Posted on 07/04/2016 2:04:20 PM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard
Those who support Donald Trump on campus continue to be punished, as his campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again” is considered a racial attack by Skidmore College’s Bias Response Group. The incidents took place in March and April in separate buildings on the whiteboard of two female faculty of color, including one who had “immigrant parentage,” The College Fix reported.
The messages were described as “Written slur or graffiti” in the group’s report. In the case of the faculty member who had “immigrant parentage,” the summary noted that the slogan “is associated with the political campaign of a candidate widely known to voice anti-immigrant and bigoted views.”
The BRG’s response “acknowledges that political speech is free and protected,” though there is a but in there, enabling the BRG to condemn the messages:
As a group, though, we are committed to the idea that political speech is open, engaged, and part of a public debate. These seemingly connected reports suggest a pattern of using the idea of political speech to target specific members of the Skidmore community with biased messaging. As such, the BRG does not interpret these messages as political speech but as racialized, targeted attacks.
The hysteria is similar to chalking incidents revealing pro-Trump messages at universities across the country in the spring, which is when the messages appeared at Skidmore. The overreaction from the first message at Emory University led to a contest in which numerous schools participated with chalk messages of their own.
The reactions were harsher at some schools than others. Hailey Puckett was called on to resign from her newly elected position on student government at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga for her pro-Trump message.
Skidmore’s BRG defines bias as:
an act of bigotry, harassment, or intimidation involving a member of the Skidmore community that a reasonable person would conclude is directed at a member or group within the Skidmore community based on race, color, ethnicity, nationality, economic background, age, physical and mental health or ability, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or religious practice.
The website also points to a “Bias Response Flow Chart” and a “Preferred Name Form.”
But “=fundamental transformation” of a nation isn’t a racist, targeted attack, oh nooooooo...
I say “Make college Great Again!”.
DUMB WILL STAY THE SAME
So they are assuming that diversity is keeping America from being great. I agree with that.
Only libtards would be offended at a slogan that wants to make something great again.
Fearful libtards.
Sounds like the commies at UT-Chat aren’t into making America great again. I guess they’re rooting for ISIS and Iran.
Wonder if they ever read the Bill of Rights, and the 1st Amendment. Time to proclaim LIBERTY from the tyrants.
See they take it as a personal insult.
They are in charge and others saying this means their leadership has made things worse.
Thats as simple as it is.
Where was that??? Skidrow College????
based on race, color, ethnicity, nationality, economic background, age, physical and mental health or ability, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or religious practice.
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Only thing left out is:
“Exhales CO2”
College kids who can think for themselves may replace the Tea Party as Valerie Jarrett’s #1 threat to National Security ;)
chalking incidents
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Tradtionally, Chalk is White.
Damn that soft, white, porous sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is calcium carbonate or CaCO3. Damn that chemistry!
BRG is not just a bunch of pompous jackasses. History has proven, time and again, that such people will kill millions if they get the opportunity.
College has become an uber-expensive indoctrination factory. It needs to be re-taken by the taxpayers and flushed clean of crap like this.
The "epithets" are dispicable, but pales in comparison to these two faculty members, of color, being oppressed every day by having WHITEboards in their classrooms. Will this endless white privilege ever cease?! Of course I must now turn myself in for biased speech for using the phrase "pales in comparison to."
Wonder if that describes their scanty panties after they see a Trump sign...
Anyone else notice that there is a strong totalitarian streak in these allegedly tolerant liberals?????
So, to keep liberals happy, we have to censor a campaign slogan. A slogan which does not contain any disparaging words, or any vulgar or obscene language, is said to be offensive.
And since liberals set themselves up as judge, jury, and executioner, the offending slogan is declared to be racist/sexist/bigoted/homophobic/xenophobic,etc.
Skidmore College.
Yeah, appropriate name. They teach political correctness instead of the truth in college. I hope these colleges are on a slippery slope, skidding to nowhere’s-ville to be commandeered or replaced by institutions of actual learning
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