Posted on 03/18/2016 11:06:43 AM PDT by C19fan
Here in Columbia, the University of Missouri homecoming parade is a big deal, so arriving early to grab a spot last October was crucial.
Getting out the door with a young family on a Saturday morning however, can be a bit of a struggle and my thoughts that morning were dominated by the usual worries of anyone rushing out to the door to a much-anticipated event. Grateful to have found a spot that would accommodate us just moments before the parade began, we were frustrated when the candy throwing and band marching unexpectedly stopped.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
If by “took a chance” she means “crush anyone who questions you”, then the answer is that the world would be a considerably better, more civil, nurturing, tolerant place if Melissa Click and her ideological soulmates had never been. That isn’t the answer she’s looking for but it’s the truth.
LOL! I wish I’d posted that!
Hang on, Comrade Melissa! Your friends on the FB team will boycott MU until you’re rehired!
Oh, guess not.
That video had nothing to do with this thread.
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I hadn’t read the linked article at that time ... the article went off on a wild tangent from the excerpt that was posted. The posted video link is a good one nevertheless.
Likewise! Here’s a comment that puts it especially well:
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What a goofball you are...
“I do not understand the widespread impulse to shame those whose best intentions unfortunately result in imperfect actions.”
Best intentions? You mean those things that are used for road materials to hell. It’s always intentions that you wish to be judged by rather than results. In this case your intentions were to protest until university administrators were terminated. Instead you got canned. Hard cheese.
And face it...your problem isn’t a lack of shame.
“Reaction to the footage containing my errors has resulted in...the loss of my job.”
No, you lost your job because you violated another person’s civil rights. Plus, you are a venal and nasty person with a foul mouth and a raging temper.
“I never used my authority as a professor in the actions I took...”
As a professor, your authority is implied to exist in any situation that involves students. Students defy a professor at their academic peril. It is not dissimilar to workplace intimidation.
“I am also working to come to terms with how a few captured moments of imperfection could eclipse 12 years of excellence.”
You seem to have an odd take on excellence. It is also very reasonable to expect that there is a substantial volume of “imperfection” with you that has never been captured on video.
“I dont want to live in a world where citizens are too afraid of public scorn to take a chance.”
And no one wants to attend a school where free speech is held hostage by thugs (such as yourself) who use threat of physical violence against those with opposing views. Funny world.
“...what value do our rights as citizens have in a culture increasingly ruled by snap judgments and by regulations that are easily rewritten to suit changing political interests?”
This last quote, where you whine about rights of citizens is particularly ironic. You really have a serious problem with self-awareness.
Hope you enjoy life outside academia. Hope the thousands more like you also get the chance.
Disgusting.
I don’t believe she’s really a red head
In the spirit of Missouri.....show me
One of the comments:
“angrycrat1
3:25 PM EDT [Edited]
The Post is totally remiss for not pointing out Melissa Click was caught on bodycam video throwing herself in front on the Homecoming parade and dropping f-bombs on a Columbia Police officer trying to herd her back to the sidewalk.
And she did all this in front of her own children.
That’s what ultimately got her fired.”
Melissa Click: “What would our world be like if no one ever took a chance?”
Sounds like she is trying to talk herself into going to bed with someone with AIDS.
I am all for taking a chance - with a bit of common sense in the mix. I do it a lot regarding some stocks/funds.
But I don’t think that is what she is trying to talk herself into. Probably it’s someone with AIDS.
The responses brought out the literary and moral excellence of the posters! I expect the Catholic Church and the evangelicals to chime in shortly.
This post led me to watch her shouting curse words at cops on You Tube. And I do agree with my fellow freeper: she may very well be Carrot Top. Or his evil twin sister.
or CarroTop in drag.
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