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Black Lives Matter has taken offense at police saying “Blue Lives Matter” and others who say “All Lives Matter,” but now a Wisconsin school is risking ire by branding a class on environmentalism “Green Lives Matter.”
The course at University of Wisconsin at Green Bay will encourage students to support the “environmental justice movement” by “the merging of civil rights and environmental concerns.” But even Scott Furlong, the dean of social sciences at the school, acknowledged that the class name plays on what has become a loaded term.
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'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red
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A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:09AM
To the world at large: Grow up already! This is called satire. It's a protected form of speech. Anything anyone does is subject to it, as TV shows like Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy demonstrate. Laugh with the rest of us and go on with your lives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:11AM
But which version of the slogan is the satire?
(Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:18AM
The one that seeks to counterbalance fighting a History of discrimination and abuse, with a few recent regrettable tragic and idiotic actions.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:19AM
People who like to be offended like to be offended.
My son keeps threatening to drop Philosophy and take Women's Studies instead, but I don't think he would be allowed to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:25AM
My son keeps threatening to drop Philosophy and take Women's Studies instead, but I don't think he would be allowed to.
Well, if he takes after the old Dad at all, it is easy to see why! I also suspect that the Philosophy program is not all that happy to have him, either. Remember, AC Lives Matter!!
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:44AM
The name of a course offered by a university isn't a great vehicle for levity. This title will presumably appear on students' transcripts, where it will require explanation.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Friday August 05 2016, @02:18AM
Will it though. I don't think I've ever been asked about any of my coursework from my transcript unless it was relevant to a job or a transfer. And even then they're usually more interested in what you know rather than what classes you take.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @12:07PM
I don't think I've ever been asked about any of my . . .
Psst! Francis! You're doing it again! Start thinking for a change. No one is that interested in what you don't think or know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @03:56PM
LOL, you think that this bothers me. I've got a pretty good idea whom you are and you've got no credibility here.
Also, nobody takes ACs seriously. If you lack the integrity to post this under your own name, then why should I, or anybody else, take you seriously?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:04AM
I agree with myself. Right not to be offended = censorship = control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @02:06PM
"Protected speech" does not mean "speech that cannot be criticized". Quite the opposite in fact.