Its not a bad idea really. But I seriously doubt those companies have enough assets to reimburse all the viewers of that drek for what they went through. Still, LionsGate's shouldn't have to be the ones paying all those pain and suffering costs, because they weren't the ones who leaked it.
And of course nobody was stupid enough to pay for Expendables 3 in theaters, so LG is off the hook there.
Pirates, next time please be responsible.
So-called "civilized discourse" is some of the blandest, boring, mind-numbing conversation there is.
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I mean, that is the South, home to the KKK
Historically a bit inaccurate. Oklahoma is not in "the South"
...and now it turns out that everyone identified in that video (so far at least) actually hails from Texas. Dallas, to be specific.
They vowed that African-Americans will "never" be allowed to join the campus chapter, and they stayed true to that vow by getting the chapter closed down.
Unless the chapter gets reopened as a primarily African-American chapter. Easy for me to come up with ideas for others to implement, but if it were me running that frat national, that would be my goal. The Schadenfreude Sunday isn't complete until you put the cherry on top.
I mean, that is the South, home to the KKK
Historically a bit inaccurate. Oklahoma is not in "the South" (not that I blame you. People can never decide how to categorize us, so they usually end up doing it based on argumentative convenience). Oklahoma was not a state during the Civil War, and contained very few "white" people at the time. The eastern half of the state is heavily Native and African American, and even petitioned to join the union as a "colored" state at the beginning of the 20th Century. Also, the KKK is not unknown in the state, but was rarely a big player. It has been much more active in Indiana (a "midwestern" state), than in Oklahoma.
I say this for two reasons: 1) College is supposed to be a place where all viewpoints and ideas are explored - even the ugly and stupid ones. Freedom of speech should hold highest priority in such a place. 2) The video (and anything like it) can serve as an example to point at and instruct against; a competent prof can debate the racist activity into the dirt, in a setting that educates everyone else, and (hopefully) teaches the racists in question along the way.
I can see this point. The problem it runs up against in reality is that there's a history of (and likely some extant) racism in both the university and fraternal order involved. So any hint of condoning this behavior opens both organizations to the same kind of intense scrutiny that was about to fall upon the kids in the video.
So the choices were essentially to admit that the entire system this one frat has been living under has been condoning this kind of thing since integration, or to come down on the folks caught in the video like a ton of bricks, and pretend they are freakish monsters that somehow escaped notice until now. Guess which is going to happen, every time?
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