As a Georgetown alumnus (1983), I am utterly disgusted by the direction that the university itself, and its student body, have taken in recent years.
The fact of the matter is that BLM’s creators are self-avowed Marxists, and that the organization doesn’t actually give a damn about ALL black lives, only those about which it can make a big stink and garner lots of donations. In other words, it is just like the ACLU and NOW, it is just another Leftist political organization masquerading as a “good cause,” which is to say that they are a bunch of self-interested whores...
...and the book-smart but common-sense deficient jackasses in the GU student senate are buying their BS. Or, to paraphrase those world-class philosophers from worthy to be nominees for the “Upper Class Twit of the Year.”
“Or, to paraphrase those world-class philosophers from worthy to be nominees for the “Upper Class Twit of the Year.” “
Or, to paraphrase those world-class philosophers from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, they are worthy to be nominees for the “Upper Class Twit of the Year.”
It started the year GU installed its first lay (non-priest) president, early to mid 00s. The next year, if I recall, an African bishop came to give the commencement address, in which he spoke of the danger to society of setting aside traditional the Catholic view of sexuality and family. Several of the female faculty got up in a huff and stormed off the platform in full view of all the graduates and their parents.
The following year,GU formed its Gay-Straight Alliance and held a “Sex Positive Week” on campus, with all sorts of perverse displays. Soon after, there was that Georgetown Law student who went before Congress complaining that GU should pay for her birth control...
As this started ramping up, the Exorcist novelist William Peter Blatty tried to start an alumni and donor push-back, and challenged the school to stop calling itself Catholic, but it never went anywhere, and now he’s been dead for years.