Due to concerns over the White House and the OHIO AG’s orders to disband DEI events and programming at the threat of loss of funds.

Bobcat Love had a comment on this cancellation on both the football and basketball pages earlier today.

Evidently, the mods deleted these posts as BL predicted. He was a little more verbose and a lot more critical about this decision made by President Gonzalez and the university. While I haven't agreed with everything Bobcat Love has posted recently on the athletic side of Ohio University, he was 100% accurate on this issue.

I, for one, was hoping the mods would refrain from censoring his remarks.

What's next, renaming Templeton-Blackburn Auditorium???

It's what 49% voted for (and 100% of uneducated hillbillies).

I cannot even be angry. It’s just heartbreaking.

That's not what's happening. What a f**** ignorant comment.

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The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in businesses and covers voting and educational rights. It does not in any way prohibit the formation or gathering of alumni groups based on race. Who is being discriminated against in this case? Whose access to education/voting rights/businesses is limited? Not really seeing the connection between the Civil Rights Act and the decision to cancel the BAR.

And, sure, if some folks want to put together a White Alumni Weekend they can knock themselves out. It won't be popular and they'll look pretty dumb in doing so, but I don't think they shouldn't have the right to do it if they really want to.

As I mentioned, it's not at all clear to me how one determines what's allowed and what isn't. There are several Christian, Jewish, and Muslim groups on campus. Are they no longer allowed? What about the Ecuadorian student group? The Italian American one? Are Frats and Sororities now gonna have to be co-ed?

You seem to think BAR was a bad thing and it was discriminatory. I'm curious to know more about why you think so, and how you envision federal/state legislation that dictates what events and groups can gather in Athens working.

Oh, I didn't realize that. So the University created the black alumni group? Can you share some insight into how you know that? Curious to read about it more.


I can see how this is a distinction. Can you share with me how you know that the Latino Student Union or Korean Culture Club or Chabad at OU are not administered by the University and what the distinction is with the BAR? What about Frats and Sororities?

Any reason you can think of why black Americans may not know their country of origin? Also, do you not think that there are shared values and culture amongst African Americans? How do you measure what level of value/cutural alignment warrants a group that can gather? Who gets to decide that?

I'm still curious who you think is being discriminated against when a group like this gathers on campus? You feel it's divisive -- who is that impacting and harming?

It feels like a step in the wrong direction to have the federal government and state legislators dictating this.

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On that same point, all the other groups you mentioned are not in the same discussion as they are not things born out of and administered by the University itself. And sidebar, it makes A LOT more sense to me to congregate on the basis of their religion or birth country as that binds them by a set of values and culture far greater than the color of their skin would.

I find the concept completely ridiculous and divisive. That said, I don't think I would say they should be eliminated by force of law or funding, and would much prefer they go away by way of the culture stopping their obsession with race. [/QUOTE]Sorry about the quote mistake.

You clearly have no understanding of culture in America and your comments such as "their" might as well say "those people." Greek Life is clearly born out of, regulated by and administered by the university. My advice based on the beating you're taking here, get out while you're ahead.

I don't think he's taking a beating here, and I don't think there's any reason why the conversation needs to be drawn on the lines you're drawing them.

Frankly, it's ridiculous to act like using an accurate pronoun of "their" to describe the general concept of a racial group is even remotely akin to saying "those people." There's nothing helpful about that, and it's more than a little bit disingenuous. Get a grip.

Nobody has said anything remotely racist here, and we can have this conversation civilly. Stop trying to argue with some caricature of the other side that you have in your head, and engage with the actual person in front of you.



[/QUOTE]Go back and read the posts. Both DCF and Turdhats were pretty clear in their comments. As for civility, what hasn't been civil? People are expressing opinions some of which are deeply held based on personal experiences. I'm guessing that what we have here is a bunch of white folks discussing issues that are currently being successfully used to divide this country.

There have been "all white" groups in this country forever.

Besides the restricted country clubs and the like, in 2023, there were 165 active white nationalist groups across the United States.

Those poor white gentiles... they are soooooooooooooo discriminated against. How many other groups could attack our nation's capitol and get pardoned?

I'm having a civil conversation with Andrew, not you. Your contributions here are too stupid to warrant that. Seriously man, you came here to try and make the argument that because Andrew used the word "their" he was saying "those people."

You've yet to try and defend that as a reasonable thing to say. We all know why.

But good contribution here. Well done.