The demand for white supremacists far outweighs the supply. And since there are literally ZERO consequences for making stories like this up we can expect BS like this to continue.
The demand for white supremacists far outweighs the supply. And since there are literally ZERO consequences for making stories like this up we can expect BS like this to continue.
I was just speechless reading this story and just not certain what to say and this statement you have written here captures exactly what needs to be said.
The religion of social justice has seized control of our society, just like many past religions and has no value for truth, justice and most importantly: honesty
Just imagine that a white person would claim that they were insulted with racial slurs. At first, nobody would care - whatтАЩs wrong with insulting white people? - then, if the accusation will prove to be a lie, that person would be destroyed. Apparently, the best that can be done in this case is to state that BYU is not guilty, but no way to even talk about the forged accusations. The NYT article seems to put the burden on BYU to explain WHY would the black volleyball player make a fake accusation. ItтАЩs like living in a hallucination.
I don't think BYU has to explain why a person might invent a racial slur hoax. At this point, it's such a well-known phenomenon that everyone understands it happens, even if reasonable people still debate the percentages (it is probably most in some settings, less than most in others).
SoтАжat the gym chatting with a friend of mine, who had been in a water aerobics class that morning while I was swimming. She said, тАШsoтАжcan you believe they played тАШPlay That Funky Music (White Boy)тАЩ (by Wild Cherry, 1976, if you need a reference)? WhatтАЩs the sentiment towards тАШWalk on the Wild SideтАЩ by Lou Reed? If there wasn't a double standard, thereтАЩd be no standard at all.
Exactly what I was going to post. I'll add this: When we've got the POTUS going all First Order talking about how "MAGA Republicans are a threat to democracy," it's unsurprising that the mainstream media wants to hype Racism Everywhere. They want the public to buy in to the idea of Racism Everywhere so they can vilify dissenters. They want to be able to deplatform, freeze bank accounts and even jail dissenters, and what better way to do that than by calling them white supremecists so that no one objects? That's also why they doggedly pretend black dissenters don't exist.
What Richardson did was not a crime so the only possible consequences are expulsion from her school or public shame. And the people with the power to impose either consequence support her lies.
While not a crime, it could lead to personal damages against a person, leading to loss of livelihood or societal exile. This is real and has happened. The common reply from the enlightened woke as to why that is just ok is тАШbut thatтАЩs differentтАЩ.
I would suspend her participation in college sports. Kids are stupid, make up stupid lies. Expulsion is a harsh penalty. But you cannot have someone that treated their competitor (and host) so shabbily continue to represent the school at future events.
In this case, BYU should consider demanding Duke take disciplinary action against the player (at the university level, our police and courts have better things to spend their time on). If they decline to do so (which they will), publicly announce that BYU doesn't share Duke's values and cancel any future games with Duke, all sports. It is absolutely what would have happened if the shoe were on the other foot.
You hit the nail on the head. Racism has been on the decline for many decades, thankfully. But organizations like BLM and all the highly paid DEI administrators at schools need racism to grow again to keep their jobs. It's always about the money.
Essentially the same facts as George Floyd except Timpa was white. No outrage, no prison time and no huge settlement for the family. Another example of all that white privilege I supposeтАж
You are spot on, the SharptonтАЩs, BLMтАЩs and CrumplerтАЩs of the world NEED to keep the BS idea of massive racism still being a thing, itтАЩs a huge industry at this point.
"The demand for white supremacists far outweighs the supply".
Unfortunately, there has always been a cadre of race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson willing to satiate the leftтАЩs need for a тАЬracistтАЭ boogeyman to demonize. Funny how the claims more often than not appeared in the run up to elections or impending votes on socialist spending bills. ItтАЩs no coincidence that democratic patrons have enriched them for their efforts. It looks like thereтАЩs a new generation of wannabes more than eager to get in on the scam. Too bad for the likes of Ms. Richardson, it seems like the supply far exceeds the demand.
"I am afraid that there is a certain class of race problem solvers don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out, they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public." Bokker T. Washington.
