This is not a drill. Repeat: THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
U of Oregon Debates Removing MLK Quote For Not Being Inclusive Enough https://t.co/8u7Kj1dPKO pic.twitter.com/eJrUvpKMFX
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 26, 2016
From Mediaite:
Student leaders at the University of Oregon debated removing a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. from its student center, arguing that the quote was not inclusive enough for modern understandings of diversity.
Oregon’s Erb Memorial Union, which is currently under renovation, had the following famous King quote on the wall: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream…”
You might be asking yourself what’s so backward about what King said. Well, here’s your answer:
#SMOD, save us. pic.twitter.com/Hvh6d7cENH
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) January 26, 2016
More:
“Diversity is so much more than race,” said one sophomore architecture major. “Obviously race still plays a big role. But there are people who identify differently in gender and all sorts of things like that.”
It’s official: Everything is terrible.
Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me. https://t.co/fChZYmGtS1
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) January 26, 2016
How did we let this kind of lunacy infect our institutions of "learning?" https://t.co/2A1UZzogSK
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) January 26, 2016
college students are idiots https://t.co/DTmWSepnOz
— Kaitlyn Schallhorn (@K_Schallhorn) January 26, 2016
Gotta be satire… https://t.co/LSzlkvKFhT
— Fiddy-Two Trillion (@Pqlyur1) January 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/KevinWGlass/status/692107122494943232
When MLK is not inclusive enough, you've reached peak Social Justice. https://t.co/hhbcBF7SdT
— Holden (@Holden114) January 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/692106795460890624
Are you kidding me? https://t.co/iRZpWbZwxL #MLK
— American Lee ?? (@scroarty) January 26, 2016
@JohnEkdahl wow.
— texas tweedy (@tweedylouwho) January 26, 2016
Local wannabe junior civil rights hero clearly knows more about the topic than MLK. https://t.co/2A1UZzogSK
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) January 26, 2016
@JohnEkdahl pic.twitter.com/l1v5vhuZUk
— El Duderino (@__elduderino__) January 26, 2016
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL FULL FUCKING CIRCLE. https://t.co/mcerH3Awp1
— RBe (@RBPundit) January 26, 2016
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