Worldwide Israel/Palestine War Protests Thread

[Frank Drebin 5,361]

1 minute ago, closetohumping said:

As a university we are in a weird place. Yes we’re in the south but we aren’t like the sec schools. We align more with the pac schools so I blame espn and deloss for that.  We could’ve saved the pac 

 

 

I think there was heavy interest from the B1G but ou’s academics may have been an issue. 
 

I think the sec was the best business decision but I don’t want to be lumped in with those inbreds.  I’m not sure this was a slam dunk decision for cdc

The SEC and southern schools are getting better. The states are growing.  And the schools are attractive due to weather, better looking women, sports, and happier students with less screeching weirdos with purple hair and pierced septums.  There are all sorts of articles discussing how applications to southern schools have been exploding.  Them staying more open and having less restrictions during Covid was another factor. 

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

Not sure.   Best guess would be northern burbs or highland park?  Maybe garland 

Not HP. Plano or Frisco I think. 

[bolverk 29,105]

3 minutes ago, Mikey4 said:

Absolutely. We should not support racism of any kind.

Right again. My only caution is that your description is pretty vague, and more than once I've seen accusations of racism lightly thrown around based on very thin evidence, such as some loose guilt by association. if people are exhibiting racism, then they should be condemned. But that accusation should be reserved for real cases of racism and not used as a cheap way to dunk on someone who is not personally engaging in racist speech or behavior. If someone writes something we disagree with, but it is not racist, let’s engage with the idea and debate the idea and avoid slandering people with faults accusations.

Oh, I agree, but you should know that the poster I was specifically referencing has a very long history of it and a well-deserved reputation for being a bigot. 

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

23 minutes ago, bolverk said:

How'd that racist frat song you defended go again? Also, didn't you get the banhammer for your transphobic shit against one of our own? Talk about embarrassing. 

I never defended that song. lol. Rather, I was extremely critical of it from the outset. 

Transphobic?  When?  Hilarious. You’re flailing. 

[Mikey4 2,476]

2 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Oh, I agree, but you should know that the poster I was specifically referencing has a very long history of it and a well-deserved reputation for being a bigot. 

OK then, if you're referring to legit racism, then I agree. I couldn't tell what exactly you were referring to.

Edited May 4 by Mikey4

[closetohumping 17,302]

4 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

The SEC and southern schools are getting better. The states are growing.  And the schools are attractive due to weather, better looking women, sports, and happier students with less screeching weirdos with purple hair and pierced septums.  There are all sorts of articles discussing how applications to southern schools have been exploding.  Them staying more open and having less restrictions during Covid was another factor. 

From an academic perspective, they’re getting kids that couldn’t get into Texas.  Fully admit they’re the best football conference.  

[Frank Drebin 5,361]

2 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

From an academic perspective, they’re getting kids that couldn’t get into Texas.  Fully admit they’re the best football conference.  

They’re also getting a lot of really smart kids that 20-30 years ago went to Texas. 

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

Just now, Frank Drebin said:

They’re also getting a lot of really smart kids that 20-30 years ago went to Texas. 

Yep. Particularly UGA and Vandy. Also, a lot are CHOOSING to avoid UT and were accepted. 

[Frank Drebin 5,361]

“Show me your face you fucking pussy.  You see my face.  Show me yours.”

NFL films

 

Edited May 4 by Frank Drebin

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

13 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Oh, I agree, but you should know that the poster I was specifically referencing has a very long history of it and a well-deserved reputation for being a bigot. 

Are you talking about me?  What are you on about?

[Sawbonz 26,904]

8 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

They’re also getting a lot of really smart kids that 20-30 years ago went to Texas. 

Yes that like to call black people monkeys. 

[Sawbonz 26,904]

7 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Yep. Particularly UGA and Vandy. Also, a lot are CHOOSING to avoid UT and were accepted. 

Every kid that went to UGA from my daughter’s school that went to UGA in the past 2 years was not accepted at UT. Not sure about their stance on calling black people monkeys

[Sawbonz 26,904]

Looks like monkey boy has erased all his social media

 

looks like he may be about to go through some things 

[Bevo 13,440]

 

Looks like some Dungeons and Dragons shit.

[bolverk 29,105]

8 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Are you talking about me?  What are you on about?

Not you

[closetohumping 17,302]

14 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Yep. Particularly UGA and Vandy. Also, a lot are CHOOSING to avoid UT and were accepted. 

Why?  Too ethnic?

7 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Every kid that went to UGA from my daughter’s school that went to UGA in the past 2 years was not accepted at UT. Not sure about their stance on calling black people monkeys

Well. Sec?

