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| Topic | My former university removes 'racist rock' from campus |
| joe40001 09/10/21 2:42:16 AM #44: | Atralis posted... My read on this situation is that some students that are majoring in being a victim decided to protest the existence of this rock and said "you are racist if you don't move this" and the University agreed to move it because I guess BLM was really big back then and they couldn't find some actual racist thing they could fix by just hiring some dudes to move a rock so they did this. Yep exactly. Might as well rename that rock as "Virtue Signaling Rock" now. Because it's movement cost 50k and literally didn't help anybody. This is one where I can't at all wrap my head around the logic of it's supporters. Even by cancel culture rules it doesn't make sense, if you are mad about a newspaper from 96 years ago calling it that once, then you would try to find a way to punish the newspaper or the descendant institutions of the newspaper or descendants of those who profited from the newspaper. But not the rock itself. The rock itself literally did nothing, name the rock to something insanely not racist, or hell name it a slur against privledged white people because I think that counts as "anti-racist". Call it "ok boomer" rock, leave it there, save everybody 50k, and save the geology department from having to make a field trip each semester. I think this is my new go to example of how dumb "woke" can be. It's not the most evil or anything, but it's got to be the most stupid. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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