainstream media that praise the players for being willing to "take a stand" and "realize that some things are more important than football" and then you'll have the conservatives demanding an aggressive response to these hippie slackers who want the government to give them things. The conservativse are already asking an interesting question: can't Mizzou just pull these players scholarships if they refuse to play football?
Now the school won't be ballsy enough to do it, but I think the answer is yes. The players are on scholarship specifically to play football, if they choose not to play, for any reason other than physical injury, they aren't fulfilling the obligations of their scholarship. Hence they've breached their scholarship contract and could lose their free ride for school, lodging and meals.
5. Can Mizzou forfeit these games?
If this situation continues to fester the easiest way to handle this would just be to cancel the rest of the season and forfeit the final three games instead of losing them on the field as Mizzou would probably do anyway. But, again, is that legal? Does Mizzou have a contractual obligation to deliver 12 games worth of football content to the SEC and its television partners? Would they be on the hook to make up millions of dollars in damages if they don't?
(The most entertaining aspect of this would be if Mizzou fielded a team of regular students from intramural football to fulfill its contractual obligation. Can you imagine watching this game? This would be incredible. It's like every mailbag question about regular college guys against D1 athletes come to life at once).
The biggest issue is that this Mizzou story doesn't stand alone, it's just part of a larger campus narrative -- we live in a time when many students believe they have a right not to be offended. I disagree, completely. I think the entire purpose of college is to challenge your opinions and examine ideas and beliefs that you may find repugnant. After all, how can you be sure of your own beliefs if you haven't studied the beliefs of others? Also, and this may be shocking to some of you youngsters reading this, but -- TRIGGER WARNING -- sometimes people are going to say mean things to you in life. I know, I know, if you need a safe place to rest after reading that menacing sentence I'd suggest going elsewhere. Outkick will always represent the free speech wing of the free speech party.
And even though this Mizzou football strike is incredibly dumb, the next one may not be.
Because players may not wait for the courts to decide how much money they should get paid, they may strike and make their own rules. And that football strike? Hell, I'd support the objectives of that football strike.
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Four Reasons the Missouri Football Strikers are Cowardly Liberal Lazy Douchebags
Here are a few key points to illustrate why the story is not as the sports media would have you believe – these are not brave change agents, but lazy cowards.
The football players are not striking from playing in games. They are striking from participating in practice. In other words, they will still get to be on television gloating and celebrating every time they make a good play – which won’t be all that often, since they are not very good, but more on that later. They just won’t be going to practice. Of course, any coach worth his salt would react to this news by saying, at the very least, “if you don’t practice, you don’t play.” Nick Saban would already have all thirty players scholarships revoked just on principle. Instead, Missouri is coached by Gary Pinkel, who is going to allow this charade to continue because he is weak and has lost control of his team and hopes that people will focus on the “brave stance” he is taking by allowing this rather than the “terrible record” that his football team has compiled this year or on the fact that they “lost to Vanderbilt.”
Missouri is terrible. As mentioned above, they lost to Vanderbilt, the first time an SEC team has lost to Vandy since James Franklin departed Vandy… in 2013. They have no chance of playing for an SEC title – in fact, they have little chance of playing in a bowl game at all. If they manage to beat BYU and either Tennessee or Arkansas (I’ll eat my hat if this happens), they’d be relegated to a bowl game in Shreveport, LA someplace. As the non-striking members of the team have noted, this is not a 9-0 team that is bravely forfeiting a chance at postseason glory to make a point – it is a crappy football team in which 30 members have decided that they’d like to skip the last three weeks of pointless practices to end what has been a bitterly disappointing season.
The claims of the guy who is leading the hunger strike are laughably absurd, and some have nothing to do with race. Notably, one of his chief gripes is that, per Missouri state law, Planned Parenthood has been kicked off campus. This is one of the reasons that… he wants the Mizzou President to resign, because apparently the President of a University can change state law. The idea that a white supremacist would draw a swastika in feces is just absolute nonsense. Literally the only one of his claims that is even facially plausible is that someone shouted a racial epithet at him once. Obviously, we would all prefer it if people were not racist jerks, but I fail to see how that translates into “therefore the President of the University where I attend must be fired.”
Before he invented facially unbelievable accusations of widespread racism on campus, the person leading the hunger strike indicated pretty clearly that what he was upset about was the fact that he lost his graduate health insurance (due to Obamacare!) and the university tore down the graduate housing complex in which he lived. He tried to protest these actions, but predictably no one cared. He remained angry at the President of Missouri, so he changed his gripe to racism and found some willing suckers who didn’t want to practice football anymore, and now this is a national story. At the end of the day, this crusade is transparently about getting rid of a university President who one guy has a beef with for reasons completely unrelated to racism.
At the end of the day, this isn’t a courageous strike against racism. It’s a lazy strike against practicing for a bad football team. The fact that the media isn’t reporting it this way is evidence of the media’s own laziness.
http://www.redstate.com/2015/11/09/...ll-strikers-cowardly-liberal-lazy-douchebags/
Here are a few key points to illustrate why the story is not as the sports media would have you believe – these are not brave change agents, but lazy cowards.
