Posted on 11/10/2015 5:23:49 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Well, I’ll be the optimist and say I see it as another Little Bighorn, and we’re the injuns :-)
Seen this tactic before. All Obama is trying to do is distract tax paying citizens to keep them from truly seeing what he is doing to this country. Every year he does this same old stuff.
Remember the Occupy movement?
Missouri is erupting in this sort of nonsense and I live one block from the state. Ugh.
As for the MU thing, they sure wasted a lot of capital on that big bunch of nothing. I guess they are happy. I think they will find that they spent more capital than they think they did. Their account is way low and so these nonsense shenanigans will have increasingly less and less effect. As it is most people did not agree with them. They just gave in because it was not worth the fight.
I heard one person say he was proud of them. He was so ridiculous I turned him off. Not only was he ridiculous, he was phony. He was one of those who was just trying to ride the wave of emotion to personal advantage and approval, imo.
Add “Mau-Mauing” to your vocabulary, it’s a great way to understand some current events, especially as they relate to Mizzou, Yale, Ferguson etc.
We are watching classic “Mau-Mauing” directed at bureaucratic and academic “flak catchers,” like the university president forced to resign yesterday by pure mob tactics. It works, so expect it to spread, as it has to Yale today. Those of us old enough to remember the 1960s have seen this all before, with Black Panther marches, campus administration office sit-ins, and so on.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a 1970 book by Tom Wolfe. The book, Wolfe’s fourth, is composed of two articles by Wolfe, “These Radical Chic Evenings,” first published in June 1970 in New York magazine, about a gathering Leonard Bernstein held for the Black Panther Party and “Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers,” about the response of many minorities to San Francisco’s poverty programs. Both essays looked at the conflict between black rage and white guilt.
“Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers”
The second part of Wolfe’s book is set at the Office of Economic Opportunity in San Francisco which was in charge of administering many of the anti-poverty programs of the time. Wolfe presents the office as corrupt, continually gamed by hustlers diverting cash into their own pockets. The essay centers on the irony of these failed programs fortifying not the diets but the resentment and contempt of the Black, Chicano, Filipino, Chinese, Indian, and Samoan communities of San Francisco.[2]
Wolfe describes hapless bureaucrats (the Flak Catchers) whose function was reduced to taking abuse, or “mau-mauing” (in reference to the intimidation tactics employed in Kenya’s anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising) from intimidating young Blacks and Samoans, who are seen as reveling in the new-found vulnerability of “the Man”. The flak-catchers smile pathetically, allowing their tormentors to indulge themselves in abuse; the process is seen as a farcical but useful expedient, condescending toward the resentment of these communities. He described one mau-mauer who would show up at the offices and hand over ice-picks, switch-blades and straight-razors that he said were taken from gangs, in exchange for payments from the program. As a result, much of the money of these programs was not reaching its intended recipients, rendering the programs largely ineffective.
same thing only different ... I’m Disney’s Bowie on the cot, firing my last as the Mexi’s enter to kill me.
Are the trustees/regents appointed by the governor or elected?
Is there a URL for the article?
Agree. When the lowest of the low of the student body rules, the so-called “university” has proven that is is no longer worthy of respect.
Close it, burn it, and salt the ground.
Really.
Is there a URL for the article?
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I believe this is a personal rant, nothing more.
Okay—that explains it—thanks!
Have they played BYU yet?
You hit on a larger solution. Colleges that return to academic rigor and offer NO soft subject/studies majors will find kids toiling over books just to stay in school, not marching and yelling and whining like infants .
The Lib professors taught them to “fight the power”. The students realized the professors were the power. Now the students think they are the power. Anybody seen Robespierre’s head? Th Lib professors have the same look on their faces that Robespierre had on his. Just before the blade came down.
About half the colleges in this country ought to be closed.
Germany, after the war, had De-Nazification.
The U.S. needs De-Marxification.
We need to UNDO Gramsci’s “march through the institutions.” Everywhere the Frankfort School, P.C., Cultural Marxism, and Critical Theory have contaminated an institution, they need to be rooted out.
Why didn’t they post the “Hate Free Zone” signs around Misery U. Is it any wonder?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XcKBmdfpWs
What time’s the game on? Pass the popcorn.
So when can the taxpayers expect a refund from Missouri?
This weekend Mizzou plays BYU. I can’t think of a better juxtaposition to expose the Missouri team’s weak educational pursuits, illogic and liberal attitude.
Mizzou is about to become a ‘Historically Black College’
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