Posted on 09/01/2018 7:30:53 AM PDT by lowbridge
Honoring the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is an admirable cause, but one university says no matter how honorable the intent, such a memorial can’t be done with images of the World Trade Center attacks.
Administrators at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin have ruled that posters created for Young America’s Foundation’s 9/11: Never Forget Project create an “environment” where “students from a Muslim background would feel singled out and/or harassed.”
YAF undertakes its 9/11 memorial project at campuses around the country every year. The posters created for last year’s 9/11 remembrance sparked complaints.
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Fools on display in the Ripon administration. Deserving of ridicule and absolutely no financial support for alumni or government.
In the same sense that Nazis would be offended by pictures of the holocaust.
That is the stupidest thing I have heard in quite sometime.
Sane college students need to start fighting back against this new strain of ultra-PC.
It seems that every day they fail in removing Trump from office they get more and more divorced from common sense and reality. I know it’ll come back and bite them in the end, because the left has gone SO far off center that they’re in danger of becoming a wacko fringe group - like people who only want to eat uncooked black beans while camped out in Antartica to protest global warming, while wearing a tutu to celebrate sexual non-identity.
On the other hand, it’s a little frustrating to see our side refusing to fight back against their fascist attempts at thought-control and relying on them losing, down the line, at the ballot box.
WOW. Unbelievable.
Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, recently changed its name to Traitor College in Traitorville, Wisconsin.
Bow to your masters, infidels.
This should be the point where they say “eff you” to the administrators and go on ahead with and dare them to do something about it.
There should be no on-campus honoring of Ramadan then, since all things being equal it reminds Christians of the Battle of Vienna, and the siege of Constantinople, and the Armenian genocide, and the...
It’s madness.
The Pearl Harbor memorials don’t offend the Japanese-——in fact they are frequent visitors.
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moslems SHOULD be offended that their ‘religion’ has reached such a level of barbarism.
Eff islam!
Ripon College’s ban is offensive to patriotic Americans.
Yet another place of non-education that should be closed.
They should put that on t-shirts and wear them on 9/11 or any other day they want to exercise their right to free political speech against government authority, the only kind protected by the First Amendment.
Nazis would be offended by pictures of the Holocaust....
Someone ask Soros is he’s offended. That’ll settle the question.
Almost makes me want to get a few copies to post around the San Francisco area to see how many snowflakes I can “offend”!
Put them up anyway. Make them tear them down. Record it.
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