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TRE to Union Station. Red line from Union to Mockingbird.

Details on the changes. Confirmed no longer on FSSW: https://meangreensports.com/news/2019/9/3/football-new-fprmat-for-beyond-the-green.aspx

Ah, thanks for the confirmation. What it appears like to me, whether Ashton is still involved or not, is that they're taking the same type of content and breaking it up into separate videos on YouTube. The game recap is similar to any recap that was done on BTG. They've also been uploading player vignettes like "Born and Bred", "Get to Know", and mic'd up videos. What seems to be missing is the game prep, off the field, and on campus type videos. I'm sure we'll see more content now that the season is on.

There's a game recap vid with the title "Beyond the Green". Seems like bad news for those hoping for a return of the long format show.

Quality trash talk. I approve.

I was shocked that the author, who clearly put the most research into SMU, went to SMU.

It's also on CBS Sports Network.

We now get DirecTV?

You're right. When I was checking the listings, I was also looking at the week after.

Not on the schedule for FSSW, and didn't see anything on ESPN+ or Stadium. My guess is that, if it's still being done, it'll be YouTube/Facebook only. Well, and last year it didn't show up on the FSSW schedule until a day or two before it aired, so maybe...

Well, at least we'll have football extend into March this year.

I feel like everybody knows who Biden is. He has questionable views on race and always has to some degree or another. He's also not concerned about associating with racists given his past relationships in Congress. None of that is really worrying in 2019. What's worrying is that his 'gaffes' seem more like the onset of senility than "whoops, didn't mean to say that."

So for tickets to this, when you buy from the AD there's no indication of where you'll be sitting vs. buying from the SMU ticket office. Anyone have that info? It looks like basically in the corner going by their seating map, but of course the exact seats aren't shown.

Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "enough English." Someone should know enough to be able to navigate or call emergency services in my opinion. Beyond that, it's a lot more gray of an area. There's not an official language in this country, and there are certainly areas where a person can live very happily knowing very little English (eg. Spanish in border towns in Texas, Mandarin in certain areas of Los Angeles, French in parts of the east coast, etc). Also, it's one thing to say someone might want to learn enough English to get by. Not an opinion everybody shares, but I don't personally see anything malicious about it. I'd say it's another to say they should learn English. That implies a sense of superiority and is a way of degrading someone.

Oh sure, there are differences. And if you're curious about something, you can ask. Just walking up to someone and touching them without permission happens more than you would think and is not a great look for those people lol. Absolutely agreed. It's not limited to class, though. The stereotypes exist of the 'Welfare Queen' and of non-white people abusing the welfare system. That's one of the things Republican politicians use to drive home cuts to social aid programs. LBJ articulated these politics best: The statistics very clearly show that white people are the largest beneficiary of welfare and food stamps, but that is not the impression of quite a few people on the right. Also those statistics in a vacuum don't address the 'why' of how people need those programs. Well that much is true as well. One of the most powerful scenes in films is Matthew McConaughey's closing statement in "A Time to Kill." It shows how people are mostly or completely incapable of identifying with someone else's plight unless they're placed directly into their shoes. This is why it is so easy to keep kids in cages at the border, regardless of who it started under or whether it's worse now than it was 5 years ago. Out of sight, out of mind mixed with a feeling of superiority allows for some pretty nasty human behavior and opinions. Most people I wouldn't label "a racist", but I believe people exhibit more racist behavior than they would like to think. That's why people get so offended when they're referred to as racist, because they don't view themselves as racist and are incapable of understanding the racist behaviors they do exhibit. To your example above, yes that would be a racist behavior, and a very good example in my mind. No, your theoretical person isn't sitting there saying, "How can I be a good racist today?" What they are thinking, either consciously or unconsciously, is that the Hispanic dentist would do a better job than the Asian dentist. Otherwise, why would the race of the dentist even matter? Now keep in mind, this is totally absent of any circumstantial reasons like both the patient and the dentist speak Spanish (where the Asian dentist does not), the dentist is closer geographically, or they're an acquaintance/friend. And let's be honest. In the end, me choosing a white dentist because I'm white isn't going to end life as we know it. Where the issue comes in is with politics and people using plausible deniability to enact some heinous policies. Probably another conversation for another day, though.

