Sure as hell looks like a campus facility was used for a religious celebration. I wonder how "inclusive" it was?
Posted on 12/06/2015 6:55:58 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
A guide to "inclusive" Christmas decorations created by Cornell University warns that any decorations that remotely evoke religion, which includes stars and mistletoe, are incompatible with the school's commitment to diversity.
The guidelines are buried inside a Cornell publication concerning fire safety guidelines for holiday decorations, and were first noticed by the website Campus Reform. The first half of the document concerns certain banned fire hazards, such as candles and metallic Christmas trees.
The second half of the document, though, veers off into a discussion of how to make the Christmas season more "inclusive."
"University members are reminded to be respectful of the religious diversity of our students and colleagues and are encouraged to use an inclusive approach in celebrating the holiday season," the document says. Students are encouraged to be more "diverse" by either focusing on winter instead of Christmas or by including decorations for multiple holidays alongside secular decorations.
The university then rattles off a list of decorations that are "NOT consistent" with the school's "commitment to diversity and inclusiveness." The discouraged decorations include the following:
-Nativity scenes
-Menorahs
-Angels
-Mistletoe
-Stars (when placed on top of trees)
-Crosses
-Stars of David
While the religious connotations of nativity scenes or Stars of David is rather obvious, it's not clear why mistletoe is considered as possibly offensive.
The school says that holly, Santa Clauses, and wreaths might be acceptable decorations, but only after "dialogue within [a] living unit or area" to ensure nobody is offended.
Universities around the country have been issuing Christmas guidelines aimed at discouraging the display of religious symbols. A recent guidance email at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, for instance, warned against letting holiday parties become "Christmas parties in disguise" and discouraged using terms such as "Secret Santa" because they could offend people.
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Well, heck, I’m going to go pick some this morning!
president@cornell.edu is the email to try to change the policy/get the author fired...
Remember the old “South Park” episode where they sanitized the school Christmas program of everything that “offended” someone. At one point the teacher asked if anyone was offended by the paper star hanging from the ceiling and one person raised their hand. They made Kenny climb up a rickety ladder over a shark tank to take it down.
How about hanging a big f*ing dildo - they are probably okay with that!
Read “Unlimited Access.” It was written by a former FBI agent who worked White House Security during the Clinton years. He includes pictures of a White House Christmas Tree covered in sex toys.
Why do you want to be included in the celebration of something you don't believe in?
Grow up, Millennials, before it is too late.
uh...hey...Cornell....
Your FASCISM is not “inclusive”.....
Once again proving to find the dumbest and more ignorant people just go to a university.
islam is killing in the streets, and leftists are worried about plants hung in doorways.
So Cornell’s approach to “inclusiveness” and “diversity” is to exclude and limit. Makes sense. I guess. If you’re insane.
A classic episode, the topper was bringing in Philip Glass to compose the music for the school play, then everybody got upset and started fighting each other because the play sucked so much then started blaming each other for taking out the good parts.
That episode really demonstrated almost better than anything the absurdity of Political Correctness.
LOL, there were several times when Kenny was placed in great peril, then he actually wound up surviving at the end. That was back when they killed him off every episode.
How dare you use logic! This is all about feelings. /sarc off
Sure as hell looks like a campus facility was used for a religious celebration. I wonder how "inclusive" it was?
Cornell should be closed. It is an evil place to be.
I received this reply from a Jewish group at Cornell
This does not appear to be offensive, rather the university is not permitting any religion based displays in order to be inclusive of all religions. This does not mean that you personally cannot have a menorah or a Star of David - rather public displays in school buildings should not be religion based, which makes sense.
To be inclusive, no display of menorahs.. Really crazy..
Being inclusive by excluding. And they don’t see the irony.
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City of Evil ping?
Well, how about ...
OTOH, I'd guess that camels would be almost mandatory and a yellow star with "Jude" in the center would be quite acceptable on top of the tree or otherwise.
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