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UW-La Crosse Student 'Very Upset' Over Dorm's Harry Potter Mural
FOX ^ | 9-26-2016 | Jillian Melchior

Posted on 09/27/2016 10:44:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student had a serious complaint for his campus’ official “Hate Response Team”: he was “very upset” by a Harry Potter mural in a college dorm.

The mural, in the Laux Residence Hall, depicts Neville Longbottom, a character from the Harry Potter films. The nerdy Neville was played by actor Matthew Lewis, who blossomed into a notable hunk post-puberty. The mural shows him as both a geeky boy and an attractive young man — transformed, according to the mural’s caption, by a stay at the Laux Residence Hall itself.

The depiction of this metamorphosis “represents our ideal society and everything I am trying to fight against,” wrote the offended student, whose name is redacted. “It represents white power. Man power. Cis power. Able power. Class power. ECT [sic] ect. I am angry that I know the people who put this mural up, and I am anger [sic] because I know the people who let this mural be put up. Like I said earlier, maybe I am being a little sensitive, but it is how I feel. This represents, to me, our society, and I do not want it up on this wall. Why do we need a BEFORE and AFTER?”

The complaint, unearthed by a Heat Street records request for reports of bias on UW-La Crosse’s campus, was filed in April. We confirmed the mural remains up, despite the student’s complaint. By deadline, neither of the students who painted Neville Longbottom’s poster had responded to Heat Street’s inquiry.

UW-La Crosse established its “Hate Response” Team more than a decade ago to address acts of bias, prejudice, intolerance and hate on campus.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: highereducation; nutjob
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To: Mrs. Don-o
This person's normophobia is actually normocentric.

I am so stealing that...

21 posted on 09/27/2016 11:01:45 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
“It represents white power. Man power. Cis power. Able power. Class power. ECT [sic] ect."

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

22 posted on 09/27/2016 11:03:36 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Well played, ma’am.


23 posted on 09/27/2016 11:04:12 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I guess the complainer wants a demonstration of 'snowflake power' in his/her/it's dorm.

24 posted on 09/27/2016 11:04:16 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Army Air Corps

They just need to get their asses kicked. I will volunteer to do this at their chosen safe space.


25 posted on 09/27/2016 11:06:39 AM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Army Air Corps

What the HELL is wrong with so many people in this current generation of American youth?
___________________

They were raised with hovering parents who protected them from every conceivable scraped knee and hurt feeling from their little playmates. They were helmeted for their bike rides, scheduled with playdates, praised for doing ordinary things. And they got trophies for participating in everything. And you wonder why their little sensibilities are so fragile?


26 posted on 09/27/2016 11:06:44 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: Billthedrill
cis-buta-di-ene

trans-buta-di-ene


27 posted on 09/27/2016 11:06:49 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: j.havenfarm

“I’m upset, too. It looks like the mural was executed by the same person who restored that painting of Jesus in Spain a few years back.”

It sure didn’t look like Jesus went to Laux in that “after” picture.


28 posted on 09/27/2016 11:12:54 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: j.havenfarm

Chuckles.

C’mon you know that woman meant well when she did the “restoration”.

Here is some of her other work:
http://dailynewsdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Hilarious-Parodies-Of-The-Christ-Restoration-Fail-1.jpg


29 posted on 09/27/2016 11:13:18 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: j.havenfarm
I’m upset, too. It looks like the mural was executed by the same person who restored that painting of Jesus in Spain a few years back.

Even Jesus needs a safe space in today's crazy world!

30 posted on 09/27/2016 11:14:28 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"maybe I am being a little sensitive"


31 posted on 09/27/2016 11:15:30 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The graduating Class of 2036 will look back at 2016, full of neurotic, intolerant sheeple, and alternate between laughing and weeping. “Grandad, were you guys really that naive and needy? Did your friends really support groups like Black Lives Matter, even though they were in the business of killing cops and white people? Did the colleges really become racially Re-segregated again? Wow. Amazing!! How was this allowed to happen?”


32 posted on 09/27/2016 11:16:54 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Does anyone know what ‘cispower’ means? I have tried to figure it out to no avail.


33 posted on 09/27/2016 11:17:19 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: originalbuckeye

It is the power & freedom that “normal” people (those who accept their “birth gender”) have to live their lives without worrying about whether or not they might actually be some other sex...


34 posted on 09/27/2016 11:21:29 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"“It represents white power. Man power. Cis power. Able power. Class power. ..."

The alternative being what? Unable power? No class power? No power at all?

This whiny little "thing" needs an ass beating in the worst way possible. Their victim-hood mentality and utter rejection of anything that might actually SUCCEED at doing... anything... needs to be utterly demolished and the error of their cringe-worthy ways rubbed in their face.

35 posted on 09/27/2016 11:26:52 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Army Air Corps
Participation trophies and no longer applying the Board of Education to the Seat of Knowledge.


36 posted on 09/27/2016 11:28:44 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: BenLurkin

A liberal lesbian, probably of color or just self-hating white, complains that the actor who played a fictional character named big butt turned into a decent looking person in real life.
And yet women like her ignore ISIS sex slaves, female genital mutilation, honor killings, Muslim rape gangs ... they are focused on luxury and trivia while a billion women want the most basic right to walk to market without wearing a bag, to choose a husband, to not be killed for refusing either.


37 posted on 09/27/2016 11:35:00 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Excellent post!


38 posted on 09/27/2016 11:36:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: grobdriver

39 posted on 09/27/2016 11:41:12 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Poor little snowflake must have had a Confundus Charm or Babbling Curse put upon him. He needs a Bewitched Snowball spell cast on him.


40 posted on 09/27/2016 12:04:57 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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