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Students sign petition to remove oppressive white stick figure from crosswalk signs
TheBlaze.com ^ | 8/14/2019 | Sarah Taylor

Posted on 08/14/2019 4:42:39 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

Campus Reform's Ethan Cai recently visited George Washington University in Washington, D.C., to ask students to sign a petition supporting the motion to change the "offensive" and "oppressive" white stick figure in LED crosswalk signs.

Cai visited the university undercover, urging students to sign the outlet's fake petition.

The petition urged the university "to consider changing the crosswalk signs," because a white man telling students when it is OK to cross the street is oppressive.

"As we students cross the street," the petition read, "we are told by the symbol of a white man when it is OK to cross. Many students from diverse backgrounds, including individuals of color, gender fluid individuals, and LGBTQA+ individuals, feel oppressed by this."

Many students were in favor of the petition. One educator was also on board with the proposed change. Just one student voiced dissent, saying he was "ideologically opposed" to the idea of making the crosswalk sign more inclusive.

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The school's former mascot, George the Colonial, was changed earlier this year after students voted to remove and replace the offending mascot.

George the Colonial was deemed "extremely offensive" because it "glorifies the act of systemic oppression."

Fifty-four percent of students voted to approve the measure, which passed in March.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: campusreform; snowflakes
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1 posted on 08/14/2019 4:42:39 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

I’ve been triggered.


2 posted on 08/14/2019 4:43:23 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Republican Wildcat

Ban white sales too. They raciss’.

CC


3 posted on 08/14/2019 4:44:39 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: Republican Wildcat

They should.


4 posted on 08/14/2019 4:45:17 PM PDT by sport
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To: Republican Wildcat

On the one hand, it’s funny. On the other hand, dolts like these students will become the adults who inherit America. Our future is not in good hands.


5 posted on 08/14/2019 4:45:45 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Republican Wildcat

Yo, jus tell the little white man,”aw, HELL NAH” and step out inna street.


6 posted on 08/14/2019 4:48:09 PM PDT by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: kaehurowing

The use of “triggered” is offensive to victims of gun violence and their loved ones.


7 posted on 08/14/2019 4:48:31 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: Republican Wildcat

I have to wonder if this didn’t start out as someone trolling. Then when the trollees were too stupid to realize it, it took on a life of its own.


8 posted on 08/14/2019 4:49:22 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: Celtic Conservative
Ban white sales too. They raciss’.

I'm triggered by "Black Friday Sales", hide crouching in a closet until it's over. Ban them also.

9 posted on 08/14/2019 4:49:30 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

So basically, people of color only see a person’s skin color.


10 posted on 08/14/2019 4:49:37 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Tag, you're it.)
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To: sport
They should.

BRILLIANT!!
11 posted on 08/14/2019 4:49:59 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: McBuff

Students need to spend more time on their GPA & getting a job when they graduate.


12 posted on 08/14/2019 4:50:18 PM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I propose changing the white stick figure to an orange stick figure.
(orange man bad)


13 posted on 08/14/2019 4:50:20 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: Republican Wildcat

Even worse: The Don’t Walk symbol is an orange hand.

Orange Man Bad, and this is a symbol of his oppression.


14 posted on 08/14/2019 4:51:32 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: kaehurowing
As an alumnus of GWU (1973), I believe I have standing to comment on this pressing issue.

What is really needed is a race-sensitive camera to determine the race of those approaching the crosswalk so that a race-appropriate sign can be flashed.

However, Mrs. foxfield goes one further. She suggests a camera with x-ray vision to detect the sex of those approaching so that a gender-appropriate sign can be flashed so as not to offend anyone.

So there!

15 posted on 08/14/2019 4:53:21 PM PDT by foxfield (When the going gets tough, the tough get going!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

It’s amazing. They think a traffic sign is oppressive - how dare you be told to stop or go. But they long for communism, where every detail of their lives will be strictly controlled and monitored.


16 posted on 08/14/2019 4:53:23 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Well, the background is black.


17 posted on 08/14/2019 4:54:28 PM PDT by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

oh for crying out loud , these people are just idiots


18 posted on 08/14/2019 4:56:14 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

This is satire, correct?


19 posted on 08/14/2019 4:57:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Republican Wildcat

George Washington and American Univ. both are brain-dead, PC-slogan-spewing, leftist woke sh**holes. Certainly the Administration and most of the faculty. I am imagine there are a few normal students, keeping their heads down just trying to get through


20 posted on 08/14/2019 4:58:28 PM PDT by PGR88
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