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So now, "Moderate" is the same as "Leftist" in your mind?
Do you always argue against what you made up?
So now, "Moderate" is the same as "Leftist" in your mind?
Do you always argue against what you made up?
Just a note....In reading this thread, I find it simply amazing that in this thread where the perpetrators are are described as from a fraternity that touts its "diversity, and support of equal rights", so immediately the conversation starting out was one of how the leftist members didn't think it was meant to be a "racist action" or that it was just "a joke in bad taste".....Where as the same OP starter in another thread takes a mention of militia in a plot, and immediately the perps are "RIGHT WING!!!!!"
How easily some are just plain duped.
Where did a "leftist" member of this forum argue that this case wasn't a racist action or that it was "just a joke"?
So now, "Moderate" is the same as "Leftist" in your mind?
post #3 Aunt Spiker, Lean: ModerateDo you always argue against what you made up?
post #4 Maggie, Lean: ModerateThe act itself isn't 'racist' to me - could be a ****ty joke.
Oh for God's sake. A kid prank. Yeah, it's a racist prank.
Exactly. They were trolling and it blew up in their faces.
Good on the fraternity for saving face, I guess. However, I don't think that racism was the primary motivation.
Oh BS. Climb down off the horse. It's actually part of the culture of some campuses to mess with the statuary in ever more creative ways. My own freshman class placed a 5 foot paper mache penis on the statue of the university's founder.
There isn't a culture on earth that has no racism. The key is in how it's dealt with. What more do you require than what has happenned to address the incident? You looking for the death penalty or something?
Three students' careers and lives have been permanently impacted because they carried out what could very well have been a stupid college prank. A fraternity that has openned itself up to all races has lost it's charter. Massive over reaction fueled by the guilty minds of a bunch of white liberals.
So, I "made up" your post?
post #3 Aunt Spiker, Lean: Moderate
post #4 Maggie, Lean: Moderate
Even better, "Very Conservative" is to be seen as the same as "Leftist"?
clownboy is a "Leftist"?
Like I wrote earlier, "Where did a "leftist" member of this forum argue that this case wasn't a racist action or that it was "just a joke"?"
I was speaking of how the known leftists responded early in the thread when they realized that they couldn't blame this on some right wing frat
I disagree. Tosh.0 and Key and Peele aren't comedians. Agree on your other points.
a professional entertainer who amuses by relating anecdotes, acting out comical situations, engaging in humorous repartee, etc.
Yeah, and there's nothing humorous about making people wet themselves either, but I've still celophaned a few toilets and hooked a couple batteries to urinals in my past. Humor is subjective, and drunken frat humor even more so. Tasteless humor is a staple in modern society. Again, Jackass movies sell out at the box office, including the insipid Bad Grandpa. Remember when Borat was all the rage? How sick and sad was that? Was Ted Danson pulling a "racially motivated prank" when he went in blackface?
I'm glad they were caught and glad they were punished by school and fraternity code. I think it's silly to make a federal case out of it. Certainly there are cases of real and harmful racism folks can center their rage upon. The students pulled a stupid prank that turned the frat and the school against them.
dumb move by dumb kids, but let's not call in the federal troops just yet. Probably took all of 30 seconds for some drunks to put it there and another 30 seconds to remove the offending objects the next morning. If the media hadn't gotten hold of it the whole thing wouldn't amount to a hill of fake liberal outrage.