Posted on 03/12/2015 2:40:34 PM PDT by Zakeet
The University of Oklahoma's renowned football team has suspended practice for a week in protest against a racist video linked to a fraternity and called for punishment of its leadership, team members said on Thursday.
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"It is our passionately expressed desire as members of the football team for the leadership of SAE to be expelled, suspended or otherwise disciplined severely," a statement from the football team said, adding that leaders of the fraternity helped foster a culture of intolerance.
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The football team, with the support of its coach, said it will hold a demonstration over the video during normal practice time on Thursday.
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The university ... will create the post of vice president of diversity to help prevent another flare-up of racial tensions, the school said on Thursday.
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I remember when people knew what “PC” means.
There were no insults in my post. I simply responded to your own words.
“The very foundation of our system holds that all are equal, in God’s eyes and under the law.”
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Equality under the law seems to be a thing of the past.
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Projecting your assumptions onto others concerning their beliefs is not very polite.
38-35
Oops. SB ‘its’
He's got a good point, imo.
Sigh - an activist football team with a aggregate IQ of 37.
It stops when enough of us tell the perpetually-offended to go to hell. It stops when we tell them "No, you do not have the right to demand that anyone who says something which offends you needs to be crushed". Enough.
Agreed!
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