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‘Woke’ Students Sue UT-Austin To Force School To Stop Playing ‘The Eyes Of Texas’ Song
The Mix ^ | 9/8/2021 | James Conrad

Posted on 09/08/2021 9:13:03 AM PDT by MJacks4

A group of “woke” liberal students at the University of Texas at Austin have filed a lawsuit against the school for creating a “hostile environment” by forcing members of its marching band to play in a separate group because they are refusing to play “The Eyes Of Texas” at football games.

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1 posted on 09/08/2021 9:13:03 AM PDT by MJacks4
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To: MJacks4

You EXPEL all of them immediately so they don’t continue to cause problems.


2 posted on 09/08/2021 9:16:19 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: MJacks4

Here’s a thought.

Transfer to another school.


3 posted on 09/08/2021 9:17:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: MJacks4
Austin, the San Francisco of Texas

AKA: Hanoi in the Hill Country

4 posted on 09/08/2021 9:18:11 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: MJacks4

If you don’t like the music, don’t be in the band.

I don’t think band is mandatory.

Quit.


5 posted on 09/08/2021 9:19:04 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: MJacks4

Isn’t it time to stop caving into a loud tiny group of malcontents?


6 posted on 09/08/2021 9:20:57 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Reprorexrex)
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> filed a lawsuit against the school for creating a “hostile environment” <

I dunno. Maybe we conservatives should start filing these types of lawsuits too. I occasionally shop on Amazon. Amazon sells Stalin shirts. And that creates a hostile environment for me.

Better call Saul.


7 posted on 09/08/2021 9:24:03 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have alrseady previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: MJacks4

If you’re not being a pain in someone’s ass, you’re not woke.


8 posted on 09/08/2021 9:27:37 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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We should do a reverse suit in court suing them for infringing on our right to play the song! So what’s next the Alamo?This is what happens when the university starts messing around with racism studies. Austin is becoming the armpit of the state of Texas. We have all these liberal asses moving there and companies that have ruined the University. I lived in Austin many moons ago and it was a fun free city with an awesome football program. No racism no people getting upset because of a song that has been a tradition for as long as the school has been playing football ...now the town is a sewer pit ruined by liberals! Abbott better step up and put his foot down on these bastards! If they win this suit guess what’s coming next they’re not gonna stop with just the song they’re going to try to remove every statue and every symbol of what made Texas great. But their biggest goal will be to demolish the Alamo! Don’t giggle about this I’m serious that is their biggest aim.. the Alamo! Why? Because this is what socialist bastards do specially coming out from the universities.


9 posted on 09/08/2021 9:30:34 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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Can they play “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” instead?


10 posted on 09/08/2021 9:35:16 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: MJacks4

The proper response is to expel every student who is part of the suit.


11 posted on 09/08/2021 9:40:17 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: MJacks4

Have them play Rocky Top.


12 posted on 09/08/2021 10:01:01 AM PDT by bray (Time to resign Joe)
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To: OpusatFR

For that to happen people would stop having to be terrified of what other woke people might say about them.

See, us deplorables don’t give two poots what the woke think so we cannot change the balance of power among the woke … not even by overtly mocking them at every turn (which is all they merit).

But for the woke, if they aren’t seen as adequately virtue signaling by whatever standard happens to be rumbling out of their collective anuses at the time they risk losing their credibility as being woke. That means that the woke community is inherently pulled along by the loudest malcontents in their ranks, and given that the whole proposition is driven by feels and outrage that likewise means that the more irrational the loudest malcontents are the easier time they find bullying others to parrot them.

The woke are in essence self oppressing.


13 posted on 09/08/2021 10:02:05 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Little Ray

Where’s Charles Whitman when you need him?


14 posted on 09/08/2021 10:05:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bray

“Have them play Rocky Top.”

UT is UT, right? They’re even both “orange.”


15 posted on 09/08/2021 10:05:32 AM PDT by decal (MOLON JABE)
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To: dfwgator

I think they’re still looking for that tumor...


16 posted on 09/08/2021 10:06:23 AM PDT by decal (MOLON JABE)
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To: MJacks4

For things: these kooks must get a thrill up their leg when they can discover something to get offended by and tear down. The idiot concerns about this song appear to lack any basis in fact. See the “controversy” part of the Wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eyes_of_Texas

Second, this phrase “hostile environment” has become was too common. It is a legal term of art that comes from the discrimination statues, for example management not putting a stop to a culture of racy or sexist jokes and conduct created a “hostile environment” in the workplace. There is no legal protection against being in an environment you don’t like generally. Of course snow flakes have been taught exactly the opposite


17 posted on 09/08/2021 10:06:59 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: decal

When Texas comes to the SEC, they’d better understand that Tennessee is THE “UT” and “Orange”.


18 posted on 09/08/2021 10:07:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RoseofTexas

This is what happens when you pay more attention to football instead of what’s happening about the community. “Who cares about wokeness creeping into the campus, the football team is winning.”


19 posted on 09/08/2021 10:09:49 AM PDT by wrcase
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So that’s racist too.


20 posted on 09/08/2021 10:14:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There's nothing in the Constitution that allows the government to become fascist. )
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