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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:20AM (#383994)

    The whole Black Lives Matter thing came about because a lot of people get the feeling that police officers, district attorneys and judges don't think that Black Life Matters, as demonstrated by the number of black people killed by police without the police officer going to prison for it.

    Responding with "Blue Lives Matters" sends a quite clear message of "No, black lives do not matter".

    Responding with "All Lives Matter", especially as a white person - a group which is not being targeted in the first place, is an attempt to derail the discussion, in short "I'm not racist, BUT I don't want people to hear your message, because I'm afraid you'll end up with equal rights".

    This "Green Lives Matter" appears to be a tasteless attempt to make a joke at the cost of people getting shot, but probably not actually racist, just completely devoid of taste.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:26AM (#384014)

    Responding with "All Lives Matter", especially as a white person - a group which is not being targeted in the first place

    Did you know that more white people are killed by police action, than are black people?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:43PM (#384055)

      Clearly, neither does any of the white people, who quite happily defends the police, rather than hoping that today is not the day they will be killed for being white.