Thursday, November 05, 2015

An odd definition of patriotic

A group of protesters tried to shout down a visiting lecturer at the University of Minnesota. That's not news -- in a world of trigger warnings and whatnot, voices that don't conform to the accepted wisdom are difficult to find on a college campus. What's interesting is the rationale of the protesters. From the Star Tribune account:
Rula Rashid, a U finance major who is president of Students for Justice in Palestine, defended the protest. “The most patriotic thing you can do is protest something that shouldn’t be happening on your campus,” she said. 
Are we to assume that the only things that should happen on a college campus are things that pass muster with Rula Rashid? I hope Univerity of Minnesota President Eric Kaler has Rashid on the ol' speed dial, because he's going to have to double check the calendar on a few things.


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