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Student forced to apologize for emailing pic of Obama kicking a door, because RACISM
Daily Caller ^ | February 17, 2014 | Robby Soave

Posted on 02/17/2014 8:14:07 AM PST by grundle

A student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada was forced to issue a formal apology for emailing a picture of President Obama kicking open a door–all because some students thought the image was somehow racist.

Another student issued a formal complaint against Farnan for committing a “micro-aggression.” For those not up-to-date on the PC lexicon, “micro-aggression” is the latest phrase of choice for leftist radicals seeking to blame racism for common annoyances suffered by people of all races. Minority activists at the University of Michigan, for example, have insisted that trivial slights, such as “Having your opinion second-guessed in a group assignment,” are micro-aggressions that betray the campus as a hostile place for students of color.

The .gif of Obama kicking a door was racist because of the “cultural, historical and living legacy surrounding people of color—particularly young men—being portrayed as violent,” according to the apology letter that Farnan was forced to write.

Technically, Farnan got off easy. Under the McGill student government’s Orwellian “equity policy,” Farnan could have been suspended or even dismissed from his position as vice president in the organization. The decision to force Farnan to apologize was apparently made by an “equity commissioner,” whose will can only be overturned by a two-thirds majority of the student government.

Like a true victim of the thought police, Farnan was forced to denounce his heretical email.

“Despite the innocent intentions influencing my decision to use this particular image, I have come to recognize the negative implications of adding the .GIF image within this given context,” he said. “By using this particular image of President Obama, I unknowingly perpetuated this living legacy and subsequently allowed a medium of [Student Society of McGill University] communication to become the site of a microaggression; for this, I am deeply sorry.”

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To: Tenacious 1

Geez, that reads like a POW apologizing for his nations acts of aggression.


41 posted on 02/17/2014 8:50:22 AM PST by Augustinian monk
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To: grundle
McGill University is in Canada. Why should they care about someone insulting the ruler of a foreign country?

Stephen Leacock, the humorist (author of "Gertrude the Governess" and many other classic essays), was an administrator at McGill for many years (he died in 1944). I wonder how he would react to such nonsense.

42 posted on 02/17/2014 8:50:29 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: grundle

You couldn’t pay me to go to 99.9% of colleges today. They are idiot-filled cesspools.


43 posted on 02/17/2014 8:55:52 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: grundle

Micro-aggression? It’s not even a femto-aggression.


44 posted on 02/17/2014 9:05:48 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: grundle

The student should have said, “I’m criticizing his white half....his hippy-dippy white momma.”


45 posted on 02/17/2014 9:12:17 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (I don't want to feel "safe." I want to feel FREE!)
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To: detective

His forced recantation sounds identical to the recantations the communists forced out of prisoners in the gulags in Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, East Germany before shooting them in the head.

Very, very scary indeed.

My only slim hope is that McGill student Brian Farnan was having fun at their expense by writing this drivel and laughing uproariously within.


46 posted on 02/17/2014 9:13:07 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger
I agree, but they don’t have 1st Amendment Rights to Free Speech there......................

They don't recognize that they do have that right...as we are headed in the same direction

47 posted on 02/17/2014 9:15:00 AM PST by sayfer bullets (“I didn’t leave the [---] party, the [---] party left me.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: grundle
The .gif of Obama kicking a door was racist because of the “cultural, historical and living legacy surrounding people of color—particularly young men—being portrayed as violent,” according to the apology letter that Farnan was forced to write.

Gee - a violent temper tantrum being acknowledged shines a bad light on Blacks who have violent temper tantrums and it's a problem not because Blacks throw violent temper tantrums, but because some folks notice and let others in on the info. I guess that goes right along with protecting sexual predators because it's not their fault so much as it is the victim's fault for complaining...

48 posted on 02/17/2014 9:15:38 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Somewhere I still have a copy of a computer game based on throwing shoes at W. The player controls bush and gains points by avoiding shoes coming at him. It’s actually pretty fun.

But I get your larger point about the double-standard between the two presidents.


49 posted on 02/17/2014 9:24:51 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( 0bama's words are the distraction to the destruction ))))
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To: grundle

Normal people lost. Marxism won. If you’re White you have no rights.


50 posted on 02/17/2014 9:27:34 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: grundle

Anti-racism has devolved to being anti-white. So the minority group racists pull out all kinds of garbage to justify their anti-white behavior


51 posted on 02/17/2014 9:28:44 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: grundle

52 posted on 02/17/2014 9:56:47 AM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: grundle

When McGill, once a Canadian leading center of academic excellence devolves to the point of punishing a student for emailing a picture of Obama in a snit, said university has devolved into a leading university in Kancukistan.


53 posted on 02/17/2014 10:10:18 AM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: grundle

There is no freedom of speech in Canada or England. I am reminded of China during the Cultural Revolution when out of favor officials sat with dunce hats on their heads and had to confess to all their “crimes.” Canada and the UK are very close to that point, even with Conservative PMs who have done NOTHING to roll back the PC tide.


54 posted on 02/17/2014 10:15:45 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: stickywillie

From Snopes:

This clip is one of a number of spoof video comedy bits
featuring famous people (with President Obama being a frequent subject) which comedian Jay Leno inserted into his Tonight Show monologues during his tenure as host of that venerable late-night talk show. The clip in its original context had Leno deadpanning that “President Obama’s body language is pretty subtle,” and the following video shows how the original clip was altered to produce the comedic “door-kicking” version:


55 posted on 02/17/2014 10:17:20 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

Does Canada have free speech rights? Apparently not. They can now be considered to be part and parcel Commies.


56 posted on 02/17/2014 10:29:40 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: devolve

- nagger - Wheel of Fortune, South Park :=)


57 posted on 02/17/2014 10:34:28 AM PST by Bob
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To: grundle

What’s wrong w/saying. “I’m sorry I’m not able to control the way some people interrupt things as.... what’s in their own hearts is the way they interpret. They see things with ‘what they have within them’. Perhaps I need a course or two in mind control. “


58 posted on 02/17/2014 10:44:17 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Tenacious 1
Read that again. This isn't an apology at all. LOL. There is no victim to apologize to. There is no real stated offense. It was written so well that only the most intellectual would find that it was a coerced statement to satisfy the PC. Still, tragically, it does give the ridiculous PC cult a victory.

Yes, it was an excellent non-apology apology. Indeed, it was smugly satirical.

59 posted on 02/17/2014 10:50:51 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Verginius Rufus

“, was an administrator at McGill for many years (he died in 1944)”

For heaven’s sake,ANYONE who died in 1944 and came back would think they were in an alternate universe.

The world has gone stark,raving mad.

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60 posted on 02/17/2014 10:55:19 AM PST by Mears
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