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

10 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Every kid that went to UGA from my daughter’s school that went to UGA in the past 2 years was not accepted at UT. Not sure about their stance on calling black people monkeys

Anecdotes are fun. HP has a huge UGA pipeline. A lot of those kids got into UT. A gal was accepted to Yale from HP, but not UT. That was 5 years ago. 

Im not saying it’s a political decision to not go there. I think more than that, they’re very accustomed to Austin, because most of all their parents went there, and they want to experience other parts of the country, and most of the people they hang out with in HS are going to UT. 

Making fun of black people as monkeys doesn’t fly, even at Ole Miss, as this guy has already found out. I imagine it is less acceptable in Athens than in Oxford. 

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Not you

You misremembered my OU SAE song thread reference and accused me of supporting it, which I most certainly did not. On the “transphobe” commentary, I’ve never opined other than to show my disdain for Lia Thomas. I otherwise have never commented. 

[Sawbonz 26,904]

31 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

I never defended that song. lol. Rather, I was extremely critical of it from the outset. 

Transphobic?  When?  Hilarious. You’re flailing. 

What’s the racist song you sang?

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

Just now, Sawbonz said:

What’s the racist song you sang?

I’ve never sung it. It was never taught. Nice framing though. 

[Sawbonz 26,904]

Just now, Rex Kramer said:

I’ve never sung it. It was never taught. Nice framing though. 

Someone said you were in a frat that had a racist song is that not true?

[Bevo 13,440]

1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

Anecdotes are fun. HP has a huge UGA pipeline. A lot of those kids got into UT. A gal was accepted to Yale from HP, but not UT. That was 5 years ago. 

Im not saying it’s a political decision to not go there. I think more than that, they’re very accustomed to Austin, because most of all their parents went there, and they want to experience other parts of the country, and most of the people they hang out with in HS are going to UT. 

Making fun of black people as monkeys doesn’t fly, even at Ole Miss, as this guy has already found out. I imagine it is less acceptable in Athens than in Oxford. 

Yeah, the Highland Park, Memorial, Alamo Heights, Churchill students, who were in the top quarter but not top 6% who scored 1250+ on the SAT are looking more at Vandy, North Carolina, Virginia, etc. than they used to.

[closetohumping 17,302]

7 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Anecdotes are fun. HP has a huge UGA pipeline. A lot of those kids got into UT. A gal was accepted to Yale from HP, but not UT. That was 5 years ago. 

Im not saying it’s a political decision to not go there. I think more than that, they’re very accustomed to Austin, because most of all their parents went there, and they want to experience other parts of the country, and most of the people they hang out with in HS are going to UT. 

Making fun of black people as monkeys doesn’t fly, even at Ole Miss, as this guy has already found out. I imagine it is less acceptable in Athens than in Oxford. 

Did the guy find out from the ole miss student body or the Twitter verse?

 

I don’t understand smart affluent kids going to places like ole miss and bama but hey maybe their path is already paved if they’re rich

1 minute ago, Bevo said:

Yeah, the Highland Park, Memorial, Alamo Heights, Churchill students, who were in the top quarter but not top 6% who scored 1250+ on the SAT are looking more at Vandy, North Carolina, Virginia, etc. than they used to.

All three of those schools are more acclaimed than Texas.  Change that 1250 to 1450

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

Someone said you were in a frat that had a racist song is that not true?

There was a thread years ago about OU fraternity guys that were singing a racist song and dropped N bombs on a party bus with dates that was recorded. Like 5 years ago. OU athletes were rightfully incensed and there was a major shitstorm on campus with Bob Stoops involved. The 2 offenders on camera were kicked out of school and their lives ruined. 

I was aware of the song, but not because it was ever taught to us as pledges. It is a song that I imagine every fraternity has in its history as an unsanctioned rogue song. I commented at the time how stupid these kids were. But I guess because of my awareness of the song, I’m racist. 

[Sawbonz 26,904]

1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

every fraternity has in its history as an unsanctioned rogue song.

Including yours?

[Frank Drebin 5,361]

1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

There was a thread years ago about OU fraternity guys that were singing a racist song and dropped N bombs on a party bus with dates that was recorded. Like 5 years ago. OU athletes were rightfully incensed and there was a major shitstorm on campus with Bob Stoops involved. The 2 offenders on camera were kicked out of school and their lives ruined. 

I was aware of the song, but not because it was ever taught to us as pledges. It is a song that I imagine every fraternity has in its history as an unsanctioned rogue song. I commented at the time how stupid these kids were. But I guess because of my awareness of the song, I’m racist. 

Just about anything you say to these fools will be called racist.  Me effectively quoting Robert Byrd dropping an N bomb on CNN was racist to those dipshits.  Despite other people on their team using the N bomb in similar type quotes.  These are not serious people and should be ignored.  

