[saturn_656]

andyt andyt:

Thing is, how can anybody in university be that dense that they don't understand this will just blow back on them?

You're assuming people in university are universally more intelligent than the rest of us.

Not true.

[andyt]

I"m assuming it takes above average intelligence to get the grades to get into uni, and people who go to uni weren't reared in the backwoods where they have no understanding of modern norms. Sure, the outrage is stupid, but that's the way the cookie crumbles these days. Especially in uni. Is Regina U some spatial hick place or what?

[Jabberwalker]

Saskaphobia!!!

This sort of anti-Saskatchewan bigotry shouldn't be allowed!

[andyt]

You're right. But I was only talking about the white ones.

[Jabberwalker]

... didn't say "stubble jumper" even once ...

[Hyack]

What were they thinking??

[saturn_656]

andyt andyt:

I"m assuming it takes above average intelligence to get the grades to get into uni, and people who go to uni weren't reared in the backwoods where they have no understanding of modern norms. Sure, the outrage is stupid, but that's the way the cookie crumbles these days. Especially in uni. Is Regina U some spatial hick place or what?

Just because you can absorb and regurgitate information on demand doesn't mean you are smart, just that you have good recall.

Also I won't participate in pillorying those women, they've already been hooped enough by their school.

Did the president at least speak with her students, investigate the matter, before releasing her scathing public media statement about them?

Thrown. Under. The. Bus.

This is not professional. Am I impressed with the cheerleaders? Nope. However I'm even less impressed with the University.

[andyt]

I don't have a problem with people dressing up as cowboys and Indians, but people in uni should be culturally clued in enough that it just wont' fly.

[Jabberwalker]

They're just kids ... having fun while away from home for the first time. It's not as if they are making fun of people's national dress while they're attending the General Assembly of the U.N.

A grip should be got by all.

[andyt]

Nope, they shouldn't be that out of touch.

I don't blame the admin. Get in front of it, grovel, order sensitivity training and hope that's as far as it goes. You can't win in this situation, just make things worse if you try to hold firm. Maybe one day Canada will get beyond this white guilt bullshit, but not today.

[ShepherdsDog]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

andyt andyt:

I"m assuming it takes above average intelligence to get the grades to get into uni, and people who go to uni weren't reared in the backwoods where they have no understanding of modern norms. Sure, the outrage is stupid, but that's the way the cookie crumbles these days. Especially in uni. Is Regina U some spatial hick place or what?

Just because you can absorb and regurgitate information on demand doesn't mean you are smart, just that you have good recall.

Also I won't participate in pillorying those women, they've already been hooped enough by their school.

Did the president at least speak with her students, investigate the matter, before releasing her scathing public media statement about them?

Thrown. Under. The. Bus.

This is not professional. Am I impressed with the cheerleaders? Nope. However I'm even less impressed with the University.

the interesting thing is U of R had or has a reputation as being left leaning even amongst other universities

[saturn_656]

My kids are quite a ways off from university level schooling, but the U of R is definitely not somewhere I would send them.

Not because of the cheerleaders, either.

[Freakinoldguy]

The military gave me sensitivity training and look how well it worked for me.

Sensitivity training is the biggest load of politically correct crap ever invented and TBH I'm sick and tired of the apologists telling me how or what I should think lest it insult someone who doesn't consider my thoughts or statements insulting.

[saturn_656]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

The military gave me sensitivity training and look how well it worked for me.

It only works if you pay attention.

[fifeboy]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

The military gave me sensitivity training and look how well it worked for me.

Sensitivity training is the biggest load of politically correct crap ever invented and TBH I'm sick and tired of the apologists telling me how or what I should think lest it insult someone who doesn't consider my thoughts or statements insulting.

In the military, that large Guy of African descent is also carrying a gun.