The desperation for clicks actually encourages it. The more outrageous the better. The fact this girl had very successful parents also just shows how insane the victim complex has become. Why is she not harassed like the people sheтАЩs accused would be. ItтАЩs all backwards.
No consequences, and a huge reward for being a perceived victim, when it becomes your тАЬlived experienceтАЭ regardless of whether it really happened. BLM said as much to Jussie Smullet - they still believe himтАж truth is just incidental to the Narrative.
And what will happen to the politicians who pour gasoline on the flames. Not only the senile imbecile who purports to lead us who gave currency to the Smollett hoax. But the witless moron who purports to lead Utah, who did the very same to pander before the facts were known.
And how about the presidents of BYU and Duke? No repercussions for them?
Disgusting all around. When facts no longer matter we are no better than monkeys.
IMO this began to be fashionable on the Left with Obama. From the clinging to guns and the Bible to his comments about the Gates police incident, Trayvon Martin, etc, etc it always seemed as if he picked at the scab in regards to race. While racism was certainly not entirely eradicated by the time he ran for office one can look at public opinion (both blacks and whites) and see how much it has deteriorated from its zenith (under W).
Now there are 50 illegal border crossers living in "Sanctuary" Martha's Vineyard. Maybe they can live on the Obama property since he isn't there most of the year.
"DeSantis Sends Some Illegals to Martha's Vineyard and Right-Twitter Can't Stop Laughing"
I sincerely hope that IF it can be proven that this is a Smollet situation that legal consequences come of this. The last thing our country needs are people who will callously slander with the scarlet letter R.
Just for the sake of argument letтАЩs say that she did make this event entirely up. Her actions (if true) caused an individual to be slandered as a racist, the other fans too get tinged as racist for not saying something, a school gets smeared for breeding and allowing this behavior (and takes a financial hit). It also managed to smear adherents to the faith as the current day members are confronted by the past of other members from nearly 50 years ago in ways that have nothing to do with them. Not to mention that her actions (again if true) are yet another example of someone intentionally causing racial division and weтАЩve seen the devastating consequences that has caused our country.
It's all they have. Now, that word means nothing. The sad fact that the young women and her race baiting 'godmother' faces NO retribution or financial consequences is appalling. Using 'White supremacy' is nothing but another dog whistle that we should all start ignoring.
They wonтАЩt let us ignore it if we do ignore it we racists if we pushback we racists.I think America has had enough, we need to really stand up in November and vote the Democrats out!ЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕ЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕
I live someplace where I can ignore it; but it isn't right and it isn't fair to anyone. I'm with you about November; vote en masse and vote the progressives out.
Absolutely and now we also get to be fascists well! The irony is awfully thick but sadly itтАЩs much uglier than just ironic. When Obama smeared some as clinging to guns and the Bible and then Hillary the basket of deplorables slur there was not sufficient pushback. These more recent attacks are sadly just escalations of the same.
It wasnтАЩt effective enough to call us extremists racists conservatives now we are fascists. Even Russell Brand and Glenn Greenwald are conservatives and stupid gullible people swallow it hook line and sinker. They go with what works and ignore the moral consequences.
Every single election cycle they escalate their dehumanizing terminology. It's on purpose. Their goal is to make Republican viewpoints, along with all the cultural history there, unacceptable in the new USA.
Because the Left controls the Media, Social Media, Academia, Law, Medicine, and the Bureaucracy, along with (currently) two branches of our government. Only a few state governments, a few news organizations and a few pundits remain outside the Left's complete control.
Any kind of uprising or rioting against the Left will be treated the same way Jan6 was. Even if we somehow manage to vote Republicans back into control of the government, every other organization the Left controls will resist.
It also caused the SC coach of womenтАЩs volleyball to cancel an upcoming series with BYU because she was supposedly looking out for her girls. She really had no right to do that at a public university. When is this going to end? Sadly, it wonтАЩt. We have a soft society who falls for these fake stories time and again without even questioningтАжjust taking the word of the so-called victim. We now have lots of those in our country!
