New students at the University of Pennsylvania received a student-produced booklet entitled “Disorientation Guide *The S**t Penn Won’t Say” during student orientation last week.
The peculiar guide contains a myriad of criticisms about the prestigious institution ranging from racist behavior to topics including fossil fuels, Palestine, and “Killing Ethnic Studies,” as the booklet states.
The guide was created by fifteen students who are infuriated by the institution’s “white capitalist imperialist values that are central to the core of our money sucking busine–err higher-education institution.”
The progressive students on Penn’s campus proclaim they’ve devised a “resource for people fighting injustice and a documentation of Penn’s blunders and resulting campus activism.” Instead, it seems more like a nonsensical pamphlet created to proselytize as many students as possible with left-wing propaganda during welcome week.
In the guide’s “WHY THIS SH*T MATTERS” segment, it states that if the students fail to recognize Penn’s “disturbing past and its flawed and present, we fail to improve it and make it a safer, better place.”
Just one excerpt from the pamphlet contains a section called “THE BLACK EXPERIENCE AT PENN: BREAKING DOWN WALLS AT AN INSTITUTION MADE UP OF PEOPLE WHO HATE YOU.” As the guide states, “Penn is first and foremost an institution, founded by white people for white people (actually white cis men, let’s be honest).”
Critics have pointed out that Benjamin Franklin, the founder of the University of Pennsylvania, was one of the most prominent abolitionists in United States history – and in fact, the term cisgender did not even existent at the time.
The pamphlet also targets fraternities for supposed “Race And Beauty Standards.” According to the guide, “Getting turned away from a frat party because your group does not abide by straight/cis-passing, white beauty standards seems pretty gross, but it happens.”
Towards the end of the booklet is a list of “resources to actually thrive at Penn” also known as safe spaces. The list includes groups such as the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, Lambda Alliance (LGBTAI+ group), Latinx Coalition, as well as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP.)
If the Penn students actually carried genuine concern over diversity on campus they would advise incoming freshmen to tolerate speech or ideologies from their peers that contrast from their own personal beliefs. They presumably would also list groups on their booklet’s “Physical Spaces” section that do not lean to the progressive left.
