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U. Oklahoma coaches claim they can discipline players for their politics
[CollegeFix] Two women’s volleyball coaches at the University of Oklahoma argue in a legal motion that they have the right to discipline players for their political beliefs.Player Kylee McLaughlin sued coaches Lindsey and Kyle Walton along with the OU Board of Regents earlier this year, alleging "she had been excluded from the team [...] over her politically conservative views." The OU Daily reported that McLaughlin, the OU team captain and first team All-Big 12 selection in 2018 and 2019, had made comments that "at least one" of her teammates considered "racist" following a team viewing of the Netflix documentary "13th." McLaughlin was told to attend a follow-up discussion on the issue — mass incarceration of black Americans — which she did. Later, after McLaughlin had tweeted out her disagreement (a skull and crossbones and laughing clown emojis) at the University of Texas’s possible dropping of its school song "The Eyes of Texas," Lindsey Walton "urg[ed] her to delete [the] tweet." In a subsequent hour-long phone conversation, she told McLaughlin "I can’t save you when you get into the real world when you leave here." Kyle Walton allegedly told McLaughlin "[I’m] not sure I can coach you anymore." McLaughlin did end up apologizing to U. Texas’s volleyball players and head coach for her tweet. Related: University of Oklahoma: 2020-07-12 West Virginia Democrats Silent About Memorials To KKK-Supporting Colleague University of Oklahoma: 2018-09-13 Study Claims Gifted Math Classes Promote 'Academic Apartheid' University of Oklahoma: 2017-10-03 This Supreme Court Case Could Radically Reshape Politics Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2021-08-09 |
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