My guess is you will not hear about it, but SC basketball will have to pay some big dollars for canceling the game over made-up BS. Hope it is a large cost to them.
There was a time when black athletes faced real racism and endured terrible retribution for daring to advocate for equal treatment. There were also extraordinary black athletes like Muhammad Ali who transcended race and stood alone against government coercion that would soon tear the country apart. In 1967, during the height of the Vietnam war, he was drafted for service in the US military. ItтАЩs clear that he would never have faced combat and could have comfortably served as a poster boy for a military industrial complex that needed a constant source of cannon fodder while continuing with his boxing career. Yet he refused induction, saying тАЬI ainтАЩt got no quarrel with them VietcongтАЭ. For that conscientious decision, he was stripped of his heavyweight boxing crown and prohibited from fighting by every state athletic commission for three and a half years. In addition, he was criminally indicted, convicted and sentenced to five years in prison although he remained free on bail for four years until the US Supreme court overturned his conviction on a narrow procedural ground. Thankfully he was able to continue his boxing career and soon regained his crown.
Today the most prominent black athlete is a pampered buffoon named Lebron James who willingly parrots the lies of Ms. Richardson and lectures the rest of us about тАЬracismтАЭ that in this country while ignoring the documented Uyghur slave labor camps in China so he can sell a few more sneakers.
I'll ask You the same question as I asked "Sea Sentry:" What do You mean IF?
Did You read the part about BYU first backing the claim and then doing a *thorough* investigation of it.
Plus, since ZERO, zip, zilch, NADA WITNESSES came forward to support the story?
Those two *facts* seemed to close the loop, to most people who don't have an ingrained bias. Not that You *necessarily* have one, but I think You missed something in *this* case. That's just me.
Have some sympathy for those poor BYU administrators quaking in their shoes over their public disgrace and the possibility of losing alumni support and millions of dollars in revenue. Now they're rightfully condemned for massive lack of spine in handling this outrageous claim. and caving to the lies. How can they possibly recover their public standing? Poor, gutless administrators just trying to go along to get along.
Let's not be too harsh. The truly spineless thing would have been to conclude the investigation by pretending they couldn't identify whoever was shouting the slur and reiterating that such behavior is a violation of the university's core values. Rescinding the interim measure on the ejected fan and reporting that the investigation found no evidence to support that the incident even happened required a modicum of honesty and courage.
Here's the thing: most BYU alums smelled a rat to start with. But they also would want an investigation, because if the person shouting had been a student, they would expect that student to be ejected from the university.
As far as I know, most of BYU's operating budget comes from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. LDS students pay reduced tuition (after the same pattern as in-state vs out-of-state tuition) because their parents likely pay tithing and they themselves will likely pay tithing on the wages they earn as a result of their education.
One of the local stories I read on it stated the mentally challenged individual who was punished has a thing about shots that hit the net. They didn't say what he may have said, but any variation of the word "net" could easily be misheard in a bad way, especially if he has a speech impediment.
Yeah - and when God was parceling out the 'brains' to today's crop of spineless, lazy journalists - they thought He said "train" - so they got out of the way.
Yeah, but the story morphed from one person shouting when she served in the 2nd and 4th periods (directly in front of the BYU student section) to a game-long "racial heckling that grew into threats."
The most charitable read is she heard something she thought was a slur (BYU student section known for addressing visiting players by their first names). Then she told her godmother, a politician with a history of race-baiting, and the harassment in the story escalated with the father and then her statement.
Trapped in a lie that was probably a mis-hearing/misunderstanding to begin with. One that will live on. You still get "Something happened" from a large segment of people on the Duke Lacrosse hoax. And no hoax has been as thoroughly debunked.
Supposedly there was a player named Nicky on the team and that is probably what was misheard. I'm tellin' ya.....if people were blatantly saying the "n" word in 2022, you can believe the game would have been stopped!
