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UMass-Amherst: Harambe Jokes Are Racist Microaggressions, Violate Title IX
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Posted on 09/06/2016 10:33:25 AM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: Mrs. Don-o
"And THAT’S why we need a Federal Department of Redundancy Department."

Which would assure us that redundancy is normal, make anti-redundant speech a hate crime, and eventually require all speech to be redundant starting with the military and state department, followed by education and federally funded schools.

21 posted on 09/06/2016 11:20:16 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I thought about posting that redundantly. And then I decided the thread was already too whacked as it is.


22 posted on 09/06/2016 11:21:37 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: TigerClaws

WHITEBOARDS!!! A micro-invalidation.

What a bunch of slack-jawed....pansies.


23 posted on 09/06/2016 11:38:39 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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24 posted on 09/06/2016 11:40:32 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: SaveFerris

The author should know better than to use the word murder to describe the killing of the gorilla.


25 posted on 09/06/2016 11:42:08 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: TigerClaws
"These jokes "are not only derogatory but also micro-aggressions," two RAs wrote in a letter...

Here is a classic example of virtue signaling. Whoever can get offended by the most trivial thing is the most virtuous.

26 posted on 09/06/2016 11:42:41 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: DannyTN

Some things are better left unsaid, which is why, if I have said them -— which I do not concede -— I now hereby unsay them.

If you do not accordingly unhear them, this is unheard-of.

Self-effacement through self-erasement.

No white-out privilege.

You bigot.


27 posted on 09/06/2016 11:58:42 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("It's like deva-vu all over again." - Yogi Berra)
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To: sima_yi

To me, that was a very informative comment. Thank you.


28 posted on 09/06/2016 12:12:25 PM PDT by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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To: Gamecock

Bartender: What do you want to drink?
Harambe: I’ll have a beer
Me: No he’ll have just ice
Bartender: Just ice?
Me: Yes, justice for Harambe


29 posted on 09/06/2016 12:15:14 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“We had blackboards when I was in school. Looks like the blackboards got discriminated against for nothing but their color.”

Everyone knows the whiteboards work better than blackboards, and are less annoying. Sure, you can pay less for blackboards, but it just isn’t worth it in the long run.


30 posted on 09/06/2016 1:28:44 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

And how do they have a “residential community for students of African heritage”? Where’s the diversity? Where’s the inclusion? Why are they so privileged as to have their own dorm?


31 posted on 09/06/2016 1:29:23 PM PDT by gnickgnack2 (eing thisQUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
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32 posted on 09/06/2016 1:37:42 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: TigerClaws

Harambe was a gorilla so how the heck can anything said about this creature possibly be racist? This is total idiocy.


33 posted on 09/06/2016 1:40:54 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: gnickgnack2

Why did they name their “residential community for students of African heritage” after a gorilla?


34 posted on 09/06/2016 2:16:55 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: gnickgnack2

Why did they name their “residential community for students of African heritage” after a gorilla?


35 posted on 09/06/2016 2:16:55 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: TigerClaws

Then I suppose we are not allowed to point out that Hillary is Harambe’s sister....


36 posted on 09/06/2016 2:21:46 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: TigerClaws

Uhhh... they have a residential hall for blacks only (re-segregated!), and they named it after a Disney Safari ride? I think they meant “Harambee,” which is an invented phrase (some say based on the Hindu chant, “Har! Har! Ambee!”) used to call Kenyans to work together.


37 posted on 09/06/2016 2:23:09 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Boogieman
Due to my impudence, I often used to have to clean blackboards after school.

That said, I like blackboards. They are fine Americans and deserve equal opportunity.

Equal opportunity...not affirmative action.

They must fight as hard as whiteboards for what they achieve.

No one wants a hand out. There's no pride in that.

38 posted on 09/06/2016 2:34:09 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Einstein: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity)
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To: CMS

That’s my new wallpaper.


39 posted on 09/09/2016 2:33:34 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (As long as America's tolerence of failure is not overwhelmed by a desire to succeed, we will fail.)
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