The Mizzou/Yale/PC/Free Speech Topic

[Chef Jim]

Since when does one person get to decide what the other 99.9% of the people get to do or not do? We have become so terrified of offending anyone that we will go to extremes to prevent that from ever happening. I got news for you children, there are a lot of things out there that you may not agree with. That does not make them offensive. And once again if you're the only one offended by something you need to start looking inward because you're likely the one with the problem. People have lost the ability to look inward. It's always someone else's fault when things go wrong or we feel "offended". You can't change the world but you can change yourself. Now don't get me wrong there are a lot of offensive things in the world but pinatas, burrito bars (once again mmmmmmmmmm) and salsa dancing ain't it son.

[B-Man]

‘Escape hatch’ built for Berkeley admin building in wake of repeated sit-ins

 

A new exit door has been installed near UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks’ office in response to repeated sit-ins of the administration building, a back door that’s been dubbed an “escape hatch” by some on campus.

 

The door was constructed late last month outside a short hallway between Dirks’ conference room and his office in California Hall at a cost of $9,000, the Daily Californian campus newspaper reports.

 

Some students at the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement say they are angry over its installation, arguing that between the back door and the fence recently built around the chancellor’s campus residence that “it’s clear that administrators on this campus operate in a near-constant state of fear of its students,” the Daily Cal noted in a staff editorial.

 

Edited August 4, 2016 by B-Man

[DC Tom]

‘Escape hatch’ built for Berkeley admin building in wake of repeated sit-ins

 

A new exit door has been installed near UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks’ office in response to repeated sit-ins of the administration building, a back door that’s been dubbed an “escape hatch” by some on campus.

 

The door was constructed late last month outside a short hallway between Dirks’ conference room and his office in California Hall at a cost of $9,000, the Daily Californian campus newspaper reports.

 

Some students at the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement say they are angry over its installation, arguing that between the back door and the fence recently built around the chancellor’s campus residence that “it’s clear that administrators on this campus operate in a near-constant state of fear of its students,” the Daily Cal noted in a staff editorial.

 

 

Dear Students,

 

It's called a "safe space."

[Chef Jim]

 

 

Some students at the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement say they are angry over its installation, arguing that between the back door and the fence recently built around the chancellor’s campus residence that “it’s clear that administrators on this campus operate in a near-constant state of fear of its students,” the Daily Cal noted in a staff editorial.

 

Oh the irony.

 

So the Chancellor is a kitty and the students are pussies? Everything I know I learned from YOU!!!

[B-Man]

http://heatst.com/culture-wars/bias-incident-team-students-three-blind-mice-halloween-costume-makes-fun-of-a-disability/

 

 

‘Bias Incident Team’: Students’ Three Blind Mice Halloween Costume ‘Makes Fun of a Disability

By Jillian Kay Melchior | 6:09 pm, August 3, 2016

 

 

A University “Bias Incident Team” took a carving knife to three students’ “three blind mice” Halloween costumes last fall, saying the costumes mocked the disabled.

 

The incident took place at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, according to records reviewed exclusively by Heat Street. The offending students had posted pictures of themselves in costume on Facebook.

 

The documents,which Heat Street obtained under open records laws, reveal that a member of the Bias Incident Team reported the students herself: “There was concern about their choice as it makes fun of a disability,” says the team’s meeting minutes.

 

The Bias Incident Team decided to follow up directly with the costume wearers, noting that “this incident is being considered a personnel issue in Residence Life” because the students were also staffers.

 

Photos of the mouse costumes were also removed from Facebook, though it’s unclear whether the Bias Incident Team compelled students to take them down. (The photo accompanying this article shows different people wearing the same type of costume.)

 

Apparently the mouse costumes were a cautionary tale for the Bias Incident Team. During at least two different Bias Incident Team meetings, administrators discussed the need to “be pro-active next year before Halloween about choosing an appropriate Halloween costume,” also suggesting that “we may do an ‘inappropriate costumes’ de-briefing such as a news media article or overview.”