A couple of years at my daughter's university a couple (who were students) posted a video of themselves on Insta. One of the couple was a lacrosse player the college. The girlfriend used the "n" word. My daughter shared the video with me and they looked totally high. While the "n" word is totally unacceptable, I was more concerned for the fact that this couple was so high on a Wednesday night. A black student saw it, called it out and they were expelled. Just.Like.That.
We went to see Kevin Hart a few weeks back and there were three comedians prior to him coming out. I have NEVER heard the "n" word more in one hour than I did that night. It was horrible....but there is was over and over and over!
The demand for white supremacists far outweighs the supply. And since there are literally ZERO consequences for making stories like this up we can expect BS like this to continue.
BANG ON!!!!
I was just speechless reading this story and just not certain what to say and this statement you have written here captures exactly what needs to be said.
The religion of social justice has seized control of our society, just like many past religions and has no value for truth, justice and most importantly: honesty
Just imagine that a white person would claim that they were insulted with racial slurs. At first, nobody would care - whatтАЩs wrong with insulting white people? - then, if the accusation will prove to be a lie, that person would be destroyed. Apparently, the best that can be done in this case is to state that BYU is not guilty, but no way to even talk about the forged accusations. The NYT article seems to put the burden on BYU to explain WHY would the black volleyball player make a fake accusation. ItтАЩs like living in a hallucination.
I don't think BYU has to explain why a person might invent a racial slur hoax. At this point, it's such a well-known phenomenon that everyone understands it happens, even if reasonable people still debate the percentages (it is probably most in some settings, less than most in others).
SoтАжat the gym chatting with a friend of mine, who had been in a water aerobics class that morning while I was swimming. She said, тАШsoтАжcan you believe they played тАШPlay That Funky Music (White Boy)тАЩ (by Wild Cherry, 1976, if you need a reference)? WhatтАЩs the sentiment towards тАШWalk on the Wild SideтАЩ by Lou Reed? If there wasn't a double standard, thereтАЩd be no standard at all.
Exactly what I was going to post. I'll add this: When we've got the POTUS going all First Order talking about how "MAGA Republicans are a threat to democracy," it's unsurprising that the mainstream media wants to hype Racism Everywhere. They want the public to buy in to the idea of Racism Everywhere so they can vilify dissenters. They want to be able to deplatform, freeze bank accounts and even jail dissenters, and what better way to do that than by calling them white supremecists so that no one objects? That's also why they doggedly pretend black dissenters don't exist.
well, the mid-terms are coming up, they have to have a distraction from actual policy outcomes.
What Richardson did was not a crime so the only possible consequences are expulsion from her school or public shame. And the people with the power to impose either consequence support her lies.
While not a crime, it could lead to personal damages against a person, leading to loss of livelihood or societal exile. This is real and has happened. The common reply from the enlightened woke as to why that is just ok is тАШbut thatтАЩs differentтАЩ.
I would suspend her participation in college sports. Kids are stupid, make up stupid lies. Expulsion is a harsh penalty. But you cannot have someone that treated their competitor (and host) so shabbily continue to represent the school at future events.
To add to JTтАЩs comment:
Several themes come to mind in this whole Common Sense thread. Please feel free to add your ownтАж
No Consequences
No Responsibility
No Accountability
Mediocrity
No plan (housing, food, infrastructure, transportation, communication)
In this case, BYU should consider demanding Duke take disciplinary action against the player (at the university level, our police and courts have better things to spend their time on). If they decline to do so (which they will), publicly announce that BYU doesn't share Duke's values and cancel any future games with Duke, all sports. It is absolutely what would have happened if the shoe were on the other foot.
тАЬThe demand for white supremacists far outweighs the supply.тАЭ Hilarious.
You hit the nail on the head. Racism has been on the decline for many decades, thankfully. But organizations like BLM and all the highly paid DEI administrators at schools need racism to grow again to keep their jobs. It's always about the money.
Especially Federal dollars! You never want to give up the federal money!!
I encourage folks who have not heard of this story to read about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tony_Timpa.
