I had thought that it was a player on the team. But it's just one of the 20,000+ students in school... Ok.. yeah cancel culture and the 1st amendment/Constitution are bound for a head-on collision and it won't be pretty.
KState players speaking out and might boycott?
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I had thought that it was a player on the team. But it's just one of the 20,000+ students in school... Ok.. yeah cancel culture and the 1st amendment/Constitution are bound for a head-on collision and it won't be pretty.
Do some research on McNeil. The joke doesn't exist if George Floyd is not a black man. It was 100% a racist joke.
In my opinion hate speech is free speech in the sense that nothing McNeil were to say, however hateful could land him in jail. But obviously all speech has consequences.
I don't know what KSU should do, they're in a tough spot. But if the administration is being honest then they have to acknowledge that if some football players want to boycott that is their right, also...whatever consequences come of it.
I think if I were the KSU president I'd make a statement condemning McNeil's statements and associations and make it clear that they're antithetical to KSU's mission. Basically I'd say (without saying it) that "we have to let this douchebag go to school here but he doesn't belong here."
Now, if I were the football program I'd put this kid on blast. I'd make it my mission to make sure every season ticket holder know exactly why any players might be boycotting. And the answer would be simple - Jordan McNeil. If the KSU football program is smart they'll embrace the players who boycott and direct all their energy to making KSU a place where Jordan McNeil doesn't want to attend school.
Argent cucking out. Look at the power play these football players are pulling and bask in its glory. ALPHAS
The answer to hateful Free Speech has always been More Speech. Not picking up and taking your ball home. This guy was a nobody that few even knew and now he is getting every bit of attention he wanted.
The players are expressing their own "freedom of speech" - against the racism and bigotry of a fellow student. Nothing wrong with that. The racist student wants white supremacy and is cloaking his racism in "freedom of speech." And now he is whining (as you are too).
In fact, you are condoning the students bigotry. Now we know what you REALLY are, mr realist.
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I agree the totality of his associations and activities could justify removal. The initial reporting focused on the joke. A free speech argument could be made but I don't think most people would be too offended if this white nationalist was disinvited.
You could frame it from the perspective that KSU (or most state universities) do not showcase white supremacist student activist groups to prospective new students including student athletes on recruiting visits.
No football player went on a campus visit and got the grand tour including the meeting places for white supremacy groups. In fact if they were given a student handbook they would likely have gotten the impression that such a thing is not allowed.
Now if Matt Campbell is taking all of our students to white supremacist meetings and telling them this is a part of Iowa State Univerisity...the contrarians (let's give them benefit of the doubt they aren't actual racists) on this board may actually not be completely stupid.
