This article reads like something from the Onion. This can't be real...but it does bear a strange resemblance to the kind of tyrannical crap we see oozing from college campuses these days. You know, those bastions of full-flower 'progressivism (a/k/a cultural devolution and dissolution)'?
UMass RA's rail against 'crude' Harambe references
Over the Labor Day weekend, Resident Assistants at the University of Massachusetts purportedly released an announcement stating that “crude” references to the deceased gorilla Harambe will be considered racist attacks against African Americans.
In the statement, which was leaked to Twitter Monday, Resident Assistants calling themselves Ryan and Colleen inform students that “any negative remarks regarding ‘Harambe’ will be seen as a direct attack to our campus’s African-American community,” and warn them to “be careful of what gets written on your whiteboards, as well as what you write on them.”
I call it diffusion psychosis. If one lives in an environment which insulates itself from normal, cause/effect reality for long enough, one will loses contact with reality. That's what happens in academic, bureaucratic and social cloisters.
No. I don't think there is anything remotely funny about what happened to Harambe, OR dead animals in general. While I may think colleges and students get carried away with with terms like "micro-aggressions", it is undeniable that comparing black people to apes is a commonly used slur against them.
A voice of reason. How refreshing!