Essentially the same facts as George Floyd except Timpa was white. No outrage, no prison time and no huge settlement for the family. Another example of all that white privilege I supposeтАж
You are spot on, the SharptonтАЩs, BLMтАЩs and CrumplerтАЩs of the world NEED to keep the BS idea of massive racism still being a thing, itтАЩs a huge industry at this point.
Huge industry I can think of a lot around the world.
"The demand for white supremacists far outweighs the supply".
Unfortunately, there has always been a cadre of race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson willing to satiate the leftтАЩs need for a тАЬracistтАЭ boogeyman to demonize. Funny how the claims more often than not appeared in the run up to elections or impending votes on socialist spending bills. ItтАЩs no coincidence that democratic patrons have enriched them for their efforts. It looks like thereтАЩs a new generation of wannabes more than eager to get in on the scam. Too bad for the likes of Ms. Richardson, it seems like the supply far exceeds the demand.
"I am afraid that there is a certain class of race problem solvers don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out, they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public." Bokker T. Washington.
And Ben Crump is the new generation of race baiting attorneys.
Never been prouder of my town that when Reverend Al came here last year during the Haitian invasion.
He was shouted down after about two minutes and left town
Here's an article from Spiked published today that has a nice take on all of this hate hoax bullshit.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/15/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hate-crime-hoax/
Yeah, that was good. TYTY.
And there's Will Reilly's book, too. https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Crime-Hoax-Lefts-Campaign/dp/1621577783?asin=B07F6RN7Y4&revisionId=877d9a57&format=1&depth=1
That was good
The desperation for clicks actually encourages it. The more outrageous the better. The fact this girl had very successful parents also just shows how insane the victim complex has become. Why is she not harassed like the people sheтАЩs accused would be. ItтАЩs all backwards.
No consequences, and a huge reward for being a perceived victim, when it becomes your тАЬlived experienceтАЭ regardless of whether it really happened. BLM said as much to Jussie Smullet - they still believe himтАж truth is just incidental to the Narrative.
It's worse than zero consequences - it gets praised and exalted. Victimhood is currency in the leftwing media climate
At the moment we have to pushback real hard
Someone needs to tell this young lady that 'victimhood' is NOT a career choice.
but it is.
Seems you are right; but we don't have to enable it, do we?
And what will happen to the politicians who pour gasoline on the flames. Not only the senile imbecile who purports to lead us who gave currency to the Smollett hoax. But the witless moron who purports to lead Utah, who did the very same to pander before the facts were known.
And how about the presidents of BYU and Duke? No repercussions for them?
Disgusting all around. When facts no longer matter we are no better than monkeys.
IMO this began to be fashionable on the Left with Obama. From the clinging to guns and the Bible to his comments about the Gates police incident, Trayvon Martin, etc, etc it always seemed as if he picked at the scab in regards to race. While racism was certainly not entirely eradicated by the time he ran for office one can look at public opinion (both blacks and whites) and see how much it has deteriorated from its zenith (under W).
Obama was the most successful racist opportunist who now lives in MarthaтАЩs Vineyard which says it all.
Now there are 50 illegal border crossers living in "Sanctuary" Martha's Vineyard. Maybe they can live on the Obama property since he isn't there most of the year.
"DeSantis Sends Some Illegals to Martha's Vineyard and Right-Twitter Can't Stop Laughing"
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/09/15/desantis-sends-some-illegals-to-marthas-vineyard-and-right-twitter-cant-stop-laughing-n1629725
I sincerely hope that IF it can be proven that this is a Smollet situation that legal consequences come of this. The last thing our country needs are people who will callously slander with the scarlet letter R.
Just for the sake of argument letтАЩs say that she did make this event entirely up. Her actions (if true) caused an individual to be slandered as a racist, the other fans too get tinged as racist for not saying something, a school gets smeared for breeding and allowing this behavior (and takes a financial hit). It also managed to smear adherents to the faith as the current day members are confronted by the past of other members from nearly 50 years ago in ways that have nothing to do with them. Not to mention that her actions (again if true) are yet another example of someone intentionally causing racial division and weтАЩve seen the devastating consequences that has caused our country.
