Are you F'ing kidding me......

[bonefish1]

At first I thought this was a joke and something out of The Onion. Then I went on the PU student government website and sure enough, there it was.....

Are you F'ing kidding me! You don't like the results of a democratic election and are so traumatized that you can't attend class or complete your assignments? Jesus H Christ.....

Seriously Purdue students, this is an embarrassment. I hope Mitch comes down on these crybabies like Gunnery Sgt Hartman on his platoon in Full Metal Jacket.

Just wait until you're in the real world and nobody's going to care that you're a special snowflake. You're going to learn life's lesson's the hard way when you hear "YOU'RE FIRED!"

 

[JohnnyDoeBoiler]

At first I thought this was a joke and something out of The Onion. Then I went on the PU student government website and sure enough, there it was.....

Are you F'ing kidding me! You don't like the results of a democratic election and are so traumatized that you can't attend class or complete your assignments? Jesus H Christ.....

Seriously Purdue students, this is an embarrassment. I hope Mitch comes down on these crybabies like Gunnery Sgt Hartman on his platoon in Full Metal Jacket.

Just wait until you're in the real world and nobody's going to care that you're a special snowflake. You're going to learn life's lesson's the hard way when you hear "YOU'RE FIRED!"

Or keep the political drivel off the post page and take it to the general discussion board....it was nice coming here to read and discuss Purdue sports when every post on Facebook and other online media has been about the election. Let's keep it that way, please.

 

[bonefish1]

Or keep the political drivel off the post page and take it to the general discussion board....it was nice coming here to read and discuss Purdue sports when every post on Facebook and other online media has been about the election. Let's keep it that way, please.

a lot more people read the basketball forum than the general discussion board.
What's your opinion of this reaction from some students?

 

[tjreese]

At first I thought this was a joke and something out of The Onion. Then I went on the PU student government website and sure enough, there it was.....

Are you F'ing kidding me! You don't like the results of a democratic election and are so traumatized that you can't attend class or complete your assignments? Jesus H Christ.....

Seriously Purdue students, this is an embarrassment. I hope Mitch comes down on these crybabies like Gunnery Sgt Hartman on his platoon in Full Metal Jacket.

Just wait until you're in the real world and nobody's going to care that you're a special snowflake. You're going to learn life's lesson's the hard way when you hear "YOU'RE FIRED!"

probably just kids trying to take advantage of the situation and wishful their plea might find mr or mrs or.... stupid. This is Purdue and they should be in tough enough coursework they are already harden...to a degree. The child-centered k-12 schools invading college. These kids have little to no real life expereinces outside the pablum fed in school..no historical basis to promote a reality in his or her life. In some ways we were like them...without all the coddling years ago. It is my hope that the Purdue students really aren't shell shocked, but instead trying to play on the possibility of stupidity at play and just get a free pass out of class. My how things have changed...

 

[bonefish1]

probably just kids trying to take advantage of the situation and wishful their plea might find mr or mrs or.... stupid. This is Purdue and they should be in tough enough coursework they are already harden...to a degree. The child-centered k-12 schools invading college. These kids have little to no real life expereinces outside the pablum fed in school..no historical basis to promote a reality in his or her life. In some ways we were like them...without all the coddling years ago. It is my hope that the Purdue students really aren't shell shocked, but instead trying to play on the possibility of stupidity at play and just get a free pass out of class. My how things have changed...

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I would think that President Mitch would have little to no tolerance for this kind of nonsense.

 

[BoilerMaker P]

That letter was being mocked all over twitter yesterday. Not exactly a proud moment for Purdue students or alumni.

 

[boilerzz]

That letter was being mocked all over twitter yesterday. Not exactly a proud moment for Purdue students or alumni.

It originated at a school out east and made the rounds to probably all major universities in the nation.

 

[TC4THREE]

I'm sure you would've had this same letter if the election had gone the other way.

 

[bonefish1]

I'm sure you would've had this same letter if the election had gone the other way.

I highly doubt it. I also highly doubt that you would see rioting in the streets, destruction of property, beatings, etc had Clinton won.

It's the same reason you didn't have Trump supporters disrupting Clinton rallies.

 

[FLAG HUNTER]

Was baby powder and diapers included with the letter

 

[TC4THREE]

I highly doubt it. I also highly doubt that you would see rioting in the streets, destruction of property, beatings, etc had Clinton won.

It's the same reason you didn't have Trump supporters disrupting Clinton rallies.

I was being sarcastic. There's a very clear double standard. I felt disgusted after the 2008 and 2012 elections but I went to work the next day because employers generally expect people to deal with petty crap on their own time. Remarkably, I didn't even need a safe space in the office to get through it.

