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A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with “a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.”
The demand is one of several lodged by “Students4Justice,” who this month ratcheted up campus demonstrations to pressure administrators to cave, complaining in a newly launched petition that President Mark Schlissel has snubbed their demands.
Leaders of “Students4Justice” did not respond to requests from The College Fix seeking comment. Campus spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The Fix that at “this point, our colleagues in Student Life have been working with the Students4Justice leaders to better understand their concerns. This is our normal process.”
The demands caught the attention of the Michigan Review, an independent student news outlet which first reported on the issue — and criticized it.
“The same organization that criticizes the University for failing to create ‘an environment that engages in diversity, equity and inclusion,’ is calling upon the University to undermine these ideals by facilitating a sort of de facto segregation? One where space and resources are designated for students based solely on the color of their skin?” the Review wrote.
“To advocate for the ideals of diversity, equity and inclusion, while simultaneously calling upon the University to sanction these spaces on campus is both unprincipled and laughably regressive,” it added.
a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work
originally posted by: six67seven
a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work
oh the irony!
originally posted by: tinymind
a reply to: TheBulk
I thought the courts had struck down the "equal but separate" arguments in education a long time ago.
You know, like back in the 1960's along with the passage of the "Civil Rights Act".
If this ruling applied to the Jim Crow laws back then, surely it should apply to similar circumstances today. If one group can discriminate, so can any other. Then we all go back to square one.
originally posted by: damwel
Well before you get so outraged maybe you should wait and see how far this gets. It won't get far.
originally posted by: damwel
Well before you get so outraged maybe you should wait and see how far this gets. It won't get far.
originally posted by: six67seven
originally posted by: damwel
Well before you get so outraged maybe you should wait and see how far this gets. It won't get far.
It's pure laughter for me.
Outrage is reserved for SJWs and progressives.
originally posted by: six67seven
originally posted by: tinymind
a reply to: TheBulk
I thought the courts had struck down the "equal but separate" arguments in education a long time ago.
You know, like back in the 1960's along with the passage of the "Civil Rights Act".
If this ruling applied to the Jim Crow laws back then, surely it should apply to similar circumstances today. If one group can discriminate, so can any other. Then we all go back to square one.
Oh, so they also need to re-take 7th grade history...lol
Students4Justice...everyone is laughing at YOU!!!