Recognize it for what it was: provocative and designed to get a big reaction so they could splash it all over the media. Given that, the response should have been a big collective yawn.
Instead, the students did exactly what this young lady hoped they would do.
Ever feel like your being pulled around by your nose?
This!
Up until this thread,I never heard of Kaitlin Bennett.
I'd venture to say,neither did most of the people in this area.
Not anymore,this story is all over the news.
Personally,I don't see her as anything more then an internet personality,trying
to expand her media footprint.
Us dinosaurs used to call people like her "publicity hounds".
What happened at O.U. yesterday accomplished that.
When I was at O.U. a Sociology Professor told us about how easy it was to use "mob mentality" to create a "riot".
He showed us pictures of a "riot" he and a group of friends started at O.S.U., just to prove their point.
He said he didn't even remember the "hook" they used to rile up the students.
Similar thing happened when I was at O.U.
A small snowball fight on the East Green escalated into several hundred students.
Then someone(s) started chanting "Get The Betas".
The whole group marched uptown and bombarded their house with snow and ice.
Don't know how far it would have gone if the police hadn't broken up the crowd with some type of chemical irritant.
Don't know if it was tear gas,pepper spray or something else.But it was effective.
Seems like this woman is well versed in these principals.
Unfortunately,the students didn't realize they were being "played".
Last Edited: 2/18/2020 12:59:01 PM by rpbobcat