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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: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:43AM (#383979)

    Or, just may be, it could be that black lives matter are more about spreading anti-white hatred and less about saving black lives?
    Could it be that "blue lives matter" is something only cops say, not random local college student activist?
    Could it be that hating white men has become normative? Could it be that BLM hasn't actually given any solutions, hasn't actually bothered to ask WHY, but have only gone around spreading victimhood mentality?

    Could it be that sometimes, you have to accept that world is not perfect and YOU need to move your butt and make sacrifices to make it better instead of asking everyone else to make sacrifices for your personal betterment that you have tied to whatever random trendy "cool" social cause?

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @05:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @05:16PM (#384115)

    No, none of that.

    Black Lives Matter was created specifically to fuel racial tensions. It's closely tied to the Coronation of Clinton.