Yes, we agree some or parts of the protesters' demands are objectionable. To varying degrees, others while less objectionable are challenging to expect any university to implement. For example, protesters' for all future chancellors and system-wide presidents to be selected by students and faculty. Not just input, but actual selection.
Undoubtedly, Mizzou's Columbia campus and the overall system have many reasonable people with the right background, skills, and experience to create a productive diversity training program. For a university with a highly respected journalism/mass media program, the mid-40s, white, female journalism professor shown late in videos beckoning help to block a student cameraman and news reporters and also demanding some muscle to physically remove them may not be among the top candidates. Irony?
ESPN's bad, a media company incorrectly referring to the wacky woman as a journalism professor. Impressive!
Have a scotch, and go watch the Rod Serling Twilight Zone about the husband and wife that are magically granted 3 wishes.
This is why I go back to something I wrote earlier in this mess. If you can follow the simple lessons, football lessons really, of handling the small things every day, all day, that matter effectively, timely and without wavering - when it comes time to handle complex issues, you've got a foundation that's strong to work from to work to solve big problems.
That clearly was not happening at UMissouri administration, and when a big problem arising from lots of daily little problems came along, the people at the top of the chain tucked tails and got out of Dodge.
Wrong - its a publicly funded institution. If there is a single federal dollar expended, it applies. "Right words" and "right think" belong to totalitarian societies. There is a vast chasm between condemning or challenging ideas like racism and banning uncomfortable ideas which are too easily labelled as racism to squelch ideas. We have raised grievance babies incapable of dealing with anything discordant.
Nope. They are entitled to spew their nonsense just like anybody else. Its my right to disagree with it and engage in speech which proves them wrong. I don't know why we are so afraid to let ideas win or lose in the court of public opinion. There is no greater slavery that can exist than to ban a person from free thought and expression.
If white male privilege means working your ass off, worrying about raising and supporting a family, teaching your kids to do the right thing, study and work hard, paying taxes and not sucking off the system, then I'm so very privileged.
I don't know why they wanted him to acknowledge that in their list of demands or what purpose it serves them.
White male privilege means you do those things and it works for you, and someone else does those same things, works as hard as you and maybe they are successful, but it's harder if recruiters are less likely to respond to resumes with African American sounding names, or their realtor shows them houses in a less affluent neighborhood and as a result their kid is more likely to grow up around bad influences, etc... NOTE NOTE NOTE this isn't necessarily due to individual racism of white (or other) people in the KKK/good ole boy sense of the word. It can be due to biases that affect decision making at an unconscious level, and studies have shown liberals and even minorities themselves can be prone to these biases when making intuitive decisions. What the neuroscientists and economists are finding is that our brains aren't as rational or as efficient at making decisions as we assume they are. This is what I mean by structural racism. It can happen without the recruiter or the realtor being quote-unquote a racist individual.
There so many things that are totally wrong with what you say, I don't even know where to start. "White privilege means you aren't held accountable for the actions of your race as a whole" So, we impose collective punishment for historical wrongs long since passed? Do we ignore statistical reality that blacks year over year commit a disproportionate amount of crime? Do we ignore that black kids are disproportionately failing in our schools in front the same teachers and with the same resources? Do we ignore a black thug culture which holds up disrespect for woman, drugs and crime as a good? Do we ignore that the black family structure has disintegrated? Do we ignore that college admission standards for blacks are substantially lower than white persons in every academic measure? And, yes, I'm damn tired of working my ass off for able bodied folks irrespective of color, race or creed with a thousand excuses why they cant work when we have an administration saying we need to bring in immigrants because Americans wont do hard labor jobs. What is really racist is the assumption that white males get things easily like there some secret handshake and money is bestowed on you. The people I know struggle, work hard and sacrifice in ways that make a little feces seem irrelevant. On the point, I distinctly remember digging out sewers during college for a contractor and that, my friend, is the difference in a nutshell. Sadly, there is nothing more that I would like to see is every person succeed, but somehow when you suggest that maybe its starts with culture and character you're a racist. Racism has been dead a long time and I don't think there are many who want to see another man put down or denied opportunity. But there is a whole grievance industry built on perpetuating the myth of bias and disadvantage. I know of no black person who does the rights things that is not well regarded and frankly advantaged beyond a white person in todays world in almost every way whether in college admissions, affirmative action quotas in hiring and advancement, contract set asides, etc.. To sum up, I think you are full of crap.
So true...
That was an interesting read. Seems like the university got it wrong on several counts (including the roommate's punishment). I guess being Ivy doesn't make you right.
Wow.