UNLIMITED Arizona Hilarity thread

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The policy was proposed by the student council, FWIW. Campus is a hate-free zone, with the idea being that all students have the right to pursue an education in a respectful environment, regardless of their age, gender, appearance, disability, etc.

I quite like it. There are plenty of places where people can go to be complete shitnecks to other people, including any public sidewalk. It's a nice refuge from a shitty shitty world. The fact that I don't have to deal with hatred or harassment from people like this guy while I'm trying to learn means a lot to me.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wow, at my school he would have been expelled.

While he's an unmitigated shithead, I don't agree with that, on the grounds of free speech applying even to demented waterheads.

Besides, he's a caricature, a joke.  He's turning the rape culture into the sort of thing you'd see in a dunk tank.

It falls under our general harassment and hate speech policy, which we agree to when we apply to be students there.

Personally, as a woman I really appreciate how much more pleasant it is to walk around on campus than it is to walk down a city sidewalk. No catcalls, no inappropriate comments about my body or my clothes. It's kind of nice to feel safe.

I have precisely zero argument with any of that, on account of the bolded section.

I just get all jittery when people get silenced, no matter what kind of shitheels they are.  In the case of your school, though, there is a condition agreed to upon enrollment, which is a different situation, as it is voluntary.

Yeah, and it's not just passively voluntary, but something students asked for.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The policy was proposed by the student council, FWIW. Campus is a hate-free zone, with the idea being that all students have the right to pursue an education in a respectful environment, regardless of their age, gender, appearance, disability, etc.

I quite like it. There are plenty of places where people can go to be complete shitnecks to other people, including any public sidewalk. It's a nice refuge from a shitty shitty world. The fact that I don't have to deal with hatred or harassment from people like this guy while I'm trying to learn means a lot to me.

I can agree whole-heartedly with that, because sometimes (like when you're going to take a test, etc), you don't want to deal with some loudmouth asshole out to show you a thing or two.

In Arizona, though, they frown on that sort of thing on campuses.  Telling professors what they can and cannot say is oki doki, but stopping some whackjob from harassing people is dangerously liberal.

I am in favor of said shitheads being allowed to jabber in public areas, though, on principle.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yeah, and it's not just passively voluntary, but something students asked for.

The right I support is simply that you can't be arrested for speaking your mind in public areas. 

Again, different thing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The policy was proposed by the student council, FWIW. Campus is a hate-free zone, with the idea being that all students have the right to pursue an education in a respectful environment, regardless of their age, gender, appearance, disability, etc.

I quite like it. There are plenty of places where people can go to be complete shitnecks to other people, including any public sidewalk. It's a nice refuge from a shitty shitty world. The fact that I don't have to deal with hatred or harassment from people like this guy while I'm trying to learn means a lot to me.

I can agree whole-heartedly with that, because sometimes (like when you're going to take a test, etc), you don't want to deal with some loudmouth asshole out to show you a thing or two.

In Arizona, though, they frown on that sort of thing on campuses.  Telling professors what they can and cannot say is oki doki, but stopping some whackjob from harassing people is dangerously liberal.

I am in favor of said shitheads being allowed to jabber in public areas, though, on principle.

Oh, Arizona! 

[Cain]

Interesting to note that "Brother Jed" has a symbiotic relationship with the Arizona atheist and skeptics:

His visits often mark the year's highest recruitment times for local Atheist and Skeptics groups. Many  milk the opportunity by hosting Brother Jed Bingo.  In these games, listeners are given bingo cards with words on it that regularly appear in his narrative and those who fill their cards out first win a prize.

Seems to be seeking negative attention.  Especially given he is OK with having his picture taken while holding a copy of a 1928 book called Nigger to Nigger

[Doktor Howl]

STATE IS BROKE?  WHAT DO?

Oh, yeah.

http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2013/06/10/arizona-lawmakers-to-review-prison-expansion-project/

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

STATE IS BROKE?  WHAT DO?

Oh, yeah.

http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2013/06/10/arizona-lawmakers-to-review-prison-expansion-project/

FUCKING FUCK.

[Doktor Howl]

STATE IS BROKE?  WHAT DO?

Oh, yeah.

http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2013/06/10/arizona-lawmakers-to-review-prison-expansion-project/

FUCKING FUCK.

$500,000,000 to build 500 bed facility.  Schools closing.  Amurrika.
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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

STATE IS BROKE?  WHAT DO?

Oh, yeah.

http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2013/06/10/arizona-lawmakers-to-review-prison-expansion-project/

FUCKING FUCK.

$500,000,000 to build 500 bed facility.  Schools closing.  Amurrika.
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Well, they're going to need somewhere to put all those unemployed kids.

[Junkenstein]

Mailbags won't sew themselves.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Seems like you guys are hell bent on making Escape from New York a real thing

[Doktor Howl]

Seems like you guys are hell bent on making Escape from New York a real thing

That movie was so optimistic that it makes me puke.

It's turning into Brazil up in this shit.  I mean the movie, not that country next to Mexico.

[Doktor Howl]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/17/19003391-supreme-court-strikes-down-arizona-law-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-to-vote?lite