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

4 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Yeah, the Highland Park, Memorial, Alamo Heights, Churchill students, who were in the top quarter but not top 6% who scored 1250+ on the SAT are looking more at Vandy, North Carolina, Virginia, etc. than they used to.

My daughter will be top 6% at HP (probably). She is considering UT but has a much higher affinity for UNC and UVA. She wants to get out of the state for a bit. But she’d go to UT, and her mind will change a few times between now and application time. For a time she was obsessed with UGA. 

Im just grateful she’s off private schools like Vandy and TCU. Shes quit sports to focus on drill team, except track. But I don’t see her getting a track scholarship. 

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

Including yours?

Unsanctioned, and every fraternity. So of the hundreds of active members or hangers-on, you’re gonna have a wayward former member that’ll teach impressionable freshmen.  We were exposed and shook our heads and I didn’t think about it until 20 years later when that video surfaced. 

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

3 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

Just about anything you say to these fools will be called racist.  Me effectively quoting Robert Byrd dropping an N bomb on CNN was racist to those dipshits.  Despite other people on their team using the N bomb in similar type quotes.  These are not serious people and should be ignored.  

I’m aware. I’m playing along for the inevitable racist accusation. They think they’re probing my defenses now.  

[Sawbonz 26,904]

1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

Unsanctioned, and every fraternity. So of the hundreds of active members or hangers-on, you’re gonna have a wayward former member that’ll teach impressionable freshmen.  We were exposed and shook our heads and I didn’t think about it until 20 years later when that video surfaced. 

So your actives didn’t make your pledge class sing that song or one very similar?

[Sawbonz 26,904]

7 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

Just about anything you say to these fools will be called racist.  Me effectively quoting Robert Byrd dropping an N bomb on CNN was racist to those dipshits.  Despite other people on their team using the N bomb in similar type quotes.  These are not serious people and should be ignored.  

I don’t think quoting someone using the N word is racist. I firmly believe you are racist based on your posting history. 
 

Also why did you feel the need to change your handle?
 

 

Edited May 4 by Sawbonz

[SaucyJack 3,473]

55 minutes ago, Bevo said:

It's el dia antes del cinco de Mayo.

 

may the fourth be with you

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

Just now, Sawbonz said:

So your actives didn’t make your pledge class sing that song or one very similar?

Absolutely not. Our actives made us drink and played Human Galaga whilst pegging us with tennis balls and when we “died” we had to shake on the ground like in the video game. 

If we were ever caught singing that song in public, there would be hell to pay at the next pledge meeting and the offender would be kicked out of the fraternity. 

[Frank Drebin 5,361]

1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

I don’t think quoting someone using the N word is racist. I firmly believe you are racist based on your posting history. 

Great. I don’t care.  You and your ilk think a lot of stupid shit.  

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

I don’t think quoting someone using the N word is racist. I firmly believe you are racist based on your posting history. 

Examples of Frank Drebin’s racist posting history?

[Sawbonz 26,904]

Just now, Rex Kramer said:

If we were ever caught singing that song in public

Oh I don’t mean in public. I’m positive that would be strongly condemned 

[Sawbonz 26,904]

4 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

Great. I don’t care.  You and your ilk think a lot of stupid shit.  

Why did you change your handle?

3 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Examples of Frank Drebin’s racist posting history?

lol search Johnny Sack and have at it

 

also interesting that someone with multiple handles is defending someone with multiple handles

Edited May 4 by Sawbonz

[hookemATL 11,510]

Didn’t he change his username bc it became synonymous with being a racist cunt?  That’s the move of a weak minded pussy, which many racists happen to be. 

Edited May 4 by hookemATL
Apologies if it was the woke mob’s fault.

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

3 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Oh I don’t mean in public. I’m positive that would be strongly condemned 

It wasn’t at OU. Nobody attempted to stop the drunken idiots from singing and there were many more including girls that were singing that weren’t on camera. If any drunken idiot tried to start up that song, it would’ve been stopped quickly with force if need be. 

No, we never fired up a choir sesh with that song, were asked to, or were required to do so. 

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

2 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Didn’t he change his username bc it became synonymous with being a racist cunt?  That’s the move of a weak minded pussy, which many racists happen to be. 

I’m sure John Sacrimone said some heinous shit on The Sopranos, but I’m hardly gonna fault Frank Drebin for it. 

[Sawbonz 26,904]

1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

It wasn’t at OU. Nobody attempted to stop the drunken idiots from singing and there were many more including girls that were singing that weren’t on camera. If any drunken idiot tried to start up that song, it would’ve been stopped quickly with force if need be. 

No, we never fired up a choir sesh with that song, were asked to, or were required to do so. 

