As Twitter stock prices continue to dip, advertisers are leaving the platform in favor of alternative social media outlets. According to a recent survey, 23 percent of Twitter advertisers plan to decrease their spending in response to the recent issue…
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Mizzou Faces $32m Deficit, 20 Percent Decline In Enrolment After Last Year’s Protests
Following last year’s protests, the University of Missouri has seen a 20% decline in freshman enrollment for its incoming class, and is now operating with a $32 million deficit. As a result, the Interim Chancellor of the University has sent out a letter detailing their recovery strategy in response to the controversy. The protests, which were aimed at University System President Tim Wolfe and the administration’s alleged mishandling of several racial incidents on campus, became the focus of several national news stories. According to the protesters, several racial incidents spanning across the last five years were ignored by the university, even though the movement’s admit that many of these incidents occurred off-campus. They collectively put together a list of demands, one of which was a call for Wolfe’s resignation. Immediately following the resignation of both the University System President and Chancellor, a video of University of Missouri Professor Melissa Click calling for the physical removal of a student photographer on assignment for ESPN quickly spread around the web. Click was charged with misdemeanor assault as a result of her exchange with the photographer. Even though a letter signed by 100 faculty members in defense of Click was presented to the administration, she was
Notify the Twitter Trust and Safety Council: #TheTriggering Blows Up SJW Safe Spaces
A trend on Twitter mocking the sensitivity of social justice warriors has gained major traction. Currently over 72,300 tweets have been sent with the hashtag #TheTriggering, and the number is continuing to grow.
Employees Flee Zappos After CEO Adopts ‘Self-Management’ Structure
Ahead of its radical restructuring plans, online shoe retailer Zappos.com offered three-months severance pay to any employee who wanted to leave by the end of April. 210 employees, or 18% of their workers, accepted the offer and quit.
Oberlin Professor Joy Karega under fire for Anti-Semitic Remarks
Oberlin College has recently come under fire for the online remarks of professor Joy Karega, who took to Facebook to publicize her claims that “Israeli and Zionist Jews” were behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and the rise of ISIS. She has also shared remarks by Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, who said that “white people are potential humans – they haven’t evolved yet.” Roger Cohen of The New York Times recently contributed a piece entitled, “An Anti-Semitism of the Left”, which details the issues that arise when criticisms of Israel evolve into demonizations. Cohen also details a comment made by an Oberlin alumna, who claims that she heard students dismiss the Holocaust as only “white on white crime.” The Oberlin faculty and administration, which have a reputation for integrating progressivism and social justice into their respective missions, has been largely silent in response to the Karega’s remarks and radicalism. Karega, who is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition, received her PhD from the University of Louisville in 2014. Oberlin’s website lists her areas of research and expertise as “black political and protest literacies, translingual composition, rhetoric and composition historiography,
White House Press Sec: Success of Social Media ‘Predicated on Free Speech’
In Friday afternoon’s White House Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos that President Obama “would be the first one to observe that the success of … social media and some of those social media tools is in fact predicated on the idea of freedom of expression.”
White House Press Sec: Success of Social Media ‘Predicated on Free Speech’
In Friday afternoon’s White House Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos that President Obama “would be the first one to observe that the success of … social media and some of those social media tools is in fact predicated on the idea of freedom of expression.”
My Fellow Students: It’s Time To Challenge Our Lazy, Politically Homogeneous Teachers
Today, it’s conservatives and libertarians who are the new campus insurgents.