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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 butthurt on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:44AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:44AM (#383874) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 1) by Francis on Friday August 05 2016, @02:18AM

    by Francis (5544) on Friday August 05 2016, @02:18AM (#384353)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @12:07PM (#384461)

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @03:56PM (#384506)

        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?