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Posted on 01/28/2016 5:26:21 AM PST by VitacoreVision
Student leaders at the University of Oregon debated removing a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. from its student center, arguing that the quote was not inclusive enough for modern understandings of diversity.
Oregon's Erb Memorial Union, which is currently under renovation, had the following famous King quote on the wall: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream..."
But as renovation continues, the Oregon Student Union seriously considered replacing that quote. "The quote is not going to change," reports student paper Oregon Daily Emerald, "but that decision was not made without some hard thought by the Student Union Board."
When the student union considered the question, some students asked, "Does the MLK quote represent us today?" The problem wasn't so much the message, but the fact that it only focused on racial diversity instead of gender identity.
"Diversity is so much more than race," said one sophomore architecture major. "Obviously race still plays a big role. But there are people who identify differently in gender and all sorts of things like that."
Ironically, the King quote was to the lobby after students complained about another quote. Until 1985, the wall declared the University of Oregon "leader in the quest for the good life for all men." That was replaced with the King quote after feminists objected to the implication that Oregon only cared about "men."
Michael King is no hero.
I was seriously looking for the Onion label...
“The problem wasn’t so much the message, but the fact that it only focused on racial diversity instead of gender identity.”
So has the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled Dr. King as a man of HATE, as they labeled Ben Carson, when he refused to accede to the demands of that bunch?
Eventually that rattlesnake you play with bites you.
Why not just make one up?
That’s the great thing about leftist history - you can change it as much as you like.
These little fascist pigs need to be deported to Afghanistan.
Unless somebody here can think of a worse place.
Yeah, like kwanza.
faggots. You can’t live without them because they won’t let you.
The Dilly Dally Dingoos Doodlers have assumed control of that institution. Time to build a fence around it and seal it off like a time capsule to mark this point in our demise.
Fully indoctrinated.
Student Unions like this are shining examples of those individuals that have been successfully indoctrinated.
Triggered, perpetually offended safe-space seekers. The trials and hardships of real life will soon hit them in the face and, having never been hit, they will drop like a sack of taters... crying in the corner in the fetal position, wondering why life is so unfair.
Buncha pannywaist snowflakes.
Anyone really interested in social justice and diversity, correcting past evils and such should stop using American currency that has the faces of dead slave holders. Put your money where your mouth is.
I really miss writers who understood English.
Detroit?
Not Detroit, there’s no wall around it. Maybe Pyongyang, where these little creeps can praise Dear Leader all the livelong day.
How about a new quote....
‘Diversity’
WAIT! Hold the presses! Uni-versity? How un-diverse! Change the name of the school to “Oregon Diversity”!!!!
Wow.
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