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the_almighty_spehornoob
Joined: Sep 22 2008
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So, last weekend, at my school, we had a lockdown on campus. Some dude allegedly beat the shit out of a Muslim girl with a gun, and was still on the loose.
Throughout the weekend, the students at the school flip. We have speeches, protests, and posters everywhere. The students organized a sit in. A. Fucking. Sit. In. I have no idea why. As if they're going to sit down until the prejudiced , violent idiot feels so sowwy that he turns himself in.
Anyway, it turns out that there is no prejudiced, violent idiot. We learned this weekend that the Muslim girl made it up and falsified the charges, and was then herself arrested. Why the hell would someone do something like this? Is there a point? People piss me off sometimes.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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That's pretty lame.
Did she have a buddy beat her up so she looked convincing?
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the_almighty_spehornoob
Joined: Sep 22 2008
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I dunno.
I stayed the fuck out of the whole mess. The stories ranged from a regular beating, to an assault with a gun, to a sexual attack. I still don't know what the official police report was.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Well word of mouth alters any story beyond comprehension in about 3 minutes flat.
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
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i did it.
in the back of a taxicab.
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
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I don't get sit ins either. Or "protests" against things that are obviously bad like domestic battery. It's not like there is a pro-domestic battery group out there to protest against.
"Oh, you are organizing a demonstration as to why domestic battery is bad? No need. I agree."
Same deal in this instance, I feel- unless those sitting in have something they feel is going under-represented. Either way, they look like douches now.
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 Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
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ReeperTheSeeker
Joined: Aug 26 2007
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She did it for the sole purpose of getting attention. Some people are so desperate to get noticed that they are willing to go to any lengths to get it. Hell their are some mothers who attentionaly make their children ill to get noticed by them and nurse them back to health. The proper punishment for these people is to be thrown into solitaire.
And the fact that she is of a discriminated minority and allowed such shit like protests to go on really makes not only her but the school and protesters look like asses.
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the_almighty_spehornoob
Joined: Sep 22 2008
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| Kubo wrote: |
I don't get sit ins either. Or "protests" against things that are obviously bad like domestic battery. It's not like there is a pro-domestic battery group out there to protest against.
"Oh, you are organizing a demonstration as to why domestic battery is bad? No need. I agree."
Same deal in this instance, I feel- unless those sitting in have something they feel is going under-represented. Either way, they look like douches now. |
Sit ins used to work against businesses that discriminated against minorities and the like , but there's absolutely no point in a sit in for something like this. It's protest for the sake of protest, which is stupid. For all they knew the (fictional) guy who did this could have been sitting right next to them, laughing his ass off on the inside. That's what I would do if something I did caused a sit in.
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Lottel
Title: of the Eternal BWOG
Joined: Sep 02 2008
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We had a lot of sit ins back in high school. All around the flag pole (which I thought was a stupid place for a sit in), They protested war and violence andthis and that. And they did it whenever some one had died. I guess they protested death? Or something?
Gah. They even did it when things like prayer in school were debated. This was a Christian group of kids and I assumed only did this so much because they got attention for it and the school let them.
I did it occasionally after I figured out I got extra credit in my classes for skipping class and hanging outside.
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Probable Muppet
Joined: Aug 05 2008
Location: CA
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Ok, I happen have a history class in college that I am taking. In this class is a Muslim girl that goes off on angry rambling rants every five minutes.
No exaggerations every five minutes she is yelling at the top of her lungs about how America is going to fall and that the government is trying to oppress her. I actually have to close my ears she is yelling so load. The teacher has done little or nothing to stop her from doing this. The whole class revolves around her rants and it's a three hour class. She is bat shit nuts. Also none of her rants are even close to coherent and make no sense at all.
I am planning on going to the administration next Friday to complain. I am pissed that I paid almost 500 dollars to sit and listen to some nut job for three hours a week.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Isn't it funny that a lot of the time the person yelling the loudest has the least idea what's going on?
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Richthofen
Title: Penguin Molester
Joined: Oct 13 2008
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| Blackout wrote: |
| Isn't it funny that a lot of the time the person yelling the loudest has the least idea what's going on? |
Like Loud Howard, I guess?
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JRA
Joined: Sep 17 2007
Location: The Opium Trail
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What exactly is "campus lockdown?" Unless I misinterpreted this as a college campus.
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 There are a lot of what if's in life Donny. What if I hit you really hard in the face, knocked yo shit to the back of yo skull? What if I....had you girl gargle my nuts? The fact remains, you are a fuckin mutant. |
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the_almighty_spehornoob
Joined: Sep 22 2008
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| JRA wrote: |
| What exactly is "campus lockdown?" Unless I misinterpreted this as a college campus. |
That's just sorta what everyone's calling it, it's wasn't like everything was locked. Alarms went off and everyone was told that there was police activity on campus and to stay in their rooms and away from windows.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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| Lottel wrote: |
We had a lot of sit ins back in high school. All around the flag pole (which I thought was a stupid place for a sit in), They protested war and violence andthis and that. And they did it whenever some one had died. I guess they protested death? Or something?
Gah. They even did it when things like prayer in school were debated. This was a Christian group of kids and I assumed only did this so much because they got attention for it and the school let them.
I did it occasionally after I figured out I got extra credit in my classes for skipping class and hanging outside. |
Sit-ins are only useful on certain occasions. Workers who believe they are being treated unfairly can stage a sit-in to stifle their business's production. Or there were the kids in the south who protested segregated restaurants by sitting in the whites-only section.
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 So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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Lottel
Title: of the Eternal BWOG
Joined: Sep 02 2008
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Oh I understand the importance and power of properly thought through peaceful protest.
But these were not those. They were pointless and for attention.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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| Lottel wrote: |
Oh I understand the importance and power of properly thought through peaceful protest.
But these were not those. They were pointless and for attention. |
That's what I was saying. Their methods really had no effect on what they were doing, and had little to do with the problem.
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 So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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