One of the lessons we learned entering 2016 is that college kids will complain about just about every and any kind of “microaggression” and need a “safe space” for anything you can possibly think of. Everything needs to be inclusive and P.C., otherwise — it must be banned.
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As Katherine Timpf with National Review reported, not even Martin Luther King, Jr. is inclusive enough for the students at the University of Oregon.
The students considered having a quote from the highly esteemed civil rights movement figure removed. The quote? Well, as Timpf says, with original emphasis, it’s “probably something that you’ve heard before… without even thinking it could be problematic.”
The quote is currently at the Erb Memorial Union, which is being renovated, and has been since 1985:
So what could possibly be the problem. Well, silly, it’s not inclusive enough because it only address racial inequality. What about people who face gender inequality?
Sophomore Mia Ashley, who is an architectural student (and should probably stick to that) explained to the Daily Emerald, the school newspaper, “diversity is so much more than race. Obviously race still plays a big role. But there are people who identify differently in gender and all sorts of things like that.”
Be that as it may, does anyone think that MLK Jr. would make such a statement and then go around oppressing anybody because of their gender identity, or for any other reason?
So then, let it alone, and let a highly famous quote about race remain. The students ultimately did decide to do so, “but that decision was not made without some hard thought by the Student Union Board,” noted the Daily Emerald. Such students don’t deserve any congratulations for keeping something which should never have been a problem in the first place.
Lest these students forget history, which, who are we kidding, they so often do when it hurts their feelings — they have something in common with those they like to rail against.
