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The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country
The Atlantic ^ | 11/2/2017 | Chris Bodenner

Posted on 11/13/2017 1:07:12 PM PST by simpson96

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To: dainbramaged

LOL


21 posted on 11/13/2017 1:28:01 PM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

I love the sign “Reed can do better”.

They sure can—expel the protesting students!


22 posted on 11/13/2017 1:28:44 PM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: teeman8r

hater!


23 posted on 11/13/2017 1:29:39 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: simpson96

What a dull class. It has no atmosphere.
When I attended college in the 60’s, we all carried an ashtray so that we could smoke in class.


24 posted on 11/13/2017 1:30:11 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Dr. Sivana
He and Milton Berle struck me as two of the most overrated comics ever.

Don't forget, a lot of people didn't think Martin was funny back then, and I was one of them.

He may have gone up slightly for me since then just from familiarity. But protesting the "King Tut" novelty song while ignoring the history of rap is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And the liberals have to try hard lately to get me to say that.

Yeah, and I didn't get Uncle Miltie either. He says something stupid and the audience goes bonkers. Must have been a generational thing.

25 posted on 11/13/2017 1:33:09 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: robroys woman

You evil! Funny, but evil.

The stupidist thing is the vapors they would get from Blazing Saddles, the demagoguery, and the crying...for a movie. While, to a one, they support the most evil political system since a Khan rode across the steppes.

If I had a time machine, I would go Stalin on their asses, or Mao, or Pol Pot; their pick.


26 posted on 11/13/2017 1:43:00 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: simpson96

The death of comedy!


27 posted on 11/13/2017 1:43:24 PM PST by winner3000
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To: simpson96; Dr. Sivana

If you ever read his biography “Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life”, you’ll quickly understand his humor was more in the line of a vaudeville act or street performer vein.

This would explain why his humor is less about the jokes and more about the slapstick and drawing of attention. I still think it holds up well in that regard sort of in the Chaplain/Keaton vain more so than the a true standup such as Button, Newhart, early Pryor, etc.

Book was well done I thought.


28 posted on 11/13/2017 1:49:57 PM PST by reed13k
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To: robroys woman

Blazing Saddles would kill these little snowflakes.
One of the greatest movies ever made.


29 posted on 11/13/2017 1:57:49 PM PST by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: ransomnote

Never saw it before! Hilarious.

I just watched “The Jerk” — Martin’s dancing on the porch at the end is fantastic. He was such a great performer and musician.

I can’t believe anybody would be discussing a Steve Martin skit for perceived racism.

“Buried with hid donkey, He’s my favorite honkey.”


30 posted on 11/13/2017 1:57:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: glasseye

“Sorry about the ‘up yours n****r’”. One of the greatest lines in movie comedy.


31 posted on 11/13/2017 2:08:06 PM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: glasseye

Personally, I keep my copy of Blazing Saddles hidden. Living in Caliph-phony-a, you never know when Governor Moonbat and his Brown gang of thought police might knock on my door.

But yes, it was a great movie. Mel Brooks at his un-PC best. Sad that it could never be made today. At least nobody could “reimagine” it and turn it into total dreck, much like some of the recent mega-super-blockbusters that Holly-weird has been foisting on us of late.


32 posted on 11/13/2017 2:16:59 PM PST by ssaftler (NFL? We don't need no stinking NFL!)
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To: simpson96
... the Most Liberal College in the Country

Is a down the Matterhorn race with patches of black ice to make things interesting, and with a non-niggardly host of contenders. Like Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles", I doubt that Steve Martin's "The Jerk" could make it past the first script reading today. This is pretentious madness by clueless idiots given license by the LEFTist ideologues of Academia.

33 posted on 11/13/2017 2:30:44 PM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Funny you would say that @ Berle...I was just watching him in a Dean Martin roast of...wait for it...Sammy Davis.
Check it out.
There is NO WAY they could do some of those lines in this day.

The snowflakes’ tender brains would explode.

Leftists/SJW’s destroy everything they touch.


34 posted on 11/13/2017 2:37:49 PM PST by spankalib
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To: robroys woman

“The chinks can stay but we don’t want the Irish!”


35 posted on 11/13/2017 2:40:19 PM PST by technically right
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To: Rinnwald

“He says something stupid and the audience goes bonkers.”

Ditto for Soupy Sales. I never did get it.


36 posted on 11/13/2017 2:40:37 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("'Why aren't I 50 points ahead?' you might ask.")
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To: bigdaddy45
Now when I die, now don’t think I’m a nut... don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like ol’ King Tut.

He gave his life for tourism!

37 posted on 11/13/2017 3:08:50 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Rinnwald

I would love to screen Blazing Saddles - Mel Brook’s masterpiece - for these whiners, and then explain to them that Richard Pryor was one of the screenwriters!

Hilarity would ensue...


38 posted on 11/13/2017 3:25:25 PM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: simpson96

This behavior during class should be unacceptable to the students.

Many of them have mortgaged their lives to pay for school. It’s their dime, not the protesters. The school should be forced to reschedule lectures or refund tuition for disrupted classes, for it is the schools responsibility to provide a classroom environment conducive to learning & free from distractions.

No doubt more than one affected student came away from this with the same level of disgust for these black racist whiners that I have.


39 posted on 11/13/2017 4:48:26 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: glasseye

“The sheriff is near!”


40 posted on 11/13/2017 9:32:25 PM PST by Noumenon (Can you imagine if Islam were NOT the religion of peace?)
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