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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:59AM (#383884)

    How the hell does *black guns matter* become _racist_?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @02:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @02:03AM (#383887)

    Are you saying the white guns don't matter? You racist!!
    Probably don't think pink guns matter, either. Misogynist!!

    And you are probably opposed to same gun marriage! Bigot!

    Don't try to weasel your way out by saying "All Guns Matter", we all know what you are saying.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:14AM (#383925)

      If black helicopters matter, I'm going to need more tin foil!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:13AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:13AM (#383992)

        If black helicopters matter, I'm going to need more tin foil!

        Black helicopters do not matter. Just ignore them.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @05:04PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @05:04PM (#384112)

          What about Apache attack copters?