You don't know shit about me, so go fuck yourself you ignorant bigot.

Regular Reader not looking good here.

We will have to agree to disagree. That article couldn't have been written any better by any senior fellow of the Cato Institute still "claiming" to be a libertarian.

I also think that before constitutional concepts of free speech, expression or press got considered, the kids' own fears for their personal safety were the initial driving concern. It's a very coddled and entitled belief held by many like the "Senior Editor" that minority students feel safe on college campuses, or that their own snarky and bigoted remarks (only sometimes) behind closed doors don't play heavily into the racial crap on campuses that these kids are addressing in large part.

What do I need to know that I haven't gotten from your posts over these many years? That you're an angry guy looking to continually play the race card? Or the victim card? Or that you're the only person that doesn't recognize the speed & exhaustive nature with which you do it? Or that you get an irrational sense of excitement using racially charged language in threads that you have nothing to do with? That if challenged, you get your nose bent out of shape quicker than anyone around here?

That you seem out of your depth in any discussion where you aren't playing grab ass? What did I miss?

By the looks of that editor's bio, I'm not surprised that kind of drivel was loosed upon us. Yet another William F. Buckley on obnoxious training wheels.

As I mentioned above, I don't know all of the details. I did know that this was a problem that started back last winter/spring. For some strange reason during the orientation I was in a spot where I was reading the campus papers dating back to Feb./March & asking questions of the tour volunteers who were aware & concerned of what went on. As were one or two of the professors I talked to. They all (surprise, surprise) loved the school, but were dumbfounded by the former president's actions back then.

To a person, I felt that there was a sense of unease and worry on that campus...all tied to the president's actions. There is in Columbia, just like here, a strain of folks who are dying to belittle other races/religions/etc and then play condescending little games to trivialize the whole matter. The feeling I got was that the former president was providing an incubator for little preppy editors like that guy at Reason/Blaze/etc. to get snarky and incite the clowns/angry drunks/bigots among us.

They all wished the president had gone in a different direction. Now that I think about it, they all weren't just dumbfounded by his actions, but even then by his glaring inaction. Imagine living on a campus with say 5,000 emboldened ex-cops/painters & you weren't his "right kind of person". I felt that that was what all of those Mizzou folks were afraid of & the former president didn't care about what they would do or say to others in their campus "homes". If he hadn't resigned, I think those same folks would have then been worried about what the next ex-cop/painter contingent would do next.

I say something you don't agree with and you immediately insinuate that I'm a racist and bigot and all that. Seems quite the leap.

And bringing up past posts?

You're struggling here.

Easy, Pal.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

The article I posted from Reason wasn't saying, and I don't even think it was implying, that minority students don't have very real concerns. But the way they are expressing those concerns(in some of these situations) is absolutely ridiculous. It's not condescending or paternalistic to point out the inconsistencies and illogical tactics the students are using in these protests.

To continually refer to mommy & daddy sending them to bed without their supper, etc. is illogical and inconsistent with wishing to have that piece taken as something other than condescending and paternalistic. On that we can civilly agree to disagree.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Ha, he looks just like the guy who coined "Berniebro" because people on the internet were meaniepantses:

Struggling, perhaps. If only because I really don't want to get dragged into this bs with you. If I really wanted to take the time, I could give you your opinion on any issue. Occasionally you're good at dancing around what you really mean, but the speed and intensity with which you engage in certain threads belies your true feelings imo.

That and they're all fairly narrow imo. I rarely engage you (even in White Sox threads) because your posting history has been precisely that for years. Bigoted, narrow minded and often racist. So, take solace in that you've called me an ignorant bigot, and I'll happily discontinue this engagement. I'll laugh about this in the same way I laughed when (I believe it was) you previously called me a fascist.

Next.

But, I'll gice you credit, for a guy who accuses me of "dancing around" what I "really" mean you sure are cutting a rug around calling me what you really want call me.

Bigoted, narrow minded and often racist.

I dunno, SomeGuy. That seems pretty direct to me.

He was commenting on my posts, not me personally.

If you're going to say something, just say it.

But whatever, this whole thing has me tickled pink.

Evidently you are too dense to accept what is apparent from my posts here. I indeed have long thought you to be a backward, narrow minded bigot who often expresses racist thoughts for jollies. I actually have long held you in lower regard than virtually any poster on this site, including the character that was JimmyReardon.

Her apology doesn't go far enough. She needs to be fired.

Good for them

I can't stand academics like this woman who often confuse justice or professionalism with their own personal ideology, but I think she got caught up in the moment and made a huge mistake. Some punishment is called for--the campus needed her to be a level-headed leader, and she wasn't--but no need to fire her unless this is part of a pattern. People fuck up all the time, and many benefit from another chance. So, if she's actually sorry (is there more to her apology? I'm kind of hoping so) and can show that she learned from this, I'd give her another chance.

I do find her ilk to be frightening, though. Tea Partiers, SJWs, Scientologists, people with all the answers . . . when they look at me in their fundamentalist disbelief--well, there's crazy in them eyes.

Fwiw, my son & his three roommates down at Mizzou have one really big thing in common the last few evenings. They're all wondering about what the folks/students angry about the resignations are threatening on "Yik Yak" to do tomorrow. Evidently many of the students are full of bs & bluster. But my kid & his roommates have become close even though they didn't know each other, are from different places but realize and appreciate their commonalities and previously perceived differences. They took their parents' advice and talked among themselves first. I'm proud...and worried still.

Especially now.

The credibility of her work is, or at least should be, damaged.