Ummm have you noticed that the left continually тАЬcallouslyтАЭ uses the тАЬscarlet letterтАЭ R on all their opponents????
Even calling Larry Elder, a Black man, the Black face of white supremacy.
I don't know what's worse, the people calling him that or the idiots who believe it.
It's all they have. Now, that word means nothing. The sad fact that the young women and her race baiting 'godmother' faces NO retribution or financial consequences is appalling. Using 'White supremacy' is nothing but another dog whistle that we should all start ignoring.
They wonтАЩt let us ignore it if we do ignore it we racists if we pushback we racists.I think America has had enough, we need to really stand up in November and vote the Democrats out!ЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕ЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕
I live someplace where I can ignore it; but it isn't right and it isn't fair to anyone. I'm with you about November; vote en masse and vote the progressives out.
Absolutely and now we also get to be fascists well! The irony is awfully thick but sadly itтАЩs much uglier than just ironic. When Obama smeared some as clinging to guns and the Bible and then Hillary the basket of deplorables slur there was not sufficient pushback. These more recent attacks are sadly just escalations of the same.
It wasnтАЩt effective enough to call us extremists racists conservatives now we are fascists. Even Russell Brand and Glenn Greenwald are conservatives and stupid gullible people swallow it hook line and sinker. They go with what works and ignore the moral consequences.
Every single election cycle they escalate their dehumanizing terminology. It's on purpose. Their goal is to make Republican viewpoints, along with all the cultural history there, unacceptable in the new USA.
Why do we keep on allowing it?
Because the Left controls the Media, Social Media, Academia, Law, Medicine, and the Bureaucracy, along with (currently) two branches of our government. Only a few state governments, a few news organizations and a few pundits remain outside the Left's complete control.
Any kind of uprising or rioting against the Left will be treated the same way Jan6 was. Even if we somehow manage to vote Republicans back into control of the government, every other organization the Left controls will resist.
It also caused the SC coach of womenтАЩs volleyball to cancel an upcoming series with BYU because she was supposedly looking out for her girls. She really had no right to do that at a public university. When is this going to end? Sadly, it wonтАЩt. We have a soft society who falls for these fake stories time and again without even questioningтАжjust taking the word of the so-called victim. We now have lots of those in our country!
Fully agree with your take and it needs to be gone but unfortunately the press continues the sherade.
My guess is you will not hear about it, but SC basketball will have to pay some big dollars for canceling the game over made-up BS. Hope it is a large cost to them.
There was a time when black athletes faced real racism and endured terrible retribution for daring to advocate for equal treatment. There were also extraordinary black athletes like Muhammad Ali who transcended race and stood alone against government coercion that would soon tear the country apart. In 1967, during the height of the Vietnam war, he was drafted for service in the US military. ItтАЩs clear that he would never have faced combat and could have comfortably served as a poster boy for a military industrial complex that needed a constant source of cannon fodder while continuing with his boxing career. Yet he refused induction, saying тАЬI ainтАЩt got no quarrel with them VietcongтАЭ. For that conscientious decision, he was stripped of his heavyweight boxing crown and prohibited from fighting by every state athletic commission for three and a half years. In addition, he was criminally indicted, convicted and sentenced to five years in prison although he remained free on bail for four years until the US Supreme court overturned his conviction on a narrow procedural ground. Thankfully he was able to continue his boxing career and soon regained his crown.
Today the most prominent black athlete is a pampered buffoon named Lebron James who willingly parrots the lies of Ms. Richardson and lectures the rest of us about тАЬracismтАЭ that in this country while ignoring the documented Uyghur slave labor camps in China so he can sell a few more sneakers.
I'll ask You the same question as I asked "Sea Sentry:" What do You mean IF?
Did You read the part about BYU first backing the claim and then doing a *thorough* investigation of it.
Plus, since ZERO, zip, zilch, NADA WITNESSES came forward to support the story?
Those two *facts* seemed to close the loop, to most people who don't have an ingrained bias. Not that You *necessarily* have one, but I think You missed something in *this* case. That's just me.
