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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) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:44PM (#384105)

    All the better to rile you up, which I'm certain is BLM's true goal. Anybody who dares criticize them or the way they seem to only get super bent out of shape when it was a thug that got killed is automatically a racist. There are five lights. Moooooslims in Europe, racial tensions in the USA. Prepare for unforeseen consequences?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @09:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @09:43PM (#384268)

    Anybody who dares criticize them or the way they seem to only get super bent out of shape when it was a thug that got killed is automatically a racist.

    Anyone who uses the term "thug" is automatically a racist. Hi, racist! Not really great to meet you!

    The "Thugi" were worshippers of Kali in Colonial India, most of whom made a living by armed robbery of traveling jewel merchants. You might get some idea (rather twisted, but the basis in fact) from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". How this relates to racist crackers who managed to get a job in law enforcement, and the racist crackers who support them, I have no idea.