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Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:40 pm
by Bladed
Apparently, the
Modern Language Association of America is holding their annual conference in Austin and decided to take the opportunity to protest campus carry.
https://www.facebook.com/ConcealedCampu ... 8693157622
Here is an alternate link for anyone who can't see the link above:
http://concealedcampus.org/2016/01/sccs ... sociation/
Here is an article in the
Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/local/education/ca ... 745509.php
Here are a few pictures posted by the protesters:
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:43 pm
by TexasJohnBoy
I wonder if they realize that every single person at, around, inside, outside, etc, the capitol could be legally armed and they don't know it...
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:44 pm
by MeMelYup
Is that last picture an oxymoron?
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:52 pm
by RoyGBiv
A wish is not a plan. Hope is not a course of action.
"Reason" does not keep my children safe if they are, God forbid, staring into the face of evil.
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:02 pm
by doncb
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:08 pm
by Bladed
Their book fort is less impressive than I'd imagined.
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:11 pm
by Bladed
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:29 pm
by stroo
That's why I think we should stick with books and ditch computers!
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 5:10 pm
by treadlightly
Windy Presidential speeches are somewhat effective, too:
http://www.history.com/news/shot-in-the ... on-talking
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 5:31 pm
by jerry_r60
And their book fort didn't even have a proper sign...
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:22 pm
by Ruark
Interesting. I used to be a member of the MLA. As a rule, they are extremely educated, literate people, the kind with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. The MLA Style Sheet is the formatting standard for many publications and papers around the world. This goes to show that "educated" doesn't equal "intelligent."
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 12:45 am
by srothstein
I did not see this article but there was another one where the MLA was not impressed with the Spanish translations on the 30.06 and 30.07 signs. They asked their better educated bi-lingual members to let the legislature know that the translations had errors, claiming that the language was required by law.
I do not have an account on the Statesman's site to post comments on the article or I might have point out that they should read the law. It has the English wording but leaves the Spanish translation up to the sign poster.
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 9:40 am
by NotRPB
Just a shame no one at any prior #GunFreeZone School shooting could defensively throw a book at 1,000 feet per second at the aggressor
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:53 am
by JustSomeOldGuy
Isn't scattering slippery paperback books all over a public walkway an OSHA violation? I'm also going to presume that Austin DOES have a littering ordinance?
Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in front of Texas Capitol
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:39 pm
by WildBill
doncb wrote:
I have no idea what the "Modern Language Association" is all about, but this about sums it up what I think about their "protest".
Edited to add that I did briefly review their origin, but I find that they have strayed from their original mission.
From Wiki
In later years the association has highlighted issues such as race, gender and class in its professional deliberations. Kimball and Kramer argue that this was part of a "rampant politicization of literary study that the MLA has aggressively supported" in American colleges and universities, including elevating popular culture to a position of parity with great works of literature as subjects for classroom study, and other "radical" postures
Kimball, Roger. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education. New York: Harper & Row, 1990
If they wish to retain any of their credibility they should stop this nonsense.