 

[BoilerDaddy]

I'm sure you would've had this same letter if the election had gone the other way.

I don't think so. This reaction is real. There are a lot of young people and minorities, in particular, who feel shocked, scared, and devastated by this.

That said, if I were a college professor I would continue to expect students to keep up with their work because I think that we do young people a disservice when we coddle them. College should be about preparing them for the realities of the real world.

Edit: your sarcasm is acknowledged.

 

[St_Peter]

I don't think so. This reaction is real. There are a lot of young people and minorities, in particular, who feel shocked, scared, and devastated by this.

That said, if I were a college professor I would continue to expect students to keep up with their work because I think that we do young people a disservice when we coddle them. College should be about preparing them for the realities of the real world.

Edit: your sarcasm is acknowledged.

I appreciate that they feel scared about the election but is it because they fear what their fellow Millennials are going to do in the riots?

 

[dwhitebash11]

I appreciate that they feel scared about the election but is it because they fear what their fellow Millennials are going to do in the riots?

Or it's that they're afraid they're actually going to have to work for a living minus all the free handouts and participation trophies... I understand PU students are typically very successful, but for some reason they are very uninformed about politics. They call Trump someone who has committed sexual assault (without any proof), someone who is racist (without any proof), someone who hates immigrants (without any proof), all because the liberal mainstream media shoves it down their throats and they believe it rather than researching it themselves. Trump was only accused of sexual assault 40 years after the allegations happening, ironically weeks before the election (possible Hilary paid accuser?), accused of racism and hating immigrants because he wants to stop ILLEGAL immigrants from entering this country?


Call me crazy, but I'd rather give the $70,000+ in benefits to out veterans than an illegal immigrant who has done nothing for this country.



On another note......BOILER UP! 7pm tonight we finally have something to be excited for surrounding Purdue sports!

 

[bonefish1]

I was being sarcastic. There's a very clear double standard. I felt disgusted after the 2008 and 2012 elections but I went to work the next day because employers generally expect people to deal with petty crap on their own time. Remarkably, I didn't even need a safe space in the office to get through it.

My bad. Sometimes sarcasm is hard to read on the interweb.

But, you should definitely protest at your employers office because they don't provide a safe space for you. That's absolute bull$shit. I mean, seriously, how does your employer expect you to be productive when you have to deal with the all the microaggressions you're subjected to on a daily basis?

 

[New Pal Boiler]

I'm sure you would've had this same letter if the election had gone the other way.

And equally gigantic scumbag got elected while I was at Purdue. I got up and went to class the next day.

 

[rezzerfly]

Oh, I don't know..maybe things like this are cause for concern for some students?

http://blogs.babson.edu/news/2016/1...ing-concerning-incident-at-wellesley-college/

 

[Boiler_HD]

I'm sorry but this should be left off the basketball forums, but since you guys have decided to mock this, let me inform you of some general information. I am a white male privileged graduate student here at Purdue, the reason I have no issues with this letter is how do you explain to your minority friends sitting directly next to you, also in graduate school, that they may have their Visas revoked and lives work flushed down the toilet.

Tell me that isn't a tough pill to swallow. This result goes much further than people being upset, this has potential to change peoples lives for the worst.

 

[ChuckJr]

If they are here legally that isn't happening. Fear mongering by the socialist media fuels these fears with no basis in fact. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

 

[mathboy]

I'm sorry but this should be left off the basketball forums, but since you guys have decided to mock this, let me inform you of some general information. I am a white male privileged graduate student here at Purdue, the reason I have no issues with this letter is how do you explain to your minority friends sitting directly next to you, also in graduate school, that they may have their Visas revoked and lives work flushed down the toilet.

Tell me that isn't a tough pill to swallow. This result goes much further than people being upset, this has potential to change peoples lives for the worst.

I got to ask WTF are you talking about? Students with visas are in this country legally. Why would they be deported? Have they committed criminal acts? I think Trump was very specific about illegal aliens who have committed crimes being the target of deportation.

Maybe it was inconvenient to really listen to what each of the candidates really said. It is much easier to lump everyone into two piles and label them by the worst in each. I see both sides doing this, and I think it is just being lazy, if not stupid.

 

[boilerzz]

I am a white male privileged graduate student here at Purdue, the reason I have no issues with this letter is how do you explain to your minority friends sitting directly next to you, also in graduate school, that they may have their Visas revoked and lives work flushed down the toilet.

What makes you think they'll have their visas revoked?

 

[TC4THREE]

I am a white male privileged graduate student here at Purdue

That's redundant. Of course you are privileged if you are a white male. That's very impressive for you to be so self-aware though. Congrats!