 

By deadline, members of the Bias Incident Team had not responded to inquiries about whether any disabled students reported being offended by the Three Blind Mice costumes or whether UW-Platteville had established guidelines about what constitutes an appropriate costume.

 

Halloween has become an increasingly tense time on college campuses across the United States.

 

Edited August 4, 2016 by B-Man

[Gary M]

‘Escape hatch’ built for Berkeley admin building in wake of repeated sit-ins

 

A new exit door has been installed near UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks’ office in response to repeated sit-ins of the administration building, a back door that’s been dubbed an “escape hatch” by some on campus.

 

The door was constructed late last month outside a short hallway between Dirks’ conference room and his office in California Hall at a cost of $9,000, the Daily Californian campus newspaper reports.

 

Some students at the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement say they are angry over its installation, arguing that between the back door and the fence recently built around the chancellor’s campus residence that “it’s clear that administrators on this campus operate in a near-constant state of fear of its students,” the Daily Cal noted in a staff editorial.

 

 

Wow a liberal building a fence, who would think that would happen?

[IDBillzFan]

 

Halloween has become an increasingly tense time on college campuses across the United States.

 

 

The college yearbook from my freshman year has a photo in it of a freshman blindfolded, tied to a tombstone (there was a cemetery near the campus) and having a bottle of Jack Daniels poured down his gullet by upper classmen.

 

We've evolved to this: offending disabled mice.

 

Congratulations, SoProgs. You win. You wanted a pussified America, and dammit, you've got it from coast to coast.

Edited August 4, 2016 by LABillzFan

[Gary M]

 

The college yearbook from my freshman year has a photo in it of a freshman blindfolded, tied to a tombstone (there was a cemetery near the campus) and having a bottle of Jack Daniels poured down his gullet by upper classmen.

 

We've evolved to this: offending disabled mice.

 

Congratulations, SoProgs. You win. You wanted a pussified America, and dammit, you've got it from coast to coast.

 

How long did they leave you there?

[DC Tom]

 

Apparently the mouse costumes were a cautionary tale for the Bias Incident Team. During at least two different Bias Incident Team meetings, administrators discussed the need to “be pro-active next year before Halloween about choosing an appropriate Halloween costume,” also suggesting that “we may do an ‘inappropriate costumes’ de-briefing such as a news media article or overview.”

 

 

So what constitutes an "appropriate Halloween costume" these days? Every one I can think of is offensive to somebody.

[Azalin]

 

The college yearbook from my freshman year has a photo in it of a freshman blindfolded, tied to a tombstone (there was a cemetery near the campus) and having a bottle of Jack Daniels poured down his gullet by upper classmen.

 

We've evolved to this: offending disabled mice.

 

Congratulations, SoProgs. You win. You wanted a pussified America, and dammit, you've got it from coast to coast.

 

Come on over to Texas. Even Austin, by far the most liberal city here, is sane compared with what you've got going on over there.

[Chef Jim]

 

So what constitutes an "appropriate Halloween costume" these days? Every one I can think of is offensive to somebody.

 

Isn't that the whole point of costume parties?

 

We used to do one every year and had a theme. One year was come as your favorite dead celebrity. One guy of German decent came as Hitler in a body bag. Another guy one year came in a KKK outfit but instead of KKK he had QQQ (for the NASDQ ETF Ticker) written on the back. No one cared. Well the fact that none of us were black helped but you get the idea.

 

Hey Francis! Lighten the !@#$ up!!!!!!!

[B-Man]

I guess I'll throw this here, it's kinda hilarious P.C. thing........................

 

 

 

Hollywood 'BEN-HUR' Remake About 'Forgiveness', Not 'Revenge and Miracles'...

 

"Oh my God"

 

 

 

 

 

 

WOAH! ‘Splash’ Remake Will Feature Channing Tatum as the ‘Merman.’

 

Will this film make Lady Ghostbusters look like the second coming of Citizen Kane? 21st century Hollywood increasingly resembles the last exhausted days of the old studio system in the late 1960s — but are there any Easy Riders and Raging Bulls on the horizon to lead the revolution this time around?

 

Come back Darryl Hannah, all is forgiven !

