https://www.city-journal.org/mit-caves-to-wokeness

"We graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than 50 years ago. MIT was academically rigorous, and it taught us our crafts and the essence of problem-solving, enabling us to thrive in our careers. We owe much to our alma mater and have donated to it regularly.

No more.

The current MIT administration has caved repeatedly to the demands of “wokeness,” treating its students unfairly, compromising the quality of its staff, and damaging the institution and academic freedom at large.

We object to MIT’s politically correct measures, including the firing of its Catholic chaplain. In the early days of the George Floyd protests, before the details of Floyd’s death were clear, Father Daniel Moloney sent a letter outlining his thoughts on the event to the university’s Catholic community. It was a sincere examination of conscience from a person whose job it was to examine conscience, yet it prompted his immediate dismissal. MIT’s leadership apparently took umbrage at his statement of these simple facts: that George Floyd “had not lived a virtuous life” (based on his multiple criminal convictions) and that “most people in the country have framed [Floyd’s death] as an act of racism. I don’t think we know that...."”

Article goes on to describe several other things MIT has done.

https://newbostonpost.com/2020/06/19/her...ired-over/

This is the Chaplain's letter that got him fired. It was a beautiful letter.

I think the best thing I saw this weekend was people were upset that someone defaced a statue of Floyd.

And the person talking about it said well let's look at it like this...

In 2007 he held a woman with a knife to her throat in front of her kid.. How do we know that this isn't her kid that defaced it remembering what happened, and since this is painful for him, much more pain was inflicted to him and his mental well being than any of the people who defaced and tore down Confederate statues, maybe they can let this go or take it down..

Good to see this. Hopefully others follow suit.

(11-08-2021 04:32 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I think the best thing I saw this weekend was people were upset that someone defaced a statue of Floyd.

And the person talking about it said well let's look at it like this...

In 2007 he held a woman with a knife to her throat in front of her kid.. How do we know that this isn't her kid that defaced it remembering what happened, and since this is painful for him, much more pain was inflicted to him and his mental well being than any of the people who defaced and tore down Confederate statues, maybe they can let this go or take it down..

I've not been to a game since my school pulled the BLM helmet sticker stunt. I know a couple of alums that quit donating when the school payed that idiot Eric Holder to speak.

You gotta cut them off to get their attention.

(11-08-2021 06:05 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(11-08-2021 04:32 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I think the best thing I saw this weekend was people were upset that someone defaced a statue of Floyd.

And the person talking about it said well let's look at it like this...

In 2007 he held a woman with a knife to her throat in front of her kid.. How do we know that this isn't her kid that defaced it remembering what happened, and since this is painful for him, much more pain was inflicted to him and his mental well being than any of the people who defaced and tore down Confederate statues, maybe they can let this go or take it down..

I've not been to a game since my school pulled the BLM helmet sticker stunt. I know a couple of alums that quit donating when the school payed that idiot Eric Holder to speak.

You gotta cut them off to get their attention.

I quit attending and stopped my meager support of them at that time also.

(11-08-2021 07:58 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(11-08-2021 06:05 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(11-08-2021 04:32 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I think the best thing I saw this weekend was people were upset that someone defaced a statue of Floyd.

And the person talking about it said well let's look at it like this...

In 2007 he held a woman with a knife to her throat in front of her kid.. How do we know that this isn't her kid that defaced it remembering what happened, and since this is painful for him, much more pain was inflicted to him and his mental well being than any of the people who defaced and tore down Confederate statues, maybe they can let this go or take it down..

I've not been to a game since my school pulled the BLM helmet sticker stunt. I know a couple of alums that quit donating when the school payed that idiot Eric Holder to speak.

You gotta cut them off to get their attention.

I quit attending and stopped my meager support of them at that time also.

And they will tell you they dont need your money then pester the shite out of you for it in the same breath.

(11-08-2021 06:05 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(11-08-2021 04:32 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I think the best thing I saw this weekend was people were upset that someone defaced a statue of Floyd.

And the person talking about it said well let's look at it like this...

In 2007 he held a woman with a knife to her throat in front of her kid.. How do we know that this isn't her kid that defaced it remembering what happened, and since this is painful for him, much more pain was inflicted to him and his mental well being than any of the people who defaced and tore down Confederate statues, maybe they can let this go or take it down..

I've not been to a game since my school pulled the BLM helmet sticker stunt. I know a couple of alums that quit donating when the school payed that idiot Eric Holder to speak.

You gotta cut them off to get their attention.

The only support I give is I'll tune into a game on TV.

(11-08-2021 03:07 PM)bullet Wrote:  https://newbostonpost.com/2020/06/19/her...ired-over/
This is the Chaplain's letter that got him fired. It was a beautiful letter.

That is probably, no certainly, the most balanced thing I've seen written about the incident.

(11-08-2021 06:05 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(11-08-2021 04:32 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I think the best thing I saw this weekend was people were upset that someone defaced a statue of Floyd.

And the person talking about it said well let's look at it like this...

In 2007 he held a woman with a knife to her throat in front of her kid.. How do we know that this isn't her kid that defaced it remembering what happened, and since this is painful for him, much more pain was inflicted to him and his mental well being than any of the people who defaced and tore down Confederate statues, maybe they can let this go or take it down..

I've not been to a game since my school pulled the BLM helmet sticker stunt. I know a couple of alums that quit donating when the school payed that idiot Eric Holder to speak.

You gotta cut them off to get their attention.

That why you a Tulane fan now,