Posted on 12/09/2015 12:31:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
At this point I may be forced to surrender. I’ve gone through my thesaurus several times now and I’m quickly running out of ways to describe the infantile self-parody which these Black Lives Matter protests on America’s college campuses have become. The latest story out of Pennsylvania comes to us from Lebanon Valley College, located just west of Philadelphia. The usual protests about racial triggers and microagressions were on display, but the students had one additional demand which essentially broke the irony meter. They want a long standing college building to be renamed because the person it was erected to honor was named “Lynch.” (Yahoo News)
Students at a small Pennsylvania college are demanding that administrators rename a building called “Lynch Memorial Hall” because of the racial overtones of the word “lynch.”
The building is named after Clyde A. Lynch, who was president of Lebanon Valley College from 1932 until his death in 1950.
Students want school officials to either rename the building entirely or add Lynch’s first name and middle initial, saying the word recalls the public executions of black men by white mobs in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Thank God none of the buildings honor anyone named “White” or we could have a full fledged riot on our hands.
The really frightening part of this story is that the school administration released a statement saying they are “considering all of the demands and will address them at a forum next month.” The other demands include “sensitivity training” for the faculty and regular surveys of the racial climate on campus. I’m unsure how the college plans to conduct such surveys other than handing out anonymous forms asking if anyone feels uncomfortable or aggrieved. Given the tone of most of the special snowflakes attending our houses of higher learning these days they’ll probably get a 100% dissatisfaction rating in response.
The sad part is that the students will probably succeed and the college will waste even more of it’s money ripping out Lynch’s name and modifying it somehow. And why wouldn’t the students expect to prevail? They’re managing to bully their way into running the show at other colleges across the nation. Do you recall that professor at Yale who dared to suggest that the school might not want to ban Halloween costumes which might “offend” someone and that vigorous debate should be part of the students’ preparation for real life? Yeah… she quit this week. (University Herald)
A Yale University professor who criticized an email warning students about insensitive Halloween costumes has chosen to stop teaching amid outrage over her response to the email.
Erika Christakis, an early childhood education expert, argued in her email that college should be a place where students should be able to risk being “a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?” Yale announced Christakis’ decision to stop teaching on Monday.
If the colleges are just going to knuckle under to thug tactics and cease focusing on providing the best possible education for the tuition dollars they receive, they deserve what they get. Turn the asylum over to the inmates and the rest of us with actual jobs will sit back and laugh when these oh so easily aggrieved students show up to apply for a position in the private sector.
Take it up with the Department of Justice.
What about the AG, Loretta?
and these aholes are in college.unbelivable
I get the sentiment, but it's not as easy as that. Sooner or later these people are going to RUN the private sector, assuming there still is one in our future.
The time is right now for people truly interested in academia and higher education to push back and not give in.
I think we’ve gotten into Silly Season a little bit early this year. Of course, most colleges of today remain stuck in ‘silliness’ mode, stuck in the corrosive amber of childish thinking.
Dang,Normans!
RE: PA student protesters want building renamed because it honors someone named “Lynch”
I wonder whether anybody is going to demand that the current Attorney General change her family name... or step down.
Then go tell the dumb f***s to march on DC and demand the Justice Department get rid of the AG ‘cause her name is Lynch, too.
and these aholes are in college.unbelivable
In person, you just looking around for a baseball bat to put to good use.
It goes beyond a *Generation Gap*........
And while they are it it there is this big building called “The White House” that deserves some attention.
Satire:
Students at Liberty University in Lynchburg have demanded the Obama administration remove Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch due to the associated racial connotations.
They are also asking college administrators to relocate the school to Safe Place, California, the municipality formerly known as San Bernardino.
This is what happens when you let the kids on the short bus run the universities.
Sounds good!
Get rid of the new Attorney General, whose last name is Lynch.
It appears that students are even moire naive and ignorant than when I was in college. I didn’t think that was possible. What morons.
“the word recalls the public executions of black men by white mobs”
Historically illiterate idiots. More whites probably died at the hands of lynch mobs than blacks did.
The left gets offended over every niggling thing.
Just tell them it is named after Loretta Lynch and then watch them try to figure out if that is good or bad.
RE: The left gets offended over every niggling thing.
Some ignoramus bound to be offended by your use of the above “n” word :)
Coons Rd. was a street that ran through Occidental College. Not long ago, black activists branded the name “racist” and demanded that it be changed. Despite the fact that the road was named for Arthur G. Coons, a noted scholar and loongtime president of the college, the administration meekly complied and renamed the street “AGC Rd.”
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