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Title: The Protected Classes Must Not Hear Harambe Jokes—Or Anything Else ‘Offensive’
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URL Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/artic ... 16-news-title&utm_campaign=two
Published: Sep 7, 2016
Author: Ben Shapiro
Post Date: 2016-09-08 06:04:27 by BTP Holdings
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The Protected Classes Must Not Hear Harambe Jokes—Or Anything Else ‘Offensive’ by Ben Shapiro September 7, 2016 12:39 PM UMass–Amherst thinks black students need to be shielded from memes about a dead gorilla. I’m a sucker for Harambe jokes. Given the media’s insanely myopic focus on the sad death of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, the Internet’s hysterical memeing surrounding Harambe appeals to both my absurdist and dark-humor sides (see, for example, the inclusion of Harambe on a list of celebrities tragically lost in 2016, alongside Prince and David Bowie). So imagine my dismay when I learned this week that UMass–Amherst would be depriving its students of the joys of Harambe jokes on the grounds that such jokes offend black people and women. How would jokes about Harambe fighting Cecil the Lion in heaven offend black students? According to the resident advisers at UMass–Amherst, because Harambe the gorilla shares a name with the Harambee African Heritage Student Community, all jokes regarding Harambe the gorilla must be banned — which is somewhat like saying that all jokes about Anthony Weiner must be banned at the University of Maryland in order to avoid offending the students at the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Application. Here are the RAs: “Any negative remarks regarding ‘Harambe’ will be seen as a direct attack to our campus’s African American community.” Which is absurd. Everyone loves Harambe. How, then, would Harambe jokes offend female students? The more immature Harambe memesters have utilized the phrase “d***s out for Harambe,” a bizarrely silly bit of blue hilarity that calls on Americans to signal their support for Harambe by exposing their genitals. Here are the RAs again: “using . . . . phrases/hashtags which encourage the exposition of body parts runs the risk of being reported as a Title IX incident.” First off, nobody should worry too deeply about the “exposition” of body parts — presumably “exposure” would be more problematic. But more than that, anyone who thinks that “d***s out for Harambe” creates a rape culture in violation of federal law needs his or her head examined. Meanwhile, at California State University of Los Angeles — the same campus that attempted to ban me from speaking earlier this year, then hosted a near-riot when I showed up anyway — black students have been granted their own segregated housing. This, presumably, does not violate any community standards. This is the new rule on America’s college campuses, and indeed, in public life: If you’re a member of a protected class, anything that offends you must be excised; anything that pleases you must be deemed perfectly acceptable. + Such logic springs from the leftist ideology behind an infamous footnote to a 1938 Supreme Court case, United States v. Carolene Products Company. In that case, Justice Harlan Stone went out of his way to explain in Footnote 4 that the Court could strike down any law motivated by “prejudice against discrete and insular minorities.” While the footnote had no relevance to the case itself and represented a mere dictum, that didn’t stop the Court, over ensuing decades, from using it as the basis for an entire bulk of Constitution-free constitutional law. Poster Comment: Harambe jokes offend black students? When I lived in Chicago and had a base station set up at home on the CB, we always joked around about the blacks on the CB. They called them "the south 40". One thing, though, that I do remember is that segregation was outlawed around 1957 when Ike called out the National Guard to enforce desegregation at High Schools in Little Rock. http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_little_rock_school_desegregation_1957/ Now it seems that the blacks want their own dorms and residences away from all other white students. I say, What is good for the goose, is good for the gander.
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I'd like to think everybody here regards the federal invasion of Little Rock as one of the blackest days in American history. Its importance cannot be overestimated, it's right up there with the snivel rights act and the 1965 immigration betrayal. I confess I don't get this article. Anybody know any Harambe jokes? Don'tell me how the poor creature died please. (I understand they're stockpiling teen-sized coffins in Harlem for then :-) _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
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