Comments on: Racism and The Return Of Hill-Meyer http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/ Free Minds, Free Markets, Free Booze Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:52:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jeremy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93885 Jeremy Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:01:00 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93885 Sometimes when I feel that I have drifted long and far from those dear old drunken Commentator days, it's nice to hear that the kooks that I remember from the "good ol days" still retain the same level of insanity. Of course a group of over-privileged white kids sitting around accusing each other of racism never did cease to amuse the hell out of me. But Hill-Myer...ahh Hill Myer brings the delightful mix of self-loathing and pure, distilled crazy that no human can or will ever quite reproduce. Some of my favorite passages: <i>There is an epidemic of racism in the student senate. There, I said it. How do I know that? I was elected to the Senate by campaigning to address and confront issues of racism that existed there</i> Also, aliens are taking over the highest levels of government. You know how I know? I convinced 100,000 trailer park residents to help me construct a cannon made entirely out of Bud Light cans in order to help fight the coming war. <i>We have an ethnic studies program on campus; ask them if you don't believe me.</i> Ask the pale friendless virgins at the next Science Fiction convention about the aliens. They'll back me up on this one. <i>When Senator Gulley accuse other senators of racist behavior, it's important that those claims be investigated. Instead, he is literally on trial for making such claims before anyone has even asked him what motivated them.</i> Admittedly I haven't been following this story well enough to argue the merits of the phrase "literally on trial" although I doubt student government could actually could organize themselves well enough to understand the phrase 'defamation of character' much less argue it in a court of law; be it federal state or simply in their own minds. But I digress. Hill Myer is right. I mean, once we lose the right to accuse someone of serious character flaws without any tangible evidence to support said claims, we lose the spirit of spite, hatred and overall betrayal that has made the ASUO the winning organization that I remember. Also, Hill Myer is an alien. Sometimes when I feel that I have drifted long and far from those dear old drunken Commentator days, it’s nice to hear that the kooks that I remember from the “good ol days” still retain the same level of insanity. Of course a group of over-privileged white kids sitting around accusing each other of racism never did cease to amuse the hell out of me. But Hill-Myer…ahh Hill Myer brings the delightful mix of self-loathing and pure, distilled crazy that no human can or will ever quite reproduce.

Some of my favorite passages:
There is an epidemic of racism in the student senate. There, I said it. How do I know that? I was elected to the Senate by campaigning to address and confront issues of racism that existed there

Also, aliens are taking over the highest levels of government. You know how I know? I convinced 100,000 trailer park residents to help me construct a cannon made entirely out of Bud Light cans in order to help fight the coming war.

We have an ethnic studies program on campus; ask them if you don’t believe me.

Ask the pale friendless virgins at the next Science Fiction convention about the aliens. They’ll back me up on this one.

When Senator Gulley accuse other senators of racist behavior, it’s important that those claims be investigated. Instead, he is literally on trial for making such claims before anyone has even asked him what motivated them.

Admittedly I haven’t been following this story well enough to argue the merits of the phrase “literally on trial” although I doubt student government could actually could organize themselves well enough to understand the phrase ‘defamation of character’ much less argue it in a court of law; be it federal state or simply in their own minds. But I digress. Hill Myer is right. I mean, once we lose the right to accuse someone of serious character flaws without any tangible evidence to support said claims, we lose the spirit of spite, hatred and overall betrayal that has made the ASUO the winning organization that I remember.
Also, Hill Myer is an alien.

]]> By: Jan http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93884 Jan Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:32:06 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93884 That sentence at the end should say: The Senate did WHAT it was supposed to do but RARELY does — analyze ideas and come up with the best solution. STupid hangover. That sentence at the end should say: The Senate did WHAT it was supposed to do but RARELY does — analyze ideas and come up with the best solution. STupid hangover.

]]> By: Jan http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93883 Jan Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:30:01 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93883 I wrote out a huge post, but my computer ate it, so I'll do a shortened version. The "racism" against Eddy Morales that Hill-Meyer says took place at the 2005 Senate meeting is a total lie. What really happened was that Morales wanted to create a committee with the sole purpose of trying to get money for the International Students Association from the President's Fund. A senator of color liked the idea and made a motion to the create the committee. But other senators thought it would be wise to find out whether creating a committee that benefited only one student group was even legal. So a white senaor made a motion to create the special commitee, but only on an interim basis until the Senate Rules panel could talk it over. The senators supported the second motion, and Morales went on some hysterical rant about how the white senators were stealing the ideas from the senators of color and blah blah blah. Morales basically took the democratic process and made it about race. The Senate did was it was supposed to do but really does -- analyze ideas and come up with the best solution. The hilarious part is the senator of color who originally brought the motion to the table said afterward that he didn't believe his ideas were stolen, or that the meeting was racist at all. I wrote out a huge post, but my computer ate it, so I’ll do a shortened version. The “racism” against Eddy Morales that Hill-Meyer says took place at the 2005 Senate meeting is a total lie. What really happened was that Morales wanted to create a committee with the sole purpose of trying to get money for the International Students Association from the President’s Fund. A senator of color liked the idea and made a motion to the create the committee. But other senators thought it would be wise to find out whether creating a committee that benefited only one student group was even legal. So a white senaor made a motion to create the special commitee, but only on an interim basis until the Senate Rules panel could talk it over. The senators supported the second motion, and Morales went on some hysterical rant about how the white senators were stealing the ideas from the senators of color and blah blah blah.

Morales basically took the democratic process and made it about race. The Senate did was it was supposed to do but really does — analyze ideas and come up with the best solution. The hilarious part is the senator of color who originally brought the motion to the table said afterward that he didn’t believe his ideas were stolen, or that the meeting was racist at all.

