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'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red

posted by n1 on Wednesday August 03 2016, @11:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the burning-bridges dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

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.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/01/green-lives-matter-college-course-title-has-some-critics-seeing-red.html

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:19AM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:19AM (#383835)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:25AM (#383838)

    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!!