Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Shut up, they explained!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
The word “freedom” is racist violence, or something…
“A private university named after a founding father has changed the name of student identification cards following a petition that said their nomenclature was harmful to minority students.
“A spokesperson for Robert Morris University disputes, however, that the two-week-old Change.org petition was the impetus for the change from ‘Freedom Card’ to ‘RMU ID Card.’
“Student Melanie Hall created the petition, which claims racial minorities are 24 percent of the student population at the Pittsburgh school. Like many names on campus, the Freedom Card refers to the American Revolution.
“‘This poorly named form of identification has made minority students (black students in particular) feel like we are being dehumanized,’ the petition reads: ‘Gifting us with IDs that grant us our ‘freedom’ is of extremely poor taste.’”
