tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post1298980964118926666..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: WHY WOULD KIDS BELIEVE THAT MUTUAL TOLERANCE WORKS?Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-39024103780904077022015-11-11T14:49:55.781-05:002015-11-11T14:49:55.781-05:00Read this from Terrell Jermaine Starr is a New Yor...Read this from Terrell Jermaine Starr is a New York City-based journalist who writes about U.S. and Russian politics.<br /><br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/11/theres-a-good-reason-protesters-at-the-university-of-missouri-didnt-want-the-media-around/?postshare=8951447260088601Pallihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06610910291627363042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-38443080524669550182015-11-11T03:02:02.525-05:002015-11-11T03:02:02.525-05:00I suppose it's possible to argue the Missouri ...I suppose it's possible to argue the Missouri state university situation as some slurry of representative samplings of blue & red state conditions respectively. But to the extent that might be so, surely it's limited by the fact that the situations at the outer edges are way too far from the center to make relevant contributions to what if any lessons can be drawn.<br /><br />Start with this: most of the student body of a state's large college or university schemes are going to be undergrads. Dropping out is a function of time, so undergrad populations skew younger. These days in particular, well more than a quarter more like a third of all undergrads will be frosh, and over half in one or the other of the frosh and sophomore years. <br /><br />Junior & senior classes are made up of those who are pretty much past all this, maintaining grades, finishing up degrees, heading towards grad school or the job interview grind. Those years really identify more with grad schools & the job market, such as it is.<br /><br />Look, I got out of all that decades ago, but ti seems to me right now it must be scary as shit, scary as at any time since WWII ended, for those in frosh & sophomore years. Despite the superficially 'good', steadily improving employment numbers since the worst of the most immediate aspects of the threat from the financial crises receded, starting in mid-2010, those measures have been against the Bush the Younger pizza-delivery economy. Prospects are definitely not improving for the kinds of jobs their older siblings and parents were able to realistically pursue, and that largely aren't there for them. <br /><br />Crikey, they don't even have a Springsteen to level with them in lament that those jobs "ain't comin' back'.<br /><br />But I don't see how this 'protest' attitude is sustainable. It wasn't so for the Occupy folks, and a much higher percent of them were working class without any job to leave the protests for. The bureaucratic scheme of the college-based American state university scheme compells young undergrad types back to having to attend classse, write papers, sit exams & pass to the next level - & two levels up, they're out of the game regardless & inside some new one.<br /><br />But, again: from the perspective of someone who was there, here's what COULD be happening: heading towards something like 1968, this time with no Nixon but several budding Nixons as bad or worse, surrounded by more whackobirds than ever, and someone on the Dem side who, we don't know yet, could be Humphrey, could be a transformative type, or, as seems most likely, cold be a hollow symbol of suffrage & the otherwise the D party's Calvin Coolidge.<br /><br />And that's a choice of poisons.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-87687760470708709592015-11-10T19:55:25.484-05:002015-11-10T19:55:25.484-05:00It was not even a student, but a professor who act...It was not even a student, but a professor who actually called for "muscle" <br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/11/professor-center-missouri-university-protest-video-offers-sincere-apologiesCajsa Lilliehookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17050320193851949169noreply@blogger.com