You heard it from me first: The scandal at the University of Missouri that led to the resignation of its president recently (11/8/15) stinks to high heaven. It’s a phony. It’s fabricated. How do I know? The real redneck racists being evoked, outlined, sketched in the story would have been proud just to find the can of spray paint to decorate a university building with a swastika. The problem with plotters is that they usually go too far, that they try too hard. The plotters in this case used the supreme refinement of doing the swastika in human feces. That takes effort, planning. It’s just too good to be true!
Why did the president and the chancellor both resign? Two reasons. But first, they did not “resign;” they were pushed out and for good reason. (See below.) Number one reason: University administrators have no backbone, as a general rule. A few years ago, my attorney and I beat up a dozen of them. We made them eat sand; we made them cry. Second reason: University administrators almost always have golden parachutes. Resigning, for such people, is like taking a vacation for others.
Why were they pushed out? There is big money involved although U of Missouri football has not been shining lately, I am told. U. of Missouri, like many other universities, has made itself a financial hostage to a handful of black gladiators they shamelessly insist on calling “students.” Someone correct me if I am wrong but I heard on NPR that one of the “students’” “demands” was for more hires for the university’s black studies program. Sounds tremendously familiar! Same thing happened thirty years ago all over the nation. The plotters have good memories and no original thought at all. At my former university employer, ten years ago, there were protests leading to the university administration making a large lounge available for the use of “students of color.” (It’s true that no (No) sign was actually posted forbidding entry to whites; fair is fair!)
A student at U. of Missouri staged a hunger strike. Sorry, a hunger strike for five days is just a weight reduction experience. I realize this is an insensitive remark but, W.T. F.! We are witnessing a flurry of artificial racial protests nation-wide because the Democratic Party is desperate about its geriatric, dishwater white line-up. Even if it should win the election, the Democratic Party will still face a tremendous identity crisis. I don’t rejoice. Massive, collective dishonesty soils the water in which we all try to swim.
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Here’s another angle: David Henderson says the wrong president resigned
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/11/presidential_re.html
DH is on the money as usual (if he’s not he’s quick to own up to his mistakes, something I admire about him as a thinker).
Employers will be lining up to hire graduates from this school, so they can be sued by them for an alleged EEOC violation.
“At my former university employer, ten years ago, there were protests leading to the university administration making a large lounge available for the use of “students of color.” (It’s true that no (No) sign was actually posted forbidding entry to whites; fair is fair!)”
Wouldn’t affect me, pink is a color. Must suck for the albino students though.
It would be interesting to hear from those on the other side of the debate.
@Tam
Well they’ve arrested a man for “…allegedly posting racially charged death threats against University of Missouri students”.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/11/11/mizzou-death-threat-maker-id-d.html
Now according to Jacques “It’s a phony. It’s fabricated.” Luckily for us “The problem with plotters is that they usually go too far, that they try too hard.” Now that Mr. Park has been arrested surely the plot framing him will unravel and we will find out who is behind “…a flurry of artificial racial protests nation-wide…”.
Jacques implies that it is the Democratic Party, that these bogus racial incidents have been created because “…the Democratic Party is desperate about its geriatric, dishwater white line-up.” However a more experienced conspiracy theorist would realize that the technical expertise required to create all those phony videos of racial incidents goes beyond a bunch of politicians. You need the same level of skill that was needed to generate those fake moon landing videos. And there’s your answer. It’s NASA that’s behind the flurry of artificial racial protests; a NASA controlled by an evil cabal of climate change conspiracists deflecting attention from their nefarious actions!!
Tam. I would agree. There was no debate. My strong impression is that a small minority manipulated black foot ball players. I rememeber similar maneuvers from forty years ago.
Well, a nineteen year old was arrested for proffering racial threats. N. S. !.I hear it was one hundred miles fro the U of Missouri campus . (Correct me if I am wrong. I learn from my better.) Even if he is eventually convicted that does not void my guess (only a guess, as I said early on). Small incidents by small numbers of insignificant individuals take place all the time in large aggregates of people. If you are an agitprop group worth its salt, you will catch a ride on tiny incidents and turn them into big events. The swastika in feces is what alerted me.
I have not seen many videos I would, like too, but it’s obvious that the skills to produce reasonably good videos are now widespread.
I don’t think the Democratic Party itself created the phony movement. I suspect it’s a tiny group which has been exploiting the Democratic Party for 7 otr 8 years that is afraid there will be nothing left to manipulate or exploit.
Repeating myself: I am guessing; I am working on intuition. I may well be mistaken. I regret that there i seems to be no one on the Democratic side willing or able to exercise due diligence and to apply the stinking fish test to this story.
I am hearing a narrative that differs little from that which I hears in the late sixties when the South was really segregated and there were few elected black officials anywhere in his country. It’s a if it came right out of the memory banks of people my age. Go figure!
oops, I did not really say in the essay that I am guessing. Here it is: I am guessing.
Another arrest for racial threats. This one is a student at Northwest Missouri State University
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/us/university-of-missouri-racism-protest/index.html
“I regret that there i seems to be no one on the Democratic side willing or able to exercise due diligence and to apply the stinking fish test to this story.”
Well, I’m nothing if not an empiricist. What would constitute due diligence?
My understanding of your argument is that …
1. “The scandal at the University of Missouri that led to the resignation of its president recently (11/8/15) stinks to high heaven. It’s a phony. It’s fabricated.”
2.”Why were they pushed out? There is big money involved although U of Missouri football has not been shining lately, I am told. U. of Missouri, like many other universities, has made itself a financial hostage to a handful of black gladiators they shamelessly insist on calling “students.”
3. “My strong impression is that a small minority manipulated black foot ball players.”
So there were no racial incidents leading to unrest, they were fabricated by a small group that manipulated black football players.
4. “We are witnessing a flurry of artificial racial protests nation-wide because the Democratic Party is desperate about its geriatric, dishwater white line-up.”
The phony, fabricated scandal at the University of Missouri is not an isolated incident it is one of several artificial racial protests that span the nation.
5. “I don’t think the Democratic Party itself created the phony movement. I suspect it’s a tiny group which has been exploiting the Democratic Party for 7 otr 8 years that is afraid there will be nothing left to manipulate or exploit.”
Is this an accurate representation of your argument? If not, let’s correct it before we move on to due diligence.
“Repeating myself: I am guessing; I am working on intuition.”
Nothing wrong with intuition as the basis for a hypothesis.
So, maybe there is no KKK on campus after all: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/12/payton-head-mizzou-student-body-president-apologiz/
And the swastika in feces story i seems to be falling apart too. What do you think Prof Terry?
My BS instincts are really good.Learn to respect them!
What I think is: look for myself. Photo and police report here.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/12/mizzou-releases-photos-of-poop-swastika-discloses-details-of-previously-unreported-racial-slurs/
I won’t claim any expertise in constructing swastikas from feces. Nonetheless I think it was a pretty poor effort.
More “phony, fabricated” racial threats.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/11/12/police-mtu-campus-threat/75679184/
Just because someone posts that he’s “Going to kill all black people” doesn’t mean anything. Heck, Professor Pinocchio calls his blog Facts Matter even though he’s so far removed from reality that he wouldn’t recognize a fact if it bit him in the derrière.