 

[BoilerDaddy]

I got to ask WTF are you talking about? Students with visas are in this country legally. Why would they be deported? Have they committed criminal acts? I think Trump was very specific about illegal aliens who have committed crimes being the target of deportation.

Maybe it was inconvenient to really listen to what each of the candidates really said. It is much easier to lump everyone into two piles and label them by the worst in each. I see both sides doing this, and I think it is just being lazy, if not stupid.

There are two sides to this and neither side seems to do a very good job of trying to understand the other, IMO. The polarization in this country right now is concerning. I know people on either side of this debate who are so convinced that they are right, that they can't talk to or about the opposite POV without being condescending.

 

[tjreese]

I would think that President Mitch would have little to no tolerance for this kind of nonsense.

I HOPE YOU ARE CORRECT AND DO BELIEVE HE WOULD HAVE NO TOLERANCE! I'm also surprised with the obvious propoganda in the media that people are not cynical enough when reading or watching the media. Assuming some of you are old enough to remember Watergate...think about the fallout then and what we see today much, much more corrupt....and to think we only thought the basketball players of today were pampered. Instead, we find it is spread across many youth. So, is it the water we now drink, the oxygen we breath or the "child-centered" schools and media...or? Pardon my french, but what a bunch of candy asses. Course this is coming from a guy that believes the most important thing to be learned in sports is mental toughness.

 

[proudopete]

Good grief. This is the first election cycle for many of these kids and they are of course like kids before them, still learning.
This nation was built on protest by protestors so I am pretty sure this isn't a situation that describes just the youth of today or even just young people.

I'm 50 years old and hope I never reach an age when I forget what it was like to transition from childhood into adulthood or act as if somehow my generation didn't so some bizarre crap while doing so.

I do find it funny how some are blaming the media for creating a division while obviously being angry about a situation being played out in the media.

 

[Boiler_HD]

I got to ask WTF are you talking about? Students with visas are in this country legally. Why would they be deported? Have they committed criminal acts? I think Trump was very specific about illegal aliens who have committed crimes being the target of deportation.

Maybe it was inconvenient to really listen to what each of the candidates really said. It is much easier to lump everyone into two piles and label them by the worst in each. I see both sides doing this, and I think it is just being lazy, if not stupid.

You can read up on J-1 Visas and Trump. I will not go into detail here.

 

[tjreese]

Good grief. This is the first election cycle for many of these kids and they are of course like kids before them, still learning.
This nation was built on protest by protestors so I am pretty sure this isn't a situation that describes just the youth of today or even just young people.

I'm 50 years old and hope I never reach an age when I forget what it was like to transition from childhood into adulthood or act as if somehow my generation didn't so some bizarre crap while doing so.

I do find it funny how some are blaming the media for creating a division while obviously being angry about a situation being played out in the media.

I have been busy packing and getting ready for the game and so I wasn't aware of people being against protests on this board. I have no issues with protesting at all. I do think puerile protest are embarrassing to the univeristy though. There are real issues that are huge...implications now and down the road that are NOT opinionated...like the debt that will affect all of the students. I don't think anyone thinks that is not a real problem do they? I was aware that some ..me included thought the fret, the panic, may not be warranted. If Purdue were to allow destruction, then that goes farther than a protest and that should be dealt with. I do however think Purdue..perhaps being a science school should have a little more maturity than that found in the liberal art schools where some never grow up spending much of their lives contemplating their navels...like a niece or so in my family that went to Northwestern... Is there a reliable basis for hysteria or are we hearing sounds in a dark bedroom? I am one that does think the media (and as shown several times before) does have a bias and does in fact create a lot of the panic. Still, I can live with some embarrassment, but don't think any destruction of taxpayer property should be tolerated and none of that is to imply that it has.

Okay, basketball board. Purdue is short handed, but shouldn't have a problem. This allows Carsen perhaps even more time to get his feet wet. If for some reason Haas and Swanigan are on the bench for some duration together...and Mr adversary says hello, it will be met with poise, maturity and mental toughness.

 

[Casey and his Brother]

http://www.fox4news.com/news/216906175-story

The snowflakes are melting.