Have some sympathy for those poor BYU administrators quaking in their shoes over their public disgrace and the possibility of losing alumni support and millions of dollars in revenue. Now they're rightfully condemned for massive lack of spine in handling this outrageous claim. and caving to the lies. How can they possibly recover their public standing? Poor, gutless administrators just trying to go along to get along.
Let's not be too harsh. The truly spineless thing would have been to conclude the investigation by pretending they couldn't identify whoever was shouting the slur and reiterating that such behavior is a violation of the university's core values. Rescinding the interim measure on the ejected fan and reporting that the investigation found no evidence to support that the incident even happened required a modicum of honesty and courage.
Here's the thing: most BYU alums smelled a rat to start with. But they also would want an investigation, because if the person shouting had been a student, they would expect that student to be ejected from the university.
As far as I know, most of BYU's operating budget comes from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. LDS students pay reduced tuition (after the same pattern as in-state vs out-of-state tuition) because their parents likely pay tithing and they themselves will likely pay tithing on the wages they earn as a result of their education.
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Great comment.
And "smelled a rat" is perfect.
Because we are dealing with rats.
Bruce, if you hit the like and it doesn't turn red, hit the refresh button and then it turns red. There is a delay.
Thanks Polecat. It sucks being old.
I just don't understand why Substack can't fix this glitch! It's really annoying!
It ain't for sissies.
The only IF IтАЩm willing to entertain is that perhaps she mistook something that was said. Not likely IMO but possible.
One of the local stories I read on it stated the mentally challenged individual who was punished has a thing about shots that hit the net. They didn't say what he may have said, but any variation of the word "net" could easily be misheard in a bad way, especially if he has a speech impediment.
Yeah - and when God was parceling out the 'brains' to today's crop of spineless, lazy journalists - they thought He said "train" - so they got out of the way.
Yeah, but the story morphed from one person shouting when she served in the 2nd and 4th periods (directly in front of the BYU student section) to a game-long "racial heckling that grew into threats."
The most charitable read is she heard something she thought was a slur (BYU student section known for addressing visiting players by their first names). Then she told her godmother, a politician with a history of race-baiting, and the harassment in the story escalated with the father and then her statement.
Trapped in a lie that was probably a mis-hearing/misunderstanding to begin with. One that will live on. You still get "Something happened" from a large segment of people on the Duke Lacrosse hoax. And no hoax has been as thoroughly debunked.
Supposedly there was a player named Nicky on the team and that is probably what was misheard. I'm tellin' ya.....if people were blatantly saying the "n" word in 2022, you can believe the game would have been stopped!
This is absurd on its face!
Why hasnтАЩt the accuser come forward to point the finger of the MAGA hat wearing perp?
Ah. Weeeel, there's always that *possibility.* Me? I go by the odds, and I judge them to be decidedly in favor of BYU.
Yeah truthfully IтАЩm virtually sure you are correct but IтАЩm entertaining the possibility some misinterpretation could be at play here.
You could be right, so there is that.
She should get mauled by the media for this. Another Juicy Smuliet.
Question is - will Richardson be expelled from Duke?
You know the answer to that, too.
Imagine if it was the other way around!
A couple of years at my daughter's university a couple (who were students) posted a video of themselves on Insta. One of the couple was a lacrosse player the college. The girlfriend used the "n" word. My daughter shared the video with me and they looked totally high. While the "n" word is totally unacceptable, I was more concerned for the fact that this couple was so high on a Wednesday night. A black student saw it, called it out and they were expelled. Just.Like.That.
We went to see Kevin Hart a few weeks back and there were three comedians prior to him coming out. I have NEVER heard the "n" word more in one hour than I did that night. It was horrible....but there is was over and over and over!
Exactly. If a word is a bad word, a degrading and insulting word, it is so no matter from whose mouth it issues.
Question is "who won the Game"?...gee
She should be shamed for her racism.
Should be expelled, but it never will happen. Member of a protected class
Toxic business model that is lucrative.