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Originally Posted by Mizzou_8541
I laughed (and totally agree). This is going from sad, to out of control, to WTF pretty quickly.
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I will never understand how the hell people didn't see what this was the moment they read the list of demands.
Demanding that the President of the entire University of Missouri system "acknowledge his white privilege" is batty as shit.
Did they really think this was just some well-meaning group of dissenters? No, this is a fanatic fringe group. It's the ideological polar opposite of the group that went around campus and stuck crosses into the lawn for every child aborted in Missouri. Jonathan Butler is no more righteous than Brother Jed was when he spent a decade proselytizing on Speakers Circle every day (and Brother Jed was batshit but at least funny).
Having strong convictions does nothing to make you in the right. People strongly believe (and are willing to die for) crazy shit every day. People were so caught up in how much this kid seemed to care about his cause that they didn't look past the surface of the cause itself to see if it made any sense. It didn't take more than a cursory examination to see that this is just wildly overblown inflammatory horseshit.
Sadly, the media gave them the momentum they needed and now they've fully bought into their own narrative.
Please please please keep this movement in the spotlight. They'll cut their own legs out from under themselves in spectacular fashion.