Melissa Click: What would our world be like if no one ever took a chance?

Washington Post ^ | March 17, 2016 | Melissa Click

[C19fan]

Here in Columbia, the University of Missouri homecoming parade is a big deal, so arriving early to grab a spot last October was crucial.

Getting out the door with a young family on a Saturday morning however, can be a bit of a struggle and my thoughts that morning were dominated by the usual worries of anyone rushing out to the door to a much-anticipated event. Grateful to have found a spot that would accommodate us just moments before the parade began, we were frustrated when the candy throwing and band marching unexpectedly stopped.

[IncPen]

She got fired, she acted like an idiot and was shamed nationally....and she gets a platform to air her grievances?

Amazing, isn't it?

[cymbeline]

Well, lotteries wouldn’t be very popular.

[henkster]

Yes the comments on the WaPo site are interesting. Only one rabid leftist (probably her “roomate”) defending her. Everyone else calling her out.

[austinaero]

OMG leave it to WaPo to give this thing a platform! Disgusting.

[mumblypeg]

Reading her WaPo editorial all the way to the end.
Is she being intentionally ironic?
Somehow I don’t think so. She’s too barking stupid to see that it’s her own ideology, which she was acting upon, that has come ‘round and bit her in the arse.
This woman is actually continuing to insist that her little-bitty fascist activities should never have been brought to light.

[ataDude]

Who in the world would read or listen to anything this “woman” says?

[Feckless]

Little Nazi bitch is sorry... sorry she got caught being a little Nazi bitch.

I'd like to hear from some of her (EX) students, this is probably her MO for all things Commie.

[Eddie01]

Learning Moment:

Eight Commandments of the Left
No move is ever made in a vacuum

I
Thou shall create an illusion of invulnerability shared by most members to foster excessive optimism and encourage extreme risks taking

II
Thou shall not allow any member to question the group’s inherent morality; instead members shall be encouraged to ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions

III
Thou shall promote collective efforts to rationalize in order to discount warnings, or other information that might lead members to reconsider their assumptions before they recommit themselves to their assumptions

IV
Thou shall reinforce stereotyped views of enemy leaders as too evil to warrant genuine attempts to negotiate, or as too weak and stupid to counter whatever risky attempts are made to defeat their purpose

V
Thou shall self-censor any deviation from the apparent group consensus, inclining each member to minimize the importance of their doubts and counterarguments

VI
Thou shall create and maintain a shared illusion of unanimity concerning judgment conforming to the majority view

VII
Thou shall apply direct pressure on any member who expresses strong arguments against any of the group’s stereotypes, illusions, or commitments, making clear that this type of dissent is contrary to what is expected of all loyal members

VIII
Thou shall appoint mind guards to protect the group from adverse information that might shatter their shared complacency about the effectiveness and morality of their decisions

-Eddie01 (adapted from Erving Janis ‘82)

[USNBandit]

Hoisted by her own petard, so to speak.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

What she calls "imperfections" and "taking a chance" were criminal assaults.

So, let's substitute her question with that fact:

What would our world look like if no one ever committed a criminal assault?

Doesn't sound so bad, now does it?

[longfellow]

Bravo! exactly what i was thinking.

[Company Man]

Melissa Click: The meme that won't die

[definitelynotaliberal]

The comments are just wonderful. I can't pick a favorite, but if pressed, I suppose I would go with this one:

You helped create this world, Ms. Click. You and your left-wing brethren have been scalp-hunting and outrage-trolling and group-shaming for years. You helped write the rules by which we all are forced to live.

Now that the rules are applied to you, they're suddenly distasteful?

This event will not lead you to re-evaluate any of your positions, beliefs, morals, or standards. You will bleat about your victimhood while completely ignoring Nobel Prize-winning scientists you've condemned for wearing the wrong shirt, business-owners you've had fired from their companies for voting the wrong way and family-operated companies you've helped destroy because the owners pray to a different version of god than you do.

Reap the whirlwind.

[definitelynotaliberal]

She got a platform to make a Declaration of Ignorance. I don’t begudge the Washington comPost this choice.

[gogeo]

You’ll never convince me she’s not Carrot Top.

[miss marmelstein]

Whoa!!! That is the quote of the day! Thanks so much for sending it. Gave me goose flesh, actually.

[T-Bone Texan]

Latest comment:

"I think we need a little 'muscle' in the Washington Post editorial board to clean out the idiots who green-lighted giving this moron a platform."

Stuff like this gives me hope.

[T-Bone Texan]

Hilarious comments!:

"...Please go away and make pottery somewhere. It is your fate. It has always been your fate and fighting that just hurts you and all around you."

[definitelynotaliberal]

I'm not there yet, but here's one further down the line from several good ones that I liked:

Let's recap. No direct apology. No nuanced shades of contrition. Not even a begrudging acknowledgement that students on a campus have the right to both act as citizen journalists and disagree.

What a win for smartphone cameras. Imagine how many thousands of Melissa Click's were never recorded and were able to walk around in the reverie of their power-tripping, shrill bluster with complete impunity.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Former Professor Click -

The Constitution guarantees that the government will not impose on citizen's free speech. This means that the police can't silence me in a peaceful rally. This means that the government cannot make laws against my speaking out. This means that a journalist cannot be threatened with bodily harm for covering a story by a government agent.

What you fail to admit or acknowledge is that you are the government agent. You claim you have free speech rights, which you do...but as a government agent you have a special inability to not deny others their freedom of speech. If you were one of the student protesters and formed a wall around the journalist...that's OK - unless you assault or threaten assault. But you are a government agent, acting during work hours on work/government property designated as a free space. You do not have that freedom. Well, you did not - now that you have been rightfully fired and are not a government agent, you now have that right.

What you did was shameful. Your response is even more so. The only good thing that has come out from this is the need for reform at the University. People like you talk about privilege all the time but do not recognize your whole world is unjustly privileged. Mizzou needs governance reform and needs to perform in a manner that the tax payers expect. This AAUP organization needs to be disbanded. The concepts of shared governance and privileged due diligence need to be reformed or outright changed. As a government employee, you need to have no more rights than a worker at the DMV. Ideally you would have the same rights as the tax payers in the private sector.

Please go away.