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Posted on 04/03/2016 7:51:00 AM PDT by Buttons12
Following a vote from the Board of Trustees, Susquehanna University is the latest institution whose mascot, the Crusaders, must go due to concern over potential offensiveness and negative connotations.
Citing "growing concern and sensitivity" to ensure sure the campus remains "welcoming and inclusive..."
...Last spring, the Susquehanna University student government ran a poll among the student body with a squirrel winning by over 50 percent of the votes.
"I don’t know if squirrels are exactly that presence that we needed," said Junior Paris Campbell to the student newspaper, also titled The Crusader.
Despite the petition and seemingly apathetic student body, the Board and President Lemons stand firm in the need to change the nickname and mascot to something that doesn’t potentially conjure connotations that would offend someone.
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
FTR, Susq U is a small university in central PA. Library parking lot is perhaps the smallest in the nation. How they get under the ADA radar is a mystery, but if you don't have a bicycle you're gonna feel the microagression.
But, but, but, what if I’m offended that they dropped “Cursaders”? LOL! I know. I’d be told to sit down and STFU.
How very PC of them
What will they call themselves now? The Dancing Snowflakes?
I am only cool with this if the new name is KillAllMuslims.
Squirrels are offended that the school would adopt an apex predator as their new choice of mascot.
Personally I’d have chosen Rabbits. Crusader Rabbit was an old tv cartoon.
Or in further deference to the new overlords, a pretty goat mascot might have been appropriate.
The state of PA needs to do something about those tomahawk signs on the highways, too. So disrespectful! tsk!
Fighting words! Seriously, you want to make a coed openly hostile, "snowflake" does it every time.
Isn’t changing the name a microagression to the memories of the Christians who laid down their lives to oppose Mohammedanism. Had these Christians not made the ultimate sacrifice, there would be no Susque U!
How ungrateful and hypocritical!
You know the engineers of political correctness have done a great job when institutions don’t even wait for someone to complain before making the move.
Sad.
Christians are the cause of all evil. Haven’t you learned that yet? / s
We, the easily offended people.
The Founding Fathers would be disgusted.
I live in the hinterlands of PA and regularly haunt the college libraries between State College and Scranton. James Carville likened this area to Alabama. He wasn’t exaggerating.
And yet, lately you’re more likely to see muslims than Amish. I’m not sure what attracts them to middle of nowhere, but here they are.
The tyranny of the offended.
Sensitivity inclusive it’s like calling socialism a safety net just more words from the liberal passive code book.
Hey LAZ....this memorable post is absolute proof that you alone are the very best at what you do. There is no wonder that FR practitioners are in awe of you!
Says Steyn, "I can't wait for the California sporting calendar circa 2015: the San Diego Jihadi vs the Oakland Culturally Sensitives, the Malibu Hezbollah vs. the Santa Monica Inoffensives, the Pasadena Sword of the Infidel-Slayers vs. the Bakersfield Self-Deprecators, the San Jose Decapitators vs. the Berkeley Mutually Respectfuls."
You are too kind. I'm just a jerk with a keyboard. :)
If they.are.going to change names, they should at least decide to become the “Mad Hatters.”
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