Patrick
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12 years ago @ North Park Street - Can a White person be ... · 0 replies · +3 points
While I don't care how anyone self-identifies their own heritage, I prefer to reserve hyphenated American terms for immigrants or the children of immigrants if I ever feel a need to use them.
12 years ago @ North Park Street - New ASM Constitution: ... · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ North Park Street - New ASM Constitution: ... · 7 replies · +7 points
"that doesn’t stop me from disagreeing with his tactics or politics."
What kind of tactics does he think Kurt used? The reason people didn't like Kurt was because he was so damn effective at making quality arguments on behalf of the legislation he wanted passed and getting the votes to get things passed. His political opponents couldn't beat him over the table where it mattered, so they resorted to fabricating lies, slandering his character and plotting to remove him from positions.
And in terms of his politics, what is an example of something he advocated for that you so disagree with? The cause of the major complaints against him and his signature policy achievements were SSFC reforms. Do you think MCSC needs a million dollar budget again?
12 years ago @ North Park Street - New ASM Constitution: ... · 0 replies · 0 points
12 years ago @ North Park Street - USSA Issues a "Student... · 0 replies · +2 points
12 years ago @ North Park Street - What is it that makes ... · 0 replies · 0 points
However, before there is the kind of discussion of monumental once a decade change in and attempt to improve things within your framework as it seems people are attempting to have, I think the questions my framework poses require answers and discussion. For year to year changes and blog posts, your framework is much more useful because the kinds of changes my framework forces people to address are often too large of an undertaking to be useful.
12 years ago @ North Park Street - What is it that makes ... · 2 replies · +2 points
If we really want to start this discussion from the beginning, I think we ought to be asking whether a student government is in the first place is the most effective organization to accomplish a given goal and in fact discuss what are the goals that a student government ought to be pursuing.
I personally think that in my time on campus the most effective arms of ASM have been the ones that a student government is most suited for, such as allocation of student funds to student groups through SSFC. Many of the things that ASM fails at, such as attempting to unite students behind common political goals for advocacy outside of the UW, ASM fails at because a student government just isn't the best organization for such purposes.
12 years ago @ North Park Street - A short rebuttal on mo... · 0 replies · +1 points
However, I am curious, if you believe that free speech rights ought to differ between individuals and corporations, do you also believe that corporations ought to be subject to lesser freedom of the press protections? Both are rights protected by the First Amendment.
12 years ago @ North Park Street - A short rebuttal on mo... · 0 replies · +3 points
12 years ago @ North Park Street - Guest Post: The Incons... · 0 replies · +2 points