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What MSU Has Been Caught Doing To White Students Is reprehensible
What MSU has been caught doing to white students is something that is very disturbing indeed, and it shows our terrible political climate. Michigan State is usually known for being the less liberal option for those that are also considering their top rival, the University of Michigan. Well, MSU has been making the news yet again, but lately it has been for all of the wrong reasons.
Yesterday, there was an email from MSU’s Dean of Students and Parents that called for them to choose their Halloween costumes wisely, and warning these individuals that “costumes can elicit trauma if they poke fun at the experiences of historical harm, bigotry or displacement.”
In their letter to adult students that is providing guidelines on how they should dress for Halloween, one of the things that they point out is a list of what they deem as inappropriate costumes. This would include pandemic victims, costumes that “body shame”, costumes that depict national tragedies, and a whole list of other things. Oh brother. And seriously, national tragedies??? Give me a break.
So, that means that according to the brass at Michigan State, there should be no COVID costumes, no Joe Biden costumes, or nothing of that sort. This is especially true with Joe Biden, simply due to the fact that most Americans would agree that he falls under the category of “national tragedy.” Moreover, you had better not even dream of padding your costume to make yourself appear larger, because this could appear to be “body shaming” and that could lead to hurt feelings, according to the MSU “experts.” Oh brother. Have we all lost our minds here. This seriously sounds like a South Park episode in the making here.
But wait… We’re not done yet. It keeps getting better from here on out.
Yesterday, Daily Mail education reporter Chrissy Clark shared a flabbergasting photo where there is a masked black student that was sitting outside of a cafeteria at MSU next to a sign that reads: “Free Masks and Glove for MINORITIES ONLY!! $10 per mask for White People!!”
Let’s put the shoe on the other foot here. Do you suppose that it would be okay if a white student sat outside of a cafeteria in plain sight of students and administration at any major university anywhere in the United State in America with a sign reading:
“Free Masks and Gloves for WHITES ONLY!! $10 per mask for Black People!!” Of course, this is a rhetorical question, but it is one that has to be asked both of the parents of kids who are being bullied and shamed by their classmates and to the members of the faculty at the colleges. The crime of these students? They are being tried and convicted simply for being White in Woke America. It’s the reason why we now have that toxic critical race theory and it’s the reason why the team in the District of Columbia is now called the Washington Football Team instead of the Redskins.
There are plenty of students and faculty alike that are now doing damage control on behalf of MSU. They are now saying that this was nothing more than a “social experiment” that was designed to “demonstrate how minorities and disabled persons have been negatively impacted by the pandemic versus other groups. I wanted to reverse the privilege.” Incidentally, the student who tweeted this has now hidden her tweet from the public.
This is race-baiting at its finest, folks.
https://dailyheadlines.net/what-msu-has-been-caught-doing-to-white-students-is-unforgivable/
***********************************************Oxford college to change its name after £155m donation
A University of Oxford college is to change its name to honour Vietnam’s richest woman after she offered it a £155m donation.
Linacre College says it will ask the privy council for permission to change its name to Thao College after signing a memorandum of understanding over the money with Sovico Group – represented by its chair, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao.
The graduate college, founded in 1962, is named after the Renaissance humanist, medical scientist and classicist Thomas Linacre. The donation will help to pay for a new graduate centre and graduate access scholarships, the college has said.
“We have long been one of the least well-endowed colleges at the university, so we are delighted that a significant part of the donation will be for our general endowment fund, to help support the daily running of college,” it said.
“Sovico Group has also committed to all their subsidiaries reaching net zero carbon by the end of 2050 with the input from leading Oxford academics.
“After receiving the first donation of £50m, we will approach the privy council to ask for permission to change our name from Linacre College to Thao College in recognition of this landmark gift.”
At Oxford there has been disquiet over Thao’s donation to the institution, which has styled itself as “one of the greenest colleges in Oxford”. Sovico’s business interests include offshore oil and gas exploration, fossil fuel financing, and Vietnam’s first private airline.
According to the Tab, Thao made much of her fortune from the budget airline VietJet Air, which is controlled by Sovico. The conglomerate is also the largest shareholder in HDBank, on the board of which she also serves as vice-chair. HDBank is the main financer of the state-owned Vietnam National Petroleum Group.
Dr Maria Kawthar Daouda, a lecturer in French literature at Oxford, told the Telegraph college names should not be altered simply because “a major gift has been made”.
“Thankfulness for Madam Thao’s money could be expressed in ways that do not erase what the donation is meant to protect,” Daouda said.
Another don, who was not identified, was more relaxed about the change. “If this were one of the great historic colleges one would have deep reservations,” he said. “But as it’s a modern college and has not got a big endowment, one can understand the decision. If someone is going to put in a colossal amount of money, it’s not unreasonable to have something to show for it.”
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A scholar at a Virginia university is not backing down as students and faculty seek to get her fired for a tweet she posted criticizing DC Comics’ new bisexual Superman character
“Regrettably, this has all gone too far,” Sophia Nelson, scholar in residence at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, says in an open letter to the university community dated Friday.
“I read the student petition against me in a Fox News article posted on Wednesday, October 27th,” Nelson writes, “and was devastated to read these words: ‘Our community is hurt and disappointed in the way this university has dealt with the homophobic and racist statements of Professor Nelson.’”
Nelson adds in her open letter:
This is where I must draw the line. Neither me nor my words are racist or homophobic. And to characterize them as such in a petition to remove me is very shocking and damaging to me as a professional and as a human being.
Her remarks on Twitter made no references to Superman’s race (the iconic character was born on the fictional planet of Krypton), so it’s not clear what Nelson’s critics were talking about.
On Oct. 1, Nelson began work as a visiting fellow at the university’s College of Arts and Humanities, after serving at the school as an adjunct professor.
The incident began when, in a since-deleted Twitter post Oct. 11 about the bisexual Superman, Jon Kent, Nelson wrote:
I just don’t get why this is necessary. I don’t! What if Christian parents of children reading comic books don’t want their kids exposed to bisexual characters? This is being pushed on kids. Then parents have to explain it. And most cannot!
Nelson describes herself as a conservative Christian. In a written statement to The Daily Signal, she explained that she wrote the tweet to push back against the oversexualization of children, not out of “homophobia.”
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