evince (09-09-2018), ThatOwlWoman (09-09-2018)
Also known as saltine U or cracka U
browsing through the school’s poorly designed website:
The school likes to refer to itself as “Hard Work U,” which clearly doesn’t play in the same division as “Ball So Hard U”
No tuition is charged but all students work on campus. Hrmmm, sounds a bit like indentured servitude but, you know, not accruing debt is nice?
There are dedicated sections for “Vocational Education,” “Christian Education,” “Cultural Education,” and “Patriotic Education”
“Patriotic education” apparently doesn’t include honoring a citizen’s right to protest and recognizing that, as a constitutionally-protected right, it is among the most patriotic things you can do.
Surprising absolutely no one, the School of the Ozarks is predominantly white—and by predominantly, I mean 93.6 percent white. As in, mayonnaise strives to be that white-white. But like many other primarily while institutions, the College of the Ozarks managed to corral the six black people who attend the school and strategically place them throughout the website. Because, “Hard Work U,” while shitting on the Constitution, still wants you to know they appreciate diversity. Or something.
Of course, it is the right of every Saltine American to burn the apparel (and apparel contracts) they want to burn. It’s all a form of free speech, it’s all protected, and it’s all within the realm of patriotism to do so. The College of the Ozarks realizes this at least partially, but the larger issue here is how impossibly, stupidly narrow “patriotism” is defined for them (and others like them)—boiling down, essentially, to “honoring” the military, despite the fact that many service members have defended Kaepernick and other athletes’ right to protest.
https://www.theroot.com/college-of-c...l-t-1828919267
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
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evince (09-09-2018), ThatOwlWoman (09-09-2018)
Missouri shares much with Mississippi in terms of imprinting and indoctrination, born and raised there. That part of the state especially.
ThatOwlWoman (09-09-2018)
the root....
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
Guno צְבִי (09-09-2018)
Somebody needs to do something about these bullshit schools.
Guno צְבִי (09-09-2018)
Guno צְבִי (09-09-2018), Leonthecat (09-09-2018), ThatOwlWoman (09-09-2018)
ThatOwlWoman (09-09-2018)
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
evince (09-09-2018)
We lived a bit further north (STL area) and you are absolutely right. One of the things that first struck me when we moved up here to the U.P. is the absence of little fundie churches everywhere. There's one Baptist Church that I know of; the rest are mainstream Protestant flavors like Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian.... and also a couple of Catholic churches. Missouri is infested with thousands of the fundie kind, all of them close to 100% white.
evince (09-09-2018)
Grew up in Cape Girardeau County. It was about 2 hours south of StLou, also on The River, up old US 61, but that's where we went when we "went to town"; the zoo, ball games, the symphony, botanical gardens. Hour and half now that I-55 went in years ago. Yeah Cape Girardeau, me and Rush.
PostmodernProphet (09-09-2018)
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