{"id":178319,"date":"2019-01-06T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/06\/ah-my-alma-mater\/"},"modified":"2019-01-06T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T02:57:00","slug":"ah-my-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/06\/ah-my-alma-mater\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, My Alma Mater\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>At UMass, a college student put a “F%$# Nazis” sign in her dorm window.<\/p>\n

She was told to take down the sign, because, “It wasn’t inclusive<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I can understand objecting to the word, “F%$#,” but the whole inclusion thing is a sign of deep and pervasive moral bankruptcy:<\/p>\n

Parsons, a junior at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, told BuzzFeed News on Sunday that she decided to put up the sign after a swastika was drawn over a “Happy Hanukkah” sign on a resident assistant’s door the first week of December.<\/span>

<\/span>“I thought maybe if I hang the sign up, maybe the person who drew the swastika will see it and see someone condemning their actions, even if the administration doesn\u2019t do it,” she said.<\/span>

<\/span>The university’s highly promoted initiative on campus is called “Hate Has No Home at UMass” aimed at rejecting “all forms of bigotry and hatred.” As part of its initiative, the university has documented 19 hate crime incidents on campus since September.<\/span>

<\/span>Parsons said she didn’t expect the university to take any issue with the sign.<\/span>

<\/span>But a week after posting the sign in her dorm window, she received an email from a resident director asking her to remove the sign over “issues of inclusion.”<\/span>

<\/span>“While Residence Education cannot force you or your roommate to take the sign down, I am asking that you or your roommate take the sign down so that all students can be a part of an inclusive residential experience, as well as having a respectful environment to be a part of here on our campus,” Eddie Papazoni, a resident director at UMass Amherst, told Parsons in the email obtained by BuzzFeed News.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jeebus.   In the words of Bugs Bunny, “What a maroon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At UMass, a college student put a “F%$# Nazis” sign in her dorm window. She was told to take down the sign, because, “It wasn’t inclusive.” I can understand objecting to the word, “F%$#,” but the whole inclusion thing is a sign of deep and pervasive moral bankruptcy: Parsons, a junior at the University of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,397,406,403],"class_list":["post-178319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-education","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}