20 years ago shit like that wouldn’t have been caught on camera

[Deej 76,219]

19 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

We aren't collaborating with conference mates for poetry slams

[Sbbruin 21,588]

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

20 years ago shit like that wouldn’t have been caught on camera

Well it was between 24 and 28 years ago, I’m aware there were no camera phones, and you’ll just have to take my word for it that nobody did shit like that. We were too busy getting drunk and ass. 

[Sawbonz 26,904]

Just now, Rex Kramer said:

Well it was between 24 and 28 years ago, I’m aware there were no camera phones, and you’ll just have to take my word for it that nobody did shit like that. We were too busy getting drunk and ass. 

Were you at UT 28 years ago?

[Deej 76,219]

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

You'd get no argument from me. Can we extend it to folks who shout Islamophobic shit, too?

Or how about we be consistent by also calling out posters on this board who like to dip their toes in the hate pool with not-so-playful "jokes" so that we, as an online community, don't start resembling the racist idiots on SECrant and Texags? I mean, The University of Texas is supposed to set a higher standard, right?

The difference between us and those boards is people will call them out here. 

Edited May 4 by Deej

[bolverk 29,105]

Some actual news:

A weekend of graduations begins with a disruption at Michigan.

Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly interrupted a graduation ceremony at the University of Michigan on Saturday, as universities holding commencements braced for more tensions generated over the war in Gaza.

Dozens of pro-Palestinian supporters in kaffiyeh and graduation caps could be seen unfurling and holding up Palestinian flags in the aisles of the ceremony at Michigan Stadium, as a speaker invoked the school’s “Go Blue” slogan. Protesters marched down the center aisle toward the stage, chanting: “Regents, regents, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!”

One person in the audience could be heard yelling back, “You’re ruining our graduation!” Some patrons sitting in private boxes hung Israeli flags from their seats, as university police blocked the protesters from moving closer to the stage and pushed them toward a section in the back of the venue.

Overhead, a plane flying the message “divest from Israel now! Free Palestine!” circled the stadium. Another plane with a banner offered a different message: “We stand with Israel. Jewish lives matter.”

The university in Ann Arbor is just one of many schools that have wrestled with how to handle student protests in recent weeks. They include Indiana University Bloomington, Northeastern University and Ohio State University, which are also set to hold graduation ceremonies this weekend.

At Ohio State, 38 people have been arrested, according to a tally by The Times. At Indiana University, 57, and at Northeastern University, 98.

The turmoil has added another complicated layer to graduation for students, many of whom had their high school senior-year celebrations abruptly cut short by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

Universities have tried to ensure against major disruptions. Some schools plan to set up designated areas for protests, in a bid to allow the ceremonies to go forward without quashing free speech.

And some schools — like Northeastern’s ceremony at Fenway Park — are adhering to strict rules limiting what can be brought inside the large ceremony venues. (Many graduation venues already had limitations in place long before the protests.)

The University of Michigan trained volunteers working at the school’s 54 ceremonies on “how to manage disruptions.”

“This might include asking someone to relocate a sign or to otherwise stop ongoing disruptive behavior,” said Colleen Mastony, a spokeswoman for the University of Michigan. She added, “Our goal is to support a successful and celebratory event.”

On Friday evening, a person not affiliated with the university was arrested after around 200 people gathered outside the University of Michigan Museum of Art to protest a dinner for recipients of honorary degrees, a spokeswoman for the university police department said.

At least two schools have altered their graduation ceremonies in light of the ongoing protests. The University of Vermont announced on Friday that Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, would no longer deliver a commencement address scheduled for later this month.

And the University of Southern California canceled its valedictorian’s commencement speech and appearances by celebrity speakers, then canceled its “main stage” commencement ceremony altogether, citing the possibility of disruptions. On Friday, the university announced a “Trojan Family Graduate Celebration” in the famed Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for graduates to attend instead.

Over the last academic year, schools across the country have met the protests of thousands of students in different ways: Some administrations have negotiated with demonstrators over their demands, while others have called in the police.

While many protests have stopped short of physical confrontations, clashes have included the occupation of a university hall at Columbia University, vulgar and racist taunts hurled by white students at protesters at the University of Mississippi and a violent attack by pro-Israel counterprotesters at the University of California, Los Angeles.

[Rex Kramer 1,240]

5 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Were you at UT 28 years ago?

Your mom was at UT 28 years ago

[Sawbonz 26,904]

Just now, Rex Kramer said:

Your mom was at UT 28 years ago

No but I was. How about you?

[HornOnTheBayou 8,858]

1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

The SEC and southern schools are getting better. The states are growing.  And the schools are attractive due to weather, better looking women, sports, and happier students with less screeching weirdos with purple hair and pierced septums.  There are all sorts of articles discussing how applications to southern schools have been exploding.  Them staying more open and having less restrictions during Covid was another factor. 

You think high schoolers are choosing where to go to college based on which states had fewer Covid protections? That's asinine.