Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 03/24/2014 10:57:27 PM PDT by Nachum
The University of Michigan would not explain how it is responding to death threats and racial epithets that were reportedly issued by pro-Palestinian activists at students who oppose a resolution to divest from Israel.
University of Michigan police were first contacted last week after two pro-Palestinian activists shouted “threats of violence” at a student who refused to support their boycott initiative during a “sit-in” at the student government’s headquarters.
The Washington Free Beacon has further learned that the pro-Israel student received death threats and that others have allegedly been called “kikes” and “dirty Jews” by backers of the virulently anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to delegitimize the Jewish state through economic means.
The atmosphere of intimidation and violence could leave the University of Michigan vulnerable to legal action and political retribution on a national scale, according to multiple sources in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere who are monitoring the situation.
Kenneth Marcus, a former staff director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told the Free Beacon that he has contacted high-level university officials to discuss the situation but that these calls have yet to be returned.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
I’ve been called a wop, greaseball, guinea, dago, you name it.
I was known as the day late dago because of my tardiness.
I always gave back as good as I got and life went on.
You betcha.
I haven't heard that term in over 50 years......and I think the only time I heard it was by my Irish grandmother......
But then again, she used a lot of terms that were common in the 1940's...there wasn't any nationality she didn't have a term for........LOL!
Yup, I’m from the days when racial terms weren’t always meant to be derogatory or hateful. Obviously this case is different but it sure would be nice to see the racial offense industry collapse.
I never heard this word in fifty years in NYC or anywhere else, and only know it from the classroom and in a Salinger story. I have never heard any derogatory ethnic terms in New York. We have better manners than most people realize, in that regard anyway.
Now, if you want to hear “Republican” and “extremist” uttered with blistering contempt, come on over to my neighborhood.
I don’t know about where you’re at, but I haven’t heard any racially offensive term in over 10 years.
” it sure would be nice to see the racial offense industry collapse.”
I think that one of the side benefits of the disastrous regime headed by barack hussein obama..who as you know is our first “black” president, may be a rethinking of tha matter of race... ENTIRELY.
Two failed “programs” the overt political program and the purposefully covert RACE based program of manpulation MAY be seen as two unseemly peas in a pod.
Forget Outrunning Retired Dogs?
I know a different one, but I’m not going to say it. :)
stay free
As one born and for a while raised in New York, I heard these terms often when I was a kid on Long Island,along with “guinea”, “wop”, “mick”, “sheeney”, “paddy”, etc. etc. You must have been raised in Bronxville or similar neighborhood, is all I can figure.
Jimmy the mick
International Race Of Champions?
Excuse me, I have a touch of Polish in my blood.
did she refer to fellow Irish as Micks ?
Yep....and since my grandfather was a Detroit cop, she always referred to a guy down the street as "that fireman"......
“Found On Road Dead” was what I was told...
In addition to the clear coordination you posted, our Sec of State told leaders in Isreal that they should be careful because, “I have heard talk of an economic boycott.”
This boycott he has “heard talk of” is getting a big chunk of funding from his own wife!
We are experiencing bizarro world!
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