Joshua J. Friedman: JFC, this photo of a pro-Palestinian student protestor at the University of Mississippi with a jeering crowd of white boys in the background thedmonline.com/may-2nd-pro-...

JFC, this photo of a pro-Palestinian student protestor at the University of Mississippi with a jeering crowd of white boys in the background thedmonline.com/may-2nd-pro-...

How very timeless and American.

Sadly, yes.

In Mississippi, no less

Goddamn these people are stupid

Check out the big brain on Breck

His name matches his opinions so well

"I just saw a bunch of white folks waving flags and shouting at minorities and figured those were my people."

☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼💯

His parents named him after a shampoo.

There's a blast from the past. I was going to say, do they still even make that? But Wikipedia tells me it's still marketed to the "institutional market" whatever that means. Prisons?

Yeah, probably. Talk about a captive audience!

occupational hazard of recruiting your fascist mob from the Ole Miss fraternities

LMAO. "Breck" I thought you'd made a typo but no it literally says his name is Breck.

Might be short for Breckenridge, that would fit the Ole Miss fratboy context pretty well

Imagine being named for the harshest, least beautifying shampoo ever invented.

Stunning and brave. What an embodiment of all things Muhrica...

Stupid and pointless with nothing to say.

Well he is training to be fully replaceable by a laptop and a copy of Quicken so

Flow-charts and pattern recognition is all AI is and it’s still gonna have this guy out on the street

Google’s “AI” summaries are just transcripts of Reddit posts

Yeah but it’s great for their long-term project of keeping the ad money going to google instead of the person who had an original thought and took the time to write it out

after they graduate these fuckwits infest memphis and they're the goddamn worst. at least they all wear the ole miss alumni uniform so you can see them coming.

....they seem to be the type to live in the suburbs and say kids who steal chips should go to super jail

If there’s a way to accidentally kill yourself with Microsoft Excel, Marshall will find it

He’s got a point, instead of boycotting divesting and sanctioning or whatever we should just stop giving them money

Gotta stare at the wall for like an hour after reading that

He's not against what they're saying. He doesn't even understand it. He's against who's saying it.

When you’re thiiiiiiiiis close to getting it but still an absolute shit for brains

“I’m protesting the protests against US involvement in a foreign war because I don’t think the US should be involved in foreign wars” is about right for an accounting major

i have some major accounting i'd like to take up with this mfer

Smartest accounting major

This quote got me too

That entire photoset is a lot to take in

It really, really is

question(s): -who are these guys in red? -what are the symbols on their shirts and hats? -why is this officer handing flagpoles to one of the guys in red?

Those appear to be Ole Miss’s 1st Amendment Support Team. No comment on the relative effectiveness of their work.

First Amendment Support Team (FAST) - The Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Unionunion.olemiss.edu What is the First Amendment Support Team (FAST)? “FAST” is an acronym that refers to the University of Mississippi’s First Amendment Support Team. FAST has four components –a FAST Advisory Committee, ...

Is this a 1984 “War is peace, freedom is slavery, silence is free speech” kind of thing?

In the American South, I believe it’s just called “good governance,” but yes. I presume that the state schools are not immune from the same grim pressures and staffing that their state governments face.

So they’re there to protect the student’s right to free speech, right?

More like Hermann Göring impersonators. Now I'm not saying they're nazis. I'm saying they're bloated, uniformed, and headed towards the wrong side of history.

I'm pretty sure I know the answer but I'm going to assume they weren't there to support tge first amendment rights of pro Palestinians protesters were they

They were so close to being the First Amendment Response Team... so close.

Look like outside agitators to me

I think those are tiki torches, which we know white boys have in abundance, right?

It's these, sold everywhere e.g. Walmart, Home Depot, Amazon, et al.

Hopefully, the cop is taking them away.

Very politely

Story is horrifying too... "Why are they doing this? What do they hope to accomplish?" Asks the first year. But they are "successful in publicity," he says, immediately contradicting himself. And an "I love America" in there. And "unprecedented?" The James Meredith riot would like a word.

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