Posted on 04/08/2015 12:30:50 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The University of Michigan canceled a scheduled movie screening of “American Sniper” on Tuesday after nearly 300 students and others complained the film glorifies a “mass killer” and perpetuates anti-Muslim stereotypes.
An online petition, titled a “collective letter from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students on campus,” accused the school of “tolerating dangerous anti-Muslim and anti-MENA propaganda” by showing the Chris Kyle biopic, The College Fix reported.
“The movie American Sniper not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim and anti-MENA rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer,” the letter reads. “Chris Kyle was a racist who took a disturbing stance on murdering Iraqi civilians. Middle Eastern characters in the film are not lent an ounce of humanity and watching this movie is provocative and unsafe to MENA and Muslim students who are too often reminded of how little the media and world values their lives.”
The petition achieved it goal in getting the school to cancel the showing, which was scheduled for Friday. The Center for Campus Involvement, which oversees student activities and is run by university employees, announced its decision Tuesday on social media, The College Fix reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I graduated from UMichigan College of Engineering some decades ago (in the 60’s), and then an MS from the grad school. I can remember trying to get through the lines of protesters into West Engineering to get to my classes (which of course I was paying for). Back then it was (of course) against defense research. Somehow I managed through all the disruptions to graduate summa cum laude, which amazes me to this day.
Not much has changed.
I used to contribute a lot of money to both Engineering and the grad school.
I gave up a few years ago. Money will eventually get the attention of any university administrator.
Here’s a heads-up for the parents of these poor little things. These faint hearted, vapid clones will never, ever attain anything that resembles adulthood no matter how long they may live. Congratulations!
Makes me wonder how many young men that are sorry they weren’t born with a vagina, ovaries, uterus and breasts.
Being “nort” of the Big Mac gives me some safety but we have Green Bay and a much smaller bridge to our SW.
Since the Washington Times thinks the article is top secret I found the link to the original article. No freedom of speech in America...
“The signers were mostly students, but also some staff, as well as the Muslim Students’ Association and the president of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a Palestinian solidarity group at UMich.
The online memo, titled a “collective letter from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students on campus,” accused the public university of “tolerating dangerous anti-Muslim and anti-MENA propaganda” by showing the movie, the highest grossing film of 2014.”
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/21937/
We’ve known since the VietNam demonstrations that 99 & 1/2 of the university administrators are pussies, afraid to stand with the law abiding, American born or naturalized students. The ones who pay for their education not using tax payers money. (loans)
Have they also banned Call of Duty and The Walking Dead? Not to mention most TV shows and movies these days.
Ann Arbor is about 98% nut job liberal.
Mommy! They showed a bad movie at school!
Then don’t watch it.
I didn’t watch it. But it’s bad and I am so so scared!
I still have several bumper stickers showing a crying child and the words “Liberals on the Bus go Whah, Whah, Whah!”
Any company HR thinking about hiring these wusses should have their heads examined...
If we were overrun with Nazis, they would be. Perhaps they will be next.
Oh? It didn’t happen just this way, or worse??? Riiiiiiiigght
A nation of Pajama Boys.
HR departments drink the same Kool-Aid.
Coellge leftists need to have their cocoons shattered
I’m glad they canceled. I never thought that college students are MATURE ENOUGH to deal with the concept of warfare...and they SHOULD NOT be allowed to vote either.
You’re right... sometimes I’m overly optimistic..
“Under this weird logic, Alvin York and Audie Murphy would be considered mass murderers too...”
They probably are by many professors at most of our Universities and probably by many if not most of elected democrats.
“‘American Sniper’ too violent for U. of Michigan; students shown ‘Paddington’ bear flick instead...”
This is Buckwheat’s “Army” who the 50 IQ elitist morons expect to die on a hilltop for the glory of Obuma’s neo-fascist “hope and change.”
HAHAHAHA!!!!!
Talk about castrated wimps: Here they are in real life - Paddington bear diaper babies.
AHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
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