]]> By: T http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93882 T Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:11:55 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93882 I want to know what Jethro Higgens has to say on the matter. Remember him? Good times. I want to know what Jethro Higgens has to say on the matter. Remember him? Good times.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93881 Melissa Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:18:28 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93881 Is there an "oppressive vagina" role in the Vagina Monologues? A talking oppressive vagina would have scads of oppressing power over a penis. Because a penis can't talk. Or can it? Is there an “oppressive vagina” role in the Vagina Monologues? A talking oppressive vagina would have scads of oppressing power over a penis. Because a penis can’t talk. Or can it?

]]> By: Niedermeyer http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93879 Niedermeyer Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:35:18 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93879 The sad part is that nobody who is actually involved with Senate this year has been able to shed any light on this situation. I know that people who agree with Gulley and Hill-Meyer read this blog... maybe they would like to chime in? Alternatively, when Hill-Meyer makes the point that "Racism, in fact, is any behavior that supports and perpetuates a white supremacist power structure. We have an ethnic studies program on campus; ask them if you don't believe me" does he understand that the same ethnic studies program believes that people of color are incapable of being racists? I ask because Gulley accused several students of color of racism. Don't get me wrong, I am not necessarily agreeing with that assessment, I am simply curious as to how the people making these accusations reconcile this contradiction. The sad part is that nobody who is actually involved with Senate this year has been able to shed any light on this situation. I know that people who agree with Gulley and Hill-Meyer read this blog… maybe they would like to chime in?

Alternatively, when Hill-Meyer makes the point that “Racism, in fact, is any behavior that supports and perpetuates a white supremacist power structure. We have an ethnic studies program on campus; ask them if you don’t believe me” does he understand that the same ethnic studies program believes that people of color are incapable of being racists? I ask because Gulley accused several students of color of racism.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not necessarily agreeing with that assessment, I am simply curious as to how the people making these accusations reconcile this contradiction.

]]> By: Oh My God It's Full Of Stars http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93878 Oh My God It's Full Of Stars Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:14:39 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93878 it's not an issue of lesbian parenting. Toby is a total attention whore, and Toby, the fact that your penis oppresses you is funny because most people with penises are said to be the oppressor, you see how that works. it’s not an issue of lesbian parenting. Toby is a total attention whore, and Toby, the fact that your penis oppresses you is funny because most people with penises are said to be the oppressor, you see how that works.

]]> By: T http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93877 T Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:53:02 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93877 E-mail, fellas. Do you have it? E-mail, fellas. Do you have it?

]]> By: Niedermeyer http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93875 Niedermeyer Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:25:44 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93875 can't... too much shit to do. I'll call this weekend. can’t… too much shit to do. I’ll call this weekend.

]]> By: Dustin http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93874 Dustin Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:18:34 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93874 you want to play golf today? you want to play golf today?

]]> By: Niedermeyer http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93873 Niedermeyer Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:15:23 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93873 The fucker broke. It's gonna be replaced tomorrow. The fucker broke. It’s gonna be replaced tomorrow.

]]> By: Dustin http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93872 Dustin Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:06:08 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93872 Ted what's up with your phone? Ted what’s up with your phone?

]]> By: T http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93871 T Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:41:49 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93871 Two words, Evan: Gay Mafia Watch your legs, Niedermeyer. Two words, Evan: Gay Mafia

Watch your legs, Niedermeyer.

]]> By: Evan http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93870 Evan Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:16:35 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93870 Yeah, Jimmy, you do need to say more. What does the fact that Hill-Meyer's parents are lesbians have to do with anything? Yeah, Jimmy, you do need to say more. What does the fact that Hill-Meyer’s parents are lesbians have to do with anything?

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93869 Timothy Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:02:12 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93869 Don't utter that name, it's like summoning Beatlejuice...or the Candyman. Don’t utter that name, it’s like summoning Beatlejuice…or the Candyman.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93867 Melissa Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:36:31 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93867 Yeah, racism, blah blah. Post about Deb Frisch versus Merck! Yeah, racism, blah blah. Post about Deb Frisch versus Merck!

]]> By: Niedermeyer http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93866 Niedermeyer Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:30:45 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93866 Yeah, Olberman is already trying to sue me. Yeah, Olberman is already trying to sue me.

]]> By: Betz http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93865 Betz Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:17:27 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93865 Hill Meyer: <i>"When Senator Gulley accuses other senators of racist behavior, it's important that those claims be investigated."</i> Such as in...a trial? Said accused are innocent until proven guilty...such is true in the American legal system as well as personal accusations. Hill Meyer: “When Senator Gulley accuses other senators of racist behavior, it’s important that those claims be investigated.”

Such as in…a trial?

Said accused are innocent until proven guilty…such is true in the American legal system as well as personal accusations.

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93864 Timothy Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:45:53 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93864 I won't have you dragging Joe McCarthy's good name through the mud, sir! I won’t have you dragging Joe McCarthy’s good name through the mud, sir!

]]> By: Quackers http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93863 Quackers Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:26:39 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2007/04/13/racism-and-the-return-of-hill-meyer/#comment-93863 Oh boy, Niedermeyer, you said the magic word: McCarthyism! Now watch Hill-Meyer threaten to torch your tofu or Gulley threaten to take you down Cleveland-style (aka like Dennis Kucinich...who is probably the weakest looking pimple on the face of North America.) Oh boy, Niedermeyer, you said the magic word: McCarthyism! Now watch Hill-Meyer threaten to torch your tofu or Gulley threaten to take you down Cleveland-style (aka like Dennis Kucinich…who is probably the weakest looking pimple on the face of North America.)

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