Posted on 12/16/2017 1:58:52 PM PST by Hadean
University College London was forced to apologize after a “dreaming of a white campus” tweet was deemed racist by “snowflake students.” The tweet had been intended to let students know the campus was still open as some parts of Britain remained covered by 13 inches of snow.
The tweet said: “Dreaming of a white campus? Our campuses will be open and operating fully today, Monday 11 December, so please make your way in as planned. (We can’t guarantee snow but we’ll try!) #snowday #londonsnow.”
One twitter user replied: “You know who else dreamt of a white campus? Hitler, that’s who. Disgusting.” Kumail Jaffer, a PPE student at Warwick University urged UCL to “retract and apologize.” He added that if anyone does not understand why the comment is offensive, they should “look into the history of the oppression of the PoC [People of Color],” according to the Telegraph.
UCL quickly apologized for the tweet, saying it “chose our words very poorly … We’re sorry and we’ll choose out words more carefully in the future.” The university explained it had been referring to the song ‘White Christmas,’ and posted a link to a YouTube video of the 1942 song, which was written by Irving Berlin.
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The idiocy of assuming everyones intentions are all the same.
all they do is show their own biased assumptions.
So now God is racist for snow being white?
Leftists may want to insert Mother Nature or Gaia in that sentence.
Sooooo, global warming is a good thing, now?
Just say “No”.
Stand up to the snow flakes, don’t cower to them. Don’t argue with them
They can assimilate or get expelled. No employer is going to put up with this crap.
If this wasn’t in the UK, I would just assume that it was epic trolling, but nowadays I’m not so sure.
“You know who else dreamt of a white campus? Hitler, that’s who. Disgusting.”
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Nope. He dreamed of an ‘Aryan-only’ [ campus], and idiots who only viewed things in terms of race. Disgusting.
The inmates have been running the asylum most of my life but the level of crazy is becoming incomprehensibly crazy.
No kidding. What would have happened if the University had responded to Faux Outrage by saying "Don't be ridiculous. And stop looking for paltry reasons to take offense where clearly none was intended."
A few more snowflakes might have melted, then the whole idiotic kerfuffle would have gone away. Instead, the whiners were emboldened and encouraged to manufacture novel grievances.
In other news, Bing Crosby’s Dreaming of a White Christmas to be banned.
W-T-F???
ISIS is going to have such an easy time taking over that society. The snowflakes are going to freak the hell out.
Irving Berlin originally meant that song to be performed by a Minstrel troupe, didn’t he?
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When will we hear, “These students were dismissed for not being mature enough, and therefore not fit enough, for college”?
No apology was necessary. Instead, the university chose to cower.
The loathsome W-word must be eradicated from the English language.
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