Monday, November 16, 2015

Four campus stories that will make your BRAIN HURT

Four campus stories that will make your BRAIN HURT - The College Fix:
College students are living up to all the names they’ve been called this week.
Exhibit A: Protest supporting black students canceled because it was organized by white students.
MRCTV reports:
An organized protest at Cornell University supporting racial equality has been canceled after a black student group complained about the “lack of people of color in the planning and attendance” of the event, which appears to have been organized by a white student.
Exhibit B: Student government bans 9/11 remembrance because it would make campus “unsafe.”
Campus Reform reports:
The undergraduate student government at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities rejected a resolution for a moment of recognition on future anniversaries of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. … “The passing of this resolution might make a space that is unsafe for students on campus even more unsafe,” said [a student government representative].
Exhibit C: Student government shuts down campus group that wants to cheer up dying people because they don’t like the club’s name.
The College Fix reports:
A student proposal at Pitzer College to start a DreamCatchers club to cheer up terminally ill hospice patients was “tabled indefinitely” by the school’s student government after its members expressed concerns that the term “dreamcatchers” was a form of cultural appropriation toward Native Americans.
Exhibit D: Asian student shamed and silenced for saying “black people can be racist” and asking her peers to look beyond skin color to see people’s hearts.
The Daily Caller reports:
An Asian student at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, was shutdown in mid-speech during a campus protest Thursday, when she said that “black people can be racist.”
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