Yeah, I had edited that number way down. I realized my lack of math skills and put it down to 1% or less. Probably much less, but I don't actively track hate group size. Since we've established that I suck at percentages, let's go with small numbers. I would say 8 and maybe even 9 out of 10 people are racist to some degree. That doesn't mean I'm running into 8 people who are carrying tiki torches in Charlottesville. That means I'm running into 8 people who: would try to touch their black friend's hair uninvited, would prefer not to have an Asian dentist, feel people should learn English if they're going to be in this country, are immediately suspicious of someone wearing a hijab, to complain about working hard while another group of people sits on welfare, or think it's ok to tell someone they should go back to their own country. These are just a very small number of examples to show the gamut of racism that exists out there. I do not believe all of these people to have evil intentions, but I do believe they do not view others as equal to or as deserving as themselves. Well, I don't have a back catalog that I keep in case of forum discussion, but Google Scholar is a good place to research. If you're looking for a book, "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a good read. For something to watch, there is quite a bit out there on the topic. Frontline's "A Class Divided" might not be a bad place to start.

Way more. What you're describing are the people who are overtly racist. They're part of the alt-right, white nationalist, neo-Nazi, etc groups. That number is most likely 1% or less of the country. A higher percentage of the country is racist, but not active within any type of hate group. The majority of people do not consider themselves racist in any way, as you've alluded to above. Not considering yourself racist and not being racist are two totally different things, however. Well, the cut and dry part is the problem. Racism is not a cut and dry behavior/mindset, and is why a lot of people don't perceive themselves to be racist in any way. I'd rather not go into specific scenarios of subtle racism. The topic has been well researched and there is a lot of reading out there. I feel like typing up examples on a forum will just lead to defensiveness of 'I don't personally do that exact behavior'. Instead of putting energy into being defensive, I would do some reading on the topic and try to understand the outrage at certain comments/actions instead of dismissing them outright.

This is the disconnect. To many (most?) on the right, what Rand Paul said is a very fair critique of someone who doesn't appreciate what she's been given. To anyone else, it's highly offensive and incredibly racist. Omar wasn't 'given' anything any more than you were 'given' something by being born here. On top of that, as a refugee, I'm pretty sure she knows what she was fleeing at the time. This is on top of doubling down on the "go back to your own country" rhetoric. I don't believe the majority on the right is outright racist. I do believe a majority on the right does not understand the various levels to racism and thus feel like it either doesn't exist, or 'at least 95% of people are not racist'. When subtle or covert racism is brought to their attention, they dismiss it as hysteria. They're behaviors they can see in themselves and they do not see themselves as racist, so it cannot be racist. Also, don't get me wrong. The right doesn't have exclusivity on being racist. It's just far more pronounced and pervasive within that group.

He asked people if they were racist and they said no. Checkmate, liberals.

What, exactly, gives you the insight that it had "nothing to do with race"? As @meangreenacct added, Trump never admitted to being wrong about this and doubled down that 'they must have been doing something' if they weren't guilty of the rape. Now, you could take that back to Trump being absolutely incapable of admitting he was wrong, which is most definitely a personality flaw he has. Except, this is not an isolated incident and instead part of a well documented pattern of behavior. I'm not sure what this has to do with anything. The AG greenlighting a policy that also happens to kill convicted white people along with PoC doesn't absolve Trump of racism.

Exactly. I challenge you to come up with anything racist between the times of when he called for five innocent black men to be executed and when he told four members of the US Congress to go back to their own countries. Since we're using those as the cutoff dates, they don't count. Also Baltimore doesn't count, because it comes after the 'go back to your own countries' end date.

Do you, by chance, work for SMU counting attendance?

CUSA really dropped the ball on not snatching up Dickie's Arena for the next few years. And The Star is not a great location. It sucks for the same reason Toyota Stadium sucks (read: too far from the majority of DFW, only way in or out is toll roads/side roads, local population is more interested in Costco than sports, etc).

Belt might take them. AAC schools would not associate themselves with that circus.