Special snowflakes incapable of viewing reality

Back in the day, adults went to college in order to assimilate themselves into the real world, but in this day and age, children go to college to dictate to the real world their feelings and biases. Take for example, the movie “American Sniper”, an accurate portrayal of a portion of the life of one American, Chris Kyle. I haven’t seen it yet, so I won’t comment on the content. But, you know who else hasn’t seen it, but feels a need to comment on the content? The Muslim Students’ Association and the Students Allied for Freedom and Equality. They protested to the University of Michigan’s Center for Campus Involvement which was screening the movie for the student body. The special little snowflakes/sparkle ponies complained that a screening of the movie would make them fell unsafe on campus, after everyone sees the movie;

The online memo, titled a “collective letter from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students on campus,” accused the public university of “tolerating dangerous anti-Muslim and anti-MENA propaganda” by showing the movie, the highest grossing film of 2014

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“Chris Kyle was a racist who took a disturbing stance on murdering Iraqi civilians,” the collective letter stated. “Middle Eastern characters in the film are not lent an ounce of humanity and watching this movie is provocative and unsafe to MENA and Muslim CollectiveLetter students who are too often reminded of how little the media and world values their lives. … The University of Michigan should not participate in further perpetuating these negative and misleading stereotypes.”

As near as I can tell, these students are further perpetuating the notion that all Muslims are terrorists who only harbor hatred towards the American military, because those were the only people from whom Chris Kyle sought to protect the American troops. like I said, I haven’t seen the movie, I read the book and that’s what I got from the book.

And, by the way, since the movie is a blockbuster hit, the screening on campus probably isn’t the only place folks can see the movie – so, if they’re going to feel threatened by folks who see the movie, they had better move to country where the movie hasn’t been shown.

It seems to me that there should be a place where a rational discussion could take place among intelligent adults about the movie and the supposed stereotypes portrayed therein. But apparently, a college campus is not that place. A college campus is place where spoiled little brats threaten to hold their collective breath until their collective face turns blue until they get their way and they can censor discussions with their little tantrums.

The reply to the little letter from the intolerant Muslim Students from the Center for Campus Involvement was pretty sad, too;

“We deeply regret causing harm to members of our community, and appreciate the thoughtful feedback provided to us by students and staff alike.”

I deeply regret that colleges are being run by the inmates and that they consider rational discussion to be harmful.

It’s been my experience that many Muslims aren’t very tolerant of dissent. I’ve seen them attack people who counter-protest their little tantrums. Of course, the police will break up the fights but they don’t arrest the criminals who attack others who peacefully express their opinions. They use our tolerance of minority opinions against us to effectively silence opposition opinions.

UPDATED: I wrote the above last night and there seems to have been a change in the decision; the University has decided that they’ll screen the movie;

University Vice President for Student Life E. Royster Harper called the decision to cancel the Friday night showing a “mistake” in a statement.

“The initial decision to cancel the movie was not consistent with the high value the University of Michigan places on freedom of expression and our respect for the right of students to make their own choices in such matters,” Harper said. “The movie will be shown at the originally scheduled time and location.”

Nice to see that there are some smarter people in charge of stuff.

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