Just when you thought millennials were unfairly labeled as entitled, out-of-touch, and misinformed, students at the University of Maryland bring it home.
Social justice warriors at UMD banded together to create a 64-item list of demands for their school’s administration. The coalition, ProtectUMD, created a comprehensive list of tasks that they expect university officials to complete to serve a variety of communities.
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Albeit ludicrous in nature, there’s no denying that these kids at UMD were thorough. The project’s website functionality is impressive. They have pop-up student testimonies for almost all of the demands, which creates a storybook feel that goes right along with the fairytale land that they’re attempting to build through this doctrine. As is typical of Leftist rhetoric, the blame has been misplaced, and our fragile generation has turned to their safest of all safe spaces: the creation of new bureaucratic institutions.
Here are a few of the demands, starting with a call on their University’s President:
“#5: A statement from President Loh reassuring marginalized UMD students that the University is committed to making UMD a safe space for all marginalized groups in response to the election.”
This is relatively standard across the board — if you complain enough, your university will publicly defend your political beliefs. Unfortunately for UMD, a statement from your university won’t change the outcome of the election any more than it will make your false narrative a reality. It’s possible that not everyone needs a safe space when their candidate loses.
Next, we’ll move onto ProtectUMD’s culturally hypocritical agenda:
“#14: Make free legal advice available for students participating in activism who face slander or other dishonest claims while exercising their rights to protest and free speech.”
Upon clicking the link, we’re taken to a separate story where student Laila Abujuma says she was unfairly slandered after protesting Israel Fest, which is an Israeli cultural event put on by her school’s JSU chapter last spring. She was called anti-Semitic and accused of promoting hatred toward the nation of Israel. When explaining the implications this will have on her future, she said, “It makes me scared to speak out against what I believe in and it makes me scared to fight for the causes…because of things like this.”
Being labeled a racist when you aren’t is certainly frustrating — any Republican can tell you what that’s like after this election. However, the Israel Fest protest that she’s referring to from last April bolstered so much hate speech towards Israelis, including signs with phrases such as “Zionism kills” that the event had to be ultimately shut down by UMD’s police department.
Which leads us to another similar demand:
“#15 Provide protection during campus events that might make students feel unsafe because of their political implications [i.e., Israel Fest for Muslim and Arab students, Columbus day and Independence Day for American Indian students, etc.].”
Considering Israel Fest was a non-political event that simply celebrated Israeli culture, there was no danger in the scenario until the protesting organization created it.
These students spared no intellectual expense — PC holidays are covered:
“#19: The University officially remove the Christopher Columbus Day holiday from all university materials and mediums. Replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day to take away the stain of colonialism from our University.”
According to their featured student on this one, “It just seemed like the continuation of a holiday that didn’t even mean anything.” Well, in that case, I guess we should remove Halloween too. Come on you guys, give me a real argument.
And last but not least, ProtectUMD has demanded that the University ban the showing of the movie “American Sniper” on campus due to its “false narrative.” The story of American hero Chris Kyle is apparently fiction.
Holiday, movies, festivals… Man, liberals really want to ruin everything.