The football players are not striking from playing in games. They are striking from participating in practice. In other words, they will still get to be on television gloating and celebrating every time they make a good play – which won’t be all that often, since they are not very good, but more on that later. They just won’t be going to practice. Of course, any coach worth his salt would react to this news by saying, at the very least, “if you don’t practice, you don’t play.” Nick Saban would already have all thirty players scholarships revoked just on principle. Instead, Missouri is coached by Gary Pinkel, who is going to allow this charade to continue because he is weak and has lost control of his team and hopes that people will focus on the “brave stance” he is taking by allowing this rather than the “terrible record” that his football team has compiled this year or on the fact that they “lost to Vanderbilt.”
Missouri is terrible. As mentioned above, they lost to Vanderbilt, the first time an SEC team has lost to Vandy since James Franklin departed Vandy… in 2013. They have no chance of playing for an SEC title – in fact, they have little chance of playing in a bowl game at all. If they manage to beat BYU and either Tennessee or Arkansas (I’ll eat my hat if this happens), they’d be relegated to a bowl game in Shreveport, LA someplace. As the non-striking members of the team have noted, this is not a 9-0 team that is bravely forfeiting a chance at postseason glory to make a point – it is a crappy football team in which 30 members have decided that they’d like to skip the last three weeks of pointless practices to end what has been a bitterly disappointing season.
The claims of the guy who is leading the hunger strike are laughably absurd, and some have nothing to do with race. Notably, one of his chief gripes is that, per Missouri state law, Planned Parenthood has been kicked off campus. This is one of the reasons that… he wants the Mizzou President to resign, because apparently the President of a University can change state law. The idea that a white supremacist would draw a swastika in feces is just absolute nonsense. Literally the only one of his claims that is even facially plausible is that someone shouted a racial epithet at him once. Obviously, we would all prefer it if people were not racist jerks, but I fail to see how that translates into “therefore the President of the University where I attend must be fired.”
Before he invented facially unbelievable accusations of widespread racism on campus, the person leading the hunger strike indicated pretty clearly that what he was upset about was the fact that he lost his graduate health insurance (due to Obamacare!) and the university tore down the graduate housing complex in which he lived. He tried to protest these actions, but predictably no one cared. He remained angry at the President of Missouri, so he changed his gripe to racism and found some willing suckers who didn’t want to practice football anymore, and now this is a national story. At the end of the day, this crusade is transparently about getting rid of a university President who one guy has a beef with for reasons completely unrelated to racism.
At the end of the day, this isn’t a courageous strike against racism. It’s a lazy strike against practicing for a bad football team. The fact that the media isn’t reporting it this way is evidence of the media’s own laziness.
http://www.redstate.com/2015/11/09/...ll-strikers-cowardly-liberal-lazy-douchebags/
http://www.mediaite.com/online/university-of-missouri-police-ask-students-to-report-hurtful-speech/
Hahaha! Someone says mean things to you? Call the police on them. Burn it down, all of it.
Hahaha! Someone says mean things to you? Call the police on them. Burn it down, all of it.
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Why is it that you folks have issues with a group of people standing up against a culture of racism and the inaction or lack of appropriate action by university leadership to effectively deal with the problem ? Apparently its not "isolated incidents", when you have members of the faculty speaking about their own personal experiences of racism on the campus and being called the "N" wordas well as former athletes who endured bouts of racism. If the head coach, faculty and students outside of the groups notably affected standing in unision, (Pinkel was willing to allow the team to boycott the next game vs BYU) this tells you it was more than just a "few isolated incidents". These last few broke the camels back.
Last year the Univ of Oklahoma had its own outbreak of racial ignorance caught on video. Seems OU president David Boren reacted expeditiously and things returned to normal. What the **** is Mizzou's problem ? Besides the fact that the university leadership probably didn't give a **** .....let em clean out their desks this morning.
Last year the Univ of Oklahoma had its own outbreak of racial ignorance caught on video. Seems OU president David Boren reacted expeditiously and things returned to normal. What the **** is Mizzou's problem ? Besides the fact that the university leadership probably didn't give a **** .....let em clean out their desks this morning.
this is all true.
I've personally never heard the word except for when I'm on a college campus.
I've personally never heard the word except for when I'm on a college campus.
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Don't you know we are all racists who are also misogynists?
No one has a problem with the idea of protesting an actual wrong. There are so many bullshit calls of racism these days, I have become a cynic when someone brings it up. I know there is real racism and discrimination against black people, but I also know it is against other races, too.,
When part of the demands are to "admit your white privilege", I tune you out.
I don't know what the specifics are as to what issues he was supposed to be dealing with more effectively or, indeed, what his powers are as president of the university. Does he have the power to expel a student for using the "N" word? Is that the appropriate punishment? What if it is a first time offense? Second? When does it become an issue for a particular student that it goes all the way to the President of the University? Is it a group of students who are connected in some way? What is the appropriate punishment and can the President impose that punishment.
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AHHHHHH!!!! Ark triggered me! I need safe space! SAFE SPACE!!!!!!!
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Remember when those racist white privileged Duke lacrosse players raped that black girl? This is the most fun people have had since everyone got worked up with outrage over that!