While you were watching the first real weekend of football and smashing cans of Natural Light against your head over the long weekend, a couple of RAs at the University of Massachusetts announced that any “crude” references toward everyone’s favorite deceased gorilla will no longer be tolerated, because they’re “micro-aggressions to some UMass students” and could prompt a Title IX investigation.
According to these buzzkill RAs, UMass is a school that offers “DRCs,” which stands for defined residential communities. In other words, they offer segregated, monochromatic floors for minority students to live on so they can be away from any people of privilege (POP). One of such communities is actually called Harambe, which is Swahili for “the point at which we pull together.” The Harambe community is a floor for African-American students that focuses on celebrating African heritage. Anyone else see the irony in naming a segregated living community after a word that means “to pull together?”
UMass student Jarod Sasdi took to Twitter to share the inane bulletin from his RAs.
From Campus Reform:
When Sasdi was asked if this would stop students on his hall from making Harambe references, he replied, “absolutely not, we will stand by our friend no matter the consequences,” adding, “I think their [the RAs’] lack of knowledge of Harambe may have clouded their judgement.”
Sasdi also noted that he does not think the “murder of a gorilla” is a joke, and that his floor was simply trying to pay their proper condolences to Harambe.
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Given the presence of this on-campus ethnic community, the UMass RA’s argue that any joking or negative reference to Harambe the gorilla could be seen as an attack by members of the Harambee [sic] community, and request that residents report whomever is writing Harambe messages to student administrators.
As if calling these references to the late Harambe “micro-aggressions” wasn’t off-base enough, the clueless RAs go on to call the flashing of one’s fuck-hammer, in memory of Harambe, a Title IX violation, and a “sexual assault incident.”
Perhaps if Ryan and Colleen left the comfort of “Syc 3” for a few hours, they’d realize that #dicksout is about much more than just showing off our beaver bashers. It’s about a country coming together to mourn the loss of one of its greatest individuals, and not about watering down the definitions of “Title IX incident” and “sexual assault.”
Harambe, a message of unity, lives on in our hearts as well as on our whiteboards.
And T-shirts..
[via Campus Reform]
Minorities at UMass sound fragile. What kind of pussy needs to be segregated to avoid getting their feels upset?
9 years ago at 2:54 pmBrown v Board of Education won’t let us create those kind of safe spaces anymore.
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Lilly is a fucking selfish twat she fucked like three bros in my pledge class.
9 years ago at 3:14 pmAfrican American student density is also like 4 percent at UMass Amherst. And overall minority percent is somewhere between 20 and 25. So, POP make up upwards of 80 percent of the student body. Something to chew on when you read these articles.
9 years ago at 4:53 pmIs this supposed to mean something?
9 years ago at 7:16 pmYeah. They, like other colleges of their ilk, cater to an overwhelming minority. They’re scared shitless of a 4 percent faction taking issue with something completely benign. But this is nothing new.
9 years ago at 7:52 pmIf “overall minority percent is somewhere between 20 and 25” … then “POP” CANNOT be “upwards of 80 percent”…
Upwards of 80% means “more than 80%”…let’s say 80.001%.
80.001% plus 20% = 100.001%
80.001% plus 25% = 105.001%
Do you see the issue?
#BlackMathMatters!!!
9 years ago at 12:52 pmYeah well fuck em
9 years ago at 3:00 pmThe word micro-aggression offends me. I need a safe space. Joking aside, fuck these pussies holy shit grow a pair.
9 years ago at 3:03 pmI’m offended by the creation of these safe spaces
9 years ago at 3:10 pmYou may have created a paradox
9 years ago at 3:15 pmMaybe those Southerners were onto something…
9 years ago at 10:19 pmIt’s kinda odd that the original tweet was meant for barstool
9 years ago at 3:48 pmEveryone knows barstool is the gateway to TFM.
9 years ago at 3:57 pmFocusing on African American heritage and indirectly associating it with a gorilla? Bold strategy, let’s see how many people get offended.
9 years ago at 4:00 pmFunny how black people fought for hundreds of years to have equal rights and to end segregation, and then once they’re finally starting to get it they choose to start segregating themselves again.
9 years ago at 4:17 pmAnd the funnier thing is that it’s still white people’s fault. These types of people have no grasp of irony.
9 years ago at 11:13 pmWhat the fuck is a “micro-agression”
9 years ago at 4:18 pmIt’s from South Park
9 years ago at 10:42 pmIt was a decent article until you decided to make a plug for those t-shirts.
9 years ago at 4:28 pmHow else will they remind people they’re sensible and wont buy it?
9 years ago at 11:29 pmDisregarding authority figures to honor the late Harambe. Tfm
9 years ago at 6:23 pm