 

[tjreese]

I have been busy packing and getting ready for the game and so I wasn't aware of people being against protests on this board. I have no issues with protesting at all. I do think puerile protest are embarrassing to the univeristy though. There are real issues that are huge...implications now and down the road that are NOT opinionated...like the debt that will affect all of the students. I don't think anyone thinks that is not a real problem do they? I was aware that some ..me included thought the fret, the panic, may not be warranted. If Purdue were to allow destruction, then that goes farther than a protest and that should be dealt with. I do however think Purdue..perhaps being a science school should have a little more maturity than that found in the liberal art schools where some never grow up spending much of their lives contemplating their navels...like a niece or so in my family that went to Northwestern... Is there a reliable basis for hysteria or are we hearing sounds in a dark bedroom? I am one that does think the media (and as shown several times before) does have a bias and does in fact create a lot of the panic. Still, I can live with some embarrassment, but don't think any destruction of taxpayer property should be tolerated and none of that is to imply that it has.

Okay, basketball board. Purdue is short handed, but shouldn't have a problem. This allows Carsen perhaps even more time to get his feet wet. If for some reason Haas and Swanigan are on the bench for some duration together...and Mr adversary says hello, it will be met with poise, maturity and mental toughness.

This is a voice text so I hope it comes out okay one point of Interest I think relative to this is the subject material that was going to be protested we're looking at an imaginary situation that may or may not become real down the road and yet that protest takes preference over a real problem such as the debt that is not imaginary that is real we have a protest is something that may or may not be real and we don't protest a huge issue that is real I wonder why and is this the intellectual comparisons we expect from Purdue

 

[dwhitebash11]

That's redundant. Of course you are privileged if you are a white male. That's very impressive for you to be so self-aware though. Congrats!

To add to this, what the hell is a white privileged male? That term irks me. IMO, a white privileged male is one who busts their ass for their paycheck, just to bring home half of what their gross is, while the other half gets taken by the government to assist the "non-privileged white male", who gets to sit home all day, possibly smoke some weed, commit some crimes, and complain about how difficult their lives are....

white privileged male... gtfo... These lazy pieces of SH** (whom by the way come in all shapes, sizes, genders, and color) are afraid they're going to have to actually WORK for a living, contribute to the American society, or worse, GET DRUG TESTED while being on welfare... How the hell is one going to live life on welfare if he can't do drugs... Or if their EBT card doesn't allow steaks, hamburgers, little debbies, potato chips... What happens if they only get milk, eggs, cheese, bread, potatoes? Life MUST be tough...

Poor, innocent, unprivileged people...

 

[rezzerfly]

https://www.facebook.com/UnivPennsylvania/

Understand yet why some students may have a legitimate concern?

 

[TC4THREE]

https://www.facebook.com/UnivPennsylvania/

Understand yet why some students may have a legitimate concern?

Terrible but does it have any connection to the election? I know race relations were nearing perfection under the Obama presidency this year (DWS) but I don't think blaming everything on an election from Tuesday night makes sense.

If you want to let a few bigots out there bring lives across the country to a grinding halt though I guess that's your choice.

 

[dal9]

ITT: authoritarians foaming at the mouth to punch down.

edit: keep stupid shit like this thread off this board.

 

[rezzerfly]

I don't happen to be a minority or a woman but come on. Look, I'm optimistic on the President-elect (def not his VP pick) but try to look at it from a different perspective.

 

[TC4THREE]

I don't happen to be a minority or a woman but come on. Look, I'm optimistic on the President-elect (def not his VP pick) but try to look at it from a different perspective.

I acknowledge that there are bad things out there. But there were bigots out there before Donald Trump even got into politics and there will be bigots out there after he's gone and dead. To act as if these things just started happening after the election Tuesday doesn't make any sense. No US citizen has any more reason to be concerned for their safety than they did on Monday imo.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

I don't happen to be a minority or a woman but come on. Look, I'm optimistic on the President-elect (def not his VP pick) but try to look at it from a different perspective.

What's your problem with Pence?

 

[rezzerfly]

Not going to derail this thread but I'd throw a rainbow emoticon down if I could.

 

[TC4THREE]

What's your problem with Pence?

Honestly I feel more comfortable with Trump than I would Pence. I feel Trump is far more tolerant than almost any Republican candidate ever. I think Trump has zero problems with LBGTQ community and, in spite of all the fuss about the wall, zero problem with anyone here legally. On the other hand, I believe Pence is on record saying that gay people can be converted into heterosexuality via therapy.

 

[rezzerfly]

Any who, this was an emotionally started thread due to an emotionally challenging week. Let's end it with positive energy. Purdue wins tonight

 

[New Pal Boiler]

Honestly I feel more comfortable with Trump than I would Pence. I feel Trump is far more tolerant than almost any Republican candidate ever. I think Trump has zero problems with LBGTQ community and, in spite of all the fuss about the wall, zero problem with anyone here legally. On the other hand, I believe Pence is on record saying that gay people can be converted into heterosexuality via therapy.

I haven't seen that anywhere. Link?