 

 

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[IDBillzFan]

 

How long did they leave you there?

 

If that was me I'd probably still be tied up there.

[unbillievable]

I"m expecting to see Mary Poppins remade into a transgender black guy. After Ghostbusters, nothing is sacred.

[DC Tom]

I"m expecting to see Mary Poppins remade into a transgender black guy. After Ghostbusters, nothing is sacred.

 

That's a role made for Eddie Murphy.

 

Or Chris Rock.

[Nanker]

I"m expecting to see Mary Poppins remade into a transgender black guy. After Ghostbusters, nothing is sacred.

 

 

 

That's a role made for Eddie Murphy.

 

Or Chris Rock.

How about a remake of The Wizard of Oz with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role of Dorothy.

[boyst]

 

Isn't that the whole point of costume parties?

 

We used to do one every year and had a theme. One year was come as your favorite dead celebrity. One guy of German decent came as Hitler in a body bag. Another guy one year came in a KKK outfit but instead of KKK he had QQQ (for the NASDQ ETF Ticker) written on the back. No one cared. Well the fact that none of us were black helped but you get the idea.

 

Hey Francis! Lighten the !@#$ up!!!!!!!

descent.

Idiot

[DC Tom]

 

 

How about a remake of The Wizard of Oz with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role of Dorothy.

 

Nah, Dwayne Johnson. I'd rather see Arnold as the Cowardly Lion. Vin Diesel as the Scarecrow, Melissa McCarthy as the Tin Man (he self-identifies as male), Julia Roberts as the Wicked Witch, Denzel Washington as Glenda the Good Witch (Warlock. Whatever.) And Peter Dinklage as the Wizard.

[B-Man]

CONFIRMED: HOLLYWOOD STILL OFFICIALLY BANKRUPT OF NEW IDEAS.

Rebel Wilson to Star in Gender-Flipped ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ Remake.

Coming hot on the high heels of the Lady Ghostbusters box office misfire and the upcoming remake of Splash with Channing Tatum in the Daryl Hannah role. One of the themes of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind’s 1998 history, and its accompanying documentary of the young Turks who bested (for a time) the Hollywood studio system is that in the 1960s, was that Hollywood’s old guard, utterly obsessed with producing another hit the size of 1965’s The Sound of Music, pumped out inferior musical after inferior musical.

This time around, it’s a different sort of prewar industry nostalgia — an obsession with political correctness, a byproduct of Germany’s 1920s Weimar-era Frankfurt School — rather than swinging big bands and Fred Astaire-style dancing that’s driving this Hollywood trend. But will all of the gender-flipping, endless cast-in-the-mold superhero movies, and the rest of Hollywood’s increasingly limited genre options produce a similar sea change in the industry as with that of the late ‘60s?

 

for the sake of the audience (remember them?) it could certainly use it.

 

 

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/240611/

[Azalin]

 

CONFIRMED: HOLLYWOOD STILL OFFICIALLY BANKRUPT OF NEW IDEAS.

Rebel Wilson to Star in Gender-Flipped ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ Remake.

Coming hot on the high heels of the Lady Ghostbusters box office misfire and the upcoming remake of Splash with Channing Tatum in the Daryl Hannah role. One of the themes of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind’s 1998 history, and its accompanying documentary of the young Turks who bested (for a time) the Hollywood studio system is that in the 1960s, was that Hollywood’s old guard, utterly obsessed with producing another hit the size of 1965’s The Sound of Music, pumped out inferior musical after inferior musical.

This time around, it’s a different sort of prewar industry nostalgia — an obsession with political correctness, a byproduct of Germany’s 1920s Weimar-era Frankfurt School — rather than swinging big bands and Fred Astaire-style dancing that’s driving this Hollywood trend. But will all of the gender-flipping, endless cast-in-the-mold superhero movies, and the rest of Hollywood’s increasingly limited genre options produce a similar sea change in the industry as with that of the late ‘60s?

 

for the sake of the audience (remember them?) it could certainly use it.

 

 

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/240611/

 

 

Good grief, I watch few movies as it is. Looks like I'll be watching even fewer.