Mizzou Athletics’ Tweet Prompts Backlash | Talking Points Memo

The attempt by the University of Missouri’s athletic department to contribute to the NCAA’s inclusion week backfired so hard that it was forced to delete its tweet and apologize.


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They also misspelled “financier”, which is admittedly a mote of dust compared to the beam of blatant prejudice.

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Facepalm!

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“Earlier we made a mistake when we posted a graphic about our student athletes. We apologize.”

“Those responsible have been sacked.”

“We apologize again for the fault in the graphic about our student athletes. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.”

“The directors of the firm hired to continue the graphic about our student athletes after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.”

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Eric & Don Jr. are now branching out into public relations? Yikes…

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I’M a SisTa and gonna HavE 4 kiDs wiTH THree babY daDdies.

(Was goinG to Add piC of blAck femaLe mizzou athletes googlE macHining - all the girls are white tho)

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That Llama is dynamite.

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This, right here, tells you all you need to know about why Missouri is trending away from Democrats. Because they’re either proudly racist (like in Ferguson) or stupidly racist (as in this example).

And this is purportedly an institution of “higher learning”. Did nobody catch this? Really?

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I’m sorry, serious subject, but this is a hilarious tweet, satire along the lines of The Onion or SNL.

As RFT says,

Not to put too fine a point on it, but what the fuck, Mizzou!? Especially for a university where the subjects of campus racism and the role of black student athletes collided just a few years ago, in 2015, when a series of protests and boycotts led to the resignation of the university system president.

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They have a long and sordid history of racism.

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So … some brain damage may be permanent, Coach?

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But was your sister ever bitten by a møøse?

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Sometimes it’s hard teaching Wokeness 101 to entire college communities as a distance-learning course, but somebody has to do it… I feel badly for the mizzou African-Americans who thought they were helping but ended up with this foolishness as a result. For shame, for shame.

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But clearly, it’s worked in Missouri. Look how those two white blondes were finally able to be lauded for their potential accomplishments as not only baby-incubators, but also potential productive members of the working class (when not in baby-incubating mode).

Progress!

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My alma mater, things have gone down hill in 35 years.

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This reminds me of the not-so-hilarious “What Do Women Want?” Jeopardy category a couple of years ago.

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My God. Who in the heck thought this was even remotely depicting diversity? I say this as an old white woman. Geeze people. You are a college. Get your $hite together and at least pretend.

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This is breathtaking in it’s stupidity. Someone should be fired.

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